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Drag and Share Files with AllPeers
AllPeers has begun offering a public beta version of their Firefox file sharing utility. DLS originally dropped the news on AllPeers back in December while it was in development, and little was known about it then. Now the secret is out, and available for people to start using. AllPeers is a Firefox extension for easily sharing files with your contacts. Sharing files and folders is as simple as dragging them onto your friend's names and clicking 'Share'. Sharing webpages and photos from the web is easy as well. Just drag the web page tab or photo directly onto your friend's name. Of course you have to have friends in your contact list to share with, and that is as simple as adding a contact's email address to invite them. No more transferring large files via email, AllPeers makes it a lot easier.
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Punchy said 4:46PM on 8-29-2006
Make sure you read the comments at Mozilla's extension page before you decide to install this.
It has much promise and I hope to see more from AllPeers but I'll pass for now.
Punchy
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Qwfwq said 8:27PM on 8-29-2006
People have come to realize that email is far from ideal to share files with others especially when there are much more practical ways of doing so such as IM clients, dedicated folder sharing apps and now AllPeers. I have not yet tried AllPeers but it seems a nice implementation of private folder sharing built on top of the Firefox browser. Nevertheless I still think that IM clients might be the ideal platform for private file sharing (of which Windows Live messenger is a good example).
About Punchy's warning above, which I assume is refering to a comment made on the AllPeer's page at the Firefox Addons site expressing concerns about the lack of control over the AllPeers traffic that passes through the user's "node", I find them unfunded as, from what I understand (again, I have not tried this extension yet), the file sharing network is private and therefore under the user's control. Apparently there still are some rough edges (like in all betas), for example it still does not support throttling upload and download speeds, but this should be smoothened in later releases and all in all this seems very promising.
For more information be sure to check the AllPeers site ( http://www.allpeers.com ) and also the Q&A with one of the developers at the Torrentfreak blog ( http://torrentfreak.com/allpeers-review-and-future-plans ).
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