File+Sharing,+Hosting,+and+Storage

File sharing, hosting, and storage applications and methods vary widely and overlap a lot, so here's a list of some of the more common ways to store and share files on the web. Please realize that many "file sharing" sites, particularly for music files, have earned a reputation for copyright infringement. It's become enough of an issue that all of these applications are now endangered by legislation currently being considered in Congress that would effectively allow the Dept of Justice to shut them down at will. [| https://www.eff.org/coica]

[|Dropbox]
-- Here's a really nice downloadable manual for all the features you never knew about in Dropbox [|http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/MakeUseOf.com-Dropbox.pd]

[|Let's Crate]
--this works very much like Google Docs "publish" in that it creates a url to access the files in the same way Google Docs creates a public url for documents when you publish them to the web.

[|RapidShare]
- drag and drop filing sharing across all platforms...even mobile phones.

[|Mozy.com]
-- Mozy is an online backup service that offers two free gigs of space to store your files.

Realize too, that many instant messengers and voip services also allow file sharing within their toolboxes. Skype has an instant file share feature, for instance.