Carousel

During yesterday's Dropbox event in San Francisco, the company not only provided data, but also announced new tools forsmartphones One of them was the version of Mailbox for Android while the real novelty was the application Carousel A tool for all those who want to have their photographs well-ordered and safe in the cloud, but without losing the pleasure of consulting them at any time and place and, of course, also sharing them.

The Carousel app is an Dropbox alternative to the gallery or reel of the terminal And it is that it proposes to order the visual contents, both photos and videos , comfortably for viewing. A tool that does not provide any real innovations in this aspect compared to other applications on the market, but it is a great help for current Dropbox users who use this service storage to keep all your images and videos safe.

Just install the application and use the Dropbox user account to have access to all the images and videos stored in this place These are presented along a timeline, arranged chronologically for quick scrolling from year to year, or view photos from month to month by simply sliding your finger across that line.All this in a very smooth and fast way, despite being loaded from the Internet. In addition, a tool with a careful visual aspect since the images are presented in different sizes fitting into an attractive grid similar to what is seen in some photography galleries of different manufacturers.

But what is truly striking about Carousel is not its system of organizing photos, but its possibilities social and when sharing And it offers several interesting functions for this. Thus, in a similar way to those seen in Instagram Direct, the user can select photos and videos and share them with a contact using a instant, direct and private messaging service A way to communicate and give a social sense to this application, including written messages that contextualize the images sent.

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In addition, Carousel provides a much easier way to share large volumes of content And it offers this possibility beyond its messaging service, allowing you to select albums and large collections of photos and videos to send to one or more contacts so that they have access to them. All this accompanied by other useful features to keep all the images taken from the terminal in a simple way, being able to perform an automatic dump of the contents to the cloud.

In short, a tool that is not particularly surprising as a concept, but is especially useful for those who use Dropbox as a service storage for photos and videos Which, in turn, may fall short of the 2 GB of free space they offer , perhaps being the excuse for users to purchase more paid storage.In any case, the Carousel application is developed for both Android and iOS, being able to download it completely free through Google Playand App Store