Easily Receive Large Files from Anyone

Last week, I needed to receive a 50MB video file from a long-distance partner. Typically, I'd invite this person to a shared folder on Dropbox, but I am increasingly wary of that approach. I don't like opening up read/write permission on my personal cloud storage to other people. So this time, I tried something a little different.

DROPitTOme is a secure service that lets you receive large files from anyone, uploaded directly to your Dropbox account. The service is free and currently in beta, but it works exactly as advertised. You simply register DROPitTOme with your Dropbox account and you get a URL to give out to anyone who might need to send you files too big to e-mail.

Not just anyone can use the URL, either. To upload a file, your colleagues need to enter the password you provide.

The service works great, especially if your file sharing needs are primarily one-way in nature. Of course, there's a veritable cottage industry of Dropbox add-ons these days designed to make file sharing duties easier:

• Airdropper is a lot like DROPitTOme, in that it allows you invite someone to post files on your Dropbox account.
• Similarly, Habilis lets you e-mail files to your Dropbox account, handy for circumventing intranets that block access to Dropbox.
• Check out the Dropbox app catalog for all sorts of other programs and services that plug into Dropbox.