Yong Hwee from was kind enough to send me an invitation for Dropbox, which is currently a closed beta. And now it’s my turn to give away my invitations. Reply in here and you could grab one of my 9 5 one remaining invitations! Wait… I dont have any more invitations! You missed the party dude!! I’m leaving the comments section below open anyways.

I’ll let you make your own conclusions after watching the video at the front page of getdropbox.com, but theres a key point missing: there is no login/logout option in the running application. Once it’s opened, it’s already syncing the files without asking for anything. It seems rather insecure to me. Also, it seems impossible to change our dropbox syncable folder. It’s stuck under My Documents\Dropbox, and that’s it! It could work for most of the people, but i’ve partitioned my hard drive so my Windows partion has just enough space to run.

Otherwise, it’s really working out of the box. My guess is that they’re really pushing at that front, and it may kick ass once it’s out.

…and other Google products, like this experiment where you can browse around in the results entirely with your keyboard.

Why reinvent the wheel? Google decided (it seems) to use the very same keyboard shortcuts than in the (very) old but still used text editor vi. j and k to change lines, / to search, and g seems to be a combination key. In GMail you can type “g a” to go to your archives, whereas “g f” in vim will take the word around your cursor, assume it’s a file on your drive and try to open it.

As a sidenote, Google keyboard shortcuts seems to not work well on Opera, at least on Linux.