If you are a project manager, designer, developer or anyone who needs to work collaboratively with others, you know that having the ability to share electronic files easily is mission critical. As someone that spends 75% of my day collaborating with clients and colleagues, these are 2 must-have file sharing services that make my day run smoothly.
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Today, more than 25 million people across every continent use Dropbox to always have their stuff at hand, share with family and friends, and work on team projects. If you exceed the 2GB free subscription, you can easily upgrade to the Pro subscription which will cost $9.99/month or $99.00/year.
- Dropbox works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
- Create photo galleries viewable by anyone you choose.
- Edit files in your Dropbox from your phone.
- Any changes can be undone, and files can be undeleted.
- All transmission of file data occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL).
- And much, much more.
MediaFire is a free file and image hosting web site. The service allows users to upload files of up to 200 MB each for free and 10 GB for paid subscribers. The user is then supplied with a unique URL, which locates the file and enables anyone who knows it to download the file. Uploaded files will be stored as long as the user logs into his/her account at least once every 60 days or at least one of the files is downloaded every 30 days.[3] Mediafire will send at least 3 emails before they delete any users file(s). Furthermore, images of size 25 MB can be uploaded and displayed in galleries.
Personally, I use Dropbox to share files that I consider private; MediaFire allows me to share large files publicly — a good example, I recently created a Twitter background template that I made available for download from my blog.
