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Other I need a small favour

Discussion in 'General' started by Gunsmith, 11 Dec 2013.

  1. Gunsmith

    Gunsmith Maximum Win

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    long story short I'm doing a recruitment drive and I've a small PDF explaining the project in depth. The thing is I need somewhere to host it for a few weeks or however long interest lasts and I don't want to faf about registering domains/servers for years for a such a simple thing.

    gdocs and dropbox will only share links via email addresses so that's no good.

    suggestions?
     
  2. Margo Baggins

    Margo Baggins I'm good at Soldering Super Moderator

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    Skydrive?

    I share stuff with people on skydrive all the time and get a http link to it.

    Do you just need it hosted for download? I can do that if you just want somewhere people can download it from, but it would have my domain attached to it I don't know if that would be a problem for you or not.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4tmud6lpxk53yw/29er.JPG

    Though that is something I just shared from dropbox so that might work for you? Just right clicked on the file in my dropbox folder in explorer and chose "Share dropbox link" and it copied the above link into my clipboard, and I just pasted it there.
     
  3. saspro

    saspro IT monkey

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    You can add a weblink to a file on dropbox
     
  4. Ronaldo 9

    Ronaldo 9 Minimodder

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    Why not set up a blog using blogspot/tumblr/wordpress

    I think it should work.
     
  5. deathtaker27

    deathtaker27 Modder

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    if you need somewhere to host it drop me a message, i have some free space :)
     
  6. Gunsmith

    Gunsmith Maximum Win

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    i didnt think you could weblink items in your dropbox?
     
  7. Cei

    Cei pew pew pew

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    Put it in your public folder. You can then generate a public link to share. Easy.
     
  8. Margo Baggins

    Margo Baggins I'm good at Soldering Super Moderator

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    I can weblink anything in my dropbox, regardless of which folder it's in within my dropbox structure. You can't hotlink images from dropbox as far as I know.
     
  9. Gunsmith

    Gunsmith Maximum Win

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    i suck, i just figured it out. this will do nicely, cheers all.
     
  10. wolfticket

    wolfticket Downwind from the bloodhounds

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    [​IMG]

    You can actually do it with stuff that's not in the public folder too if you copy the direct download link on the share dropbox link page.
    I'm not sure you should though...
     
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  11. jinq-sea

    jinq-sea 'write that down in your copy book' Super Moderator

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    Appropriate for your LEET post ;)
     
  12. Margo Baggins

    Margo Baggins I'm good at Soldering Super Moderator

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    I used to hotlink loads of images from dropbox, and then it all stopped working one day and I could no longer do it, maybe I was being a stupid head.

    Thanks for clarification :)
     

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