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For those of you who have taken the Dropbox plunge, if you signed up with your edu email account Dropbox wants to double the space you get from referrals. That’s now 500MB per referral. And it’s retroactive. That’s right. They’ll double the extra space you’ve already received from referrals. Just visit this webpage and confirm your email address. Your space will be automatically increased. If you’re not a Dropbox user, it’s time to sign up. Not familiar with Dropbox? See this earlier blog post. How do you get space for referrals? Log into your Dropbox.com account, and click on the “Referral Status” tab. At theRead More →

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I had a student come by my office yesterday. She has a website where she’d like to have a discussion board for her visitors to use. I knew that there must be some discussion board services out there that will give you html code so that you can embed the board on your website. Of course I couldn’t recommend something without trying it out myself. I decided to go with Nabble.com. In the navigation bar at the top of this blog click on the new discussion board link to see it in action. The discussion board is for you to post questions and suggestions. IRead More →