In some of my side projects I occasionally find myself needing to share files that are larger than my email service or my recipient’s email service can handle. In the past I would use Drop.io or File Dropper to share those large files. This afternoon I learned about a new file sharing service called Let’s Crate that I’ll try in the future.

Let’s Crate is very easy to use. To use Let’s Crate just drag a file from your desktop to the Let’s Crate page. Let’s Crate then creates a unique url that you can send to others so that they can access your file. The unique url expires after 30 minutes unless you create a free Let’s Crate account in which case you can keep files on Let’s Crate as long as you need them.

Applications for Education
Let’s Crate is a nice alternative to sending mass emailings of large files. Instead of emailing documents to students and parents you can just direct them to a URL. This frees up space in your email application and in your recipient’s email application.

Now of course you could much of the same thing by hosting your files on Google Docs and posting them online. But I realize that not everyone is a Google Docs fan boy like me and I think that I should share some non-Google Docs ideas every once in a while.