How many of you have said “This is a great picture; I have to send it to Mom”? Or a video clip or some other large file? Only to find when you tried to send it, your email, whether it’s Gmail, Hotmail, AOL or whatever, simply would not allow it. Or even worse, it would allow it, but whoever you sent it to couldn’t download it because of limits on his or her end? Frustrating, eh? Pando Networks thinks they have the answer.
“Everybody has experienced problems of, ‘I want to send something but it’s too large to send by e-mail,’” said Robert Levitan, Pando’s chief executive.With Pando, files larger than a specified size are automatically converted. A copy of the file is sent to Pando’s servers, and only a small attachment gets sent to the recipient, who must have or obtain the free software from Pando. Source: MSNBC
Pando 1.2 Beta has plugins that work with some web-based mail services,including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and Hotmail … but you have to use Internet Explorer and Windows (no Firefox!?). There are standalone apps for Mac and Windows, and also a plug-in for Outlook. It will also allow you to send 1GB files.
It still doesn’t fix my real problem though … the fact that either DSL or cable doesn’t upload as fast as it downloads!
