When we originally launched MediaFire in 2006, we aimed to provide online users with a simple solution for storing and sharing their files online. We envisioned a time where creative people would use the web to easily collaborate and share their content directly with their friends, family, and colleagues around the world.

Seven years later, we have become one of the biggest names in online storage, and we have you to thank for it! We are inspired every day by the powerful success stories of artists, photographers and creative people like you that use MediaFire to share and create amazing digital content.

Today, we are pleased to bring native video and music streaming support to MediaFire, enabling users to play their favorite MediaFire media directly through our Android, iOS, and Web interfaces.

For a limited time, in order to thank our loyal customers, MediaFire is offering fifty-percent discounts on all first-time purchases of our Pro and Business storage plans! Starting at $2.49 per month for 100 gigs of online storage.

To sign up or upgrade your MediaFire account, visit: https://www.mediafire.com/upgrade/#space

In order to showcase our new media streaming support, we have put together a special MediaFire “sampler” featuring music, video, and photo content created and shared by some of our favorite artists, including the M Machine, David Heartbreak, Hrvrd, Menage Quad, and others. New MediaFire users can access this content through the “sample” folder located within their  account.

Existing users can stream and download the summer 2013 sampler by visiting:          http://www.mediafire.com/folder/zvq7ms92kfn91/MediaFire_2013_Summer_Sampler

MediaFire’s New Streaming Video Player, Featuring the M Machine’s Tiny Anthem

Over the past few months, we have have seen incredible user growth, due to the incredible success of our free Android application, and we look forward to launching several new and exciting products and features over the next few weeks.

Stay tuned, and keep creating!

Brent

Link to today’s press release and screenshots:  http://www.mediafire.com/folder/3ws9srcwsfqmo/Streaming_Playback_Update_Press_Kit

-Have a MediaFire story to share with us on this special occasion? Send me an email at brent@mediafire.com

Several members of our team here at MediaFire have brought in delicious home-cooked pies for the Pi Day Pie Competition. Congratulations to Maria who got the first place for her fancy Black-bottom pecan cheesecake! Yummy!

Also, we had quite a few participants in the Pi Reciting contest, one of them reciting in Chinese! Everyone did very well, but the winner today is Rabie who recited a hundred digits of Pi with his eyes closed, – literally! Good job, Rabie!

We all had a great time tasting so many varieties of pie and voting for the ones we liked most, cheering for our Pi reciting contestants, and just spending time together. We sure are looking forward to the next Pi Day!

And how are you celebrating  Pi Day? Don’t forget to tell us in a comment below!

The MediaFire Team

This was an epic battle of Web vs. Desktop; conquering one field after another, each team fought the best they could for the victory. Winning some and losing some, the MediaFire team members were leaving the battle field with heated discussions after each game round trying to work out a better strategy for the next one.

In the end there was a lot of paint all over everyone, – that’s how you know it was a good game! After being enemies for a few hours, the MediaFire developers went back to being a team again by the end of the day.

To experience all this, and much more – join us today!

The MediaFire Team

We’re thrilled to introduce a brand new design: the interface has been cleaned up and streamlined, and the overall color scheme is optimized to let you focus better on your content. You can still easily navigate all your files on your “My Files” page, add new ones, view them or collaborate – everything works as usual, except much cleaner and ready for the future!

Got pictures in your account? Go ahead and view them in our sleek new Photo Viewer! The dark color scheme creates a great contrast that makes your photo viewing experience much more sophisticated. Access all the photo viewing modes and options on the bottom of the page, or share, download, or save images to your MediaFire account (if shared with you by someone else) by clicking the button in the right top corner. Also, you can get this basic functionality by right clicking on the image being currently viewed.

We’ve also completely redesign the shared spreadsheet viewer to quickly and easily preview spreadsheet files. The new viewer supports all formulas, formatting and even graphs. Both the document viewer and the spreadsheet viewer are using a much more neutral palette helping you focus on the content you’re working on.

To retain the consistent look throughout the entire website, MediaFire has also redesigned the interface for editing files.

And one more little morsel of exciting news for all those of you who code: MediaFire now has a text and source code viewer and editor! View all text and source code file types, edit them, and share them in a new view specifically designed to emulate the look and feel of a fully featured text and code editor.

We hope this update makes your experience with MediaFire much more pleasant! We would like to thank every member of our MediaFire team who worked hard on this release, let us know how we did!

Stay tuned because there’s a lot more great stuff to come!

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The MediaFire Team

This was a long and heated battle; both contestants demonstrated the highest level, and each gave it their best shot – literally! Everyone here at MediaFire gathered around the Ping-Pong table last Friday to cheer for our two best players, as well as to grab some delicious real Texas BBQ!

A special thanks goes to Jenifer for preparing those original DIY trophies, to Mike for being the referee of the Tournament, and of course to MediaFire for providing us with everything necessary for this event! We all had a great time, and we sure are looking forward to the next Ping-Pong-a-thon!

And here’s everyone who participated in this 2013 Ping-Pong-a-thon (except for Veronica who was the photographer for the event).

Want to become a part of the MediaFire team, and see yourself among these happy faces? Then don’t hesitate to stop by at our jobs page, and apply today!

The MediaFire Team

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

The MediaFire Team

While it makes us happy to know that our users are no longer deprived of MediaFire on their Android devices, the feedback we received also gives us great starting points to focus on improving our apps and adding your most requested features in the near future. As always, feel free to give us more ideas for what you’d like to see in the next version of our iPhone and Android apps in the comments!

Here are some of the great accolades we’re honored to receive from around the web:

“MediaFire is offering 50GB of free cloud storage, so if you’re an avid cloud-sharer, this is an app you don’t want to pass up”.

“No, really: 50 gigabytes”. “MediaFire remains a great option for sharing large files with others, accessing your data across multiple devices, collaborating on documents, and creating backups of non-critical files”.

“…since you have 50GB of free space, you don’t have to make hard decisions of which files you’re uploading to the app for easy access”.

“MediaFire will provide Android users with 50GB of free storage, boasting that users will never have to worry about running out of space”.

“While most other services would only offer that much after a small fee, MediaFire prides itself on leniency, affordability and ease of use, and not having to worry about how many megabytes or gigabytes you have left goes a long way toward a less stressful user experience”.

Again, thanks for all the great feedback! Now that MediaFire for Android has joined our iPhone app and our desktop Express app for Windows, Mac, and Linux, we’re starting to round out our software products and getting ready to take them someplace really exciting.

Stay tuned!

The MediaFire Team

There is more than one way to create a gallery. The easiest one is to simply left click on the image file on your “My Files” page, and you will be immediately taken to an image gallery of all the pictures in that folder.

To create a gallery of a few specific images, just select the pictures you want to include in the gallery on your “My Files” page, then right click and select “View Selected”. The images of your choice will appear in the gallery in a new tab or a new window.

Once you’ve created a gallery, you will find 3 viewing modes on the top of the page (see below).

• Film Strip mode displays the image of your selection in a big size with all other images from that folder appearing on the right side as a film-strip. You can easily jump to other pictures from the same folder just by scrolling down with your mouse. You can also do that by clicking the arrows in the top right corner, or by using keyboard shortcuts (Up/Left key for a previous photo and Down/Right key for next photo).

• Single Image mode displays only one image per page, however you are still free to switch to other images by using the above mentioned keyboard shortcuts.

In both the Film Strip and Single Image modes it is possible to view images in 3 different sizes – Auto, Original and Full screen, – or zoom in and zoom out as much as you need.

You can also rotate pictures in the gallery by using the circular arrows to the left from the zooming options.

In Full Screen mode, you can navigate the folder images with the Up/Down/Left/Right keys, or the arrows displayed on both sides of the screen, and exit by simply pressing Esc or clicking the “X” in the top right corner.

• Gallery mode shows all of the pictures from the folder of your selection as thumbnails (you can choose between a small, medium, or a large size). From there you can left click of any image and it will be opened in the default Film Strip mode.

Your images will be opened in Film Strip mode by default, but you can switch to either of the other 2 modes in the upper right corner of the image gallery at any time (see first screenshot).

Apart from image-related functions, the gallery also gives you some basic file functionality. Just right click on the main image or any image from the folder in the film strip on the right side, and you will get the menu that offers you to download, share, rename, describe or delete the image. There are also large Share and Download buttons in the top right corner.

You can also work with multiple images in the gallery. Simply hold the Ctrl key on Windows and Linux, or the Command key on OSX and select every image that you click on. If you have lots of images to work with, it could be helpful to select the images you need using the Shift key: by holding it, you can select all the images below the image where you started up to the image that you next click on the right side of the Gallery in the Film Strip mode. And once you’ve selected all the images you needed, just right click on either of them to download them, share them or delete them (downloading multiple files is available for users with Personal, Professional and Business Accounts).

And finally, you get 2 functions for the entire folder of your choice in the image gallery: to share it or to download it as one file (this last feature is available for Personal, Professional and Business accounts). You’ll find those two options in the bottom right corner in the Film Strip mode, or the top right corner in Gallery mode.

We hope you enjoy working with pictures using MediaFire image gallery just like everything else on MediaFire! Don’t forget to tell us what you think and share this blog post with your friends.

Veronica and The MediaFire Team

- The MediaFire Team

All across the globe, you will always find a family that stays in touch by sharing photos through MediaFire, a student who keeps all their school work on MediaFire and collaborates on team projects with our help, an aspiring musician or a writer who first bring their creations to the world, or a successful business that backs up all their important files with us. We’re glad to bring MediaFire to you every day and we always try our best to improve our service even further. We truly appreciate your feedback at all times, as your support is greatest one motivation! Here are just a few of the warm words that we’ve heard from you recently:

Thank you all for your kind words, we’ll definitely keep working hard to continue bringing you a better MediaFire.  Go ahead and tell us what MediaFire means for you!

The MediaFire Team