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Cool handy site: DropLoad

This is another very handy site.  Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it.  The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours only) and you can email the link out to everyone you want to send it to.

Go to Dropload and drop a load of bites with an email address, and it sends an email to the recipient to come pick up the load. Free and free of the limitations of email servers.

[via Lessig Blog]

[via Sirsha]

Need I say more? I can't even count the number of times I needed something like this.

Published Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:54 PM by RoyOsherove
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Saturday, December 27, 2003 7:17 AM by TrackBack

# DropLoad

Check out dropload, where you can drop a file for someone else, who receives an email to pick it up. This would be super helpful for when hotmail or your personal email server can't handle the file you're trying to...
Monday, December 29, 2003 6:38 AM by Omer van Kloeten

# re: Cool handy site: DropLoad

Then again, you could always use HFS: http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:22 AM by kriekjes

# re: Cool handy site: DropLoad

isz this site still working??
i don't manage to drop files, the server is unreachable??
Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:13 PM by Dwight

# re: Cool handy site: DropLoad

Server looks like it is down on www.dropload.com as of Jan 27th, 2004
Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:31 PM by srikanth

# re: Cool handy site: DropLoad

server looks to be down
Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:39 AM by andre

# re: Cool handy site: DropLoad

We're back! Sorry, server probs. We're on a better server now.
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:20 PM by kriekjes

# re: Cool handy site: DropLoad

well i tried the new server, but the person to whom i've sent the file didn't receive anything!!!!!
Friday, February 27, 2004 2:28 PM by jon

# re: Cool handy site: DropLoad

kriekjes - was the file over 50mb? We dont accept files over 50mb and really dont give back an intelligent error at this time for that (real paying jobs keep me too busy as it is).

Also, we get a whole lot of mail blocked by whitelist spam tools that require approval. I'm not gonna go fill out a webform so people can send people files so try to add to whitelist in advance :)

If you continue to have problems drop me a line at jon at dropload dot com.
Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:16 AM by TrackBack

# big file dropoff

Got a large file you need to mail someone, but your email account won't handle it? Try Dropload. Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later...