Monthly Archives: April 2012

FTP Server

April 18, 2012
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At one time running your own FTP server was THE way to go if you wanted to share or move large files anywhere. Today it may not make sense to run your own server of any kind. If you do want to setup your own FTP site here is the best article on the...

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Free File Hosting Services

April 16, 2012
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There are many free file hosting sites. There are none that have unlimited file upload or unlimited online storage that I am aware of. But it is hard to beat free. Well, “free and secure” would beat just “free”. The first service on the list is of this writing is under the control of...

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Email

April 16, 2012
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Just use email to send big files. Split them, zip them. And use email that supports big attachments. Remember, your mailbox limits the amount of data you can receive. If you leave messages on your email server, your mailbox can fill-up and prevent you from receiving new email. Choose the option in your email...

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Free FTP Sites

April 15, 2012
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FTP sites are vanishing. Victims of new technologies and pressure to shutdown from copyright infringement law enforcement. Hotfile Free service has a maximum file size 400 MB. Must register http://hotfile.com  

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Software and Services

April 15, 2012
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Pando A free file sharing application for downloading, streaming and sharing large media files. Must install the software on your computer. From the Pando site:     Publish downloadable videos, photos and audio to any web site     Email files and folders up to 1GB     Use your existing email, no registration required     Know...

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Splitting Files

April 15, 2012
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Why split a large file? Breaking a file into smaller pieces provides the very large advantage of overcoming the 2 GB limit imposed by some browsers. By splitting files you can effectively upload files of any size. The number of individual pieces is irrelevant as long as you have the memory, storage and processing...

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For Fee File Sites

April 15, 2012
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For Fee File Sites

  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ Amazon S3 is file storage for the Internet. Not to be confused with Amazon’s cloud computing offering, Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). I have not used the AS3 service. Although I already have an Amazon account, to signup for AS3 I needed to create another account...

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Run your Own Web Server

April 15, 2012
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Another means of sharing files is by serving them over a port 80 HTTP connection, that is a web server. Most people have their internet connection via a Dynamic IP Address (non-fixed IP address). For this reason serving web pages or files via HTTP is problematic. However, in theory all you need to do...

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Peer to Peer (P2P) File Sharing Networks

April 15, 2012
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Although the P2P model is based on sharing files with many users with everyone acting as a host, many P2P applications can also be configured to only share files with specific people via direct connections to specific IP addresses. The exact method for doing this will vary from P2P application and is beyond the...

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Security

April 15, 2012
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Split and Zip: In addition to splitting files you can also use data compression before you upload. Probably always a good practice

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