Take This.

At our school for the last few years, there has been a huge push to get away from emailing attachments for obvious reasons.  When you're trying to send two or three media-rich powerpoints, your email gets clogged up very quickly.  We link files to a shared network drive, which is great-except when it's not.  If you're trying to open files on your iPhone (which I do) or if you're at home and don't wish to log into VPN, you're out of luck.  Well...you were out of luck.

Crate does essentially the same thing that our network does.  To use it, just drag the file into the crate and Crate generates a link for you.  The link is only valid for 30 minutes.  If you need your file to be available for more than a half hour, sign up for a free account and it's there forever.  


There are other ways of hosting your items, like Dropbox and GoogleDocs, but I do like that you don't need to make an account to use it.