AppShopper

The app for DropBox, a popular online file storage, sharing, and backup service, hit the App Store yesterday in universal format, adding compatibility with the iPad.

In addition to offering on-the-go access to files stored in a DropBox account, the updated app also takes advantage of the iPad’s file sharing feature, allowing users to export documents stored in a DropBox account to other apps that also use the file sharing feature. For example, we are able to send documents stored within DropBox to PrintCentral, an app we previously reviewed that also uses the file sharing feature in iPhone OS 3.2 for the iPad.

DropBox is a free app. The company offers varying levels of service, with a free account offering 2GB of storage all the way up to 100GB of storage for $19.99/month.

In keeping with the expansion of the What’s New filtering, we’ve updated the RSS feeds to match. Most noticeably, you’ll find iPhone/iPad filtering enabled!

You’ll also find that logged in users will get a personal feed url when clicking any of the RSS links at the top of the page. Thus the feeds only include apps in categories selected on your profile page.

Please note, due to the nature of RSS readers, these personal feed urls are not secured like your AppShopper account is.

Many of you have asked, so we are pleased to announce the new category filtering for the What’s New page. Visit your profile page (free site registration required) to select the categories you wish to be displayed. By default all are shown. Uncheck categories who’s Apps you wish to exclude.

The above example shows how to exclude books, for example, from the What’s New lists.

You’ll notice the front page (http://appshopper.com) brings you to the What’s New tab switched to the “Popular” view by default.  This list represents a boiled-down view of the Apps that receive the most interesting amount of activity on AppShopper.com.

You can, of course, still view the exhaustive “All” App activity list by switching over using the All/Popular switch, or find it directly at http://appshopper.com/all.  Additionally, many variations of the All/Popular App activity are available via RSS links.

Enjoy,

Chris

Introducing the new Top 200 App listings!  These lists replace the former Top 100 and may now be filtered by category and top paid / top free / top grossing Apps.

Search results are now sortable by relevance, price, update, and rating.  Note: relevance is only shown in most to least relevant order.  Other sort options may be sorted either way.

Top 100 lists are now sortable either way by top 100 position, change, peak, rating, and price.

Chris

The Top 100 app rankings are now updated hourly as opposed to daily.