How to Send a Large Attachment

By Luqmaan

Disk space, connectivity and file sharing are some of the things we tend to take advantage of, today communication is easier than ever, memory prices have plummeted over the years, internet speeds are through the roof. File sharing has taught as that there is room for everyone in this world, even cheap freeloaders, it has also given desperate companies like the RIAA an additional revenue stream (but that’s a whole different topic).

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Surprisingly, with all the above advancements, one of the things that reminds us that there are indeed limits are email attachments. IMO, it still makes me wonder why there’s a such a limited cap on attachments. Gmail allows only attachments of size 25MB or less (other popular services like Yahoo and Live are similar), by today’s standards that’s hardly enough. With the abundance of memory, virtually all file types are more detailed and occupy more memory so it is possible to find yourself struggling to deal with the 25MB attachment limit every once in a while.

That’s where transferbigfiles.com comes in. Transfer Big Files (self explanatory but still…) is a simple service that lets you upload files of up to 1GB in size and mail it to a recipient. The file will be uploaded to one of their servers and a direct link to download the file will be emailed to the recipient, while the idea is quite ordinary, it is a very handy one indeed and deserves a bookmark somewhere on your browser just in case. There are a number of similar services but transferbigfiles.com is sufficient and gets the job done.

Of course, if there any alternatives you swear by feel free to leave a comment.

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