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Q: Have you ever been able to send a DVD of pictures to China?
Everytime I send a DVD to China, it disappears. I send my trip pictures in slide show.
Ted, why not "cloud" it, so to speak? Instead of sending it to China, put it on a cloud, either Microsoft's cloud, or Ubuntu's cloud, or any of the other free "clouds" out there. DVD's are routinely "seized" upon arrival here, particularly when being sent via the mail, FedEx and the like. It's easy to establish a Microsoft or Ubuntu cloud -- then just upload it there and allow your friends access to the "cloud".
TedDBayer:
thanks, I send pictures on cloud, never thought of slide show. Can I do a large one with music?
981977405:
Hey, I think that the Ubuntu cloud is a reasonably large size, expandable in increments of up to 20 gig, I think -- they have this little "special" going on where the more users you introduce to their "cloud", the more they will increase the "cloud" size.
I don't know what the size of the Microsoft cloud is, Ted, but I have put huge, huge, huge Powerpoint presentations on the cloud and they have always been accepted and have been able to be accessed by friends -- I mean really, huge complex Powerpoint presentations.
That is the route that I would take. And if the DVD's are of your own making and not proprietary, I don't think that Microsoft would refuse them, and neither would Ubuntu.
Let me know how it plays out, please.
Ted, do you have a reliable VPN ? Services like Dropbox are very easy to use and it works without VPN, but you need the actual Dropbox web site to register for an account (and the Dropbox website is on the list of blocked site, although strangely yesteray I could access it)
Once set up it is easy to share files and folders. You can either have the reciever also register and install Dropbbox or you can have Dropbox create a download link. At your end, all you need to do is copy files to the shared folder on your own system, and the cloud takes care of the rest.
