A word of warning: Using this method to enlarge your Dropbox might get you banned. In my opinion for a good reason. Dropbox needs to pay the bills for the S3-service they use too. I’m only posting this information because I think that the pro-accounts should become a lot cheaper. Don’t talk in the comments whether using this method is justified or not – it’s certainly NOT!

1. Login to your Dropbox-Account

2. Go to https://www.dropbox.com/referrals and write your Share Link or post it somewhere online where you can easily access it

3. Download VirtualBox and an Ubuntu Live-CD iso-image

4. Install VirtualBox and create an Virtual Machine for Ubuntu

5. Start the Virtual Machine and choose the Ubuntu.iso in the dialog-window

6. It will now boot the from the CD, once asked for it choose “Try Ubuntu….” as in the picture below

7. Once Ubuntu is up and running, start Firefox,go to the location where you stored the referral link or write it in the adress-bar

8. Create a new Dropbox-Account. The email-adress doesn’t have to exist

9. You get to a page where you’ll have to choose the Ubuntu-version of Dropbox you want to install, Click on ‘Ubuntu (x86 .deb)’

10. Open the file after the download and click on ‘Install Package’ in the new window

11. During the installation another window will open, click on ‘Start Dropbox’

12. Dropbox will finally open, check ‘I already have an account’ and insert the email-adress and password you registered with

13. If it was correct you just got another 250MB space on your Dropbox-account (I saw a notification on my host-pc which was also logged on in Dropbox)

14. Close the Virtual-Machine

15. Right-Click on the virtual-machine, click on change, go to the network, click on Advanced and click on the green button next to the Mac-adress field. This will generate a random mac-adress. Thats also the reason why using a virtual-machine is probably the fastest way to do this

16. To repeat the procedure go to Step 5

What about the last 250MB?

So, you really did this 32 times? You can get the last 250MB by going to https://www.dropbox.com/gs and completing 5 of the 6 six steps.

If you got an idea how to to make the procedure even easier, feel free to share it in the comments!

You might expect some great footage from our Midi Fight Club. I regret to inform you that you still have to wait one more week. I’m in serious need of a short vacation with nothing but me, my girlfriend and a fat Tolstoy-book to make up for all the damanged braincells during the last week.

Here’s a teaser of me spinning at the Globus floor:

This is actually one of the most anticipated summer hits of 2010. Sadly it won’t be released before september because of sample clearance-issues.

Since thats not summer anymore and the already available self-made edits from O-God or Baby Diego could never fully convinced me (although they got steeldrums) I put together my own edit which is as close as you can get to the original version as of now.

Its not perfect but suffices to keep the party going.

Duck Sauce – Barbara Streisand (Hedgehog Needs No Sample Clearance Edit) by Hedgehog

I’ll make it downloadable after playing it out on the Midi Fight Club next Friday.

After steadily growing for the last three years it’s about time for DJTechTools to throw its own party. The question was which city would fit best to be the venue for a meeting of members coming from all over the world. After some months of waiting and badly delayed answered mails we are proud to announce that the party will take place In Germany’s capitol-city Berlin.

The venue will be the Globus- and +4 Bar-floor of the legendary Tresor (the Tresor-Floor will of course also be open and supported by two Tresor-residents). It will take place at Friday, 23th of July. Entry fee will be 10€ starting at 11.59PM.

Lineup

Globus Floor | +4 Bar:

DJ Shiftee (DMC Champion 2009)

Strip Steve (Boyz Noize Rec.)

The following DJTechTools-regulars will also spoil your ears with their controllerism-skills:

Name of act (forum name)

Müller & Graf (earl panda & Eric)
Restricted Sessions (Tekki + friends)
Hedgehog (HedgeHog)
MadsMission vs. Lasse Buhl (Flaekiface)
K.T.I.T. (kreativiTit)
Honestly Who (greatmesk)
Funk-a-Tron (DennisHuiberts)
Controlled Demolition(ctrld)

Tresor floor:

Pacou (Cache Rec., Tresor Rec./ Berlin)
Krenzlin (Brandenburg)

Directions

by train:
From Berlin main-station go to Berlin Alexanderplatz via S5, S7, S9
You have to walk 3-4 minutes to Alexanderplatz S+U (subway).
Then go 2 stations with the U8 towards Hermannstr.
Leave at Heinrich-Heine-Str. (U) and walk the last metres as shown on the map above.
If you’re good it takes 18 minutes to get from main-station to the Tresor.

A word to the supporters

Special thanks for sponsorship go to the Tresor itself, Native Instruments and AudioPalace.
Also thanks to Ean Golden for providing the necessary money.

If you have suggestions, need help or want to yell at us because you can’t come, join the ongoing conversation on the DJTechTools-forums or Facebook.