I started a write up that included a short review/rant of file sharing which I am re-posting here.
- DropBox - Limits free shares to a daily download limit. Very poor security from the get go and I am still not convinced they have solved all of their security woes. I would never use DropBox for any extremely important.
- OneDrive (SkyDrive); Microsoft has really grown this product well except they seem to want to exclude normal application developers from using these shares. Size limits, poorly published API which is only convenient for mobile device developers. It has a very cool integration for Windows 8+ which I make good use of but it makes a very poor direct download file share.
- Google Drive: Google also provides a decent online file share. Microsoft has caught up and passed Google though. Typical Google launch a really good idea then cut back the development staff supporting it unless it is essential to this quarter's earnings. Google needs a new mission statement... Don't be evil was a good start (although they have strayed from this). Better mission would be support what you create and people actually use and don't be stupid. iGoogle, Blogger, Web Search API are just 3 things that jump mind. Google Drive makes it difficult to do direct downloads.
- NetGear - The fine people that brings us the routers, DSL and cable modems most of us use. Even they have a file sharing solution. Problem here is using the latest router, I can't share using SSL because THESE GENIUSES WON'T FIX THE ROOT CERTIFICATE ISSUES WITH MYNETGEAR.COM. Very cool USB device shares would be a very cool way of sharing files on the down-low only works with https but I could not get a proper certificate through NetGear. Not sure what the issue: just stupid (don't discount this just look into you uPnP feature on your router; btw DO NOT USE UPNP the feature) or unwilling to provider the correct solution. Either I use Netgear, I do not trust netgear.
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