how to "park" data on the internet
kwijybo
Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.
I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.
Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
family newsletter for people who nothing about
computers...
any ideas?
Mark Warner
Start a Yahoo Group.
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http://www.savefile.com/filehost/
It's free and you can supply people with a link where they can download
files you put up there. Size limit is 60mb which means you could have some
documents and a few pics there for your familiy to download. There are a
few others, but the file size for those are considerably smaller.
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dadiOH
And yousendit is considerably bigger (one gig)
http://www.yousendit.com/
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GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual
filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail
as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail
account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail
account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally
adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where
you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.
Ever since Google started to offer users a GMail e-mail account, which
includes storage space of a 1000 megabytes, you have had plenty of
storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you
can easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again.
When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates an e-mail
and posts it to your account. The e-mail appears in your normal Inbox
folder, and the file is attached as an e-mail attachment. GMail Drive
periodically checks your mail account (using the GMail search function)
to see if new files have arrived and to rebuild the directory
structures. But basically GMail Drive acts as any other hard-drive
installed on your computer.
You can copy files to and from the GMail Drive folder simply by using
drag'n'drop like you're used to with the normal Explorer folders.
Because the GMail files will clutter up your Inbox folder, you may wish
to create a filter in GMail to automatically move the files (prefixed
with the GMAILFS letters in the subject) to your archived mail folder.
rich
> Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
> to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
> it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
> files.
This is not my list so I can not guarantee that they all work..
http://www.dropload.com
Space: 100Mb
limit: 7 day
http://www.datapickup.com/
Limit: 1.5gb
http://s1.ultrashare.net/
Upload Limit: Maximum 30mb
Your file will remain on their dedicated servers forever as long as
someone downloads it, otherwise the file will be removed if it is unused
for 30 days or you delete it.
http://www.youshareit.com/
Space: 50Mb
limits: 100 download
http://www.yousendit.com
Space: 1Gb, download can resume, special download manager
limits: 25 download or 7 days
http://www.sharebigfile.com
100mb limit, there is a 7 day download limit like some of the others
but you can have 250 dls before link is done.
http://www.rapidshare.de
space: 30Mb, Unlimited downloads
limits: one hour download, wait for countdown, daily download limit,
can't resume download, one IP connection, inactive link deleted after 30
days
http://www.mytempdir.com/
keep the files for 14 days.
25mb file size limit.
http://www.putfile.com
Space: 10Mb
limits: Only images and video
http://www.webfile.ru
Space: 20Mb
limits: bandwidth limit, password protect, russian site
http://sharefiles.ru
Space: 50Mb
limits: bandwidth limit, password protect, russian site
http://www.zippyvideos.com
Space: 5Mb
limits: only Video
http://www.come2store.com
usually down!
http://www.yourfile.net
Space: 1Mb
limits: keep it any time you want
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Terry
>Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
>to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
>it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
>files.
>
If it's just text files, why not email it to everyone? (Keep it
simple.)
T.
Jim Daniel
Here are a few...
Sites to upload files to, for free
http://s8.yousendit.com/
http://rapidshare.de/
http://s1.ultrashare.net/
http://sharefiles.ru
http://www.come2store.com
http://www.datapickup.com/
http://www.dropload.com
http://www.myfilestash.com/
http://www.mytempdir.com/
http://www.putfile.com
http://www.rapidshare.de
http://www.sharebigfile.com
http://www.webfile.ru
Jim Daniel
rich
> Hi all,
>
> Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
> to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
> it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
> files.
>
> I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
> but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
> dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
<snip>
> any ideas?
Peer2Mail is the first software that lets you store and share files on any
web-mail account. If you have a web mail account with large storage space,
you can use P2M to store files on it. Web-mail providers such as Gmail
(Google Mail), Walla!, Yahoo and more, provide storage space that ranges
from 100MB to 3GB.
P2M splits the file you want to share/store zips and encrypts it. P2M then
sends the file segments one by one to your account. Once P2M uploaded all
file segments, you can download them and use P2M to merge the segments back
to the original file.
Peer2Mail is 100% FREE.
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rich
Susan Bugher
This is a very, very easy way to accomplish your goal (nothing new to learn):
Set up a Gmail account for the family. Give all family members the email address and login
information. Everyone will be able to send messages (newsletters etc.) and read messages from
others. (Gmail is especially useful for sharing a large bunch of family photos - IMO much better
than emailing them directly.)
Susan
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Richard Steinfeld
With one proviso.
These days, as far as I've been able to determine, one must agree to be
abused by Yahoo in order to get an account (abuse=spam and possibly more).
When I attempted to sign up over the course of many months, Yahoo would
not process the registration when I gave my free webmail as my address.
It refused with bogus error messages every time.
The way that I got around this was to finally set up the account from a
computer at a public library. I almost never use it.
I regard Yahoo as one of the most eggregious privacy violators on the
internet, right up there with AOL. Like Real Networks, they've seduced
so many of us with free content that's almost unique that we've agreed
to let them have their way with us, and they've become a standard in
this way. We've been complicit in our own violation.
Do I Yahoo?
Not on your life!
Richard
Richard Steinfeld
Is it possible
> to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
> it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
> files.
>
A number of people have replied with suggestions of various sites that
offer "parking" services (I like this choice of words).
It would be good to know what the providers want in return. After all,
it costs them money to provide the servers, connectivity, killowatts:
who pays for all this (nothing is free).
A little civilized advertising is a fair trade to my way of thinking.
Much more (such as agreeing to let their partners spam me) is definitely
not. Having to drop security to allow dangerous scripting protocols to
execute would be another turnoff. So, who's well-behaved and who isn't?
Richard
john...@gmail.com
way I've been able to keep calendar, contacts, notes and tasks
synchronized across three computers and two palm devices. Do you get
spammed? Yes, so you go into your marketing preferences and turn it
all off, end of problem. Combine that with an anti-spam solution for
email, you'd never notice.
2: Sharing of text files, on the web, so they are editable? Sure!
Instead of "public gmail accounts" and the like, save your self time
and complexity and use a wiki. Your criteria are EXACTLY what wiki's
are. To find a free wiki already set up that you can use, Google
search for "free wiki farm".
I can recommend Schtuff.com - Nice people, nice wiki- and
Xwiki - VERY nice, feature rich - wiki engine.
To avoid - Swiki.net - goes down occasionally for long periods with
no notice. Emails to support go unanswered.
HTH
John H.
Franklin
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Any views (good or bad) on these sites?
Mister2u
http://scrivlet.com/ does just that (only)no binaries.
>
> any ideas?
ellis_jay
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> kwijybo wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
>>to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
>>it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
>>files.
>>
>>I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
>>but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
>>dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
>>what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.
>>
>>Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
>>family newsletter for people who nothing about
>>computers...
>>
>>
>>any ideas?
>
>
>
> www.smartgroups.com
>
>
yahoo (?) and provide everyone with the address and the password so that
they can send the emails with the stored txts to temselves? Or is this
too complicated?
Why not produce a simple website with one of the free email providers?
Frank