DropQuest 2011

Dropbox organized a scavenger hunt named Dropquest the other day. The first 81 people to complete all steps won some nice prizes, but everyone participating in the quest can get 1 GB of extra Dropbox storage space.

• The timer starts as soon as you load the first step.
• The entire Dropbox website (including the blog and the forums, which were needed for the quest to solve clues) was under heavy traffic at the time.
• Also, I did take some breaks to investigate the HTML and JavaScript source code used in Dropquest.

Walktrough is available for the people who are limited on time;

http://www.mckaywei.com/index.php/2011/01/17/how-to-finish-dropbox%e2%80%99s-dropquest-2011-within-60-seconds/

Project Management [tree swing]

After more than 10 years experience in the IT, this picture still is valid for a lot of projects I encounter…

Simplify Windows Server Maintenance

I found this article by Joshua Hoffman on Technet Magazine; It’s a variety of tools and a plethora of guidance exist to help you perform proactive maintenance on your Windows servers.

• Best Practices Analyzer
• Performance Monitoring and Tuning
• Monitoring Events
• Active Directory Recycle Bin
• Server Core
• System Center

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9755661

Shared Folder Referrals

Dropbox has altered his policy around shared folder referrals. if a user you invite to a shared folder joins and installs dropbox, you now both get bonus space just as you would had you invited them via the referral program.

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=29680

Get More Free Space with DropBox

Get 1GB of extra free space on DropBox. It’s actually very simple, and if you follow their six simple steps, you can earn 768MB of extra free space (6 steps, 128MB per step).

Click here to read “Get More Free Space with DropBox”

http://churchcrunch.com/get-nearly-another-free-gig-of-space-on-dropbox/