I'm thinking Tonido is the best for this right now. I'll tell you why. Because like dropbox you can access your files remotely. It has a backup app plugin, so the syncing would take care there.
And for photos, which dropbox handles really well, Tonido also handles. It creates interactive photo gallery by auto-creation of thumbnails and a javascript based slideshow viewer. Includes ability to download full res, as well as a zip of the directory.
You can assign users to view and be able to download, to enable the sharing. It's pretty simple.
Now, if you had the right host, like a VPS, maybe you could load tonido, so it's an always on dropbox that you own. I dig it. I need to use it more. Unfortunately from work, I can't access my home box even with tonido because my work's network blocks acess to the port that tonido uses, like port 10000 something... you can look it up. But there's an iphone, android app.
I could say more. I need to blog about this probably just to reach out to a few others. I've purchased the pro plugins for it, because they were good, but if I had a tonido plug it would come with those.
I read the policy page as well, interestingly absent was anything about weapons or electronics at all. But I found another example about why that school is retarded.
This is a middle school right? Like 5th to 8th grade?
Apparently you can't RIDE YOUR BIKE anywhere on the campus. It's not allowed because it could create an unsafe environment. And this is in sunny all year San Diego. Yeah right...
Environment:
Skateboarding, Roller skating, or bike riding on campus
Cell phone use before or afterschool
Gum on the walk ways or on any campus furniture
Vandalism – defacing of or damage to school or private property, including:
The biggest OLPC mistake was Negroponte.
The shit out of your mouth travels quickly, but sadly you don't understand how history has unfolded here. Without Negroponte, the project wouldn't have happened. And without this project happening you would NOT have seen the netbook revolution as it were. The netbook is a revolutionary item, it has come in as a surge of popularity, demand and in some ways, variety. A lot of players, both old and new have entered the market. It has created jobs and it has been good for industry. The scrambling that occurred to make these netbooks, competitiveness is extremely helpful and refreshing. It's remarkable, even as someone who hasn't yet found the netbook he likes. And because of this netbook technology and resulting craze, many students all over the world, and in this country will have a computer at a low cost and convenience factor for doing real work. Whether it's a linux netbook or Windows. It's a machine that will fuel learning for many. So in the unfolding, Negroponte has made a significant contribution to technology. Don't be smallminded, ya fuckhead.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol