FREE Online Storage
Documents, photos and other files accumulate on your hard drive. It is a safe bet that if you lost those files, you would not be able to replicate them very easily, if at all. Free online storage is available for you to store those important documents. Some website companies offer you the opportunity to upload, access, and share your music, video, photos.
Access one of the following sites to find out how to safely save your documents online for free.
Yahoo! Briefcase
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/
Notes from the website: “Yahoo! Briefcase is a tool that allows you to store files online and then access them from anywhere. Think of it as an extra hard drive that you can use from any computer connected to the Internet. It’s a tool for managing files from home, work, or any other location—and a great way to share files with family, friends, and co-workers. Yahoo! Briefcase provides 30MB of storage space for your files.”
Media Fire
http://www.mediafire.com/
Notes from the website: “MediaFire is a free and unlimited file and image hosting web site with no strings attached. Our goal is to help make the Internet a more interesting and media rich place by provide the fastest and most simple to use tool for sharing all kinds of files in almost any way imaginable… You can create an unlimited number of folders and sub folders to store, organize and share your files and images.”
Notes from the website: “Box.net is an online storage and sharing service that gives you access to your files from anywhere. With Box, you can access important documents from your desktop computer, laptop, or even mobile phone. Once you’ve uploaded your files to your online storage on Box, you can also share them with anyone, anytime — Box makes online web file sharing simple.” Small 1 gb accounts are free.
4Shared
http://www.4shared.com/
Notes from the website: “Actually, it is a big online storage where Internet users store their text, audio, video, photo, and other files and share them, if they wish, with other people. It is easy, handy, and free!”
After you have selected one website to use, post a ‘COMMENT‘ to this BLOG and let us know which one you chose and why.
Hi:
I have used Yahoo! Briefcase for several years as an online storage to back up files that I may need to access from various places. It contains, among other other things, a list of my usernames and passwords. I always suggest Yahoo! Briefcase as a resource for my students.
Comment by Jacqui — June 30, 2008 @ 12:44 am
Just wanted to say that I think this is really neat. My hard drive is always full that I have to delete some documents, but with this, we can save everything and leave the hard drive for other stuff. Thanks
Comment by Helene Cruz — October 9, 2008 @ 6:06 am
I love the idea that I do not have to worry about, where did I leave my flashdrive…no more worries about deleting some documents out of the hard drive.
Thank you, Dr. Cyrus
Comment by Araceli — October 9, 2008 @ 9:44 am
WOW! I really like this storage idea..backing up files is just perfect especially when you depend on using flashdrive or just your PC. I’ve started saving all my UOG documents and I know now that it’s safe. I find Yahoo briefcase to be easy to use. Thanks Dr. Cyrus
Comment by Lolita — October 9, 2008 @ 11:18 am