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Drop.io (which I pronounce drop eee oh but I’m honestly not sure…) is a site for sharing files. The limit of your “drop” is 100MB (To put it into context, my masters thesis was a word document with a few hundred pictures and it was 30MB). You upload a file, click share and a link is provided. This is what drop.io does best and it’s the core of their service.
However, in one board meeting, someone must have asked if they could add a feature or two, or five or ten… What they added makes Drop.io a fantastic service for oooooh so many reasons. Here’s a rundown of what it does: Read more »

How big is your email quota? If you know, you’ve probably exceeded it at least once (or gotten really close). Perhaps it was a work account and you were scolded by the IT trolls, setting off a frantic attachment deletion campaign? Or maybe it was just your Gmail account, clogged by the ginormous (sp?) photos your parents sent after a family trip. Maybe the problem was compounded by your sent mail folder, where emails you sent to others were counted against your meager space allowance. The reply-all emails with attachments resulted in 100 copies of the same file. What a waste!

The good news, my brothers and sisters, is that there are other ways to send files. These services will reduce the scoldings while even providing some additional services that you probably hadn’t considered. Read more »