Entries tagged with “file transfer” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

I just finished testing the SanDisk 4GB Extreme IV CompactFlash Card with FireWire reader against my previous favorite, the Belkin 15-in-1 USB 2.0 reader, and the SanDisk uploaded 386MBs of data in 29 seconds compared to 49 seconds for the Belkin. And it seemed even faster as I watched the upload indicator on the screen of my Mac. The...

Some things are just basic, and you do them daily right? Like showering, flossing your teeth, locking your front door (unless you live in one of 'those' small towns where that's still not necessary). Right in line with this list should be backing up your hard drive regularly. It's one of those things that's just absolutely necessary, especially if you...

How do you transfer audio files that are too big to e-mail? In the past, I've FTPed files to one of my Web sites with Dreamweaver and then e-mailed the recipient(s) a download link, but that was cumbersome. If the file needed to be private, like a conference-call recording about corporate strategy, I'd save it as a password-protected zip...