Large e-mail attachments have long been the preserve of things like ‘hilarious’ pictures of animals wearing clothes or short video clips depicting an amusing mishap befalling an unfortunate athlete. However, as a means of transferring large files from one person to another, the format has always been hampered by size caps imposed by webmail providers and SMTP servers.
Sending an album of music or anything over a couple of minutes of video footage has always been a no-no, but luckily things are changing thanks to an app which allows you to send files of up to 1Gb (yes, you read it right) via email. Pando automatically converts your attachments into a small file that your friend or relative can simply open to download the original file from Pando or elsewhere. Now Pando is offering plug-ins to work with most Web-based mail services, which traditionally often have a limit of around 10Mb, meaning you can treat your buddies to that hour-long movie of you wallpapering the bathroom. Until now it’s only been available as an Outlook add-on.
Although it’s still in Beta form, the application is pretty stable and a recent update has made it even quicker for users to connect with the service. As a result, it provides a fast and reliable alternative to burning disks and posting them or uploading files to an FTP site.
Computers often get a bad press when it comes to health. How often are we subjected to health and safety rants about the dangers of impaired vision or repetitive strain injury that PCs can cause? While this may be true in certain cases, it’s always refreshing to see developers coming up with solutions that can actually improve your health. We recently came across an ingenious application designed to alleviate the common, yet serious problem of tinnitus, called 
Bittorrent and Gnutella might be hogging the headlines of the peer to peer (P2P) world, but close behind comes Ares, a successful P2P application that boasts of having its own decentralized network and a simple, quick access interface. Ares spun-off from Gnutella in 2002, and since then has been building a strong and dedicated community of users.
Free WMA MP3 Converter transforms annoying WMA audio files to Mp3 format so you can play them in iTunes. You’ll appreciate how easy it is to search for WMA files, select the bitrate, one of the 3 sample rates available and start converting. The whole process is fairly quick and is presented to you in a little pop up window, which can be minimized to tray. The tag editor is where you can add information such as title, artist or genre. You can batch convert as many files as you want. Once the operation is complete you can check file size and duration of the file and make sure the conversion has been successful.