CloudApp is a free (basic functionality) cloud-based, Mac-oriented online service that allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files, and what-have-you. I found sign-up quick and easy. Just choose a username (your email address) and a password, click the button, and a conformation email is immediately sent to your address. Just open the email message, click on the confirmation link, and you’re in.

Yesterday, Apple introduced a new feature to MobileMe: sharing large files with others through an iDisk. The service works like any regular file sharing website such as RapidShare, but instead of uploading a file, you simply use a file that’s already in your iDisk. MobileMe assigns a URL to the file in your iDisk and you can send the link in an e-mail through MobileMe. There are some useful options in this new feature, such as adding a password to secure the file, and adding an expiration date.

Want to put the external disk option in your iPod to good use? I mean, your iPod Shuffle, Nano, and 5th generation with with video models are all good as portable disk drives, right? So why let a good feature go to waste because of Apple’s closed system? With a new product called miShare, you more »

To show my age , “in my day” networks were somewhat mythical things, that only large companies used, and the techies that ran them were somewhat god like (in their own minds anyway). 20 years on and it seems that every small office and a significant number of homes have them. Heck I even have more »