Use S4ve.as to Store and Share Your Files For Free & Auto-Delete Them Afterwards

Have you ever wanted a ridiculously easy way to save and share files for free, with no limitations? How about throwing in that your computer does not have to remain on after you are finished uploading your file? And for an extra bit of an added bonus let’s throw in a upload speed cap of about 4 Mbits/sec!

This web application is called S4ve.as and if you need to say it out loud it would be “Save As”. OK ready class let’s say it together now…. Save As.  Sorry I have been watching WAY TOO much children’s programing nowadays!

When I say no restrictions on uploading I mean that you can upload any file type or file size. But please note that the files are only saved for 24 hours and then they will be deleted. Also the files are temporarily stored on S4ve As’s servers and there is no security on who can or cannot download. So obviously this is not the place to upload your tax return files for your accountant to download. Keep that in mind.

Let’s see how Save As works. We will start by shooting on over to S4ve.as and we will see a simple dialogue box in the center of the screen. It wants to know what you want to upload.

Simply click on the box or the select file button. That will launch your built in Windows find dialogue box or another if you are on another operating system like Mac or Linux. I have not tried it with either of these operating systems but in theory it should work. If you try it out let us know in the comments.

After you hit Open the file name will appear in the box with an X next to it. Hit that X if you want to remove it and start again. The file’s size will appear below the box in a sentence that says press upload to being transferring x MB.

When you are ready hit the magic upload button and your file will start transferring into the clouds. The transfer speed I got was pretty awesome for a free service. I was uploading at almost 4 Megabits Per Second.

My upload was done in about 15 seconds. When it was complete I saw a new screen. It looked like this:

This window shows me a bitl.ly link to the file, a direct download link, a created date, expiration date and the type of file it is. Very, very nicely done. Once you have uploaded the file you can send the links on to who ever needs to download the file. Once they click the link they will get a file download dialogue box like this one below.

Again the download process just like the upload process should work on any platform. If you try it on something other than a PC shoot us a note in the comments to let us know if it worked, didn’t work or blew up your computer (just kidding…)