Dropbox Now Gives You 500MB for Each Friend You Refer

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

The main benefit of Dropbox is its client applications which are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. All you need to do is create an account (either free or paid one), download the client app, install it on your computer, and you're ready to go.

Dropbox gives you 2GB of space for free account and you can earn more spaces by referring your friends to use Dropbox. Dropbox is now doubling the amount of free space you get per referral to 500MB, compared to the previous 250MB per each referral. This is retroactive and applies to referrals you've already made.

Quoted from Dropbox blog:

How much space is that, exactly? For every friend you invite that installs Dropbox, you’ll both get 500 MB of free space. If you’ve got a free account, you can invite up to 32 people for a whopping total of 16 GB of extra space. Pro accounts now earn 1 GB per referral, for a total of 32 GB of extra space. Have you already invited a bunch of people? Don’t worry. Within a few days, you’ll get full credit for every referral that’s already been completed. Boom!

Well, what are you waiting for? Create a free account, tell your friends, and get more spaces on Dropbox!

Install Dropbox Client on Ubuntu
Simply download the installer here and install it once downloaded.

If you are using XFCE, you might want to read my post about enabling Dropbox copy public link on Thunar File Manager.

Enjoy :)

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Get Dropbox "Copy Public Link" Works on Thunar File Manager [XFCE]

In my previous post, I shared my experience using XFCE on how to setup dual-monitor. Today, I'd like to share another XFCE trick on how to enable Dropbox "Copy Public Link" on Thunar File Manager. If you have never heard before, Dropbox is online storage service that offers 2GB disk space for free account, while Thunar is default file manager for XFCE desktop, it's like Nautilus in Gnome desktop. Okay, before we jump into the trick, please let me show you what will we do in this post.

Installing requirement
You have to install an application called "xclip" that can be installed by typing the following command:

• sudo apt-get install xclip

Downloading script
Download the script called "dropbox.py" here and place in "/usr/bin". Once downloaded and placed well, please type the following command to make it executable:

• sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/dropbox.py

Setting Up Thunar File Manager
Now, you have to add custom action in Thunar File Manager which will get the public url using dropbox.py and then copy it to the clipboard using xclip:

1. In the Thunar menu, go to Edit/Configure Custom Actions...
2. Press the uppermost button in the left (the + button).
3. In the dialog which appears, fill the following entries:
Name: Copy Dropbox public URL Command: bash -c "dropbox.py puburl %n | xclip -i -selection clipboard"
4. In the Appearance Conditions conditions page, mark every checkbox but the Directories one.
5. Accept, and then close

Now, you can copy Dropbox Public URL from Thunar's context menu as shown in the first picture above.

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