Papaya Video Review and Giveaway
Want to share your files quickly, easily and with no waiting for uploads? Then Papaya may be just what your looking for. Papaya makes it super easy to turn your Mac into a server and allow anyone to download files you specify by giving them appropriate URLs. This video review tells you all you need to know:
Lighthead Software has been kind enough to provide us with 3 licenses to give away to lucky MacApper readers. To enter, simply add a comment below with a feature that you would like to see in Papaya.
The winners will be chosen at random in a week’s time.
Synchronization
Download history so that you can see who downloaded what, when and how many times.
Collaboration. Set a folder as a “work folder” and have files in that synchronize with a friends “work folder”.
I think that it is a wonderful Web server.
And, it can be used very easily.
The application cannot do even the setting such as the fire walls. It is necessary to be likely to set it more to open it to the public to global.
It is an anyway good tool
Great idea, this app. Could be very useful for transferring files to friends and colleagues. Would be even better if papaya could perform specific tasks after a file was downloaded.
I imagine applications like having a setup that automatically removes files from the server after the first complete successful download and then quitting papaya after all files are downloaded.
Would mean not having to worry about removing or other people downloading my stuff when I just wanna spread some certain files.
HTML that Papaya generated is more beautiful than HTML that the apache generated.
How about growl notifications when the server is accessed (expecially if a download is started) from the outside?
I like to track stuff that’s happening on my computer
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I think the function of papaya to be refined more than a standard function of OS.
This web server is easy to use. This application is very useful for scene like “I want to pass the file to the colleague in the office”.
I would like to have a feature that you can limit the number of downloads and also growl notifications on the number of downloads when the connection is still on.
I would like to see some form of logging. Perhaps of who has logged into the server, and what the downloaded.
Mark
Great little application. Much easier that setting up Apache for most users.
great application. Share is very Instant!!
Note: I already have this software, so don’t enter me into the drawing.
I was a beta tester for this software, and thus I got to see the evolution from the beginning to where it is now. I would highly recommend this to anyone who needs to share files over the web, or even a network.
Cool! I’m in the process of making a home server and was looking at a few different solutions, I think I just found the one I am going to use.
I would like to see the limiting of bandwith used by it, so you don’t go over your limit with one file
Instead of giving my IP as the address of the url to download the files, papaya could create a temporary url, i.e. http://www.papaya.com/mario_files and keep track of any IP change that happen, that way my files will be allways accessible and I wouldn’t have to worry if my IP change.
Other than that, it looks great!
You (MacApper) should try Vimeo (free, vimeo.com) for video reviews as it supports streamed HD video, which would be really nice. This video is just too small…
Limited bandwich and more control over the users and downloads makes Papaya to be the perfect Cocoa app!
I just wish that this, like most incredible macintosh software, was available for Windows. It’s so cool to use but a lot of people I know have windows, so can’t reciprocate the mac-app love!
A log of who accesses your files would also be good (maybe through a log in window?)
Great app! would love to see a link to automatically send url to email or chat app instead of copy and paste
Great little app!
I’d like Growl notifications…would be nice!
great app! id love to see some ability to manage individual user access and set more complex permissions.
I would love the ability to have some sort of note/sticky text integration. So that you could leave instructions for those who you are sending the files to, nothing major just a little note! Or like ‘Hernan J’ said, growl notifications would be super!
I just want an easy way to transfer files from my work computer (Vista) to my home computer (Mac).
What an awesome application! Thanks for introducing me to this app!
This app would be extremely useful for anyone who wants to share file.
This application looks awesome. I have never heard of this software before.
I would love to see Growl and possibly Quicksilver integration. On top of that, being able to set up individual folders that can be synchronized automatically between computers would be great.
Other than that, great software!
I would like the ability to be able to send a notification to a person to download my file. Sort of like the Leopard Screen Share feature where you can ask for permission to control their computer.
Ichat integration
to be able to select some one on your buddy list
Or your address book for email
I’d love a feature that generated a temporary user/pass pair for a particular file, and a feature that enabled me to specify that once a file was fully transferred, the file would be removed from the server automatically.
Handy app, Growl would be a nice addition…
I think it would be neat if there were different URL layouts for the user to choose from. In place of the basic, functional drop-down “finder” look, you could pick different colors/fonts/add your own backgrounds and images. Or album artwork.. OR COVERFLOW…Just to kick it up a notch..
I also think Address Book/Mac Mail synchronization would be an awesome feature.. so you could instantly let certain groups/friends/co-workers know that files are ready..
Great tool! I believe that people before me have already mentioned everything that came to my mind… considering the possible improvements. Hopefully I will be the one to get it. *hint, hint*
How about an automated check to see if your ports are forwarded. Maybe instructions for use with different types of routers for port forwarding?
I tried because it is very interested.
This application used easily very much and was strong.
This application is necessary for me
It is a wonderful application.
Especially, the automatic compression function is good.
The design of this application is wonderful. so there is no stress in use.
Unfortunately, doesn’t work on campus (they block a lot of ports). What about a workaround for those of us unable to configure our ports, but with access to an FTP server / external upload site?
Aa system of limit bandwith with schedule method like the Transmission
I’d like to see the ability to have others upload to Papaya and have it download to your Mac or show up on Papaya.
I was testing the beta version of Papaya and my sharing probs between Mac and Pc dissapear.
excellent app! to keep the app simple i would just like to see logging where the hoster could track visits/downloads to his/her files/folders.
Its great that its so simple. One really strange thing though, it puts the wrong external IP in all the addresses! Not the one that whatismyip.com gives me. I can edit the URLs papaya generates but its bizarre.
Second question, I wish people could UPLOAD not just download. I have a friend on a PC that I need to get a file from. So either need UPLOAD folder or a windows or linux version of papaya…
The ability to get through NATS.
Agree about Growl… notification when someone accesses a file would be helpful. Cool app!
I think it could use some sort of skin support for the web-view, maybe some css to customize.
Although i dont see any use for this program, i’m always behind firewalls and there are more convenient ways to share files over the internet (p2p or FTP)
Limiting the bandwidth used would be helpful. That could be done in effect by limiting number of concurrent or total downloads as well. Just something that would keep the connection from being overloaded is important, I think.
And hey Daniel Greg … what was that you were downloading via Transmission? Surely it was some public domain information?
Yep, Debian install, which isn’t working but thats another matter……
I’d like to vote for Growl too, please!
I’m with the few other folks who said some version of user info so I could see who got files and what they downloaded. Cool app.
Awsome looking app. Logging who downloaded what when, would be very helpful for my business.
If I win a license, it will be my excuse to finally upgrade to 10.5!
As mentioned by others (although I though logging might have been original):
- I’d like to see logs of “who” has downloaded what files.
- Growl Support
- Themes/Styles (although any really interested developer like myself could just make he changes myself)
Hopefully an original idea:
- RSS/Atom Feed for files or a group. For instance if I want to put a podcast into my Papaya directory, I would want my other computers to be able to subscribe to my server and automatically download the new file.
ability to track who is downloading and how many times a file has been downloaded would be extremely useful
I’d like to see a history of who downloaded my files, from where, and when.
Definitely Growl support.
For the web interface:
-Have a way for the host to ‘color-code’ or rank files. So you can tell your friend to download “the yellow highlighted folder”.
-This would also be useful if a user downloads files from you (they would have to log-in, or it would track you by your IP) and then there would be some color indication if the file has been updated since the last time you downloaded it.
I was really interested in this. When will the results be announced?