Almost all email services have a limit on the the maximum size of files that you can send a attachments. For instance, in Gmail this limit is 20MB.

Filemail.com is a free service that lets you send large files to anyone with an email address. With the free service you can send files as large as 2GB. Just fill in the recepient’s and your email addresses, type in your message and upload the file.

Here is how it works.

1. First, the files you want to send are uploaded to one of filemail.com servers.
2. A small e-mail is delivered to the recipients, containing a short message from you and a hyperlink where the files can be downloaded.
3. The recipients click the hyperlink in the e-mail, and are taken to the download page.After the specified number of days/number of downloads, the files are removed completely from the servers.

The best part is, you don’t even have to register yourselves to use the service.

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If you shop online frequently and spend considerable time comparing the price of a products across different sites then you would love PriceAdvance.

PriceAdvance is a browser plugin that fetches the price from several other sites when you are on a product page in one of the supported merchant sites. Usage is extremely simple. Just install the plugin and you are up and running. Just go to the product page in one of the sites and the plugin automatically displays a list of merchants and prices on the top left of your browser. Clicking on any of the price in the list takes you to the product page in that Merchant site.

Definitely saves you time and effort. The plugin is available both for IE7 and Firefox.

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Social network Facebook announced Friday the debut of Facebook Connect, a new technology for members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites. It makes the company the latest major Web site to embrace the concept of data portability. Continue Reading…

Never leave the key board

Using keyboard shortcuts to choose options is definitely faster than reaching out for the mouse everytime. Office 2007 makes it easy. Tap the Alt key while in any Office 2007 application and the ribbon is instantly covered in small letters indicating the keystrokes. Type the for the different ribbon tabs (H for Home, N for Insert etc) to access individual ribbon controls and more key shortcuts. Continue Reading…

• Walletproof.com – A quick and easy to use tool that enables you to track your spending, and set monthly budgets for yourself.
• luminotes.com – Luminotes is a WYSIWYG personal wiki notebook for organizing your notes and ideas. You don’t have to use any special markup codes or install any software. You simply start typing.
• kidmondo.com – Kidmondo is a comprehensive online baby journal. It’s a safe, secure way for parents and caregivers to chronicle their child’s life and share it with friends and family.
• cliqck.com – At Cliqck you can share with everyone what you buy, plus your thoughts about it. Track what your friends are buying and find people with similar interests.
• kickplay.com – Kickplay is a unique place to create personalized games with your own images and sounds. You can play, make and share all your favorite games in one place.

FreeTellaFriend.com is a free service that lets you add a ‘Tell a Friend’ button to your blog posts or website articles.

FreeTellaFriend is actually three different functionalities rolled into one – Sharing your post through email, Sharing it on a bookmarking site and Bookmarking the post in their browser. Continue Reading…

If you like Physics then you need to check this out. The site belongs to the Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto and is called Upscale, acronym for Undergraduate Physics Students’ Computing and Learning Environment.

Just go to the above link and you will find lots of animations illustrating the basic laws and concepts in Physics. All these animations have been created with Adobe Flash and are pretty small in size. The animations are sorted by categories like Classical Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism etc.

Here is one of the animations.

It is definitely easier to understand a concept when you actually see it visually, even if it is just an animation, than just reading them in words.

Onelook.com is a site that helps you find definitions, translations and stuff like that. It also has this tool called Reverse Dictionary, which I find really interesting.

The Reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the “Find words” button. In most cases you’ll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first. Continue Reading…

Adding your own destinations to the ‘Send To’ context menu in Windows XP is quite easy. While it isn’t too difficult to do the same in Windows Vista, it is a little different. Here is how to do it in Vista.

Open the Control Panel, then Folder Options, then move to the View tab and select the option labelled ‘Show hidden files and folders’ and click OK. Now click Start, Computer, and open the C drive. Open the folder called users, then the one with your user name and navigate through the folders AppData, Roaming, Microsoft, Windows and finally SendTo. Add any shortcuts you want in the Send To menu to this folder.