Two quick and simple Web-based file upload utilities provide good alternative methods to using a jump drive for transferring files back and forth from school to a home computer.
If you have properly defined your site at school, all of your work files will be contained within a root folder. Find this folder on your computer under "work." Right click on it, and then select the option to create an archive. A zip file will be created, having the same name as that of your root folder. You may then send this zip file to yourself over the Net.
The easiest of these file transfer sites is called
mailbigfile. After the mailbigfile Web page opens, enter your email address, then upload your zip file, using the file picker. An email will be sent to you with a link to your stored zip file. Be sure to download the zip file as soon as you arrive home, because files are deleted after a couple of days.
Another good service is called
Dropbox. This service provides up to 2GB of free online storage so that you can use it as a backup for your projects as well as a means to transfer files. Your Dropbox account is accessible from any computer connected to the Internet. These files are never deleted by the host. Dropbox acts as a virtual hard disk drive, but located on the Internet instead of on your local computer.
If you save your zip files after unarchiving them, you will have a good backup of older states of your project.
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Google will shortly cease supporting the file types used in the Curmudgeon's archives. And so, the archive is being removed to Freehostia. Some interruption may occur when you click on the archives, until the porting process has been completed.
