18 Sep 2008

By Hiawatha Bray

Globe Columnist / September 18, 2008

It’s time I put a few more operas on my iPod.

It has 20 gigabytes of storage, but I’ve long kept a few gigs in reserve, to copy large data files and tote them between home and office. We’re talking about files that are far too big to travel as e-mail attachments, so I’ve been slipping them in a shirt pocket instead.

But there’s a better way - a lot of them, in fact. A host of Internet services offer easy ways to store and share large files among multiple computers. Some let users synchronize files between machines, so they can keep identical copies of critical files on all their computers. Others offer a simple way to send large files to friends and colleagues.

Perhaps the most sophisticated of the bunch is SugarSync …

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