Even Quicker Sharing With QuickShareIt 2.0
Recently, a member of the Macintosh community who goes by the name of twenty08 released a new version of QuickShareIt (QSI). This version has been completely redone from the ground up and offers many more cool new features. If you didn’t know, QSI is known for its drag and drop file upload system. All one needs to do in order to upload a file is to drag the files onto the QuickShareIt dock icon and wait for the upload to complete. Files are uploaded to QuickShareIt’s servers and a link to the file(s) is copied to your clipboard.
Upon using this program one might wonder how he ever lived without it. People these days enjoy qualities like speed, elegance, and simplicity and QuickShareIt contains all of these qualities.
With QuickShareIt getting new servers, the apps users now get the ability to upload a 100MB maximum file size at blazing speeds. These servers are responsible for hosting all of QuickShareIt’s uploaded media quickly and efficiently without all of the hassles of other “free” uploading services. While most services that stand in QuickShareIt’s giant shadow hinder downloads with timers, captcha codes and expirations; QSI is free of all of these hassles.
Quick Galleries allows one to make galleries that contain all of your content you want the world to see. To make one, just drag a couple of photos on the program’s dock icon and select the gallery option. The other option called “Zip” compresses all of the files into a zip file for easy downloading. Furthermore, QuickShareIt understands that users want their media fast so they have enabled previewing of certain media types (i.e. FLV video format) in your browser.
With the new “Recent Shares” window one can see what he has uploaded in the past, when it was uploaded, and even how big the files are. If at a later date, the user realizes he does not need one of his uploads, he may easily remove it using the “Select Action” button on the “Recent Shares” window. Better yet, from the “Recent Shares” window QSI can recover the link for any upload if you lose it.
With QuickShareIt’s Growl support, Dock icon badges, and notification window, it is sure to be the favorite file uploader for all Apple users. QuickShareIt 2.0 is a necessary upgrade for all users and runs on both Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. QSI can be downloaded for free from twenty08’s website.
QSI 2.0, while great, is tremendously unstable. It sometimes crashes as often as once per upload on my computer… I can’t use it a whole day without having it crash multiple times =(
I hope they get this fixed soon, it’s such a useful tool!
That is odd, while sometimes I do have the occasional crash, it does not happen for me as much as it does for you.
Although QSI’s great, there’s a caveat that’s a pretty big deal for me: You have to babysit it. After you start an upload, you have to wait for it to finish in order to get the link to the file. This is a hassle.
With yousendit, you specify the email address(es) of the recipient(s) at the time of upload. One step — and no waiting for it to finish, in order to complete the process.
As much as I like QSI — especially since it’s Mac-only — this is a dealbreaker for me. I’ve already written them about this, explaining that for this reason, yousendit has the upper hand. If QSI addresses this one issue, they’ll move up to first place.