Memeo Send uses Outlook integration and drag-and-drop to keep file transfers simple.
(Credit: Memeo)Memeo Send (for Windows | Mac) is a brand-new application aimed at business professionals in small-to-medium size companies who frequently need to transfer large files to colleagues--including photos, videos, PowerPoint presentations, and hefty design files from InDesign and Adobe Illustrator.
Where Memeo Share (Windows | Mac), the company's free-to-try photo- and video-sharing app, focuses on gallery organization and consumer media, Memeo's impetus with Send is much more on tracking, management, and bulk deliveries.
Memeo Send opens as a simple, yet attractive desktop application that uploads files two ways: you can browse the file tree, or you can drag and drop from an open folder to the Memeo Send interface. After that, selecting recipients and jotting down an optional description are all that's left to ship out your parcel of files.
To anticipate the needs of its business users, Memeo Send integrates the Microsoft Outlook address book into the "Send to" field--just the personal Contacts portion, mind you, not a global corporate list if your company has one. You can also type or paste contacts' names by hand. We'd like a way to create new e-mail groups in Memeo to quickly access a recurring knot of recipients, in addition to accomplishing the task by creating a new Outlook group.
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Right on schedule Evernote's Google Notebook importer is now live and ready to use.
Users who want to suck in a Google Notebook entry into Evernote can now do so from the service's Web interface. All that's required is to first export any notebooks you want to move over as Atom files, then upload them one at a time into Evernote's Web interface.
What's nice about Evernote's importer is that it keeps both the organizational structure and tags intact, making it less work to reformat later on. I am, however, a little bummed to see that you can't bulk upload several Atom files at once, which would be super handy for users trying to transfer over a wealth of work.
Here's a quick demo of how it works:
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Thinking about switching e-mail providers but don't want to lose all the messages from your old in box? For $10 an account a service called Yippie Move will do all the heavy lifting for you. It works with about 40 various Web and educational e-mail providers, or with any account that supports IMAP. Just plug in the credentials from your old mail service with your new account and it will do the migration for you.
While advanced users could do all of this themselves simply by mass forwarding, Yippie Move is aimed at e-mail newbies and those who don't want to go through all the effort of porting over something large like a four-year-old Gmail account. It will also transfer over any existing folder scheme, including Gmail's slightly anti-establishment label system.
Creator Viktor Petersson tells me most port jobs transfer over in about 10 minutes or less, but it can take a bit longer if you've got an exceptionally large account. Since all the transferring is done on the company's servers, you can simply plug in the information and go off to do something else without it sucking up your bandwidth and processor cycles.
The one downside is that there's currently no support for Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, two services a lot of folks are bound to have or want to migrate to from an existing account. Petersson says IMAP continues to be the main focus so far, with support for POP and Web-only services coming later down the road.
Yippie Move comes from Wireload, which also has an upcoming Web mail client (of the same name) as well as a social link creation tool called Cuzimatter. You can see a demo of how it works here.
Yippie Move can transfer over specific folders or the entire contents of your e-mail in box from an old account to a new one.
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Got a big file you need to send to a friend or family member? You can either spend time uploading it to a hosting service, or start a one-time transfer that will be deleted from the cloud within 24 hours. Streamfile is a service that does just that and with a high level of simplicity, making it pretty close to perfect for sending large files to non-tech savvy individuals.
Just pick what file you want to transfer to your friend (up to 2GB in size) and the service will spit out two URLs for you to send either on your own or via e-mail. One is a generic URL, while the other is secured with AES 256-bit SSL encryption, the same level of security you'd find on most banking sites. Whomever clicks that link will begin downloading the file in their browser's download manager as the uploader on your site seeds the file onto a temporary spot on its servers. Even before you've managed to finish uploading your recipient can begin their download. Pretty cool.
One HUGE potential danger of the service is that you can spoof other people's identities and send executables--something that's been banned on most Web mail services both on the sending and receiving end. It lets you to pick both the name and e-mail of the sender which comes through as an e-mail from them instead of the service itself. If you're targeting someone and know they'll click on what you're sending them, you could easily rename malicious files and get them to open them unless they've got capable antivirus software installed.
Huge security fraud potential aside, it's blissfully simple to use and a huge asset for passing big files to friends. If you've been wary of installing a software solution and paying for premium services that let you break that 500MB to 1GB barrier found on most services, Streamfile makes a highly desirable solution.
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Streamfile lets you send as many files as you want, up to 2GB, either in total or per single file.
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I've found that I frequently use the large file transfer service YouSendIt to send big files, videos, scans, and pictures. And I've taken to recommending the service to others when I hear about a problem getting a file from one place to another. That's rare--usually the Web services I like the most are a bit too rickety to recommend to people with real lives and jobs.
But one thing about YouSendIt has always bugged me: the need to go to the browser to upload a file for transfer. I hate browser uploaders. Fortunately, the company just released a desktop app, YouSendIt Express, that lets you drag files from your system into it, from which it will then upload the file to the transfer service. And if your connection drops, it will resume the upload when it can. It's available for PC and Mac.
The company also has a plug-in for Outlook, which makes perfect sense. Except I have yet to meet an Outlook plug-in that doesn't somehow degrade the mail application itself. So, I haven't tried it and I have no intention to.
I do wish YouSendIt's pricing structure for occasional users was more reasonable. The free service is very limited, but what do you want for nothing? The problem is that the lowest-cost paid account is $9.99 a month. I'd like to see a per-use fee or a much cheaper monthly fee. For occasional use, $120 a year is just too steep.
But it's still a great app.
YouSendIt is a Webware 100 finalist. See all the products in its category.
If you need to send files to someone and they are too large to email, there are untold numbers of web sites offering this service, both for free and commercially. However, if you need to transfer very big files, your choices are more limited. When I recently needed to transfer some files of 650MB to a client, I tried a handful of these services. Previously I wrote about free services from SendThisFile and EatLime. Here I relate my experiences with the free services from DropSend and TransferBigFiles.
All these services operate by letting you upload files to their servers, notifying the recipient that the files are ready to be downloaded and providing a link that points to the file(s). Some of the services have optional software, but installing software scares me, so I used nothing but a web browser (except in one instance).
DropSend
DropSend offers to send files up to 1 gigabyte for free (the same limit applies to their paid accounts). They allow only five file transfers per month, but also include 250MB of permanent online storage. The limit of five transfers does not apply to uploads to the permanent storage.
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The divide between Web IM apps and the software versions is getting smaller, albeit with the help of improved bandwidth and technology like Adobe's Flash. In the same vein, Meebo, the popular Web-based multiclient chat platform is getting a handy update tonight. Users are now able to trade files with each other right in the chat window. It's not just Meebo users, either, it's anyone on your friends list. If your buddy has a file-transfer-enabled client, you'll be able to pass files back and forth freely.
However, unlike software IM clients, the caps for file transfer are very stringent at 10MB per file, and 30MB of total transfers per month, meaning you're not going to be able to pass around video clips or other large files, especially to more than one or two buddies, before hitting your limit.
The Meebo team has employed a combination of Amazon's Web Services to make the transferring possible, including EC2 for scaling and S3 for storage. Safari and Opera users are out of luck, however; the Meebo team has only got it working for Internet Explorer and Firefox. Safari support is on the way "soon." In the meantime, the upgrade is good for casual and occasional file swapping, but with these limits you're better off sticking to e-mail attachments or a quick-and-dirty file-drop-and-share service like Divshare.
Previous Meebo Coverage:
Meebo relaunches improved iPhone chat app
Meebo now works on the iPhone (kinda)
Meebo launching media-enabled chat rooms
Meebo releases supersimple site chat
Send (small) files to your friends sans software with Meebo. You'll notice a new 'send file' button in your chat windows starting tonight.
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Migratr's supported photo services
(Credit: Migratr)There are already a lot of useful plug-ins for downloading or uploading from online sites such as Flickr, Picasa Web, Snapfish, Webshots (disclaimer: owned by CNET Networks), and the rest, but most applications only work with one specific service.
If you want to move all of your images from one site to another (if you're one of those unhappy Flickr users, for example), and you're not looking forward to manually downloading and uploading hundreds of pictures, Migratr might be able to help. A home-brewed tool from independent developer Alexander Lucas, Migratr automatically downloads all of your photos from one site, and uploads them to the other.
It sounds great, so what's the catch? Well, Migratr only currently includes support for Flickr, Picasa Web, 23HQ, SmugMug, and Zooomr (which shouldn't even be counted because it has temporarily disabled bulk uploaders). However, downloading and uploading among the four available online photo services worked wonderfully for me. I must admit, however, that I was transferring tens of files, not thousands. ... Read more
One of the more interesting takeaways from this morning's keynote at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference was the news that .Mac subscribers running Leopard would be able to enjoy a new remote desktop feature called "Back to my Mac." Users will be able to sort and scavenge through the contents of computers far away from their home network machines using Leopard's new finder and transfer files to and fro freely. The service works with any Mac running Leopard that's been set up with .Mac authorization.
During this morning's demo, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs previewed the upcoming feature by accessing an off-site "work" computer. Using Leopard's new finder, he was able to sort and search through the contents of these computers using Mac OS X's Spotlight technology.
There are two interesting aspects to this new feature. One is the cannibalization of Apple's iDisk service, which functions as a built-in remote storage disk. While the service also allows others to access shared files, many use it as a go-between for transferring files from computer to computer. Apple also makes some of its profits off of those who choose to pay for the higher storage capacity .Mac subscriptions.
The other Apple service this affects is its remote desktop application. While aimed mostly at the IT administrators and the educational field, this application also functions as a fairly simple way to share screens and files between two or more Macs. Remote drag and drop in particular will be making the move, a feature .Mac subscribers will be able to take advantage of in lieu of paying $499 for the remote desktop software.
The update to the .Mac service with this feature is expected alongside Leopard's release in October.
OS X Leopard users who are also .Mac subscribers will be able to browse remote computers right in the finder.
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It's been a while since we covered a file transfer product like Izimi, Tubes, YouSendIt, or Zapr. But there are still new solutions popping up to solve the problem of sending big files. The latest--that we know of--is Quickeo.
This product's special sauce is that it will bundle up several multimedia files into an attractive e-mail "album". When a recipient clicks on link in the e-mail, it will fire up a Web page that he or she can use to play your files directly.
Quickeo does a great job creating e-mail packages of multimedia assets.
(Credit: CNET Networks)To create a Quickeo album and send these e-mails, you need to download and install Quickeo's Windows-only software, but the recipients of your albums don't need the software (compared to Tubes). However, since Quickeo is partly a peer-to-peer system, you may have to leave your PC on if you want your recipients to be able to actually play the files your e-mails link to. This is because the free version is peer-to-peer only: your computer needs to be on and connected to the Net when recipients of your Quickeo e-mails click your media files, otherwise they won't see them. The paid version of Quickeo--as well as the free version, for 30 days--automatically synchronizes your Quickeo albums to a central service and will stream media from there when your PC is not available. Quickeo Premium costs $29.95 a year.
The app, which is required to send Quickeo messages, has some nice features. It transcodes all video into Flash, which makes viewing files easy for recipients. In addition to transferring videos already on your PC, it will also record directly from a Webcam, which makes it a decent video-mail app (although not nearly as simple as EyeJot or GabMail). Quickeo also makes nice photo slide shows. And if you send audio tracks in a message, those will play in the background during a slide show. Unfortunately, audio, video, and pictures can't easily be downloaded by recipients, although other file types can be.
The e-mail composer software is easy to use--but not easy to set up.
(Credit: CNET Networks)The snags: While Quickeo itself is a small (2MB) application, it requires the enormous .Net 2.0 framework, which it installs automatically (and slowly) if necessary. During setup, you also have to tell the software what your SMTP gateway is. That's archaic--every Web service should be able to send its own e-mail. Also, the service (paid as well as free) limits you to 1GB of bandwidth per month and 1GB of storage on Quickeo servers (more storage and bandwidth are available for an additional fee).
Quickeo does make nice e-mailable packages of multimedia files, but it's a single-purpose tool with important installation and setup issues. That's enough for me to warn people off the service.
