If you’re ever tried sending someone a large file via email, you know what a pain it can be. Your email provider might have a hard time handling a large file, and even if your email provider can handle sending the file - you have no idea if the person on the other end will be able to handle receiving a 5mb, 10mb, 50mb or larger file! So what do you do? I use a free service offered by YouSendIt that allows me to send big files to people and it works awesome! (I first learned about this service when a graphic designer I had hired sent me some huge graphic files last summer.)
If you ever need to send a large file to someone, check out YouSendIt.com. They also offer some premium services for a small monthly fee if you need some more advanced features, or if you’re looking for a file sending solution for your business that replaces the hassle of FTP. Here’s the blurb from their site:
YouSendIt is the No.1 digital delivery company serving business and individuals on the Web today. Our innovative service enables users to send, receive and track files, on-demand. YouSendIt provides a trusted, convenient and smart solution for transferring large files over the Internet, replacing the need for FTP transfers, overnight couriers and unreliable email attachments. YouSendIt’s technology platform provides developers and partners the resources for integrating YouSendIt services into the applications people use for creating and communicating. When it has to be there now- just YouSendIt!
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Jeremy Osborne // Feb 7, 2008 at 2:35 pm
My new favorite technology-that-plays-nice-together-combo is:
A digital camera that records audio+visual films in raw AVI format
The DivX encoder
Yousendit
Great for disseminating videos after a party to everyone who wants to see them.
2 Todd // Feb 7, 2008 at 2:38 pm
nice little combo there jeremy. i will definitely be using yousendit for emailing video.
i’m still trying to find a good video website that allows me to upload a video and invite somebody to watch the video without requiring them to sign-up for an account. i would like to be able to upload some videos and share it like i do my photos - just to my friends/family, not for the world to see.
3 ethan // Feb 9, 2008 at 12:13 pm
dropshots.com fits the bill.
you can upload video and send it to all your friends, and obviously it’s not a searchable web 2.0 youtube deal, so you don’t have that private vs. public concern. Details on posting and privacy from the site
First hand experience: I didn’t need a membership to view some videos that were shared with me from when we did habitat for humanity some 6 months ago. My sister has a membership and it looks like it’s really easy to upload photos and pictures from camera to the site.
The free account has a 2 minute limit per video clip, so you might want to upgrade to a premium account which has a 10 minute video clip limit.
$60 per year, or there is what seems like one heck of a deal $100 lifetime membership (until they go out of business of course)
I might just pay the $100 myself
4 ethan // Feb 9, 2008 at 12:19 pm
looks like really sweet interface
And here is a comparison review of your different web hosting photo and / or video sites
This was in the post review comments and looks to be 100% accurate:
I’ve done my own research and narrowed it down to PicasaWeb and DropShots. Eventually, with DropShots 2.0, I consider DropShots the winner. It can NOT get easier than DropShots! Drag-drop all of your photos AND videos onto the client app - which automatically batch converts all videos to Flash Video before uploading (i.e. takes up a LOT less space than Picasaweb) and throws them ALL into a calendar-format album (based on filedate/time) - which, with DropShots 2.0, you can drag/drop to create your own “categorized” albums out of as well. AMAZING stuff! And no, I dont work for them or make commission - just something I found that makes it simple and easy for ANY person - even non-computer people!
5 Todd // Feb 9, 2008 at 3:50 pm
hey ethan, thanks a lot for the comments and info on dropshots! i’ll definitely try out that service.
6 Todd // Feb 11, 2008 at 3:08 pm
ok so i TOTALLY forgot that with Picasa Web Albums you can very easily upload video and share the video like you do photos - without requiring the recipient to have a password or any crap like that. since i recently signed up for extra storage from Picasa, I’m going to continue using that for privately sharing video for a while and see how it goes
7 Todd // Feb 12, 2008 at 12:57 am
ok so i checked out dropshots and they want me to install some sort of “dropbox” to upload video…i don’t like downloading something just to upload something - seems a little excessive. have you tried this thing? is it worth checking out?
8 ethan lipman // Mar 7, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I think your concern about the download is a bit overblown.. if it had to ALWAYS be running on your computer, that would be obnoxious, but you can surely use it on demand. Sites that don’t require a download implement the same sort of functionality with a server side application that either requires java or active-x or some .net crappola. all this cool stuff can’t be done with JUST html. The tool is either a stand alone app, a server side app, or better yet, a plugin to iphoto like flickr and picasa have available
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