I have some personal stuff on my office machine. Would like to put it on the net, so that I can access it anywhere, anytime. Anyone with a suggestion on the best way forward. 9GB is just movies and music files, compressed using winrar. Any advise??
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i would sugest purchasing yourself some webspace. the cheapest place (also where i am at) is ixwebhosting. i think they have 100GB of space a free domain name (incase you also wanna host ya own website) for like $3.95US per month, which is pretty awesome.\n\nyou can go to their website www.ixwebhosting.com or if you feel nice you can go through this link, i think i get points or whatever for refering people. its not a scam, i'm just very happy with their service.\nhttps://www.ixwebhosting.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=eagle4\n\neagle4
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to be usefull at least 512MB of memory,(256MB is s l o w ) plug and play cards (hopefully you already have them), a fairly big hard disk Windows folder can take around 3GB of disk space alone, so allow minimum of 40GB hard disk.\nAnd as said a copy of Win XP in whatever flavour you can afford, try for the best rather than the cheapest Media and Pro have much more functionality and also remote assistance Home does not. And don't worry too much about speed, I ran XP on an old IBM 600MHz PC without problems, and not that much slower with 512MB memory.
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http://www.yousendit.com is easier and free. works online, can send up to a 1GB attachment for free.
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no, it's not limited, if it'll fit on your hard drive, it'll go on your desktop. although i dont recommend saving anything to your desktop unless it's temporary.
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probably easier to use an online file service like box.net or rapid share. try a search for online file storage
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http://www.freedownloadhq.com/WinRAR.html
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This site is a great way to share large files:\nhttp://www.verzend.be/?page=index\nYou can have a file up to 1GB!
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yes..its like 243 MB\n\nwhat sites do you get it from? cause man thats alot..and how come u keep so much?
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i use winrar. i like it better.
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I had the same need but I took a slightly different approach.  After some thought, I determined the following:\n\n- I didn't need all of my files all the time but rather I only needed a core subset of files all the time and then some other files depending up on what I was doing at that time.\n- I always travel with either my phone or some other device which can store information.  Sometimes I have a pda or an ipod-like device or laptop.\n- I was not completely thrilled with the idea of having all of my information on some server out there on the internet.  I am comfortable with the level of security which currently exists but I've learned not to trust it fully and to remain a little bit cautious.\n- Backing up files (or archiving files) OR making all of my files available, were two different scenarios and so I didn't need to solve these at the same time.  I could pick and choose the best of breed way to solve these separately.\n\nSo, here is what I decided to do:\n\n1. Backing-Up/Archiving old files: These are files which I wasn't planning on using anymore but which I didn't want on my hardrives.  I realized that I will have this need for as long as I live :) so I purchased an external DVD Burner and started to burn my files to DVD's which I then kept in a safe place.  There are others options you can use here (e.g. separate external harddrives, a zip/jazz drive etc) but I decided on the external DVD since they are pretty inexpensive in most every way.\n\n2. Sensitive/personal information I want accessible all the time: I decided that I would put this information on whatever device I was carrying with me at the time.  For instance, I would sync my home computer with my smartphone and/or my laptop and have that info on it (e.g. contacts, calendar info, documents, music etc).  If I needed a little more space and didn't want to bring my laptop, I would use a portable USB drive which are pretty huge these days.  I've also heard that there may be ways to put information (other then songs/vids) onto ipod-like devices and so I would consider doing that as well.  The mindset here is that there is no safer place to keep that stuff then by my side, in my ear, on my wrist, in my pocket etc.\n\n3. Everything else: For all other files which I didn't think were too sensitive or personal, I use an online storage service like xdrive.  This is not free and so I might investigate some of the other free services to see if they work for me.  Again, since I am not overly protective about these files and I am confident that the current state of security is good enough, I will be ok with just about anything.\n\n4. What about just remotely accessing my home computer in a secure way?  I've used this approach for many situations when I was not at home in front of my computer and it has worked out very well.  The service I use is GoToMyPC.  This approach holds the most promise for how I see myself interacting with my information/files wherever I may be and from whatever device.  With that said, there are some things you need to set up and have running in order to use this and this service is also not free.  Also, since these types of services are still fairly new, they may not yet be battle hardened enough...but they are getting there.  I recommend you take a look to at least familiarize yourself with it and if you can try it out, definitely do.  You may find it to be the right answer for you.  Another to look at is FolderShare.  I haven't tried this yet but am looking into it.\n\nKeep in mind:  Security is not 100%...don't forget what you know.\n\nGood luck!\n\nDVD Burner Buyers guide: http://reviews.cnet.com/Drives_&_burners/4520-7613_7-5135505.html?tag=dir\nPDA info: http://reviews.cnet.com/Handhelds/2001-3127_7-0.html?tag=otgfd.hnd\nPortable USB Drives: http://reviews.search.com/search?q=usb+drive&nodeid=3240&format=customlayout&channel=54&cat=312&mode=products&allfields=0&k=25748383\nxdrive: http://ww
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Go to http://mediamax.streamload.com/ and load as much as 25 GB and im not pretty sure if you can link it. another good working website is http://www.esnips.com but it give only 1 GB.
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It really depends on how much data you're talking about. For small amounts of data, you can get one of the USB hard drives or burn your data to a CD (700 megs) or DVD (up to about 4 gigs). If it's not much more than 4 gigs, you can just use a couple of DVDS.\n\nFor larger amounts, chase down an external hard disk. I have 600 gigs for my external drives which has my mp3's, pictures, and other data I want to save.
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Go throught your files you have saved... Like movie files, song files, ect... Get them off your computer... You can also do other stuff to free up the space, but if youd like I could walk you throught it step bye step... Just email me a question to help you, and Ill be able to do that for you.. Its hard to step by step if you are not on line talking to me at the same time..
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A .rar file is a compressed archive \n\nIm sure you have heard of .zip files.. and you know that you need winzip to open and extract .zip files.  \n\n.rar is the same idea, but instead, you use "winrar"  (can be downloaded at: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm) for all of your compressing/decompressing needs. \n\nYou can even use winrar to handle zip and many other compressed file types (i personally think winrar blows winzip out of the water) \n\nso download winrar, decompress your file, and listen to it with your media player of choice\n\n........ and just in case you did mean .ram file format \n---->take the advice "kunkhmer" has gave you - Real Player <-----
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When ever possible use recycled paper. \n\nRegarding the paperless office, I was just having a conversation earlier today about the very same subject. Electronic data is very efficient, however, what if the system crashes and no means to retrieve your backup data, if you kept a paper backup then you can resort to the paper information if possible. (old school)
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I would use an external USB drive (flash or hard drive depending on size of files).
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hey, use winrar to open your file.,. it will show you the contents of that file. Just drag the contents on to the desktop, and then play them....... any probs contact me!