SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud hosting service, has been around since 2007. The service gives users access to 25 Gigabytes of free online storage, for file hosting, sharing and collaboration. While it has been a great service to store data online from the start, it felt slow at times especially when navigating folders or photo albums in [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Online Services

I always wanted to go ahead with a download directory on Ghacks, but never had the time to ready the site for this. I have started hosting some files here on Ghacks, pre-dominantly software without a developer website. This is usually the case when a software gets released and the developer vanishes into anonymity after [...]

Categories: ghacks

Which web service or program are you using if you need to send a friend, business partner or your mom a file? The majority of you will likely answer that they use email or a file hosting service. I do prefer email myself, as it means that the files are send directly to the recipient, [...]

Categories: Online Services

The experimental online service BurnBit can be used to create torrents out of any file that is hosted on the Internet. That’s interesting for webmasters who want to reduce the bandwidth usage of their server. BurnBit ensures that users who download the file get it delivered from the web server and at the same time [...]

Categories: Online Services, P2p

FilesTube is a popular meta file search engine that lets you search file hosting sites for hosted files. It supports a variety of file hosts, from Rapidshare and Mediafire over 4Shared and Megaupload to Filesonic and Fileserve. The search engine is extremely popular, with an Alexa metrics rank of 145 at the moment. When you [...]

Categories: Online Services, Search Engines

In Dropbox Insecure?, we reported on a security issue that affected all Dropbox users. A configuration file that is placed on an authorized computer after enabling Dropbox on it was improperly protected. Attackers could use the file on any other computer with Dropbox to download all files of the original owner, without entering the Dropbox [...]

Categories: Security

Add-ons and extensions that promise to speed up the downloading of files that are hosted on file hosts such as Rapidshare or Megaupload come and go all the time. The main reason for this fluctuation is the cat and mouse game between file hosting providers and extension developers. File hosts obviously are interested that users [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, The Web

Maybe you have experienced similar situations. You are working with your netbook or browsing the Internet via your mobile phone and want to print information. Problem is, the printer is not connected to the device you are currently working with. You could send the documents that you want to print to the computer the printer [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Have you ever been to a website with lots and lots of file links that are hosted on file hosting websites like Rapidshare, Hotfile or Megaupload? Downloading multiple files from hosters that are linked on the page can be quite problematic and strenuous unless they are posted directly next to each other. The file hosting [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox