{"id":1375,"date":"2010-04-27T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2016-12-19T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:11:03","slug":"sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending Large Files Doesn’t Have to Be Hard, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reminded today of a scene from Reservoir Dogs, early in the movie, when the group of guys are sitting around the table and Steve Buscemi starts into his tipping rant<\/a>. During it, he opines:<\/p>\n

“The words ‘too busy’ shouldn’t be in a waitresses vocabulary.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This isn’t a post about that, but I thought of it when I was told today on two separate occasions that the files I was sending were too big. We’re talking 7 MB files, not gigs and gigs of video. 7 MB.<\/p>\n

The words ‘the file is too big’ should not be in anyone’s vocabulary. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you running into problems because of your archaic email system can’t handle files over 1mb? Stuck in a world of 100mb email quotas? Fondly remember the days of Sneakernet?<\/p>\n

Here are a few tools to help you.<\/p>\n

Amazon S3<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know you’re stunned that I’d bring up S3, but seriously, it has unlimited storage, public availability and is super low cost. Need to use S3? There are a ton of tools, such as S3Fox<\/a>, Transmit<\/a>, and CloudBerry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve put up presentation materials on S3 to allow people to download them. It’s great because I don’t have to worry about storage or bandwidth or email bounces, and it costs me literally pennies to serve. No brainer.<\/p>\n

\"Dropio\"<\/p>\n

Drop.Io<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drop.io<\/a> lets you, for free, host any type of file up to 100 MB. You can create a drop and let people download, upload, share and more. You can send files right to your drop via a custom email address, or call a number and save voice messages. It’s a neat system – and if you need more collaboration, there are paid plans that offer more storage space and features.<\/p>\n

DropBox<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re like me, and find yourself either emailing yourself files or putting them on a flash drive to take home at the end of the day, then Dropbox<\/a> is for you. It allows you to sync a folder between any number of computers (and your mobile devices) as well as a web interface. Users get 2GB of storage for free, with paid plans adding more space. I’m a huge fan.<\/p>\n

What’s neat about DropBox is that there’s also a public folder, where you can make some of your files accessible via URL. Here’s an example picture<\/a> of some nachos I took. Don’t those look good? DropBox totally served that yummy pic to you.<\/p>\n

In the end, there are many ways, including the ones above and others like YouSentIt that make problems of sending out large files largely a problem of the past.<\/p>\n

\"Dogs\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reminded today of a scene from Reservoir Dogs, early in the movie, when the group of guys are sitting around the table and Steve Buscemi starts into his tipping rant. During it, he opines: “The words ‘too busy’ shouldn’t be in a waitresses vocabulary.” This isn’t a post about that, but I thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,45],"tags":[285,286],"yoast_head":"\nSending Large Files Doesn't Have to Be Hard, Right? - HighEdWebTech<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sending Large Files Doesn't Have to Be Hard, Right? - HighEdWebTech\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was reminded today of a scene from Reservoir Dogs, early in the movie, when the group of guys are sitting around the table and Steve Buscemi starts into his tipping rant. During it, he opines: “The words ‘too busy’ shouldn’t be in a waitresses vocabulary.” This isn’t a post about that, but I thought […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"HighEdWebTech\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-27T15:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-19T17:11:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/2010\/04\/dropio.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mike\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@mrichwalsky\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@mrichwalsky\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mike\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mike\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c923dc4801e5e0b88fa4def573701980\"},\"headline\":\"Sending Large Files Doesn’t Have to Be Hard, Right?\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-27T15:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-19T17:11:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/\"},\"wordCount\":441,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c923dc4801e5e0b88fa4def573701980\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.smartmodernart.com\/image-files\/reservoir_dogs2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Drop.io\",\"Dropbox\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cloud\",\"Hosting\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/\",\"name\":\"Sending Large Files Doesn't Have to Be Hard, Right? - HighEdWebTech\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.smartmodernart.com\/image-files\/reservoir_dogs2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-27T15:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-19T17:11:03+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.smartmodernart.com\/image-files\/reservoir_dogs2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.smartmodernart.com\/image-files\/reservoir_dogs2.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sending Large Files Doesn’t Have to Be Hard, Right?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/\",\"name\":\"HighEdWebTech\",\"description\":\"Web & Marketing for Education & Nonprofits\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c923dc4801e5e0b88fa4def573701980\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c923dc4801e5e0b88fa4def573701980\",\"name\":\"Mike\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HEWT-2020-Logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HEWT-2020-Logo.png\",\"width\":595,\"height\":128,\"caption\":\"Mike\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mikerichwalsky\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrichwalsky\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sending Large Files Doesn't Have to Be Hard, Right? - HighEdWebTech","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sending Large Files Doesn't Have to Be Hard, Right? - HighEdWebTech","og_description":"I was reminded today of a scene from Reservoir Dogs, early in the movie, when the group of guys are sitting around the table and Steve Buscemi starts into his tipping rant. During it, he opines: “The words ‘too busy’ shouldn’t be in a waitresses vocabulary.” This isn’t a post about that, but I thought […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/","og_site_name":"HighEdWebTech","article_published_time":"2010-04-27T15:30:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-12-19T17:11:03+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"2010\/04\/dropio.png"}],"author":"Mike","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@mrichwalsky","twitter_site":"@mrichwalsky","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mike","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/"},"author":{"name":"Mike","@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c923dc4801e5e0b88fa4def573701980"},"headline":"Sending Large Files Doesn’t Have to Be Hard, Right?","datePublished":"2010-04-27T15:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2016-12-19T17:11:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/"},"wordCount":441,"commentCount":4,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c923dc4801e5e0b88fa4def573701980"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.smartmodernart.com\/image-files\/reservoir_dogs2.jpg","keywords":["Drop.io","Dropbox"],"articleSection":["Cloud","Hosting"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/","url":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/","name":"Sending Large Files Doesn't Have to Be Hard, Right? - HighEdWebTech","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.smartmodernart.com\/image-files\/reservoir_dogs2.jpg","datePublished":"2010-04-27T15:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2016-12-19T17:11:03+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.smartmodernart.com\/image-files\/reservoir_dogs2.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.smartmodernart.com\/image-files\/reservoir_dogs2.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2010\/04\/27\/sending-large-files-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-right\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sending Large Files Doesn’t Have to Be Hard, Right?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/","name":"HighEdWebTech","description":"Web & Marketing for Education & Nonprofits","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c923dc4801e5e0b88fa4def573701980"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c923dc4801e5e0b88fa4def573701980","name":"Mike","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HEWT-2020-Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HEWT-2020-Logo.png","width":595,"height":128,"caption":"Mike"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mikerichwalsky\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrichwalsky"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}