I recently was able to get in on the limited Beta Release (which is now in public beta) of Evenflow Inc.’s Dropbox application for Mac OS X. Dropbox is a secure file storage application for Mac OS X created by 3 students from MIT. I’ve been using this cool app for about 4-5 months now and I have to say I absolutely love it. Its very intuitive. Its always available. And its fast!

I can get to my shared files via a web browser or the Finder integration for OS X, which is awesome because if I don’t have my MacBook with me (which isn’t often), I can get to a file I need access to. This is great for documents I don’t want to store in Google Docs. I’d say the Finder integration is pretty solid. One thing I’m a little disappointed about is that the default action when dragging files from Dropbox to my MacBook is a Move, not a Copy. There aren’t many instances where I’d want to permanently move a file from Dropbox to my local disk.

Since the limited beta release, it appears they’ve added a new tier of access above the free 2GB storage limit. Now, for $99.99 a year or $9.99 a month, you can have 50GB of storage. I’m not sure I’ll jump on that yet as I don’t use the 2GB I have now, but it could be an interesting backup solution, especially if they can get some integration where you can automatically backup your files either through Dropbox, or perhaps even Time Machine.

All in all I’d say this is an awesome application. No more need to FTP stuff around or email documents and files. You can just fire it up to your Dropbox and share with friends! I’m really looking forward to where these guys can take this app in the future. I’m sure we’ll see great things.