On my Mac and Windows PCs, where I have access to a speedy connection, I have mounted my Box and Dropbox account to act as a local virtual storage. This allows me to seamlessly transfer files between them and my local storage drives with a simple copy & paste, and it makes my cloud storage services much more useful.

On Android, I need to ‘share’ files to the official Dropbox or Box app to save files on either of these cloud storage services, but there is a way to mount these services as if they’re SD cards. Here’s how.

The disappointing storage capacity being offered in a few high profile Android devices *cough* Nexus 4/DROID DNA *cough* has Android users running for the cloud. Anyone who’s sought out cloud storage services has undoubtedly stumbled across Dropbox.

Dropbox has once again teamed up with Samsung, only this time, they are offering 50GB of free storage (for 2 years) to anyone who purchases a Galaxy Note II or Galaxy Camera. Hopefully this won’t be a repeat of the Samsung Galaxy S III, where some carriers decided not to allow the promo.

Dropbox has announced its latest beta, giving users a chance to test out a few new features before any official updates hit the Play store. If you’re interested, you can head over to Dropbox Forums and get started testing out the improved Nexus 7 UI, as well as:

For the 7+ percent of Android users out there rocking Ice Cream Sandwich, you’ll be happy to hear Dropbox has updated their app to include streaming video support for Android 4.0. This is great for those of you with large Dropbox storage amounts and a few digital movies lying around.