FileTea is a simple way to send files to other people: drag a file into your web browser, give the link to your friends and they can start downloading it right away.
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This is not a substitute for DropBox and the like. FileTea is not a file hosting service: the web server is only used to route the traffic, no data is stored there.
You can see it as a web-based P2P file sharing system, or a replacement for good ol’ DCC SEND. You don’t need to worry about firewalls or redirections: if you can surf the web, you can send the file. The only client that you need is your browser.
FileTea is a project developed by my fellow Igalian Eduardo Lima, and you can see more details about it here. It was written on top of EventDance, a peer-to-peer inter-process communication library based on GLib and also written by him (see also The Web jumps into D-Bus).
FileTea is free software and you can download it and install it in your machine.
We have also set up a server at http://filetea.me/.
Important: this is still an alpha release and our bandwith is limited so bear with us if you find any problem 🙂
Happy sharing!
NIH
filesovermiles.com
ge.tt
Actually ge.tt won some Danish ‘innovative IT’ award…
If you read Eduardo’s post (linked above) you’ll see that we’re aware of other existing alternatives and what the differences are.
http://blogs.free-social.net/elima/2011/09/01/filetea-low-friction-anonymous-file-sharing/
Lo mejor es el nombre, desde luego… 🙂
Perfect timing with the latest xkcd comic. 🙂
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Neat! Fun how this shows up just about the same time as XKCD’s 949 strip.
Great file-hoster. Thanks.
The site is currently down; is there any problem?
Well, it can be down occasionally, it’s still an alpha release, but it’s working fine now.
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