We are glad to announce our new feature – WebDav. It is a convenient way to store and retrieve files between your computer and your 4shared account. WebDav is an easy way to directly access online files without the need to use the web browser interface. It allows you to treat your 4shared account like a regular folder on Windows Explorer similar to My Documents on a PC. Collaborating WebDav and 4shared allows you to drag/drop, cut-n-paste files between your PC and your 4shared account, and directly edit files on your account from your Desktop! For more information please take a look at our FAQ
What is WebDav? How can I use a WebDAV client to connect to my account?

We are glad to announce that we have added SSL encryption feature to enable secure file transfer, communications and interactions for 4shared premium members. 128-bit SSL encryption approach we have introduced recently meets the highest standard in the Internet security industry for Web site authentication. Specifically, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard protocol for data transfer security. It sets an encrypted link between 4shared server and your browser. Once the link is established all communication between 4shared server and your browser will remain confidential. To take advantage of this new 4shared feature, please log into your 4shared account, go to the ‘Settings’ page and select the ‘Secure SSL data transfer’ checkbox.

If you love music and would like to listen to your favorite songs while browsing 4shared pages, we have really great news for you! Now you can create an unlimited number of music playlists, listen to them online and share them with others. This new feature lets you generate a playlist to listen to all audio files from a shared folder online. As you get to an audio file download page, take a look at the right area next to the number of downloads. In case the folder is shared you will be able to see the ‘Play all mp3s from the folder’ option there. Just click on it to enjoy beautiful music our new feature. By any chance, you might have any suggestions on how we can improve the new functionality. Of course, we are eager to hear your thoughs and make 4shared even more handy! Just drop us a line to support@4shared.com to share your ideas with our Technical Support Team. Thanks in advance!

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new tool on 4shared! A lot of folks have been reaching out and asking if we can add Slideshow to the features set for photo sharing. And here we are – the tool has already been implemented on 4shared! It is very easy to use feature to generate a slideshow and view all images from a shared folder. As you get to an image download page, take a look at the top right area next to the image. In case the folder is shared, you can see the shared folder name, ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ images in the folder as well as ‘View Album’ and ‘Slideshow’ links. Click ‘Slideshow’ to try out the new functionality and let us know if you like it. By the way, there’s lots more great content – take your time to explore 4shared and enjoy it!

We are proud to announce that 4shared has entered Alexa top 100 ranking. To be more exact, it has been three months since 4shared entered top 100 and there is no doubt that we are headed in the right direction. 4shared is growing very quickly and getting more than 2 million users daily!

We would like to thank all our users who spread our service to the world and make their suggestions on how to make it even better. We really appreciate your membership and your loyalty.

Yippee! We did it! We are happy to announce that our brand-new application is up and running. It encapsulates many useful features available with most popular download managers as well as your ideas as to how to improve 4shared. It was designed to be as user-friendly and intuitive as possible. It also includes a nice set of new features and settings added to the prominent 4shared Uploader functionality. You will like it for sure.

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We keep on improving 4shared in order to maintain the best possible performance. We added a few new features last night and would like to keep you updated.

First, we decided to separate some settings which previously could be found on ‘My account’ page. If you click the ‘My Account’ icon now, you will be able to view your account general info, statistics, affiliate program details and upgrade your account. All other settings and preferences for your account from now on are to be adjusted on ‘Settings’ page. To change your preferences for password, themes, comments and public profile, please click the ‘Settings’ icon on your account toolbar.

Second, we added new ‘Subdomains’ tab to ‘Settings’ page. On this tab you can easily figure out how many subdomains you currently use and folders names where to subdomains are assigned. This is especially useful for our premium users now when 100 subdomain names are availabe with our new ‘Premium’ subscription. We are confident that you will be delightfully surprised when you see our latest innovations as to the feature. And of course we are sure this is another reason for our free users to consider upgrading their account to ‘Premium’.

We invite you to play around with the new features and see how things work. Any feedback or ideas on the improvements would be appreciated.

We are proud to announce that 4shared keeps on growing. Due to the massive growth of 4shared, we had to make some changes to avoid performance problems in the future. In an effort to provide you with the best possible service we have moved our site to a new hosting provider WebaZilla that can accomodate our quickly expanding bandwith requirements. Not only this means more resources available for the site and the systems we run but also better download speed and quality for our users. In a nutshell, this will save time for our users and ensure stable 4shared performance.

As always, please let us know if there is something we can do to make this even better.

We have introduced an ‘Add to my account’ option on file download pages recently. This feature lets you add a file to your virtual drive in no time. That is, in case a user would like to download a file and then upload it to his/her virtual drive, now he/she can do that without downloading file to his/her computer. However, this action can be accomplished only for the files which are allowed to be downloaded by their publisher.

Some users of our service requested improvement for the feature and we did take this into account. So, the option has been modified a bit. File publishers now can decide whether they want this feature to be available on file download pages. In other words, you can adjust settings for your account in a way that will disable the ‘Add to my account’ on your files’ option download pages.

In case you would like to disable the option, please
1. log into your account;
2. click on the ‘My account’ icon at the top right-hand corner of the screen;
3. get to the ‘Settings’ tab;
4. clear the ‘Allow others to add my files to their accounts’ checkbox
5. click on the ‘Save changes’ button on the bottom.

We would like to say ‘Thanks a bunch’ to all our users who gave us their feedback concerning the new feature. We really appreciate your desire to make our service better!

“2/3 of promotion is motion.”

You know, many 4shared community members share their interest, passions or creations along with their files.  Have you ever thought of promoting your creations online? 4shared would like to help you promote your photos,  videos, software or any other creations which you consider are worth promoting for free. Really, you get chance to introduce your files to incredibly large and savvy 4shared community. Come on, tell the world who you are!

We are eager to consider things such as your stories, artwork, photos, music, kids videos, flash files,  presentations with business colleagues, party or vacation photos with friends, web research and more. Just upload your file to your virtual drive and provide us with link to it! Please write a short description about yourself and your file, include a link to it and send your e-mail to promote@4shared.com. Our team of  professionals is looking forward to getting your applications!