For every problem there is a solution for it. Here we have only 25MB or a maximum of 50 MB with an email service provider. You have to do two things to send large files.

Method-1:  You can split the big file into pieces, each having file size less than the allowable limit. You can send only by one and ask the receiver to collect and join them. If it is images, or a lot of small documents, you can adapt this method. You can compress the files and split the compressed files in to pieces and send them to someone and ask him to merge the Zip files and to un-compress to view it. You can use a file compression utility like WinZip to compress and spit zipped files. Winzip helps you to easily create Zip files (.zip or .zipx) that are split into smaller pieces of a size that you specify. You can use the split Zip feature to break large files into smaller pieces that can be downloaded separately.
You can use a free compression tool like 7-Zip to do it.

Most of the mail services have a file storing solution attached with it. In the case of Gmail, Google Drive is there, for Outlook, OneDrive is there. There is also a dropbox solution is there. As a free user, you have 15 GB of free storage to use across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Need more space you can buy more space on Google drive. Onedrive is also offering 5GB space for free account, you can buy more, say 50Gb at $1.99/month.  Dropbox Basic account is free and includes 2 GB of space. Dropbox Plus is a paid subscription that includes 1 TB of space and additional features  at $8.25/month.

You can use large file sharing services to send large files. Some of the services are WeTransfer, DropSend, Sendspace, Xender, etc.  Wetransfer (https://wetransfer.com/)offers 2Gb space with free account, you can purchase a 20GB space with additional cost.  Plustransfer (https://www.plustransfer.com/) offers 5Gb with free account. Drop send (http://www.dropsend.com/)free version (Lite) offers 4GB space, but a restriction of 5 sends per month with free account. The basic version offers 8GB space and 15 send per month at the cost of 5$/month. They are claiming AES encryption and other security features with the storage space. Box (https://www.box.com)offers 10GB storage with 250MB file upload limit with the free version. You can also use hightail.com to send large files, but the free version is offering only 250MB. Please read top 5 online file sharing services from here to know the top online file sharing services.

In this contest keeping a clutter free inbox is dandling task. There are several rule of thumbs that you want to follow to keep your inbox from junk messages. The first thing is that do the necessary action. If you receive a new email inbox, first check the message, if it needs a reply then do it right and delete the message. If it is a junk mail delete it directly. If it is an important one, use the flag or star option in email inbox to mark it as an important message. If an email requires an action from another person or is better suited to be handled by another person, then forward it to them. If you can’t respond to it immediately or if it needs further actions, then you should schedule it. The best ting is, every time you read an email, decide if the information is important or relevant to you, If not, simply delete it. There are several ways to organize emails in different folders. You can easily make rules in your inbox and automatically directing different emails into different folders. Learn the technique of using ‘Labels’ and ‘Folders’ in your inbox. ‘Filters’ are the best way to filter email messages based on interest and work. Set appropriate filters and arrange your inbox folders accordingly. You can also build special folders in which you can keep important emails. Use the junk mail settings to filter spam emails. Most of the good email providers like Gmail has a better spam filtering system, which works 99% perfectly. You can add frequently used junk mail words to filter it and end it spam folder.

Another thing is that we are all having one or more social networking accounts. These accounts sends tons of messages based on user activity. You will get messages when you get a friend invitation or someone comment on your friends photo!  You can turn off unnecessary notifications from Twitter ,
Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+,  YouTube, etc. You can check for similar options in other social networking sites to turn off unnecessary notifications. If you are subscribing RSS subscriptions from lot of services, unsubscribe the newsletters that you’re not reading, don’t intent to read-those newsletters because of only for registering or downloading some files from a site. It is necessary to unsubscribe from any unwanted newsletters you haven’t been reading and unwanted notifications from social network sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. Remember to disable all notifications about posts made on your social network walls, friends comments, new friends or followers, etc.

The best ting is that most of the email programs and email services have rules, filter, or label system that enables you to automatically move and organize incoming emails. You can highlight (flag or star) or set priority to certain email addresses. Most of us getting a lot of spam emails in each day,check the messages filter out common spam words that get into your inbox and delete the emails never keep or reply to those spam emails, delete it.   Don’t reply to automatic replies (most of the time email address is like noreply @) , FAQs, and some unwanted responses.

To organize emails learn to use labels and flags. Most of the email programs allow you to label or flag emails. The flags helps you to find it later and can move it out of your inbox to a specific folder. If you are using labels, all the emails related to that label goes under to that label which is very easy to be organized.

Gmail

Many of the users may love  the accuracy of Gmail’s spam filter, which is one of the key reasons of the popularity of Gmail.  You may not know that, you can organize your messages before sending them by starring them or adding a label, making it easy to keep track of your sent messages. When composing a new message, you can assign labels or star it by using the labels drop-down menu. You don’t worry recipients of messages organized this way won’t see your labels or stars.  You can see the label feature from the above screenshot.

Another great feature in Gmail is it’s multiple inbox. Unfortunately it is not an inbuilt feature, but you can add it from Labs tab under Settings. Go to ‘Labs’ tab under ‘Settings’ find ‘Multiple Inboxes’  and turn on Multiple Inboxes. After you turn on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings, you can configure what you want to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings. You can see an organized inbox using the Multiple Inboxes in the above screenshot.  This is one of the best feature in Gmail that may people don’t know about. Coolefriend recommend you to use this feature and organize your inbox based on labels like work, personal, job, etc.

Outlook.com

Outlook.com is a new generation email from Microsoft, it automatically categorizes newsletters for you, so you can quickly find or delete them in just a click, another thing is that Outlook.com can also unsubscribe on your behalf. If you no longer want to receive a newsletter, click Unsubscribe in the email, and Outlook.com takes care of the rest.  Use Sweep to schedule a cleanup, and let Outlook.com do the work for you. Keep only the latest email from a sender, and the rest are deleted. With Sweep, you can also delete emails in bulk from multiple senders and clean out hundreds of emails in seconds. You can even set simple rules to automatically file emails from specific senders, so they never hit your inbox in the first place.

It can automatically categorizes newsletters, social updates, and photos. You can also create your own custom categories for different types of mail, groups of people, dates, subject lines, or almost anything else you want. Set up instant actions to quickly file mail into those custom categories. It has easy-to-use, automated tools to help you get through your inbox quickly,bills in one folder, receipts in another, important documents safely archived. To filter your messages, tap or click View and then select one of the filter categories. Click Unread to see all the messages that you haven’t read yet. Or, select Newsletters to easily find and clean newsletters out of your inbox, so that you can find other mail fast. Schedule cleanup automatically moves or deletes email from a specific sender after 30, 60, or 90 days. Choose an email in your inbox, then tap or click Sweep in the top action bar.Tap or click Schedule cleanup. If you get email from a certain person or business that you want to keep, you can quickly move all email from them out of your inbox and into another folder. If you want more ideas to keep your Oulook.com inbox clutter free, you can follow these steps from Microsoft.

What you think about these quick tips? What method you are following to keep your inbox clutter free? Do you have any idea to keep it organized ?

   There are different methods to encrypt and sending messages or mails. From web apps to mobile apps, the list is growing. Some online tools like Burn Note and Privnote may are very familiar to our readers. These tools create a temporary web page that auto-expires after it has been viewed once. Another tools is Dashlane, it send encrypted notes from the desktop and the recipient gets 30 minutes of reading time after the time the note will vanish forever.

Sending Secret Self Destructing Emails

BurnNote

   In Burn Note you can start writing your message immediately. the interface is pretty simple, there is no formatting or pictures, only old-fashioned text. If you’re concerned about the security of Burn Note itself, you check out the Burn Note FAQ page.

Privnote

   Privnote is a free web based service that allows you to send top secret notes over the internet. You can easily send notes that will self-destruct after being read, you can also provide instruction to notify you when your note gets read. One of the most interesting thing is that it is fast, easy, and requires no password or user registration at all. Just write your note, and you’ll get a link. Then you copy and paste that link into an email (or instant message) that you send to the person who you want to read the note. When that person clicks the link for the first time, they will see the note in their browser and the note will automatically self-destruct. This ensures no one (even that very same person) can read the note again and the link won’t work anymore. As mentioned earlier, you can optionally choose to be notified when your note is read by leaving your email and a reference for the note.

Destructingmessage

  DestructingMessage.com is a free service which enables you to send self-destructing message to someone. Once the message read by the user then they will no longer be able to read it again after the timer has reached zero. This will ensure your message is read by no one but the reader and all evidence of the message is erased. Messages are also anonymous unless you add any identifiable information to your message.

Sdmessage

    You don’t worry about the text messages that you send to someone, let awkward notes to "self-destruct" shortly after being read.

Thismessagewillselfdestruct

    TMWSD is a secure messaging service. Messages sent are encrypted, securely transferred, and automatically deleted when they are retrieved.

Encrypted email providers

There are some encrypted email services are there. Some may charge a normal fee for the feature rich options.

Hushmail

   Hushmail, is one of the most known encrypted email provider. All you need is a Hushmail account, all of your email is stored in encrypted form and decrypted with your password when you log in. Email sent between Hushmail users is encrypted and decrypted automatically.

Vaultletmail

   VaultletMail, is not an online app, it is a desktop program. If both users are using VaultletMail accounts, email messages are fully encrypted in transmission.

Enigmail

   Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It enables you to write and receive email messages signed and/or encrypted with the OpenPGP standard.

Mobile APPS

Wickr

  Wickr, is a free application that available in the iPhone app store aims to encrypt text, picture and video messages to prevent their interception by anyone in the middle. According to them it offers military-grade encryption of text, picture, audio and video messages, and also provides sender-based controls like, who can read messages, where and for how long.

Linux Apps

   Now apps available in the Linux space. Evolution, is the default email client for the GNOME desktop and is a very capable to Thunderbird. To sign and encrypt your email, you will need to create your own key set. In addition to encryption, Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop.

  There are a plenty of apps available for creating self-destructing messages, including Snapchat, Tigertext, etc.. Alternate option is, you can use some file encryption tools to encrypt files and send to someone the encrypted messages and files as email attachments, which your recipient can decrypt using the same tool.

    What you think about this email encryption, message self-destructing tools? Is it really helpful in decrypting highly confidential details like password, details of accounts, etc..? Which technique you are using to send confidential files?

The first emails can be found on computers of MIT back from 1965, in a program ‘Mailbox’. The US Department of Defense implemented ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in 1969. On October 29th, 1969, the first message was sent from computer to computer on ARPANET. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson invented and developed the electronic mail. By 1993 the word ‘electronic mail’ had been replaced by “email” in the lexicon and on the internet. Over the next few years, America Online (AOL), Echomail, Hotmail and Yahoo email services launched. Now, over 2.6 billion active users and over 4.6 billion email accounts in operation, Email has become an indispensable part of our daily activities in nearly all aspects of communication.

So what you think about the future email? Did the latest real-time communication tools like Twitter affects the popularity of Emails? It is a curious thing to think of how the Emails inbox appears after 10 years and what type of facilities they offer at that time.

  Microsoft has launched a new email service outlook.com to complete with the highly popular Gmail service. Outlook offers, virtually unlimited storage pace, and integrates with the video chat service Skype. All Hotmail, SkyDrive, Xbox, Live users can use their existing id to sign in to the new Outlook email service. Outlook has been designed using Microsoft Metro users interface.The first thing you may noticed is the neat white screen with a blue top boarder with less buttons and instructions. We can see the email sender, email subject and time of sent. In,addition to this one can see a trusted sender icon in the email message if it is from a trusted sender.

On clicking the email, more options are displayed on the top bar,like, reply, delete, junk,sweep,move to and categories. The category is much similar to Gmail’s Label. There are some readily available labels like shopping, social updates, bills, document, family, groups, important, newsletters, will help us to arrange the emails in appropriate category. In the right side of the email message there is the ‘actions’ pane and it resembles Gmail. ‘Reply’, ‘reply all’ and ‘forward’ can do from the actions. The loading of the inbox is pretty fast. The email service itself is appears to be faster than Gmail. Outlook also can use public information from other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and can connect it from the mail box. You can easily enable or turn off this feature.

  Outlook had partnership with Facebook and Twitter, which helps to see the public names and profile pictures of people from Facebook and Twitter at the top of the emails you receive from them. You can connect your Facebook and Twitter accounts to Outlook and see the latest updates from friends or Tweets of those you follow in Outlook’s people pane along the right hand side of your inbox. Once connected, Outlook will show updates or Tweets in the people pane instead of advertisements.

Do you have an Outlook email account? How you feel it? Can you compare it with Google and which one is better Gmail or the new Outlook?