ResourceShelf has posted a set of services which allow you to email large files. This is a common problem with email services — most have a limit for sending attachments. Tom Merritt of CNET’s Quick Tips gives us a few more you can try:
YouSendIt.com
DropLoad.com - this was down when I checked it
TransferBigFiles.com
zUpload.com
MegaUpload.com
For those of you who use Gmail on a regular basis, you should enjoy this article from Google Blogoscoped. The title says it all — “What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?“ Enjoy!
Merlin Mann, creator of 43 Folders, did a presentation for Google on getting your inbox to zero. It’s based on the basic process of dealing with each email as you see it:
Delete/Archive
Delegate
Respond
Defer
Do
He has some great tips on not letting email run your life. If you’re looking for a New Year’s resolution, this would [...]
There was a time when most of the email sent and received was in plain text. Now, however, you can change fonts and colors, add backgrounds and even graphics. This has led to email that is very much like reading web pages. The problem with this is the same problem we’ve had with web pages [...]
We’ve been using email for a very long time. It seems as if we should have gotten the art of writing an email message down to a fine art. However, Wired Magazine has some good reminders for those of us that need quick responses:
Brevity — The shorter it is, the more likely it will be [...]
From the Center for Democracy & Technology:
A federal appeals court has ruled that an ordinary email user has a reasonable expectation of privacy — and thus a Constitutional privacy right — in email stored with an ISP. This means that the government either obtain a search warrant based on probable cause to seize such email [...]
In May, Yahoo Mail will provide unlimited storage for their users. The switch from its current limit of 1gb to unlimited should take approximately one month. Only two countries — China and Japan — are excluded at this point.
Yahoo will also be considering its storage limits for Flickr.
[from PCMag.com]
