Backup And Share Your Files With Ease

Sending big files used to be a hassle. The wired world’s needs to exchange more digital photographs, movies, music, and other large files sometime seem to outrun the network’s limits. Sometimes media files or collections run to hundreds of megabytes, or even over a gigabyte.

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There are many services which allow you to upload files, and then share them with help of a link(which you will have to save and keep with care) such as rapidshare, but these site have conditions like the expiry of file within 30 or 60 days if not accessed. A few examples are: http://www.sendthisfile.com, http://www.megashares.com, http://s1.massmirror.com, http://www2.bigupload.com, http://www.yousendit.com

If you want a sharing and file sharing service both together at ease, then here is what I have got for you!

Mediamax.com gives you free online storage for 25 GBs!! It gives us a private, secure place to upload, share, store access and share our personal videos, photos, movies, music, and files. everything is organised in it and there is different place for all kinds of files such as pictures, music, videos(which you can even stream without downloading). We can access our files from anywhere with a browser.

There is no expiry date for files which remain unused and no download or upload limit, any number for files. After all it's 25 Gbs.

That was all about storing files, now lets talk about sharing them. In Mediamax, if you want to share any file personally, than you can just email the link of the file from within the interface. You can set the expiry date for the link as well as put a password on it.

Some people like sharing files in social networks like orkut. For this service, what you can do it is just click and drag the file in the Hosted folder and you will get a link displayed in front of it. Just copy the link and paste is wherever you want and anyone can download it from there. The link will end straightaway with the file extension so there will be a direct download.

One more nice feature is that you can send files to your friends if they have a mediamax account, you just need there username. Got to the homepage, click "Upload files to MediaMax users". For this feature you don't even need a account with the site

Check out MediaMax at http://www.mediamax.com/

Configure Outlook for Gmail Account Use

One of the really nice things about Outlook 2007 is the way it can automatically configure email accounts at many of the major services. Gmail is one of those services. Compare the instructions for automatically configuring a Gmail account in Outlook 2007 to those further down the page for earlier versions. Nine steps instead of 19. That's a major reduction in the work required to configure Outlook for Gmail.

Configuring Outlook 2007 for Gmail Account Use

If you are using Outlook 2007, follow these steps to configure Outlook for Gmail account use:

In the Outlook main menu, click Tools, then Account Settings. This opens the Account Settings dialog box.

Click New to launch the Add New E-mail Account wizard.

On the Choose E-mail Service screen, select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP, then click Next.

Enter your Gmail account information here for Outlook 2007.

On the Auto Account Setup screen, enter your name (as you want it to appear in the From field of messages) into the Your Name field.

Enter your full Gmail email address, which is your username followed by "@gmail.com", in the E-mail Address field.

Enter your Gmail password in the Password field.

Enter your Gmail password again in the Retype Password field, then click Next.

Outlook connects to the Gmail servers, and assuming you entered your account information correctly, after a moment it displays the Congratulations! screen.

Click Finish. Your Gmail account is configured.

That's the last step in the procedure to configure Outlook for Gmail. Now you can use the CTRL-1 keyboard shortcut to go to the Mail view.

Next press F9 to send and receive all mail. This downloads messages from Gmail. Seeing them in the Inbox will show that you were able to successfully configure Gmail as an Outlook email account.

Configuring Outlook 2003 or XP for Gmail Account Use

If you are not using Outlook 2007, follow these steps to configure Outlook for Gmail account use:

In the Outlook main menu, click Tools, then E-mail Accounts. This launches the E-mail Accounts wizard.

Select Add a new e-mail account, then click Next.

Select POP3, then click Next.

Enter your Gmail account information here for Outlook 2003.

Enter your name (as you want it to appear in the From field of messages) into the Your Name field.

Enter your full Gmail email address, which is your username followed by "@gmail.com", in the E-mail Address field.

Enter your Gmail username in the User Name field.

Enter your Gmail password in the Password field.

Enter "pop.gmail.com" in the Incoming mail server (POP3) field.

Enter "smtp.gmail.com" in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.

Click More Settings to open the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.

Click the Outgoing Server tab.

Set the My outgoing server requires authentication check box.

Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.

Click the Advanced tab.

Under Incoming server (POP3), set the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) check box.

Under Outgoing server (SMTP), set the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) check box.

Change the number in the Outgoing server (SMTP) field to 465, then click OK.

Click Test Account Settings. After a moment you should see a message that says all tests were completed successfully. If not, go back to the start of this procedure and check your work.

Once you see the success message, click Next then Finish.

That's the last step in the procedure to configure Outlook for Gmail. Now you can use the CTRL-1 keyboard shortcut to go to the Mail view.

Next press F9 to send and receive all mail. This downloads messages from Gmail. Seeing them in the Inbox will show that you were able to successfully configure Gmail as an Outlook email account.

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