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Saturday, 16 February 2008

Advanced Uploader Live!

We have just launched our advanced uploader that allows you to select multiple files at the same time when sending!

The advanced uploader is great for sending multiple large photos to your recipients - and saves you making a ZIP file first!

Here's how to enabled the advanced uploader:

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Monday, 11 February 2008

Select multiple files at once when sending

We will shortly be launching a significant upgrade to BoltFile to allow you to select and send multiple files at once.

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When sending your files you will be able to select to use the advanced uploader that allows you to select multiple files!

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This allows you to easily send multiple large files in one click - rather than creating ZIP files or selecting each files one by one!

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Perfect for sending lots of photos or multiple business documents!

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You can still use the standard uploader by clicking use basic uploader.

Sunday, 10 February 2008

Top Up your Account!

We've now made it even easier to top-up your BoltFile account with:

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Just click the 'Top Up' tab and select the type of Top Up you require!

Top-Ups are added to your account immediately after payment.

Bandwidth top-ups are perfect for uses on Lite or Plus accounts who need additional bandwidth for short period of time (i.e. to send some specific files) or power users who require additional bandwidth to use with BoltFile's public direct-download links for distributing files publically!

BoltFile Mobile Launched! - Send and Receive Large Files from your Mobile Phone, BlackBerry or PDA!

We have launched BoltFile mobile! You can now get full access to your BoltFile Inbox and Sent Items from your mobile device - you can even send files direct from your mobile!

Check out BoltFile Mobile now at:

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Here's some pictures of BoltFile Mobile in action:

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More information about BoltFile Mobile can be found here.

Saturday, 9 February 2008

Free Text Messages with Every Account!

When you sign-up to BoltFile your account will automatically be credited with free text messages which you can use to deliver mobile notifications to your recipients - or receive SMS text message download notifications when you files are picked up!

  • Enterprise - 10 free text message credits
  • Business- 7 free text message credits
  • Plus - 5 free text message credits
  • Lite - 3 free text message credits

Learn more about mobile text message notifications on BoltFile...

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Distribute large files with direct download, public links

Today we are announcing an exciting new feature for our Enterprise and Business customers.

You are now able to create a public link from any file in your Folders. A public link gives you a static, direct download address that you can distribute out to your customers, use in marketing material or even place on your own website!

Once a public link is created it stay active forever - and the bandwidth used by people downloading the file is counted separately to your normal account bandwidth allowance (unlimited for Enterprise customers).

Here's the feature in action.

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Once enabled BoltFile displays the public link - this never changes and can be used in your marketing material and given out to your clients!

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... and it's really easy to administer your files with public links....

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The amount of public bandwidth included in each account is as follows:

Remember that these allowances are in addition to your standard account bandwidth allowance (200MB for Business, unlimited for Enterprise) and apply only to files downloaded via public links.

Your current bandwidth usage is shown in your Account page:

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We will shortly be providing the option to Top-Up your bandwidth to supplement the allowance already included in your monthly account!

At BoltFile we are totally committed to continually improving our service and we hope you find this exciting new feature useful!

Public links are now live across all eligible BoltFile accounts!

Thursday, 7 February 2008

BoltFile Mobile is coming!

Try BoltFile Mobile now at m.boltfile.com


BoltFile Mobile is nearing release so we thought we'd share some screenshots of the new service!

With BoltFile Mobile you'll be able to get full access to your BoltFile Inbox and Sent Items - and download your files direct to your mobile device!!


BoltFile Mobile also gives you access to the advanced features of your BoltFile Sent Items folder.


You can withdraw, delete and forward your sent items on to other recipients - all from your mobile!






Best of all you can send files from your mobile device through BoltFile!
Perfect for sending critical business documents to your collegues and customers whilst you are out of the office!
For home users you can use BoltFile Mobile to send photos from your camera phone to any of your BoltFile contacts!
More details on BoltFile Mobile coming soon!

New Feature - Shared Folder Permissions

We've just finalized and released Shared Folder permissions!

Shared Folder permissions allow Enterprise users to define what permission their sub-users have over Shared Folders.

More information on Shared Folder Permissions.

You can control whether users can view the Shared Folder, and whether they can upload new files, delete existing files or download files from the Folder.


It's quick and easy to administer the permissions:



When an operation is not allowed BoltFile notifies the user with a popup window:

This powerful feature allows you to use your BoltFile account as a complete FTP replacement - eliminating the complex setup and management of FTP servers and allowing non-IT personel to setup and manage who in your team has access.

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

Shared folder permissions are coming!

Many of you are now enjoying our Shared Folders feature for sharing files and documents between collegues - and it's getting better!

We will shortly be releasing an update to shared folders that will allow you to set what permissions your sub-users have over the shared folders.


It's great for managing access to files within a team - for example - set your marketing team to be able to upload files to the 'marketing' folder - and the rest of your organisation to only download from it!

Sunday, 3 February 2008

New Feature - Contact Groups

We've just launched a really useful new feature to allow you to arrange your Contacts into Groups - this makes it really simple to send files out to multiple recipients - perfect for sending to multiple common recipients like departments, customers and clients!

We've also substantially improved the Contacts page on BoltFile to allow you to select multiple contacts to edit/delete, and to easily put the selected Contacts into groups!


Your groups are listed in the drop down area at the top of the page:

Once you've put contacts into groups they are instantly available in the recipients box on the Send Files page! - you can choose whether to send to all email addresses of contacts in the group, all mobile phones (via an SMS text message) or both! BoltFile even auto-completes the group name as you're typing - a real time saver!


We hope you enjoy these enhancements!

Friday, 1 February 2008

Longer expiry on all Enterprise accounts!

We've just increased the amount of time files sent from your Enterprise account remain active before expiring! - up from 21 to 28 days!

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This upgrade is now live and will affect any new files sent from Enterprise accounts.

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