Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Dropload.com

A friend of mine showed me dropload.com today. Despite the possible scatological interpretations of the name, it's actually a nice little site. Very simply, you can use it to transfer files to a friend by uploading stuff to dropload via a web page and providing your friend's email address. They'll get an email with a link that lets them (and only them) download the file within seven days. They're only allowed to download exactly once.


Upload requires free registration, but download does not. And if you believe their privacy statement (I do) they won't share emails with anyone. Poking around the FAQ, the site seems legitimate enough.


I'll definitely be using this site again.

10 comments:

  1. You might also like to check out http://www.transferbigfiles.com/Default.aspx



    It has 1 gig limit instead of 100 megs, allows for 20 downloads and you can password protect files.

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  2. Cool. Thanks for the tip.

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  3. FWIW - Skype is playing around with solving this problem as well.

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  4. Interesting. I've been meaning to check out Skype...

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  5. Have you ever given http://www.yousendit.com/ a try?

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  6. This is a great idea

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  7. Hi

    Do any one know if there is any thing wrong with

    Dropload. com I cant access it day or nite

    from Firefox or Safari

    tks

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  8. Dropload seems to have collapsed under its own volume

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  9. I have been a registered user of Dropload.com and I cannot access it. I'm using Netscape, but did when I registered. Anyone know if they are shut down, or ??????

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  10. I've been using www.ShareCow.com , it's got a 100MB limit but you don't have to give them your email address.

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