How to send large files to friends, family, and co-workers when email doesn’t work

Posted on March 17, 2007 at 12:21 am

In a previous post, I talked about how you can email large digital pictures to other people by using the built-in windows email feature or shrinking the pictures using an XP PowerToy. However, if you want to send something else other than pictures, let’s say a 30MB PowerPoint presentation, you’ll have a hard time trying to attach it to an email.

And if you’ve had to do this before, even trying to zip the file will most of the time still not get you below the email attachment size limit! And unfortunately in this day of age, people have had to resort to sending Cd’s through mail to get their files to the right people! Well apparently some companies are listening and enough people seem to have this problem that they have created a web site where you can upload up to 300MB worth of files for free and share that with others!

The site is called SendSpace, http://sendspace.com/, and it’s become very popular very fast.

Click Browse to choose your file and then you can enter in any of the optional information such as the receiver’s email address, your email address, and a description. You can also use the SendSpace service to upload files and then link them off other sites such as MySpace, etc.

The nice thing I like about this site is that when you are uploading your files, it gives you a progress bar with the amount of time left, which was very accurate for me and helped restore my trust in the "time left" feature that Windows destroyed since it’s estimate to do anything were always off and constantly changed!

Once sent, the receiver gets an email with a link to the SendSpace web site where they can simply click on a link to download the file. They do not have to sign up or create an account in order to get the file. Convenient!

There is another web site that’s in competition and may or may not be better called youSENDit.

http://www.yousendit.com/

Their free service gives you 100MB maximum file size and 7 days that your file will be available for download. They have premium services available for a small fee per month also for tracking who downloads your files, branding your emails with your company logo, automatic backup of your uploaded files, password-protection services, and the ability to upload files that are up to 2GB in size!

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