Sorry in advance if this is in the wrong section. Dropbox, for those who don't know, is an application that syncs files between computers, and also offers a web interface to download/manage them. You can share folders between different users too! Check out their site for better info. I tend to use it to keep files at home and work. It's perfect for school as you can open files and save them on the DropBox account without the need for USB's. Group projects can also be efficiently done as you can upload your finished files with the confidence that it'll be there unlike emails bouncing back.
First, if you don't have an account, create one by using a referral link.
http://db.tt/QHFSFmk7 This will immediately give you an extra 250MB on top of the 2GB from the free account.
Second, take the tour.
https://www.dropbox.com/tour This will grant you an extra 250MB.
Next, if you are a student, go to
https://www.dropbox.com/edu and confirm your student email address. This will double your existing 250MB of extra space (earned by using the referral link), and double any referral space you earn. Combined with that, use your referrals to earn up to an extra 16GB of space! (8Gigs x 2 for the EDU confirmation).
Be a social media whore and use Twitter and Facebook
https://www.dropbox.com/getspace to talk about Dropbox for another 768MB. You can unlink the apps from your accounts when you are done and the free space will stay.
Finally, install the recent experimental build posted on the Dropbox forums. This includes a new photo uploading feature that will give you an extra 500MB on the first photo upload, and an additional 500MB for every 500MB of pictures/videos you upload, up to 4.5Gigs (totaling an additional 5Gigs).
If you max out your referrals you should be able to get about 24Gigs on your free dropbox account! Here is my referral if you would like to sign up to DropBox and would like more free space:
http://db.tt/QHFSFmk7 DropBox is really good for school by saving and sharing files and projects. Feel free to try it out.
