Want to try the Dropbox cloud-storage tool? Use one of the referral links in this thread to sign up, and both you (and the refer-er) get an extra half gig of free storage.
Already a Dropbox user and want to earn more space? Post your referral URL here and maybe a fellow Doper will use it.
FYI, I have heard that if you sign up using a .edu address, you get double the space for free.
And my own link: Dropbox.com
That is a great idea. My link is: Dropbox.com
And mine Dropbox.com
Great idea, thanks Mama! Dropbox.com
If you use someone’s referrer link, make a post saying so, so that people can try to spread it out.
Can you tell us more about Dropbox? How much space do you use, how much do you pay, and how does it work?
Here’s one from me if it can help anyone - Dropbox.com
Pretty sure I copied it from right place…
The initial 2 gig is free, and you can get more by doing a few intro steps - then of course earn more free space by referrals (hence this thread).
Right now I’ve got 6.3 gig, of which 4.3 (roughly) is used. I got 3 gig by setting my phone up to do camera uploads, which means that every photo gets automatically uploaded (when I’m connected to wireless). I can clear those out from my computers by copying them to another directory, then the 3 gig will be free again.
How it works: It’s a cloud storage service. You set up a specific directory on your computer, then every file that you put in that directory gets synched up to their servers, then to any other devices you put on the same Dropbox account. I have, among other things, copies of our medical insurance cards, my 1Password files (put a password in on the PC, it’s automatically on the phone’s password vault), and oodles of other stuff.
You can get more space by paying - 10 a month or 100 a year for 100 gig, which someone might need but I don’t do that much volume.
More goodies: There are phone tools that integrate it - for example some of the Office programs (Documents To Go, QuickOffice). A notepad app called PlainText. CamScanner.
Other tools I have that don’t directly integrate, I can make a backup on the phone then use the phone’s tools to navigate to the backup location to manually force Dropbox to upload it (or use a third party tool, Dropsync, to do so automatically).
I can log in to the website on another computer entirely (one not linked for automatic synching, that is), and download files to that computer directly from the website.
And, it’s cross-platform. My husband has it on his iPhone. I have it on my Droid. We both have it on our work PCs (obviously, I would advise anyone thinking of that to make sure their employer permits it).
Other things we keep: copies of our medical power of attorney documents (so for example if I’m in an accident, Typo Knig can pull that up and the doctors can talk to him). Notes on medications we take.
I have our Quicken file on there - so we can enter stuff using either my work laptop or the desktop computer.
If anyone else wants a referrer link, here’s mine: Dropbox.com
Here’s mine
thank you
I’ve used Mama Zapa’s link btw
Thanks! Did it give you the extra 500 meg storage? You can follow the “get free space” and “view bonus space earned” links and it should list it. Mine doesn’t show any new bonus space. So if there’s a problem with how I posted my link, others might be affected as well and I’d hate for folks to lose out.
I got 250mb and another 250 for giving feedback. So I’m very happy. Thanks again.
Cool - though they should have given you 500 meg. I haven’t seen it on my account yet either.
Posting a new link in case the old one got stale somehow (though folks looking here, please use others’ upstream before mine).
Huh - nope, that’s the same one as before.
I wonder if the links expire after a while, just to prevent them from being blindly traded (like we’re doing here).
Dunno, though the one I’d posted earlier matches the one pulled up today.
Dropbox shouldn’t care that much, since they want to encourage people to join, get hooked, and pony up for the paid version. They do have things in place to reduce true abuses - for example. when we signed my son up (new iphone, new laptop arriving shortly), we did it on my computer, and the referral was found ineligible because of that. I later contacted them, explained the situation, and we both got credit, but I couldn’t have blamed them if they’d said “too bad, so sad”, as it was my own fault.
Maybe then it’s just new because the old one was used by Seamack?
Maybe they’re just delaying your extra space for a while to see if Seamack is using his space is is not just your sockpuppet? They seem to give away space for pretty much anything, but maybe there’s at least some light controls. :dubious:
No, the code is actually the same (and it’s the same code I’ve sent out before).
They might well have controls in place that delay it, also Seamack might not have clicked on the link correctly or something (hence the 250 vs 500), or something. I’m not going to sweat it; since I moved my camera stuff offline I’ve got enough room for the time being… though once I’m done digitizing our old financial records, I might be singing a different song :).
I do wish they had an intermediate level of paid storage: 100/year (or 10/month) for 100 gig is too much storage for my needs and while extra space is nice, I’d rather pay 50/year for 40 gig, for example.