If you don??™t have
web space, or if your ISP restricts the types or size of files you can upload to
it, try a site like YouSendIt (http://www.yousendit.com/). You can upload any
type of file (up to 100 Mb in size) to YouSendIt??™s servers, and they??™ll automatically
email your recipients a link to your files. The service is free, but
your files are deleted after 7 days or 25 downloads, whichever occurs first.
Other sites, like MegaUpload (http://megaupload.com/) and RapidShare
(http://rapidshare.com/) tend to permit more downloads, but the countdown
timers and less-than-wholesome advertising that accompanies them
may put off some of your more prudish associates.
Email Long URLs
Ahh, the evils of word wrap. The basic terminal display used to read early
email messages was only 80 characters wide, and while few people still use
terminals to read email, the standard lives on. Today, if you send someone a
message with a long URL, it??™ll be broken apart by his or her email program
to conform to that 30-year-old standard.
Since email vendors have yet to fix this glitch, and your recipients will likely
have no idea what to do when they receive your message with pieces of a
URL spanning several lines, shrink the URL before you send it. For example,
TinyURL (http://tinyurl.com/), can take any horrendously long URL,
such as:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.826870,-122.422682&spn=0.
007197,0.009112&t=k&hl=en
and turn it into a tidy, easy-to-email URL like this:
http://tinyurl.
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