[Ham-Mac] Tip of the Day: How to exchange large files - event to PC users

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

I recorded a QuickTime movie of the first flight of a friend's Experimental
Pulsar aircraft.  I sent him a compressed QuickTime.mov file. He liked the
QT movie,  but wanted the full resolution version so I tried to email it as
an attachment. His Road Runner has limit on the size of attachments they
will accept so it was bounced.  My DSL has the same limitation as well as
most ISPs.  The Zip format in OSX is a joke as it has zero compression for
most things. In addition, the zipped file was still too large for Road
Runner.  I then converted the zipped file into three segments but he is a PC
user and could not get the Mac (Stuffit) generated segments back together
again. 

The solution to this big time PITA was to use the cool (free) service at
YouSendIt dot com.  You connect to the YouSendIt web page, enter the email
address where you want to send the file, select the file you want to send
and enter your email address. Click the send button the file transfers to
the YouSendIt file servers.  Once the file is received they send both
parties a plain text email message with a URL where the file can be
downloaded.  Most ISP's provide unlimited downloads.

It worked great and I plan on using the service to share picture files with
relatives. The files size of iPhoto slid show reminds me of the file sizes
generated by PC Power Point users. HiHi

Try YouSendIt at http://www.yousendit.com

73 de Dick, AA5VU