Just discovered a cool new tool--DropSend-- it's an application that allows you to email big files without eating up storage space on your email server.
Correction. DropSend may not be a new tool. For all I know the world has been happily using this service for a couple of years.
It's new to me. File this under If I knew then what I know now.
Last Spring I was working on a project where the client was constantly sending me humongo files In turn,my email provider was constantly sending me threatening messages that I was exceeding my storage limit. If I wasn't by my computer at just the right moment to clear out the guilty files, I would risk the very real possibility of having emails bounce all over the country.
If I had been thinking at the time, I would have searched for a service that takes care of that sort of thing. I wasn't thinking. It was there all the time.
If DropSend works as well as I think it will ( I haven't actually used the service yet...just discovered it)...I will use it to send video files to some of my clients that I am working with to incorporate vlogging as part of their marketing efforts.
Like many of these applications, there is a free usage plan-- you to send up to 5 large files a month. The pricing goes up to $19 for unlimited sends. It also includes online file storage. You can store up to 250MB for free. If you go with the Professional Service you can store up to 25GB.
Having had computers crash, die and become violently ill from a host of viruses and spy attacks, I am a strong advocate of online storage -- while its a pain to fix all the computer problems it is the best insurance in the world to know that my important documents are alive and well and living on someone else's server in cyberspace.
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