file sharing

FTP is defined as File Transfer Protocol and is a method of moving or viewing files from one place to another. If you’re running an FTP server, you can dish out files to users in a remote location who can then access the files under a certain usern

There are many ways to manage wireless transfers of files between devices, yet not many come out as “intuitive” and certainly not as “fast”, which i

I have always loved playing games on my Android and now that I have a 10” tablet, the fun has increased fourfold. When I am at home I play games on my tablet , however when I am traveling, more often than not I end up playing them on my phone. N

Nowadays, transferring a file from one computer to another through the internet is hardly uncommon. Cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive have bumped the few MBs of file size limit associated with emails to a few GBs. But then, there are a

WhatsApp is one of the best ways to transfer files between two smartphones over the internet. However it has certain limitations which could be frustrating at times. Only audio, image or a video files can be transferred to the recipient. There is no

Recently, Gmail made a change in its message compose and reply/forward interface. When we showed you how to get it activated and use it , we also said that the change could be a trailer to something bigger that Google may have in store. Bang on targe

Last month Dropbox started rolling out a feature in integration with Facebook. They announced on the Dropbox Blog that all Facebook users could now share stuff from Dropbox right inside Facebook Groups . This means that you do not have to manual

The most common method to share files with an individual on the internet is through email. Though it’s convenient, conventional and usually secure, it comes with a restriction of maximum allowed file size which on an average is around 10 MB. Whil

In my last article, I discussed how you can share big files online using your SkyDrive storage space. Now that Google has also joined the cloud war with the launch of Google Drive, it would be unfair of me to not talk about sharing Google Drive files

Let’s think of a scenario. You are in a hurry to transfer photos from your Android phone to your computer to upload it online or perhaps you need to transfer music files from your desktop to update your Android music library with the latest tra

How simple can a file sharing application get? Probably, not simpler than Castle.so. We have checked out sites like Minus and WeTransfer which are all neat and simple file sharing solutions in their own right, and the biggie of the cloud itself – D

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Dropbox is a great ‘social’ way of sharing large files via the cloud. But Dropbox is not entirely in the cloud. There is a small app that resides on your desktop and if allowed boots up with your system. Personally, I hate installing a new softwa

How do you go about sharing online a screenshot or a video file or an mp3..any file from your desktop? Yeah, I know, there are tons of ways for sure. You could use Opera Unite for instance to share big files, CloudApp on Mac is an option, for private

With social media having blossomed in popularity, people are consistently looking for new methods to share their thoughts. While there is no dearth of file sharing services, there are only a few that are specifically dedicated

The brilliant minds that brought you the Operaweb browser have another enticing piece of software available. It’s called Opera Unite and it is a powerful file sharing tool that integrates with the Opera web browser.

If you have two or more PCs at your home then you can easily create a HomeGroup in Windows 7, and share files and media between them using the networking feature. You can share images, videos and other documents very easily using this feature.

Backing up files and keeping data in sync is important, especially since now we don’t stick to a single device for our computing needs. We have mentioned file backup and sync using Syncback, Windows backup and restore method, and apps like Back4sur

Previously we talked about services like Drop.io and WeTransfer to send large files over the internet. These are efficient tools but one needs to upload the files before transferring them. And that takes time. Also, the data you send is not private (

Popular file hosting services such as Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Mediafile etc provide both free and premium file sharing options. But downloading files for free isn’t a smooth ride.