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Beta Beat: QuickShareIt
The website for the new Mac OS X beta of QuickShareIt promises you can "send files to anyone", whether they're using a Mac or a PC. You download a small application, and drop data files onto it. The software uploads a copy of the file to its servers and provides you with a download link you can send to friends.
I downloaded a copy, dropped some files onto it, but couldn't get it to work very well during my tests. The requirements say Mac OS X Tiger and up, but it was no go on my 10.4 G4. Some users over at MacRumors had better luck than I did.
The beta is limited to 10MB files but according to the developers it will shortly expand up to 100MB. I look forward to when they get this up and working. It looks like a nice alternative to yousendit.
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gabriel Ortega said 8:23AM on 2-13-2007
I use Filechute from Yellow Mug software... which works really well.
http://www.yellowmug.com/filechute/
Although I guess this is more for people who have their own servers...
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marcj said 8:46AM on 2-13-2007
Yousendit:
http://www.yousendit.com/
No software to download, uses their own servers, 100MB limit for anonymous uploads and 2GB+ if you 'register'.
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itunesmc said 10:37AM on 3-06-2007
there is still such an application it's called Pando http://pando.com
don't know why there have to be another one
but ok, Rapidshare belongs to the past :D
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Chris said 9:28AM on 2-13-2007
I'm suffering deja-vu. Wasn't there an app like this in the last week or so? Only your file transfers didn't go via an intermediate server, so there were no size limits, but the receiver's download speed is capped by the sender's upload rate (but on the up-side you're making the most of bandwidth you've already paid for, rather than buying more).
I have looked around, and I have used the search, but failed to find it again. :-(
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thom said 9:27AM on 2-13-2007
http://dl.free.fr/
1go free by http or 5go free by ftp.
in french, first field is your file, second field your email and other fields are your friends emails.
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nate w said 10:03AM on 2-13-2007
www.sharefile.com is similar to yousendit, no file storage limit and variable bandwidth options
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jpd said 10:54AM on 2-13-2007
Get Pando. It does the trick very well and handles files up to 1GB.
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olivernward said 12:08PM on 2-13-2007
i use sendspace. 300mb limit for fee-free accounts
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paul said 11:53AM on 2-13-2007
Sounds like DropSend to me...
http://www.dropsend.com/
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Jettyboy said 5:38PM on 2-13-2007
Couldn't get it to work on G5 10.4.8, Tried several different file sizes, and even a jpeg. All it did was blink once and die.
I'd say it's not even a beta yet.
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Shaun said 8:14PM on 2-13-2007
Beta 3 is now available (we had a huge mishap with beta 2.. any files with a space in their name didn't work), adds growl support, icon badging, and 100MB upload limit, as well as a bunch of other bug fixes... Look for beta 4 towards the end of this week/next week with preferences and a history dialog (possibly a progress bar, we hear you guys asking for it.. but it might be put off until beta 5)
To those who couldn't get it to work period earlier in the day, you probably downloaded beta 2, give beta 3 a try and let us know if that fixes any issues from before.
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Paul said 12:29PM on 2-14-2007
Why on earth is this being posted to an Apple weblog? This is a multi-platform internet app that isn't specifically Apple-related. Stop posting 50 posts a day and stick to the quality stuff, writers and editors.
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