Now that's not a bad approach but care to try something very different that would save you from the hassle of uploading stuff on the web ?
Enter Purplenova, a 3MB software that turns your computer into a virtual website.
Every file or folder that you share from your computer gets a public URL. Your friends can simply type that URL in their web browser and access the file no matter how large the size is - it will be streamed directly from your computer to his/her machine.
Purplenova is like turning your computer into a web server (with an internet address) sans any complex setup. Just run the utility, choose the local files or folders that you like to share over the web and Purplenove will give you a URL for each of them that you can paste in your email or blog.
There are some interesting application of Purplenova - you can access files located on your home computer from office or vice versa. You can also listen to streaming music on another computer from your Windows Media player.
They are integrated with Google Analytics to provides you with stats about file usage. Think of Purplenova as extremely simple web hosting from your desktop with absolutely no limits on storage space or bandwidth constraints.
PurpleNova.com | Download Purplenove 3.0 | FAQ
Unlike screen sharing software like Yuuguu or SharedView, Purplenova does not give other remote access to your computer, it delivers files only through the web browser.
Reader Comments
Looks nice, but it's not correct to say there are "absolutely no limits on bandwidth".
There will absolutely be a limit. It will be whatever your upload speed is. Even if you had people downloading 24 hours a day that will be your total limit for the day or month. Not to mention that you probably couldn't use your machine much during that time.
It's nice for transferring files from time to time, especially ones you don't want public. But not as your webserver for everything. Uploading to a webhost will give your users far greater download speeds, and far more bandwidth in most cases.
Written on 23/5/07 3:47 AM
"Dekoh" is another such utility with rich UI which has all the feature u have specified above along with some inbuilt features like tagging, commenting et al.
if possible check it out once. www.dekoh.com
Written on 23/5/07 9:54 AM
This is a very nice tool, unfortunatly it's for PC.
Do you know of any Mac software doing the same thing?
Written on 8/6/07 12:56 PM