It’s that time of the week again, a chance for you to sit back and be inspired by some of our favorite web and mobile designs from the past week.
You may also like to browse the Web Inspiration Archives.
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Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage providers in the market. It is great for storing photos and videos, hosting static websites, and safekeeping and sharing various other stuffs with friends and co-workers. Its wonderful features ease or solve many of our real-life problems, and it works so well that ironically it is the main cause we regularly run out of Dropbox storage space.
In short, Dropbox’s problem is "the more you do, the less you have." Dropbox comes with only 2 GB of initial free storage. For most of us who work and play online, that’s far from enough. In this post we take a look at some of the ways we can get more Dropbox storage, for free. The catch is, it isn’t a one-time thing, you will need to help the Dropbox team grow to get chunk of the free space they offer, by doing things like:
You will get: 250 MB
Most of you who have been on Dropbox for a while will probaby have gone through the "Get Started" tour, which is basically Dropbox Basics 101. Just complete any five of the seven quests, which teaches you how to setup Dropbox on your computer or mobile device anyways, and you get a 250 MB as a reward from Dropbox.
Get social with Dropbox by
You will get: 125 MB
Tell Dropbox team why you love their popular cloud storage service, and they’ll be happy to offer you a bonus storage space of 125 MB in your Dropbox account.
You will get: 0.5 GB per friend [Capped at 16 GB]
This might be handy if you don’t have many friends who are already on Dropbox yet. Getting them to join via your referral link gives you half a GB for every successful invite to join. With a cap at 16GB, it’s a maximum of 32 friends who can join via invite, doesn’t matter how many you invite (since not all of them will sign up for it, right?).
You will get: 1 GB
Mailbox is a light, fast and simple email application from Dropbox. Sign up and download Mailbox, and start using it to send, receive and manage your emails, and Dropbox will add 1 GB of extra storage space into your Dropbox account.
You will get: 3 GB
If you use cloud storage to store your photos, then you should get Carousel. Carousel is the new media gallery from Dropbox for storing your photos and videos. It’s easier, prettier, faster and an all-around better way to view your Dropbox photos and videos. Start using Carousel and get 3 GB of bonus storage space in your Dropbox account.
You will get: A maximum of 48 GB (for 2 years only)
A select number of Samsung devices launched between 2012 and 2014 are eligible for free 48 GB free Dropbox space. Some will get it for 1 year, others for 2 years. You can look into the specifics here, but remember that once the promotion expires, you are back to your original storage capacity before you claim this promo.
You will get: A maximum of 23 GB
If you own or want to own an HTC device, there is also free Dropbox storage you can claim. If you have an HTC Sense 4.0, 4+ or 5.0 devices, you can get 23 GB for two years. It will depend on whether your carrier is in on the promotion and if the Dropbox app is pre-loaded on your devices. Find out more about it here.
And that’s it, 8 ways you can get more storage on your Dropbox account, without paying a cent. If however all of this is not enough for you, there are three more methods you can use, but they are going to cost you, namely:
1. Clean Up Your Storage
Okay, this one is still free, but you will need to take some time off your busy schedule and perhaps throw away things you are reluctant to chuck out. Get rid of all the space-clogging files that you probably won’t need anymore. Backups can be stowed away in external hard disks or just deleted. Live in the here and now.
2. Subscribe to Dropbox Pro
There is 1 TB of cloud storage waiting for you in Dropbox Pro. Just upgrade your account to get that although you might want to make sure that you need that much space first. This is going to set you back .99 per month.
3. Get Dropbox for Business
If your company has the budget for it, you can always opt for Dropbox for business, it’s per user per month, and there is unlimited storage for you to use. There is a free trial for 14 days.
Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage providers in the market. It is great for storing photos and videos, hosting static websites, and safekeeping and sharing various other stuffs with friends and co-workers. Its wonderful features ease or solve many of our real-life problems, and it works so well that ironically it is the main cause we regularly run out of Dropbox storage space.
In short, Dropbox’s problem is "the more you do, the less you have." Dropbox comes with only 2 GB of initial free storage. For most of us who work and play online, that’s far from enough. In this post we take a look at some of the ways we can get more Dropbox storage, for free. The catch is, it isn’t a one-time thing, you will need to help the Dropbox team grow to get chunk of the free space they offer, by doing things like:
You will get: 250 MB
Most of you who have been on Dropbox for a while will probaby have gone through the "Get Started" tour, which is basically Dropbox Basics 101. Just complete any five of the seven quests, which teaches you how to setup Dropbox on your computer or mobile device anyways, and you get a 250 MB as a reward from Dropbox.
Get social with Dropbox by
You will get: 125 MB
Tell Dropbox team why you love their popular cloud storage service, and they’ll be happy to offer you a bonus storage space of 125 MB in your Dropbox account.
You will get: 0.5 GB per friend [Capped at 16 GB]
This might be handy if you don’t have many friends who are already on Dropbox yet. Getting them to join via your referral link gives you half a GB for every successful invite to join. With a cap at 16GB, it’s a maximum of 32 friends who can join via invite, doesn’t matter how many you invite (since not all of them will sign up for it, right?).
You will get: 1 GB
Mailbox is a light, fast and simple email application from Dropbox. Sign up and download Mailbox, and start using it to send, receive and manage your emails, and Dropbox will add 1 GB of extra storage space into your Dropbox account.
You will get: 3 GB
If you use cloud storage to store your photos, then you should get Carousel. Carousel is the new media gallery from Dropbox for storing your photos and videos. It’s easier, prettier, faster and an all-around better way to view your Dropbox photos and videos. Start using Carousel and get 3 GB of bonus storage space in your Dropbox account.
You will get: A maximum of 48 GB (for 2 years only)
A select number of Samsung devices launched between 2012 and 2014 are eligible for free 48 GB free Dropbox space. Some will get it for 1 year, others for 2 years. You can look into the specifics here, but remember that once the promotion expires, you are back to your original storage capacity before you claim this promo.
You will get: A maximum of 23 GB
If you own or want to own an HTC device, there is also free Dropbox storage you can claim. If you have an HTC Sense 4.0, 4+ or 5.0 devices, you can get 23 GB for two years. It will depend on whether your carrier is in on the promotion and if the Dropbox app is pre-loaded on your devices. Find out more about it here.
And that’s it, 8 ways you can get more storage on your Dropbox account, without paying a cent. If however all of this is not enough for you, there are three more methods you can use, but they are going to cost you, namely:
1. Clean Up Your Storage
Okay, this one is still free, but you will need to take some time off your busy schedule and perhaps throw away things you are reluctant to chuck out. Get rid of all the space-clogging files that you probably won’t need anymore. Backups can be stowed away in external hard disks or just deleted. Live in the here and now.
2. Subscribe to Dropbox Pro
There is 1 TB of cloud storage waiting for you in Dropbox Pro. Just upgrade your account to get that although you might want to make sure that you need that much space first. This is going to set you back .99 per month.
3. Get Dropbox for Business
If your company has the budget for it, you can always opt for Dropbox for business, it’s per user per month, and there is unlimited storage for you to use. There is a free trial for 14 days.
It’s that time of the week again, a chance for you to sit back and be inspired by some of our favorite web and mobile designs from the past week.
You may also like to browse the Web Inspiration Archives.
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Since its launch in 2013, Slack has grown to become a top team communication tool. Its availability across multiple major platforms makes it a great tool to generate conversations, collaborations and discussions. It also allows for third party integration and services to help make life a lot easier.
For instance, you can automatically post any new task you’ve added in Asana, to a channel of your choice. There are many other tools like this that help improve the usability and functionality of Slack. In this post, we are listing 10 tools that you might like to use together with Slack.
Slack News allows you retrieve news quickly from multiple sources without leaving your Slack windows. Just type /news [source] on any channel and you will served with the latest newsbits right there. To set it up, you need to install Slack News on your own server before tweaking the integration and preferences on Slack.
Slack comes with 6 themes that you can find on Preference > Sidebar Themes. If you want more you can actually configure this yourself: just enter the eight hex code to patch the theme you use. If you want more, Slack Themes gives you color configuration of beautiful themes; there are about 70 themes available there. Some of themes appear to mimic the color themes of popular applications like Reddit and Youtube.
Chit Chats is a place to discover an online community that is using Slack around the world. Then, just join in with the conversation. You can find topics you like, such as Web or UX designers, developers, Android fans, entrepreneurs, and many others.
Franke makes your emails available on any Slack channel instantly. You can manually forward emails you receive or send and post them to the Slack channel. You can also do this automatically by including franke emails (yourteam@getfranke.com) on your team’s emails then configuring the domain or email address that you send to / receives from on the dashboard.
Convergely enhances your team’s communication on Slack with useful features like Slater, which allows you to schedule your messages to the team. This tools also has an auto-responder system allowing you to leave a reply message if you are away. Also you can assign a task to the team member in the middle of a discussion or conversation.
Slack Overflow essentially lets you search for help in StackOverflow without leaving Slack. Just type /overflow and your search keyword, and the result will be displayed immediately in your channel, visible to you only. To make it work you need to configure integration in your Slack team.
Send to Slack is a Sketch plugin that allows you send your artwork from Sketch directly to the Slack channel, group or user. After installation and setting up of the Slack API just go to Sketch > Plugins > Send to Slack and choose the channel/group you want to share to.
If you are fans of Google Drive for document storage, now you can get Slack notification on every change made on your documents on Google Drive. This tools will notify you if there is a new document created, if someone shares a document to you, modifies or deletes it.
If you are a Linux user, there is no official Slack application for Linux yet. To use, you can use Chrome to make an application shortcut. Unfortunately it only runs on Chrome. Alternatively you can use Slack for Linux, an unofficial Slack client for Linux that runs on NPM. This works for most Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, and more.
Slackin helps you build public communities through Slack. It give you an <iframe> badge with a real time number of registered and online users, which you can put on a web page. If the user clicks on the badge, a form asking for an email address to be sent an invitation to join will be shown. Alternatively, there are landing page versions. Plus, the badge is also available in SVG version, for static mediums such as GitHub Pages.
Here are two more tools that may not really help with productivity – but you might still want to check them out.
Limbo is a simple and customizable Slack bot. It has many plugins to do special tasks, such as a Gif plugin that will serve you a random gif based on your search query. To use simple type !gif . The Calc plugin helps you do math or change units.
Slacker puts a little fun in Slack, letting you reply the conversation with a funny character. There are 20 characters available but you can create your own too. Before using, it requires you to enteryour organisation name and Slack API token.
Since its launch in 2013, Slack has grown to become a top team communication tool. Its availability across multiple major platforms makes it a great tool to generate conversations, collaborations and discussions. It also allows for third party integration and services to help make life a lot easier.
For instance, you can automatically post any new task you’ve added in Asana, to a channel of your choice. There are many other tools like this that help improve the usability and functionality of Slack. In this post, we are listing 10 tools that you might like to use together with Slack.
Slack News allows you retrieve news quickly from multiple sources without leaving your Slack windows. Just type /news [source] on any channel and you will served with the latest newsbits right there. To set it up, you need to install Slack News on your own server before tweaking the integration and preferences on Slack.
Slack comes with 6 themes that you can find on Preference > Sidebar Themes. If you want more you can actually configure this yourself: just enter the eight hex code to patch the theme you use. If you want more, Slack Themes gives you color configuration of beautiful themes; there are about 70 themes available there. Some of themes appear to mimic the color themes of popular applications like Reddit and Youtube.
Chit Chats is a place to discover an online community that is using Slack around the world. Then, just join in with the conversation. You can find topics you like, such as Web or UX designers, developers, Android fans, entrepreneurs, and many others.
Franke makes your emails available on any Slack channel instantly. You can manually forward emails you receive or send and post them to the Slack channel. You can also do this automatically by including franke emails (yourteam@getfranke.com) on your team’s emails then configuring the domain or email address that you send to / receives from on the dashboard.
Convergely enhances your team’s communication on Slack with useful features like Slater, which allows you to schedule your messages to the team. This tools also has an auto-responder system allowing you to leave a reply message if you are away. Also you can assign a task to the team member in the middle of a discussion or conversation.
Slack Overflow essentially lets you search for help in StackOverflow without leaving Slack. Just type /overflow and your search keyword, and the result will be displayed immediately in your channel, visible to you only. To make it work you need to configure integration in your Slack team.
Send to Slack is a Sketch plugin that allows you send your artwork from Sketch directly to the Slack channel, group or user. After installation and setting up of the Slack API just go to Sketch > Plugins > Send to Slack and choose the channel/group you want to share to.
If you are fans of Google Drive for document storage, now you can get Slack notification on every change made on your documents on Google Drive. This tools will notify you if there is a new document created, if someone shares a document to you, modifies or deletes it.
If you are a Linux user, there is no official Slack application for Linux yet. To use, you can use Chrome to make an application shortcut. Unfortunately it only runs on Chrome. Alternatively you can use Slack for Linux, an unofficial Slack client for Linux that runs on NPM. This works for most Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, and more.
Slackin helps you build public communities through Slack. It give you an <iframe> badge with a real time number of registered and online users, which you can put on a web page. If the user clicks on the badge, a form asking for an email address to be sent an invitation to join will be shown. Alternatively, there are landing page versions. Plus, the badge is also available in SVG version, for static mediums such as GitHub Pages.
Here are two more tools that may not really help with productivity – but you might still want to check them out.
Limbo is a simple and customizable Slack bot. It has many plugins to do special tasks, such as a Gif plugin that will serve you a random gif based on your search query. To use simple type !gif . The Calc plugin helps you do math or change units.
Slacker puts a little fun in Slack, letting you reply the conversation with a funny character. There are 20 characters available but you can create your own too. Before using, it requires you to enteryour organisation name and Slack API token.
