I'll Senduit!

I've been having some issues with some software that I've bought and I was asked to send a log file back to support so they could see what is going on in the background. I didn't take much notice of the size of the log file, so I attached to an email and tried to send it. Ten minutes later my Internet Explorer (which is tied to my hotmail) stopped responding. I tried to attach it to my gmail account and then finally got it to go with my regular email account tied to my ISP. That one finally went, but came back as the recipient wasn't allowed such a large file.

I emailed back the support and asked if there was a part of the log file I could copy and paste, as I had also tried to copy and paste the whole file and that also caused my gmail to crash.

She emailed me back and said to upload it using a site called Senduit. And I'm sure there are other sites like this but I just thought WOW.

You can pay for FTP (file transfer protocol) services that allow you to upload files and give a user name and password to your clients or friends, but this is a time related service that is free! (and I like free)

Here's how it works. You go to www.senduit.com and all that it really has is an upload button. You click on the upload button, navigate to the page where your file, image etc is, and select open. Then choose how long your recipient has to open it (from 30 minutes to 1 week) and then click "Upload". What comes back is a link to a website that you send to your recipient for them to download. When that page comes up, a message tells them that the file will immediately start to download and it does. Now it takes a bit of time depending on your own internet speed, and the size of the file, but it's a great service for those large files you need to send to someone from time to time. Regular email accounts just won't allow you to send them!

How long did my 14mb file take to upload? Twenty-eight minutes.

A Terabyte!

I was in my local Staples yesterday, looking for an external drive for backing up my hard drive. We were looking at the boxes of various external and internal drives and saw one that said 1TB. TB? My husband said "wow, a terabyte". I thought him very clever and imaginative to come up with a name for a thousand gigabytes, but when we got home, I looked it up and it turns out that he is correct. We are now in the age of the Terabyte. It sounds like something that comes from the moon. Of course we had to buy the 1 terabyte hard drive. It was just too intriguing not to. (and it worked out more cost efficient for the extra memory)

I backed up my Documents and used up only 52 Gigabytes of this hard drive, and I remembered when my brother-in-law bragged to us that he had just got a new computer with a 1 gigabyte hard drive. He said he'd be set for years. I'm sure it won't be long before we have programs that take more than terabytes can cope with.

What comes after a terabyte? A Petabyte! Here is a list I found that gives from the byte to the yottabyte! A Yottabyte?

What comes after the Byte ?
1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte

What comes after the kilobyte ?
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte

What comes after the Megabyte ?
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte

What comes after the Gigabytes ?
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte

What comes after the Terabytes?
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte

What comes after the Petabytes ?
1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte

What comes after the Exabyte ?
1024 Exabyte = 1 zettabyte

What comes after the zettabyte ?
1024 zettabyte = 1 Yottabyte