Remember a while back when I was asking for tips on using Dropbox? I found one recently, almost by accident.
It turns out, if you have a Dropbox account and the iPhone app installed, if you click a download link in Mobile Safari, instead of doing nothing, you get a screen asking if you’d like to open your Dropbox app and save it there, instead.
How often have you wanted to save a file, an app or a song or something you find out on the internets, but you’re on your iPhone or iPad which doesn’t have any kind of download folder? If you’re like me, it happens often enough to be annoying. This is the solution.
The file I was trying to save was a torrent seed, actually, and I can take this trick a step further: on my home computer, the Mac mini named Lethem, I use an app called Transmission to download torrents. It has a feature where it can watch a certain folder for .torrent seed files and automatically start downloading them. I simply set Transmission to watch a subfolder in my Dropbox folder, and, voila!, by the time I got home, the file was already done and waiting for me!
