Offering the biggest storage capacities of all the file hosts on the Internet will surely drive some traffic to a file hoster’s website. Oosah did just that with the announcement that they would offer 1 Terabyte – that is 1024 Gigabytes – to everyone signing up for their file hosting service. And while they surely [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Is It Reasonable To Offer 1 Terabyte of Storage As A File Hoster?
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Upload Files To Multiple File Hosts
I’m not that sure why someone would want to upload files to multiple file hosts unless it was for questionable or backup purposes. But I’m not in the position to question motives but to review two services that spread files to multiple file hosts. RapidSpread and TinyLoad are two services that basically provide the same [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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OpenDrive Online Disk
Online storage services are slowly moving from being pure file hosting websites to those that provide additional values to their users by offering desktop applications and file operations like syncing. I reviewed the Dropbox service just a few days ago that provided a desktop client to its users that could be used to drag and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Dropbox Review and Invites
Dropbox is a file hosting solution with a few nice features that make it stick out of the masses of file hosters. It provides its users with a client for Windows and Macintosh computers which can be used to upload files to Dropbox. The transfer of those files works in the background while the user [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Rapidshare English
Rapidshare English is a test post that tries to find out how this post will rank in the search engines. It does contain information about Rapidshare though, feel free to add your comments. As you all know Rapidshare is displaying the correct language for the user who is navigating to the website. I’m not sure [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Rapidshare finally gets rid of Captchas
Rapidshare finally decided to get rid of the Captcha images that were displayed to non-registered users who tried to download a file from the file hoster. Many users had problems to identify the correct characters that were shown in the Captcha to proceed with the file download. The reason for the change of heart is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Rapidshare Happy Hours
Rapidshare have implemented a new captcha for some time that asks the user to enter four out of x letters that have a cat (others have a similar looking picture of a dog with a smaller head) in the background. This new captcha is confusing to users and many have decided that it is not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Tinyload Upload to Multiple Sites at Once
Tinyload is an advanced script which makes it possible to upload to upload files with a size of up to 100 Megabytes to a maximum of twelve file hosters at once. Uploading files to multiple file hosters has several advantages such as backup locations if a file expires or gets deleted at one hoster for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Create edit and upload Screenshots with SHUP
One application to rule them all. If you regularly take screenshots of Windows or the Desktop, edit them afterwards and upload them to a free image host you might find SHUP helpful. The software has all those functions build in which means you do not have to open two or three applications to do the same.
