Huh? When I go to the “Download” page, the Windows app shows “Request.”
Are you seeing something different?
Huh? When I go to the “Download” page, the Windows app shows “Request.”
Are you seeing something different?
Do you mean only if you use Blip?
Cuz they are not the only game in town.
And Blip seems ok with any size file. How are they at sending 1,000 files?
Very good to know. Thanks for this. $20/mo is nothing and I might sign up too.
Don’t know yet. If I could use the app, I would zip all of them together into a single zip file and try that.
FYI - I sent a message to Blip to ask them when a Windows version of this app will be published. I got this answer:
"Thanks for requesting Blip on Windows!
We’re still finishing on the app. If you need it right now, you can download the beta via our Discord community. Otherwise, stay tuned and we’ll let you know when it’s live on our website.
Cheers,
Rob & Tomaž"
Also, there are no size restrictions and files need not be zipped/compressed.
Seems ideal and I’m not seeing any “gotchas” yet, except that the beta version won’t run on my Windows 11 box.
Sending your huge file by FTP or whatever is not going to be “secure” unless you encrypt it…
I like Magic Wormhole for certain file transfer use cases (a single, rather than multiple, files)
To transfer an (unsecure) huge file or 10000, you may as well use regular Bittorrent.
Correction: Transfernow charges me $12/month (not 20, my poor memory) for the level of service which I receive. I have used them for about a year, with minimal problems. I like their options and lack of constant nagging for upgrades.
If you just want to dump enormous files (possibly many) online there is Amazon S3… but we were talking about free services.
Note that you can host your own Nextcloud and what not for free.
From Blip’s website:
"Blip is designed with security in mind. It doesn’t use insecure web links. The things you share are sent directly to the person you choose, without being uploaded to a website somewhere.
Files you send are encrypted in transit, to protect from nosy neighbours."
Are you my ex-wife?
She often calls me for computer help, and the conversation sometimes goes like this:
She: I tried to do “x” and it didn’t work.
Me: What do you mean “didn’t work”? What happened? Was there an error message?
She: Yes, there was some kind of message.
Me: What was the error message?
She: [Starting to get irritated] I don’t remember. Look, I’m not a computer person. I don’t think like you do.
Amazon Photos has unlimited photo storage, so if both sides have Prime you can share the photos that way. Video is not unlimited and you have to pay for that.
Amazon Photos has unlimited photo storage
So all you have to do is set up a steganography system to encode and decode the data and you’re set.
Oh, the data are images? Well if you want to take the easy way …
There’s an xkcd for that.
More seriously, I wonder what the OP meant by “securely”? Secure from what?
Are you my ex-wife?
She and I should form a computer techno-peasant support group.
I read the error message and go “Hmm. An error message. I wonder what it means?”
I read the error message and go “Hmm. An error message. I wonder what it means?”
I don’t recall ever seeing that error message before. I wonder what it means? and which button do I press?
Years ago, when it was dialup, my friend and I transferred a large number of files to burn onto a CD. We used Internet Relay Chat and transferred the files directly between our computers, no intervening server.
You might investigate setting up a sftp server on your own computer. As long as it is turned on and not sleeping, the other person would be able to log into your server (your computer) and just upload the files directly to it. Of course, you would have to have a really good password, to keep out possible intruders.
Guru Meditation is an error notice originally displayed by the Amiga computer when it crashes. It is now also used by Varnish, a software component used by many content-heavy websites. This has led to many internet users seeing a "Guru Meditation" message (or the variant "Guru Mediation") when these websites suffer crashes or other issues. It is analogous to the "Blue Screen of Death" in Microsoft Windows operating systems, or a kernel panic in Unix. It has also been used as a message for unre...
If you see that on your computer, (A) it’s 1990-something, (B) you’re using a Commodore Amiga, and (C) you just lost everything you were working on and now the computer will reboot.
and which button do I press?
The left mouse button, like it says. At which point the aforementioned rebooting commences. But you can stare at the helpful hexadecimal error code for as long as you like before that.
My Mac had one button.
Well clearly that’s it. It’s the one they left on the mouse.
Of course if they wanted you to press the right one, that would be it to. It’s the only one so it has to be right.