Other operating systems are currently out of the Minbox, but if enough interest is expressed in providing for them, it's a possibility.Ĭoming soon there will be a Pro service that'll offer indefinite storage and scheduled expiration, amongst other things. Even with the kinks, it's an impressive service, if you have a Mac. If the coders succeed in ironing out those usability kinks, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it for transfering large files. Coming soon, you'll also be able to comment on it and share it to Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook.Īll of this is free. Again, this is on the developers' Big List and should be possible soon.Īs a file recipient, you can preview your received file before downloading it and you can email it on or share a link to it from the preview page. There's no way I can access my collections from the web, which would allow me to manage and forward files from a computer other than my own. My biggest bugbear is that at present Minbox is app-based. The good news is that Michael Lawlor, who's Minbox's CTO, assures me that this will be rectified soon. You can't do it from the collection itself, despite being able to forward or share files from there. At present, either waiting for the files to expire or following the email link are the only means of deleting them from your collection. This is probably my second biggest bugbear with Minbox. If you want to delete the file from your collection, you can do so by following the link from the viewed confirmation email. Whether or not it'll do it with Mission Impossible-style smoke, I don't know as nothing I've shared yet has reached its expiration date. Once you've sent a file, it resides in your Minbox collection for 30 days, after which it will self-destruct. You can also opt to convert Raw image files to JPEGs and videos to Mp4 format. If you want to schedule when it will be sent your recipient, that's entirely possible. To send a file all you have to do is right-click on it and then choose between sharing it as a link or sending via the service. Minbox advertises itself as being 'freaking fast' and even with the cringingly slow connection that we suffer from at the Photocritic Outpost, the upload was on the speedy side when I tried it out with a bundle of high-res images. You can send a file as large as you can manage before your internet connection konks out, for free. But unlike WeTransfer, the size of your files isn't limited to 2GB. Ludlow Ventures and Correlation Ventures are the most recent investors. Their latest funding was raised on from a Seed round. To be able to use Minbox you have to download the app unlike WeTransfer, there's no send-from-web option. Minbox has raised a total of 900K in funding over 3 rounds. It's Minbox, and I've been checking it out. But there's a new kid on the file transfer block that claims to be 'freaking fast'. For just sending large files the two big names are WeTransfer and YouSendIt. When it comes to online storage and collaborative working, I'm a huge fan of Dropbox.
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