Filesharing Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mobile Me debuts large file sharing with iDisk

by Robert Palmer (Feb 13th, 2009)

Apple yesterday announced a new addition to Mobile Me: The ability to share large files with others via iDisk. One of our readers had noticed an announcement about it way back on New Year's Day. The service works much like YouSendIt, though rather than uploading a file, you point to an existing ...

A boxful of awesome: Box.net iPhone

by Christina Warren (Oct 26th, 2008)

Update 2: Box.net will work with first generation iPod Touch units. The team is going to push an update very soon to make this visible on the app description page. You can download the program right now and it is fully compatible with all iPhone and iPod Touch units. Update: Box.net is looking into ...

Dropbox now in public beta

by Robert Palmer (Sep 12th, 2008)

Dropbox, my favorite FTP-free file sharing and transfer system, is now in public beta -- anyone can sign up to use the service, and you don't need an invite code. Spokesperson Drew Houston said in a blog post that they launched the public beta at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. I wrote ...

Dropbox: Seamless file upload and sharing

by Robert Palmer (May 22nd, 2008)

I don't know about y'all, but the beta service Dropbox has personally answered my prayers. It's an amazing piece of web software that integrates with the Finder, and allows you to seamlessly copy files up to the web for sharing -- and not use FTP. Dropbox exists (through some kind of magic, I'm ...

TUAW first look: Papaya personal filesharing

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 9th, 2008)

Papaya is a new utility for personal file sharing, and TUAW got a chance to put through its paces. We were pretty impressed with the ease of use it provides for getting your files across the office... or the globe. Papaya provides a simple window and a multitude of methods for adding files to be ...

QuickShareIt 2.0

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 3rd, 2008)

QuickShareIt, which we covered a while back, has received an upgrade to 2.0, adding many of the originally promised features as well as a host of new ones. QuickShareIt is a Mac app that provides online storage and file sharing with both Mac and PC users. It's growing up amongst a host of similar ...

Swift Share, Mac/PC file sharing utility, on 55% sale at MacZOT today only

by David Chartier (Jun 22nd, 2007)

Swift Share is a utility for creating and managing folders to share for both Mac OS X and Windows based machines across your network and even in remote locations. While Mac OS X allows for some limited file/folder sharing functionality via the Sharing System Preferences pane, plenty of users out ...

Long-time holdouts Red Hot Chili Peppers in the iTunes Music Store

by Dave Caolo (Mar 21st, 2006)

Do you remember when Napster was huge (about ten years ago), and digital file sharing was on everyone's minds? Metallica and The Red Hot Chili Peppers were sort of leading the anti-p2p charge. Several years later, when the iTunes Music Store demonstrated that the online distribution of music could ...

TUAW Reader Discussion on Grokster and Google Video

by C.K. Sample, III (Jun 27th, 2005)

Every so often, now that we have a chatroom, I'm going to have little impromptu chatcasts with readers on different tech topics that affect the Mac community. This time around we talked about the Grokster decision, the RIAA, the MPAA, and Google's new video playback capabilities and their lack of a ...