We at 4shared have been working on new updates recently, and now we want to share them with our users. This time check out some awesome changes in your folders management; find out how simple it is to share the widgets and folders with your friends. Moreover now you can choose which files to share and which of them should remain private. Follow the detailed instructions in this post.

First of all, let’s talk about folders you host on 4shared and how you can manage them. As you know you can change the status of your folder:
✔ make it private, so nobody can access it;
✔ invite members to access the folder;
✔ make it accessible for everyone.

Find a folder you need and click “Share” button to reach the available options:

So, if you want to set private access to your folder, choose “Private access” by clicking on the arrow, and click “Save”:

If you set Private access to your folder, you should know that it means that you won’t be able to share links to this folder and nobody except you will access it. You can do the same if you want to change the access type to the folder.

Imagine that you held a great party last night, and now you want to share photos with friends. Create a new folder and upload all photos to your 4shared on web. Yeah, even those you’re ashamed of:). Set Public Access to this folder.

Well, now when this folder is accessible to everyone, you can set public permissions to it:
1. Click “Share” on the folder
2. Click on “links” tab
3. Choose the type of permission for your friends to this folder: View only, or Upload&Edit

• If you choose “View only”, your friends will be able to preview your photos and download them.
• If you choose “Upload&Edit”, they are free to change your folder by uploading/deleting their files to it, or editing your files. It’s very useful for collaborative work within one folder.

But don’t think that we’ve forgotten about your scandal photos from the party:). You can hide them, even if your folder is accessible for everybody. Isn’t it awesome?! Follow the instructions to save your reputation:

1. Choose that “secret” file, which is going to be hidden
2. Right click on it
3. Go to Properties
4. Put a checkmark near “Make this file private”
5. Don’t forget to click on “Save & Close”

What’s more? If you have a blog you can share the widget to your folder on 4shared so that everybody can preview your files and maybe download them!

1. Click “Share” on the folder
2. Click on “Embed” tab
3. Choose Widget tab to get the link
Put this link into your blog so that everyone could have the access to the stuff you want to share.

For example, you can see our Widget and choose a file you want to download:

CREATE YOUR OWN SUBDOMAIN

The unique subdomain will make your folder even more exclusive.
1. Click “Share” on the folder
2. Click on “More options” tab
3. Choose Subdomain tab to get the link
4. Fill in the name
5. Click Apply

Check this one for example: http://MayCalendar2013.4shared.com

AND the last feature… Are you ready?
You can add the descriptions to your folder to make it very special and unique.
1. Right click on the folder
2. Go to properties
3. And add some piece of description if you want

So, we hope you enjoy these updates and find them extremely useful. Remember to share your content and new info with friends. And get ready for mega-brand-new features we are working on right now. Look through your favorite music tracks, because 4shared has a big surprise for you:). Maybe we’ll make an awesome built-in player? Stay with 4shared to find it out.

This time 4shared talented designers described the energy which can be felt only in May…When it’s possible to breathe only the light hint at the atmosphere of warm and summer mornings. It’s only the start to wake up and feel your life in full! Because May is your energetic drink to start the summer…

May is…
…the first drop of the rain when a storm is brewing…
…the morning run when grass is dewing…
It’s like a young spirit full of joy,
Who is in hurry his life to enjoy.

May is…
My energetic drink to start the summer.
Like the inspiration of the talented drummer.
The moment of happiness on my way…
And the best time, where I want to stay.

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4shared team has great news for users! We at 4shared have been working on new astonishing features for you. No more e-mails with attached files, forget about USB-drives. Use the best way to share files with your friends via 4shared. All you need to do is to be a 4shared user and create your own list of friends at 4shared. This will help you to have your list of friends at hand and share content wherever you need without wasting time on looking for e-mail addresses. Let’s have a look how to save your and you friends’ precious time.

Make list of your friends from Facebook friends
Now you can make 4shared list of friends just in one click. No need to look for e-mails or logins of your friends to share files with them. Your lists of friends from social networks become a list of friends at 4shared. Follow these simple steps:
1. Go to Settings and click Invite friends

2. Login to your FB account.

3. Enjoy a full list of your friends from FB. You can select some of them and invite them to join 4shared.

4. When you click Invite, you’ll run a pop-up. Write a short message to your friend if you like and click Send.

What happens when you invite your friends to 4shared?

First of all, you’ll notice that your friends will have different statuses near their profiles (invite, invited, and pending). It means that
• those whom you invited will have Pending status,
• those, who have accepted your invitations will get Invited status,
• friends you haven’t invited will have Invite status

You can even share an invite link with people you want to become friends with. You can find the link at the left bottom of the page. Copy it and send to your friends via any other network or service. It’s also very useful for those who keep their own blogs. You can paste this link to your blog and invite your readers to share your content with them.

What is that for?

Inviting your friends to 4shared, you won’t waste your time on looking for them in the middle of nowhere. They will be saved in your list of friends at 4shared. Our team of developers created a really convenient way for you to use this list.

1. Click on Share button and run a popup.
2. Click Send
3. Click Add people button to check out the list of contacts

4. Choose friends from the created list

4shared Team hopes you like service updates and will use them with your friends. Stay tuned and meet more 4shared updates this spring.

Astonishing news for all 4shared fans! Get ready to meet the upcoming updates on 4shared. From now on use your 4shared account to organize slideshow evenings for friends! No need to save all your folders with high-quality photos on your USB-drive, or send e-mails to yourself just to show some interesting stuff at your friends’ place. Just upload them to your 4shared on web and show what you want as a presentation wherever you are: at home, in a pub or at work. And that’s not it! Check out more updates in this post.

Let’s take a look how it works! Imagine that you’re having a trip to Africa. Then you come back home with dozens of impressive photos and want to show them to your friends. Do you think it’s a nice idea to send them numerous folders with photos of you and maybe some monkey? We’ve got a better idea! Invite your friends at your place, cook something unusual (but exotic enough), and organize a slide show with a specific music on the background. 4shared will help you to make this evening very special!

4shared Slideshow

Upload all your folders with images from the trip to your 4shared account. Now, when you are done, go to your 4shared account on web and open the folder with photos.
1. Click on the Eye button on a photo to preview a file:

2. Click Play on the Slideshow button at the bottom left corner to start the slideshow.

✔ As you can see 4shared team designed a great new interface, which is easy-to-use. If you want to stop a slide show, just click Pause on the Slideshow button.

✔ You may stop the slide show and manually turn the pages. Just click on the right or left arrows to see previous or next image.

✔ Share the photo with friends immediately. All you need to do is to click Share button at the bottom of the preview page and choose the way of sharing.

✔ Download a photo you are watching at the moment. Click Download button at the bottom of the preview page.

Isn’t it awesome? Now let’s have a look how to view the properties of files.

Properties of files

To make your slideshow party even more enjoyable, turn on your favorite tracks on 4shared. You can check the properties of the audio files in details. Click on the arrow on the file you want to listen to and go to Properties:

Here we are, now you can check all the details of your file.

✔ Click on Update button to update your file. If the new file differs from the old one, you’ll get the notification that the names of files differ:

✔ Watch the description of your audio file and add the necessary information if you want:

✔ Check the audio info. You can view all the details you need.

✔ Get direct and download links to the file, check the localization and size. Here you can also check how many times this file was downloaded and the exact date of the last download:

✔ Click Make this file private so no one can see it on 4shared, except you.
✔ But if you like, you may add it to your personal page, so everyone on 4shared can get access to it.
✔ Don’t forget to click Save to save the changes you’ve made.

Tip: You can check your profile page if you go to Settings and click on Profile. Here you can change your profile picture, fill in the info about yourself, and change the profile settings. Also, here you can view your profile page.

You can edit and check the properties of any files, not only audio files, you host on 4shared, as we showed in the example. You can check the properties of each file you upload to your 4shared in a new easy-to-use interface.

There’s also news for US users only! 4shared cooperates with Amazon to prevent the copyright abuse. In case your audio file is banned, you’ll be redirected to Amazon page. Here you’ll have the ability to listen to the file and buy it.

Share photos with your friends and show them slideshows. Enjoy new updates in your account right now. 4shared prepared even more updates for you and your friends in the nearest future! Stay tuned and follow our updates.

4shared becomes even more secure! As you know, 4shared pays a lot of attention to users’ safety. Every user agrees not to violate the 4shared Terms of Use and Copyright Policy to keep their accounts safe. This post is a small guide to 4shared security system. It explains how to protect your account from being terminated. Let us have a short look at 4shared advantages and the reasons why do more than 11 million people around the world love 4shared and find it very useful.

✔Security

We at 4shared do care about the security of our service. Each of our users can be sure that nothing’s going to happen with their 4shared account. 4shared launched a global partnership program with world-known security McAfee anti-virus company in order to provide complete security of all files. And, 4shared has proven to be completely secure by one of the reputable web privacy solutions companies – TRUSTe.

✔ Wide range of secure products

4shared Team constantly informs you about new releases and features. 4shared products are reviewed by such prestigious websites like Softpedia, Softonic, Filecluster and others. We are constantly working on wide range of our products. Especially, it’s very important for us to improve the existing ones:

4shared FOR iPhone, 4shared FOR iPad, 4shared DESKTOP, 4shared FOR Symbian, 4shared FOR Android, 4shared FOR Blackberry, 4shared WEB VERSION

✔ Free and Premium Accounts

Unlike other file storages who can offer you more than 50 GB for free, but without appropriate security, 4shared offers Free 15 GB of storage space with high security. You can also get Premium account with 100 GB with a lot of features, which will help you to work and manage files and folders.

First of all, you should follow 4 simple 4shared rules:

1. To use 4shared service, you need to set up 4shared account (Free or Premium account);

2. Be more than 13 years old;

3. DO NOT post, transmit, upload to, distribute or publish:

- Illegal Customer Data;
- Violent Customer Data;
- Sexually explicit, pornographic Customer Data;
- Discriminatory and offensive Customer Data;
- Customer Data that violates any copyrights, right of privacy;
- Customer Data that violates any patents, trademarks;
- Viruses, corrupted data, or other destructive files;

4. DO NOT:

- modify, adapt, hack or emulate the Service;
- circumvent the security measures;
- promote any illegal activity;
- violate the rights of 4shared users.

Each 4shared user should learn 4shared Terms of Use and Copyright Policy before setting up the account. According to the Terms of Use, 4shared reserves the right to audit any materials that are suspected in violating 4shared Terms of Use, remove content, disable or terminate users’ accounts who infringe the copyright of others. In case 4shared administrators detect any the violation of the Terms of Use, your use of the Service will be terminated and you’ll meet such notification:

In case your account is terminated for the violation of 4shared Terms of Use, the access to 4shared service is no longer available for you. Be attentive and do not violate 4shared Terms of Use!

Astonishing news 4shared fans have been looking forward! Now you’re able to capture an interesting stuff from the web to your 4shared account in 2 clicks and then manage it as you want. Just install our brand-new extension Save to 4shared! It saves time and energy, believe it or not. Want to capture your friends’ photos or free images from the web right to your 4shared account? It’s no longer a problem for you! You can either save links to documents, audio and video. Are you intrigued yet?!

First of all, you need to use Chrome to install the 4shared extension. Save to 4shared is free and available for download from the Google Web Store.

• Click on the blue tab + ADD TO CHROME
• Check a standard box with the permission to add content to your 4shared account.
• Choose Add in order to proceed.
• After the extension has successfully installed the blue tab changes into ADDED TO CHROME.

Important: You can rate the Save to 4shared and leave your review.

SAVE TO 4SHARED BENEFITS:

+ FREE
+ User-friendly
+ Direct saving to your 4shared account
+ Fast

Now let’s have a look how to use Save to 4shared extension.

After installing the extension to your Chrome browser, you’ll able to capture images or links by right-clicking files and save them to your 4shared account.

Choose “save to 4shared” from the context menu, and then “save image to my 4shared” or “save link to my 4shared”.

After you save the file using the extension, you’ll see a saving progress. Don’t worry about any interruptions of the process; you can easily continue surfing the Internet.

When saving process is completed, you can click “Done” and go to your 4shared, where you can add your new file to a specific folder, edit, download to your computer, or share with others.

Keep in mind, that by installing the Save to 4shared extension, you agree to the 4shared Terms of Use and Copyright Policy.

Use Save to 4shared extension to capture everything you need to your 4shared account and don’t forget to leave your comments and rates for us.

Dear 4shared users! Valentine’s Day is a perfect time to express your feelings and share love with your beloved. We at 4shared have been collecting the warmest comments of our users to show you how important it is for us and how they inspire us. Love is a happy user for us…This love is worth a million – love of our dearest users…

4shared team wishes that this day will be memorable for you. Share the most precious feelings with your beloved. And for those, who are just looking for their soulmates – someone very special to enter your life and change it in so many ways for the better! Don’t forget to tell your nearest and dearest how precious they are and how much you care of them. Send them 4shared Valentine card to express your love:

Happy Valentine’s Day our dearest users! Remember that 4shared love is dedicated exactly to you!

4shared.com is one of the leading file storage services in the world and social security is a very important issue for us. 4shared has already established partnership and has proven to be completely safe by the reputable web privacy solutions company TRUSTe. Moreover, 4shared launched a partnership program with McAfee, world-known security company, to provide security for all user files. The next step for 4shared became the cooperation with Microsoft on the protection children from abuse.Unfortunately, nowadays online child pornography has become an epidemic. It is known that more than 100,000 websites are offering illegal child pornography. To keep kids from being victimized 4shared has implemented PhotoDNA technology on our network.

About PhotoDNA

PhotoDNA is a powerful technology created by Microsoft Research for detecting specific photos on the Internet. This technology was developed to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) to help protect children from all forms of abuse, find and remove all known images of child sexual exploitation from the Internet. 4shared implemented PhotoDNA to disrupt the ability to use the Internet to exploit children.

How PhotoDNA works

PhotoDNA was created to identify similarities between a certain photo and other images posted on the Internet. It’s known that a digital image can be edited thousands of times. It can be resized, copied, distributed and even broken into pieces. But PhotoDNA technology provides a way to create a unique photo signature, which is similar to a fingerprint. It remains consistent even after the photo has been edited or manipulated. If two pictures show similar DNA, PhotoDNA knows they are the same. PhotoDNA technology helps us to quickly find matches across large data-sets allowing us to find the needle in a haystack.

PhotoDNA technology helps us to rescue victims and bring abusers to justice. We at 4shared cooperate with Microsoft to protect children from the abuse and help to make the Internet safe.