It is easy enough to upload essays and papers to my website where they are publicly available. But it can be a cumbersome task update my website every time I make some small modification to the files. To get around this petty annoyance, I use Dropbox. Dropbox is a very handy and easy to use sync and backup utility. Once you install the Dropbox application, all you have to do is specify a directory on your local machine and everything in that folder will automatically be backed up/synced. If…