How to send files over internet

Large files can be a pain. It’s all fine to make fancy PowerPoint presentations with liberal a sprinkling of video clips and pictures, but when it comes to sending them over email you’re stuck. Often somewhere down the line, the mail servers end up choking on your large transfer.
Wouldn’t it be a dream if you could just drop them over someplace and have your friends or colleagues pick them up?

The options:

With websites like DropLoad (www.dropload. com), you might just have an option. This is one of a new breed of companies that offer work-arounds to using e-mail to send files. Some other such services worth mentioning are DropSend (www.dropsend. com), YouSendIt (www.you sendit.com) and SendThisFile (www.sendthisfile.com).

The advantages:

The best part about these services is that they are very simple to use.
To start using these services, you just have to register with them (mostly for free). Then, just like you’d do with your email, upload your big files to their server, specify who should receive the files and you are ready to roll. This will also fox servers that don’t let heavy files through, since all that the recipients get are e-mails with a link to these files. No filters or servers will be able to chuck them out because of sheer size.
Another plus is that the entire transaction takes place at the server end. So you don’t have to bother about installing any applications or stick to a single computer for either uploading or download the files. The one exception to this is DropSend, which comes with an option to a install tiny software for easy upload.
There isn’t any coordination to be done either, so the recipients can come by anytime and pick up the files.