I blogged in February about YouSendIt – a wonderful web tool for sending large files that’s easy to sign up for, easy to use and easy for a non-techie recipient to use too!

YouSendIt has a Free, Pro, Business & Corporate Plan to suit everyone’s needs. My needs are satisfied with the free account and I made a list of Pros and Cons of the free version:

PROs

Lite version is free

Recipient doesn’t have to set up an account to get to the file

Free for recipient to download

File limit size is 100MG – covers my needs (so far)

Plug-Ins available are handy if you have these programs:

Outlook

Photoshop

CorelDraw

Paperport

Aperture

There is a plug-in called YouSendIt Express that makes your uploads up to 25% faster

CONs

Unable to import address books (they are working on this)

Recipient only has 7 days to get the attachment (not enough for some people!)

With the Lite version, you can only send to 5 people at a time (bit of a bummer)

There is a limit of 1GB per month that all your recipients can download, so if you send out a lot of attachments, you will have to pace yourself.

Here’s a link that will compare the flavors of accounts offered: http://http://www.yousendit.com/cms/compareaccounts

I found YouSendIt and have been utilizing their free services for some time now. Just set up an on-line account – no software to download. The free version allows you to send up to a 100MB file to up to two people at a time. Then, up to 100 people can download your files per month. The paid services run from $9.99 to $99.99/mo. You can check it out at their website.

YouSendIt is great when you don’t want to publish a video to YouTube. It goes to the intended recipient only. They will get an email from YouSendIt, asking them to click on a link that takes them to a site to download the file. From there, it can be opened, watched, saved or whatever.