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Views.fm Dropbox viewer offers slick galleries, and adds commenting
Views.fm connects to Dropbox, and then lets you create public or private shares of your folders. Public is self-explanatory: it gives anyone with the link the ability to browse and download the contents of the shared folder. Private shares are only accessible to people you invite via email, and you can see and edit who has access right from your Views.fm shares list. Private shares also enable comments, both on the folder itself and on the individual files.
If you want to use Views.fm as a portfolio, just share a folder full of images, and the rest is taken care of for you. Pretty slick indeed.
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Subscribe to commentsapMar 22nd 2011 6:17PM
> Dropbox only natively displays photo galleries for your Photos folder.
Nope. Navigate to the desired folder and 'Get Sharable Link'. That'll default to the gallery view if the folder contains only pictures, regardless of where it's located in your Dropbox.
SuspiciousMar 23rd 2011 7:28AM
To use views.fm, you have to give them your dropbox ID and password. That is a deal-killer; as far as I am concerned.
Tyler LoveMar 23rd 2011 4:07PM
@Suspicious hi. I'm the developer for views.fm. I would just like to point out that this is simply not true. At no point do we request a password, or even username to your dropbox.
We are able to access your dropbox through OAuth authentication, which is offered as part of the Dropbox API. Assuming you properly set your password, your files are as secure viewing them on Views.fm as they are on any of the Dropbox clients (iPhone app, Mac and PC desktop apps) which all use the Dropbox API.
To reiterate, at no point do we store, or even request any of your Dropbox credentials, and you are able to revoke our access to your Dropbox both from your Views.fm preferences page, or the Dropbox website.