Documents, photos and other files accumulate on your hard drive. It is a safe bet that if you lost those files, you would not be able to replicate them very easily, if at all. Free online storage is available for you to store those important documents. Some website companies offer you the opportunity to upload, access, and share your music, video, photos.
Access one of the following sites to find out how to safely save your documents online for free.
Media Fire
http://www.mediafire.com/
Notes from the website: “MediaFire is a free and unlimited file and image hosting web site with no strings attached. Our goal is to help make the Internet a more interesting and media rich place by provide the fastest and most simple to use tool for sharing all kinds of files in almost any way imaginable… You can create an unlimited number of folders and sub folders to store, organize and share your files and images.”
Box
http://box.net/
Notes from the website: “Box.net is an online storage and sharing service that gives you access to your files from anywhere. With Box, you can access important documents from your desktop computer, laptop, or even mobile phone. Once you’ve uploaded your files to your online storage on Box, you can also share them with anyone, anytime — Box makes online web file sharing simple.” Small 1 gb accounts are free.
4Shared
http://www.4shared.com/
Notes from the website: “Actually, it is a big online storage where Internet users store their text, audio, video, photo, and other files and share them, if they wish, with other people. It is easy, handy, and free!”
After you have selected one website to use, post a ‘Comment‘ to this BLOG and let us know which one you chose and why.
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June 29th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
By far, Box.Net is the website of choice. They really understand the problem of storage and have solved it in a very comprehensive manner.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
On the subject of file backup, sharing and storage …
Online backup is becoming common these days. It is estimated that 70-75% of all PC’s will be connected to online backup services with in the next decade.
Thousands of online backup companies exist, from one guy operating in his apartment to fortune 500 companies.
Choosing the best online backup company will be very confusing and difficult. One website I find very helpful in making a decision to pick an online backup company is:
http://www.BackupReview.info
This site lists more than 400 online backup companies in its directory and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I’ve used several of the online storage vendors and I am currently using SMEStorage (www.smestorage.com) a startup and I like the product. It allows me a free 250 MB (although I since subscribed) and I can also access my storage using my iPhone. It also allows me to backup any of email accounts as well as backup my files. I can edit office documents inline using Zoho or view pictures and play MP3’s. I can also setup public files as well as form business groups for file sharing (which I do to share content with partners ofr my business). Each file has a unique url that I can choose to share, and I can use a Google Gadget to access my files and a firefox plug-in to upload them.