Dropbox yesterday announced a new feature to allow you to drag URLs from websites into your Dropbox folders to store them alongside your files. The feature is available on both the desktop and web ...

The great thing about an online service going mainstream is how many great third party apps are built around it, to enhance the experience – and Dropbox is certainly no exception to that rule.

A file with a .URL extension, aka website shortcut, is launched in a default browser when double-clicked. The .URL file can be created by quickly dragging the URL from the address bar to any empty ...

The process is straightforward: you simply paste the URL of the file you wish to download into the URL Droplet interface. The service then takes over, downloading the file directly to your Dropbox.

When you drag highlighted text to the desktop, you create a text clipping. And when you drag a URL favicon to the desktop, you create a .webloc file—a document that, when opened, launches the saved ...