YouSendIt: An Easy Solution for Sending and Receiving Big Files

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YouSendIt: An Easy Solution for Sending and Receiving Big Files

I have been plagued for years with the problem of sending and receiving big files to people, and have often been left to struggle with the very user unfriendly FTP system -- something which I still don't quite understand how to use. Just a few weeks ago, I found out about a service called YouSendIt, which enables you to send quite large files (up to 100MB) for free. I think they charge you for bigger files and some premium services, but the free service isn't buried, it is the most prominent thing on their landing page and it is absurdly easy to use. Note that I have no financial interest in YouSendIt and have no idea who works there or who owns it. I just think it works great, and if you are ever in that frustrating situation where you can't send or get a big file, this is the answer.

June 03, 2008 in Innovation | Permalink

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You can try out 2large2email (http://www.2large2email.com/) as well. They offer a free 100mb per file transfer plan.

Posted by: Zee | November 30, 2008 at 08:52 PM

Glad you found us!
Feel free to contact me directly with any feedback or feature requests.

We're always interested to hear thoughts on our service- especially from new users!

Cheers!
Robyn
Marketing Communication, YSI

Posted by: robyn | June 04, 2008 at 02:28 PM

Hello,

For French speakers, even larger files (up to 1GB) can be sent for free with http://dl.free.fr

Pascal

Posted by: pascalv | June 03, 2008 at 01:28 PM

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