Free file hosting - what are my options?

[AppleQueso]

dropbox will do fine for that

and to clarify, I can set the files to public so that nobody has to sign in to dropbox to DL them right?

also, if a FOLDER cannot be publc -- can I zip a folder containing 3 files, and make that .zip file public?

Yes, they get a link directly to the file, no signing in and no Wait 30 seconds stuff. You just click the link and the file takes off.

Here's an example:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3361389/doo/example.zip

[noiseredux]

Yes, they get a link directly to the file, no signing in and no Wait 30 seconds stuff. You just click the link and the file takes off.

Here's an example:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3361389/doo/example.zip

awesome, thanks for the help!

[Hobie-wan]

Dropbox is fine, just don't count on their encryption. If you consider your files public, or roll your own encryption, it'll do fine. OTOH, SpiderOak claims to do client side encryption, but their client is closed source so I don't know how much I believe that.

Indeed.

http://boingboing.net/2011/04/21/dropbo ... curit.html

I use https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ for my image hosting for the stuff I post here. Granted I was making small MP3 files for the name that game contest, but I still post a number of pictures all the time. I think I had put $5 or $10 a few years back and I finally had to add some funds in December or something.