An Overview of QuickShareIt (Mac Only)

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to quickly upload an image or a video for a client or a friend? QuickShareIt is a really awesome application for Mac OS X that sits right in your dock and takes less than two seconds to start uploading files to their servers. To use QuickShareIt you don’t need an account but you can create one to keep all your files organized in one place on their servers.

Using QuickShareIt is really simple and is a nice tool to have on your computer. First of all download the application then add it to your Applications folder and then drag the QuickShareIt icon into your dock. Once you’ve done that then all you have to do now to upload files from your Mac, is to simply drag and drop the file and it will begin uploading to QuickShareIt’s servers.

Uploading files up to 100MB are allowed so that should be plenty of size for uploading images and videos because I doubt that there’s many images out there that are over 100MB! Once you’ve dragged your file onto the QuickShareIt Dock Icon, the icon will change telling you the upload speed and the progress of the upload.

As well as images and video, QuickShareIt also allows you to instantly upload text clips dragged from any other application. Once your file has been uploaded QuickShareIt state that your file will be on their servers for at least 30 days so this should be plenty of times for your clients and friends to view and save the files that you have sent them.

Once your files have been uploaded a window called Recent Shares will show up and display the recent files that you have uploaded with the name of the file, the size of the file and the date and time that it was uploaded. By clicking the button to the right of the files you can either copy the file’s URL on QuickShareIt’s servers to your clipbooard which you could then paste into an email or instant messaging client, open it in the browser, remove it from the list or delete the file entirely from QuickShareIt’s servers.

Have you used QuickShareIt? What do you think of it? Or perhaps you use an alternative service that you’d like to share with us in the comments?

(By) Wez is a student studying computers, also does programming and video tutorials and writes about technology, software and websites, check out his blog @ www.TheTutorialBlog.com

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