Don’t you wish life were more simple? We do, and so we created MongoFiles.com, which is an excellent YouSendIt alternative. People want to send files in a simple way. A life without complexities or “nickel and dime you”, hidden charges. You can send large files with MongoFiles without any of that stress. Be the boss of your life, and take back all the time wasted with file sending with complex prices and options.

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Music is something that is dear to all of our hearts. Steve Jobs says that’s what inspired him to create the iPod. This allowed users to easily host music on a portable device and they had easy access to it. This provided a new improved experience that was completely different than the Walkman. Now lets say you need to host music files other that a local device. What do you do?

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Is it possible you are looking for a simple way to send or host your mp3 files? MongoFiles MP3 file host service is the easy solution for you. Simply click the upload button and MongoFiles becomes a MP3 file host. Its that simple.

When we compare the other ways to host music, it usually entails more complicated methods that usually restrict the users music. Here are the usual issues with most file host providers.

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Online file sharing is at the heart of every internet transaction, and it is sometimes difficult to decide which is the best way to share a file.  Not too long ago we used telephone modems to send files to each other via FTP ( File Transfer Protocols).  If you wanted more than one person to access these files, you usually had to have multiple phone lines to make this direct connection.   Then the internet became popular and we used our telephone modems to connect to a network of computers, and some of us used Gopher to search for information.  This was before the web browser was born.  Even then we had to use FTP, and the settings sometimes were a challenge to configure.  File Transfer Protocol has not changed much, but the ability for someone else to access your computer has created risk.  Being online and exposed to an infinite network of computers can be pretty scary when one wants to share files online. Read the rest of this entry »

What do you do when the file you want to send doesn’t fit into your email?   Some email services like Gmail and Yahoo have a 10-MB limit, and, as we know, that is not much at all.  Some of the options people have used in the past required complex FTPs (file transfer protocols), setups, and incompatible settings on Macs and PCs to send big files.

Zipping or compressing a file used to really help.  It used to be that Excel files could be compressed by up to 98%.  This method worked for a long time.  Now, though, there are some very big files that will not fit no matter what you do. When you take photographs these files are already compressed, so the size really doesn’t change.  Cameras are now all 10 megapixels or above.  This creates really high quality photos, but just try fitting ten of those photos into an email.  The same thing happens when you try to send a home movie. It’s just impossible to fit into an email, or is it?

Actually there is a clever and simple way to send big files through the Internet that is both fast and free.  What you want is a site that allows you to upload big files through a Web browser.  Then you simply need to grab the link and paste it into your email.  It’s that easy!  Now you just need to find the best online file-sending software on the market.

Almost every musician wants to be famous, and sharing music is part of the daily routine.  Not only do musicians create music  that they want others to hear, they need to share tracks with band members who are sometimes at a distance.  As the Internet has evolved to bring people together, musicians now can exchange, combine, add, and subtract their tracks without ever being in the same room or even country.  Using software like GarageBand for Mac, a musician can record his or her part, send the tracks digitally, and another musician can sync these tracks together.  Once a musician has created music that he or she wants to publish, the next step is to find a place to host the audio file.  This is where it’s important to pick the right solution.

When it comes to free audio file hosting, the most important thing to consider is your end goal.  If you simply want to send a track to a friend, then an email may be enough.  If you want to send more than 10megs, then you’ll have to get another solution.  Read the rest of this entry »

Megaupload claims to be the leading online storage and file delivery service.  Let’s take a deeper look into this online application and understand what makes it so popular, and some of the downfalls of this file exchange service.

Let’s first talk about the benefits of Megaupload. The biggest thing going for this service is that it is the most popular, and actually gives rewards for those that upload regularly.  The prizes include a one-month premium membership when you get 1000 reward points, 6-months premium service membership when you get 5000 reward points, and after 50,000 reward points, you receive 100 US dollars.  They will even pay you up to 10,000 dollars if you get more than 500,000 reward points.  Now we can’t comment too much on the legality of paying people for improper uploads that consist of copyrighted or illegally copied content, but we will say that most of the content uploaded is illegal.  Users get points depending on the value of the content posted, and this does infringe on many legal aspects that we don’t have too much time to get into.  On the positive side, it is relatively easy to use, and has a large Web-user base.

Now let’s talk about the negatives.  The first thing that will catch your attention is that it requires you to register before you get online storage, or even use the upload/download manager.  This product can use your personal information, such as your email address, and will post many ads relative to the content you upload.  The premium service is also rather costly.  One-month premium service is 9.99 euros and one-year premium membership is 59.99 euros.  This is rather expensive, and there are too many gimmicky options.  This is clearly a site that is not designed for professionals or individuals that want a simple, clean, and safe way to upload and share files.   If you are looking for a Megaupload alternative, Mongofiles definitely deserves a look.

In this article we will review the top file-sharing sites and the characteristics we looked for when making our decisions.  With the current epidemic of cyber attacks, which are increasing at an alarming rate, one must be very careful when sharing files online.

Here are the criteria we used to select the top file-sharing sites on the Web today:

1) Personal computer security

2) Personal identification security

3) Ease of use

4) Compatibility

5)  Free of charge

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What do you do when you need to share mp3 files and don’t have a server to host them on?  There are several free and paid mp3 file-hosting programs that you can download to your computer, allowing others to access the mp3 files that you are hosting.  With this comes a set of potential security problems that we will describe below.

The moment you install software on your computer, you have granted access to the outside world. Even if you have granted permission to only a few friends, the potential now exists that someone you don’t want on your computer can access personal information as well. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been using RapidShare as your file host and you have not been 100% satisfied with their service or limitations of their free accounts just don’t fit your needs you should consider using MongoFiles as a RapidShare alternative.

MongoFiles is a user-friendly service that allows you to transfer, download and store data in an organized and secure manner. You can use MongoFiles to upload and share an unlimited number of files with friends, family and colleagues.

To help you understand difference between MongoFiles and RapidShare we compared features of MongoFiles and RapidShare free plans.
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