If you think that Dropbox or SkyDrive are too difficult to use, Pipe might be just the tool for you. The peer-to-peer file transfer web app, first announced last year, is set to be available to the public for the first time, today.

Unlike other cloud-based file sharing tools, Pipe doesn’t use any online servers for sharing files. Instead, the web application – which is used as a Facebook app – establishes a direct peer-to-peer connection between the file sender and the file recipient, both of which have to be friends on Facebook. The file transfer happens in real time: the person you send the file to gets a message, accepts the file, and a pipe is established to transfer the file from one user to the other, over a secure connection. Pipe’s front end uses an Adobe Flash component, which lets users simply drag and drop the files they want to share. Files can be up to 1GB in size, though you’d probably not want to transfer anything that hefty over a South African internet connection.

If your buddy’s offline when you try send a file Pipe will store files up to 100MB in size in an online locker.

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