So, use your photo editor to make them all smaller before you
email them; the total size of all the files you send should never be more than
400??“500 Kb.
Need your recipients to be able to print the photos? There??™s a plethora of
free photo-sharing web sites designed for this purpose, but few let visitors
download high-resolution pictures. The better ones that do include Picasa
(http://picasa.google.com/), PhotoBucket (http://photobucket.com/), Image-
Shack (http://imageshack.us/), and PutFile (http://www.putfile.com/). Just
upload your photos to the site and then send the URL the site provides to as
many recipients as you like, without fear of email attachment clog.
To send other types of files, such as documents or ZIP files, you need a
slightly different tack. Since photo-sharing web sites can make money when
visitors order prints, they??™re only too happy to host your photos, but few
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sites will be interested in hosting that 50 Mb database file you need to send
to a colleague.
Now, if you have your own web space (often provided free by your ISP), you
can FTP your files to the server, and then send your friends an address like
this:
http://www.{my-isp.net}/~{myusername}/{quarterlyanalysis.zip}
where {my-isp.net} is your ISP??™s web site, {myusername} is your user
account, and {quarterlyanalysis.zip} is the name of a file you want to share.
Unfortunately, your ISP probably isn??™t interested in helping you host??”and
have all your friends download??”gigabytes of your data.
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