Dropbox has expanded its invitation program so that you can now get up to 16GB of free online storage. Each invitation you send to a friend that is accepted will add another 500MB to your default free allocation of 2GB. And they’re honouring past invitations as well.
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If you’re on a computer that doesn’t have Dropbox installed, you can now upload files just by dragging them onto the Dropbox webapp.
The AutoRecovery (or auto-save) feature in Microsoft Office is great for recovering documents when the program crashes, but if you want to be absolutely certain that backup has a home, Reddit user v12spd recommends changing the default location of those save files to your Dropbox (or other cloud storage) folder.
If you haven’t earned enough free Dropbox space already, good news — Dropbox just doubled the amount you get from referrals. For every friend that signs up via your referral link, you get 500MB if you have a free account and 1GB if you have a pro account.
The long-awaited, much-rumored Google Drive — these days assumed to be something Dropbox-like but from the big G — is apparently going to be launched the first week of April, according to GigaOm‘s Om Malik.
If you missed out on the last free online storage space offer from Dropbox, here’s another one you can grab: a total of 3GB of extra space just by using the Camera Upload feature to put photos and videos into Dropbox.
In addition to a new, clean interface that now allows you to drag-and-drop files just like you would on a desktop, the latest update to the web version of Dropbox comes with a new photo viewer and thumbnails for both audio and video files.
If you use multiple machines, you may be frustrated by the fact that your desktop — where many of us keep our current projects — doesn’t stay in sync between computers. While you could drag the files to your Dropbox manually, reader tpflanz has a simpler solution: just move your Desktop to your Dropbox.
The Dropbox app for Android received an update today that brings automatic uploads of your videos and photos to your Dropbox account.
Dropbox Automator, a powerful web app that processes files of many types as soon as you place them in Dropbox, got a major update recently with speed improvements, better security and connections to more services. You can now have automated actions for Picasa and Google+, Kindle and Box.net.