Q I need some help sending videos to others. It seems that every video I try to send is too large. I've tried to use a program that works with Outlook to compress the e-mail attachment, but it's always still too large. Is there a solution other than uploading them onto YouTube or something similar?
A I suggest you try one of the services that exist to transmit files that are too large for e-mail. They typically work by having you upload the files to their servers, which, unlike YouTube, don't expose them to the world.
Seconds after you upload the files, your recipients receive an e-mail that includes a link to the file you uploaded. The e-mail is small because it includes only the link, not the file itself. The recipient clicks on the link, and the file is downloaded to his or her computer.
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The service I use for this is called YouSendIt, and can be accessed at yousendit.com. It works in all the major Web browsers, and on both Windows and Macintosh computers. The company has a free plan that covers files of up to 100 megabytes in size, and allows each file to be downloaded up to 100 times, or up to a gigabyte of total downloads each month. For $10 a month, you get a maximum file size of 2 gigabytes, 500 downloads per file, and a monthly maximum limit of 40 gigabytes.
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