File Upload and Share Services

[laundryshark]

There are ways in which we can share audio/video files intact and unaltered for download *without going through YouTube, Google, etc.* You'll find that the free accounts are most impressive. A technique I use is to send an email to myself so I can copy and paste the direct URL for a file into this forum as any other Web address is shared. Since there are several Web resources provided here without linkage, you'll have to copy and paste them into separate browser windows. I found these Web resources in the March 2006 issue of PCWorld under the article entitled ”35 THINGS EVERY PC USER SHOULD KNOW.” The subheading is “Move Big Files across the Internet.” See Web addresses below.--Laundry Shark

Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire
http://www.mediafire.com/
Free Secure Online Storage—Xdrive
http://www.xdrive.com/
ftp's files Free file hosting - Files upload - Max 1 GB per file via FTP, 300 MB via HTTP, Subdomain, FTP access, the fastest 1-click free file-hoster
http://www.files-upload.com/
GigaSize.com: Host and Share your Files
http://www.gigasize.com/
Pando | Thanks for Sharing
http://www.pando.com/
YouSendIt - File Sharing Transfer Delivery - PC FTP Replacement
http://www.yousendit.com/

 

[westytoploader]

For a while, there were videos posted on a separate video server for AW.org, however, in that case you had to email the video itself to Robert so he could upload it to the server. Sometimes these videos were larger than the account file size limit would allow. That, combined with the fact that more people on here were doing videos, was the reason that YouTube, Putfile, and Google Video came into play. I remember Jason trying a downloading site for a Convention 2005 video, and he wasn't too happy with it. He then discovered Putfile, and more recently, YouTube, and we haven't turned back since! Seeing as how the majority of members use it, there hasn't been an issue.

Austin

 

[laundryshark]

Keeping Our Options Open Here

Nowadays, more people do have larger disk storage capacities (along with faster broadband connections) on their own systems. Furthermore, online file share services have increased their capacities, even for free accounts. Also consider the fact that sometimes streaming media links are not always stable and prone to malfunction, either due to files being removed, changed, or that URL's might have been altered or otherwise discontinued. I remember when my favorite radio station once had a mile high stack of streaming audio/video clips of a bunch of funny files. Once the station changed formats, all the streaming links became broken and their original files were not saved *by the radio station* in the first place. Having an actual copy of the original file allows for us to play it back and share it any time. This is true, as long as copyrights are not violated.--Laundry Shark

 

[laundryshark]

Files Still Available for Download

In our AutomaticWasher.org site, the files in the "Museum," "Video," and "Audio" links are still available up there for download. Had these files been compressed into YouTube, Google, etc, we would have limited access to them due to failing links, choppy streams, and so on. Good thang I grabbed my copies in plenty of time. As long as Robert, (who is doing a great job of putting up with all of us, as well as managing this Web site), wishes to keep all those downloads available, folks will still have opportunities to have some classic appliance related memories saved and readily playable on their own computers. Thus, I have already been to great lengths to explain the revised pros for file downloads verses the linked streams.--Laundry Shark