The guys at Gobbler are revving up ready to start taking on paying customers and today they have released a new version of their application, v0.9.7
Gobbler users now have the option to send files to anybody in the world, and they can download it without signing up for Gobbler.
Using this feature is simple. Go to the send file window like you always have. Once you are ready to send your files there is one more step. Click the ‘Options…’ button on the bottom left of the send file window and check ‘send public link.’ The recipient will still get email telling them they’ve been shared a file and a link which will allow them to download the files via the web. Gobbler will construct a .zip file of everything that was shared and the downloading will begin.
Since these links are public and can be shared and downloaded by anybody, Gobbler does the following: The first is that all downloads in after the first successful applied towards your Transfer Quota for that month. The second is that the share link will expire (and become inaccessible) after seven days. These are both to help prevent Gobbler from being used for the wrong reasons… We hope you understand. Remember that downloading with the Gobbler application has neither limitation and is way faster.
The ‘Send Public Link’ checkbox is not permanently stored; You have to explicitly enable this for every time you wish to use this feature.
If you wish to publicly send files to more than one recipient, enter their email addresses in the To: field of the Send Files dialog. Note that doing charges your Transfer Quota on a per-recipient basis.
To see how all of this works watch this video:
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November 16, 2011 at 7:18 am
They got it all wrong. Why are they not using the clitn for public downloads like digidelivery so the cient can benefit from unlimited size and faster speed?
The only thing users asked for was not to sign up. You should still be able to use the app.
November 17, 2011 at 2:27 am
Hi Peter,
I’m Andrew the community manager at Gobbler. Thanks for posting on Osd-uk: All the folks here are AWESOME!!! You can still use the faster client to download public links if you wish OR you can download from the web using that same link.
Check it out & keep sharing your thoughts, we want to make sure we get this right.
Cheers,
Andrew
November 17, 2011 at 7:01 am
Andrew, thanks for taking the trouble to reply.
Peter you also might want to lok at this thread on the Gobbler community forum.
Mike.