Sharing Folder with a difference
Sharing documents, data, songs and other digital content with friends/clients is one of our prime requirements.
Many still use the e-mail attachment feature for sending files, though it has file-size limitations.
To get over this shortcoming in the e-mail technology there are a variety of solutions:
(Dropload- http://www. dropload.com/,
Yousendit -http://www.yousendit.com/,
Pando-http://www.pando.com/,
G-mail drive-http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm,
XmailHardDrive-https://www. xmailharddrive.com/,
e-snips -http://esnips.com/,
Mozy -https://mozy.com/,
Streamload-http://www.streamload. com/,
NetDrive-http://www.acs. uwosh.edu/novell/netdrive. htm)
Most of the solutions mentioned above require uploading of files to be shared to the service provider's server. Whenever one needs to share a file, one has to e-mail or upload it to a service and later remove the same once it becomes obsolete. But, if one can directly share the files/folders stored in the local storage, one does not need to bother about uploading/deleting it from the server.One solution to this problem is Foldershare-http://foldershare.com (which i have discussed earlier in this blog dated:Sunday, July 09, 2006)
Another innovative file sharing tool which solves our purpose is BoxCloud-http://www.boxcloud. com/.
To share files or folders with BoxCloud, one has to just install the client software. Once installed, the software allows us to share files and folders of our choice with other BoxCloud members — the interface is almost similar to that of an IM client. When we create an account, the service provides our web interface with a URL of the form: http://your-name.boxcloud.com.
Once the files/folders in our local storage are shared with a client, the service sends an e-mail mentioning our account URL to him/her. Now, using this web address, our client can view/access/download the files shared directly from our machine from anywhere on the Net — provided our machine is on-line. The service's advantage lies in the facility to access the shared files over a browser — the recipient need not install the client software. Also, there is no limit to the size of the file or folder to be shared (the whole hard disk can be shared).
Many still use the e-mail attachment feature for sending files, though it has file-size limitations.
To get over this shortcoming in the e-mail technology there are a variety of solutions:
(Dropload- http://www. dropload.com/,
Yousendit -http://www.yousendit.com/,
Pando-http://www.pando.com/,
G-mail drive-http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm,
XmailHardDrive-https://www. xmailharddrive.com/,
e-snips -http://esnips.com/,
Mozy -https://mozy.com/,
Streamload-http://www.streamload. com/,
NetDrive-http://www.acs. uwosh.edu/novell/netdrive. htm)
Most of the solutions mentioned above require uploading of files to be shared to the service provider's server. Whenever one needs to share a file, one has to e-mail or upload it to a service and later remove the same once it becomes obsolete. But, if one can directly share the files/folders stored in the local storage, one does not need to bother about uploading/deleting it from the server.One solution to this problem is Foldershare-http://foldershare.com (which i have discussed earlier in this blog dated:Sunday, July 09, 2006)
Another innovative file sharing tool which solves our purpose is BoxCloud-http://www.boxcloud. com/.
To share files or folders with BoxCloud, one has to just install the client software. Once installed, the software allows us to share files and folders of our choice with other BoxCloud members — the interface is almost similar to that of an IM client. When we create an account, the service provides our web interface with a URL of the form: http://your-name.boxcloud.com.
Once the files/folders in our local storage are shared with a client, the service sends an e-mail mentioning our account URL to him/her. Now, using this web address, our client can view/access/download the files shared directly from our machine from anywhere on the Net — provided our machine is on-line. The service's advantage lies in the facility to access the shared files over a browser — the recipient need not install the client software. Also, there is no limit to the size of the file or folder to be shared (the whole hard disk can be shared).
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