DropSend
In my work with Happy Cog Studios, which is a strategic partner with Complex Spiral Consulting, we’ve had occasion to send each other really big files, like Photoshop design comps and so forth. As just about everyone knows, this is hard to do via e-mail, since SMTP servers usually cap attachment sizes at 10MB. Even if a file size is below that limit, it’s kind of a pain to send large attachments. Your e-mail client sits there slowly uploading the attachment, and then on the other end, someone else’s e-mail client gets to sit there slowly downloading it.
This is why we started uploading our files to our personal web sites via FTP, and sending around the URLs in email. That’s great for macho geeks like us, even if it is a bit tedious, but not so great for most people.
You know what would be great for most people? DropSend. You can upload files via your browser, or grab a desktop application (for both Mac OS X and Windows!) to handle that part. Then you just send a link to the file to people who need it, and you’re done. There’s a basic free account which ought to satisfy any occasional user, and some fairly cheap paid account levels to add more storage and sending capabilities. If you’re in search of a better way to send really large files, it’s worth a look.
Nice site design, too.
Disclaimer: the creator of DropSend, Ryan Carson, is also the founder of Carson Workshops, for whom I’ve done a couple of seminars. For that matter, he’s a co-founder of BD4D.
