Resident Techie: Four reasons I love Dropbox, and you should too.

If you've known me for longer than a couple weeks you're bound to hear me gush. It's not about my wife or kids (although I do). It's not even about my car (unless its in an upset tone). Nope, I'm super passionate, over the moon, head over heels for an ethereal technology called Dropbox.

If you don't know what Dropbox is, go to dropbox.com and install it right now, because words don't do justice to the simplicity of actually using it.

Dropbox is best thought of in two parts. First there's an application that you can install on virtually everything: Macs and PCs and mobile devices of all stripes — even the quickly fading Blackberries. It creates a folder on the device. The second and more important part, is Dropbox is a cloud service that ties the content in those apps all together and does some nice backing up of the content. Dropbox offers 2GB of free storage with options to increase that storage through tasks, such getting your friends to use it, or by paying a monthly or annual fee.