Update: The link to dropcanvas is inactive.
Our tool this week is the easy-peasiest, frills-barest file-sharing tool I’ve yet to come across. With dropcanvas, you simply drag files onto a “canvas” and send out a link.
The free canvases top out at 5 GB/month, but that’s more than twice the space of a free Dropbox, and one-third of a Google Drive, which are supposed to last you forever. As a freelancer, I’m using dropcanvas to share photos with editors and others for travel stories.
With low effort comes with low security, so dropcanvas is useful for reporters who want send easy, non-sensitive files. Journalists who need much more secure file-sharing options should check out Mike Tigas‘s list of encryption tools.
Let’s keep this sharing feeling going by telling all our friends that TFR is up and running again. We’re on Twitter and the World Wide Web, and we should have a much more 21st-Century looking website soon.
Reply to this email or tweet me at @samanthasunne if you’d like to know more about dropcanvas, this newsletter, or how to celebrate Pagan holidays at Stonehenge. A few listers emailed me last week to introduce themselves and I loved it, so please shoot me a note if you’re so inclined. See you next week!