A smart way to send huge files Many of us work now from home: we get jobs and send the results of our work via Internet. Even in Vilnius where I live I've got some customers whom I've NEVER met in person: they send me files to translate, I do my work and send it back to the customers and they then transfer the fee to my bank account. Thus working from home often means getting and sending files. Sometimes they are quite large and this is where the headache begins: how to send them? By e-mail? Anything bigger than 1-2 MB is not recommended for e-mailing, I believe many of you know how troublesome it may be. Many people use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for transferring large files but to use this method effectively one often needs dedicated software and some knowledge of how to use it... Thanks God nowadays we a have a smart way to send/receive huge (up to 4 GB!) files: special web sites can help you. Most of them are totally or partially free. To use those web-sites you don't need extra software and/or knowledge. All you need is Internet connection, a browser and... a file to transfer.  The scheme is simpler than elementary (there may be some variants from site to site but generally it looks like the follows): - go to the web site - via a special field choose a file on your hard disk you want to send - enter an e-mail address of the person whom you want to send your file - click Upload or Send It or whatever they call it - after the file uploading the recipients you have specified are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file Here are some web-sites of this kind which I've used and can recommend (cups for rating): Dropload 
Send any type of file up to 100 MB each. Free registration is required. MailBigFile
Send any type of file up to 512 MB each without registration. When sending really big files may be unstable. SendSpace
Send any type of file up to 300 MB each without registration. Somewhat slow but stable. SendThisFile
Send any type of file up to 2 GB each. Free registration is required. YouSendIt
Send any type of file up to 100 MB each without registration. Free registration is required if you need to send a bigger file (up to 4 Gb). Please note: 1) Though the mentioned above web-sites claim to handle files up to 4 GB if you don't have really fast and stable Internet connection and need to send a file of hundreds MB I still would recommend to split your file into chunks of 30-50 MB. To do that you can use Chainsaw: A free file splitting tool or a similar app. 2) If you need to send something really secret or sensitive you'd better use FTP to be on the safe side. Or you can simply encrypt your file before sending. For encryption I would recommend you to use a small but quite powerful app called . If somebody knows other sites for transferring large files please share your knowledge with colleagues in this thread. NK
[Edited by Nikita Kobrin on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:04]
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All you need to do is to specify the email address of your addressee and to upload the file you want to transfer to the web-server of one of the services. They will do the rest. But please note: the process of uploading can take pretty of time depending on the file size and speed of you Internet connection.
