FileSharing Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Box acquires Folders, in what sounds like the least exciting acquisition deal ever

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2013)

File-sharing service Box has acquired the technology behind a French app called Folders, which was never released, but is also centered on browsing and sharing files on the iPhone. Terms of the acquisition weren't revealed, but Box said that Folders would be a big influence on the next few ...

Box offering 25 GB for free in promotion

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2013)

Filesharing service Box is offering up 25 GB of free cloud storage in a new promotion (supposedly for "Gameday," but it seems to still be in effect anyway). To qualify, you must be a new customer on a free plan, or just sign up for a new account with a new email address. The deal is also for ...

Tonido can put you in touch with all your files from any iOS device

by Mel Martin (Jan 23rd, 2013)

Tonido is a free iOS app that, when paired to your home computer, gives you access to all your files when you are away from home, and even allows playback of video and audio files. You run an app on your home PC or Mac, create a free account and a portal is created that can be reached through ...

Missing your iDisk? OpenDrive is an easy-to-use substitute

by Mel Martin (Oct 8th, 2012)

When Apple killed MobileMe and iDisk I was pretty unhappy. It was great for quick small backups, and an easy way to share files with friends by giving them access to a public or password-protected folder. There are plenty of sync/backup solutions out there, like MediaFire, Dropbox, SugarSync ...

Droplr announces Droplr Pro with increased storage, more

by Mel Martin (May 10th, 2012)

I took a look at Droplr back in February and found it a nice, free, easy to use file sharing service for Mac and Windows computers. For those who want more, Droplr now has Droplr Pro. It adds quite a few nice bells and whistles, including private, password protected drops, and more storage. Users ...

Dropbox update adds public links to any file or folder

by Steven Sande (Apr 23rd, 2012)

Dropbox has just announced an update to its self-named service that provides new public sharing links. This update, which appears to be an end-run against the imminent launch of Google's competing Drive app, makes it possible to share read-only folders with anyone -- regardless of whether or ...

Daily Mac app: Droplr

by Mel Martin (Feb 6th, 2012)

Do you want to share files easily and quickly? Then take a look at Droplr, which has been around for some time and recently hit the Mac App Store in an improved version 2. Droplr is free and easy way to share images, documents and other files. You can run it from a web browser or the Mac app which ...

Daily Mac App: DropCopy

by Samuel Gibbs (Sep 30th, 2011)

Mac OS X Lion introduced AirDrop, which offers zero-configuration, Wi-Fi file sharing between Lion users. DropCopy offered a similar service when we wrote about it in 2007. Today, DropCopy still deserves a place on your Mac, as it does a few things that AirDrop doesn't. For one, DropCopy ...

Kazaa reborn as iPhone, iPad music service

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 20th, 2011)

Several years back, Kazaa shed its roots as a file-sharing service with questionable content and is now a legitimate music subscription service. To expand its offerings, the subscription service recently introduced both an iPhone and an iPad client. Similar to Rdio and Spotify, Kazaa lets you ...

iTwin allows you to share files with PCs securely over the web

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 20th, 2011)

iTwin has added official public Mac compatibility to its innovative file sharing USB stick that allows users to transfer or share files across Macs or PCs no matter where they are in the world. After selecting which files to share users can simply plug one half of an iTwin into a Mac and the ...

OS X Lion bug may affect Windows file sharing

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 30th, 2011)

A bug has been discovered in OS X Lion Server that appears when a user tries to share a file with extended attributes with a Windows XP or Windows 7 system. The bug was first discovered by Steve Maser, a senior systems administrator at the University of Michigan's Office of Technology Transfer. ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: CloudApp

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 14th, 2011)

Sharing small files via email is easy with attachments. But what about sharing files via IM, Twitter, Facebook or the myriad of other services? That's where the incredibly simple CloudApp comes in. CloudApp sits in your menu bar waiting to upload files to the cloud, ready for sharing with ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Time Machine over a network

by Justin Esgar (Feb 22nd, 2011)

This week, Jude writes in and asks about using a home theater Mac mini as a Time Machine location for his MacBook Pro. We show him how to do this with some tweaking to his MacBook Pro. In the video, we used this code to put into Terminal.app: sudo defaults write ...

DropDAV: An easy way to link iWork for iPad and Dropbox

by Steven Sande (Dec 24th, 2010)

iWork for iPad is an incredibly powerful tool for folks who want to use their iPads as a MacBook Air surrogate. However, if they want to round-trip their documents through the popular Dropbox service, there hasn't been a way to save or open files from within Pages, Keynote, or Numbers for iPad. ...

Dropbox updates iOS apps, announces App Directory

by Mike Schramm (Sep 23rd, 2010)

The Dropbox app for iPhone and iPad has been updated recently. There's a UI redesign in there now that takes full advantage of the Retina Display, so your shared files will look better than ever. The iPad version has gained a landscape view, and the app will now finish uploads and downloads in the ...