Healy Jones, OfficeDrop's vice president of marketing, tells us most of the company's clients are small businesses who have existing organizational architectures based on Windows. These folks don't want to rearrange their digital lives to get files into the cloud, so OfficeDrop's engineers found a way to make the company's service as familiar and intuitive as possible. OfficeDrop isn't the first cloud-storage service provider to offer this feature--MediaFire has it, but Dropbox and SugarSync do not.

Once you've opened an OfficeDrop account (plans cost between free and $44.95 per month, depending on storage quota, support level, and other features), download and install the OfficeDrop Windows File Sync Client (currently in beta), and then right-click any folder on your PC that you'd like to sync to the cloud (you can sync more than one folder). If you'd like to share these folders with other people, log into your OfficeDrop account and update your sharing options.

If you want to send someone a file--or an entire folder--from your OfficeDrop account, right-click on a file in any folder you've synched using OfficeDrop, and choose the Sync2Link option to email the recipient a hyperlink. The URL is automatically copied to your clipboard, so you can paste it into an email, instant message, or Twitter post. When the recipient clicks on the link, they gain access to the file from the cloud, saving them the trouble of logging into OfficeDrop and navigating their way to the file.