Saturday, June 25, 2005
Photomail
For those who love sending pictures on email, this is grand news. A new offering by Internet giant Yahoo allows you to send upto 300 photographs via a single email. Although it is still a beta service, PhotoMail, it is integrated with Yahoo email and users only need to install an application to active it.
The concept is simple. Any picture, whether on your computer's hard disc or from the web can be sent along with your email. It has a simple drag and drop facility. To prevent email messages from being bloated, the email sends a thumbnail only.
Though sending photographs via email has been possible for a long time, every attachment was a chore. Pictures take up huge space and mailing them is tedious and time consuming. PhotoMail uses a shortcut method, where it sends a thumbnail image. When you click on the thumbnail, the picture can be enlarged. PhotoMail works by placing small thumbnail pictures in messages and storing the actual large photo files on a server of the Yahoo Photo online album service, says Andy Spillane, vice president of Yahoo Mail.
There are hiccups though. The service was launched on Thursday, and is still in beta stage. So it will be some time before it is thrown open to all. Only jpeg images are allowed so far. Moreover in the initial days the total size of email would be an issue, since the maximum attachment size is limited.
Yahoo, the search engine that virtually introduced us to the net, before the advent of Google has in recent days announced scores of measures to ensure that its dominance as the most visited site on the web remains unchallenged. It recently increased the quota of email space to 1 GB, apart from announcing the launch of music download service. Yahoo music offer a catalogue of over a million tracks.
The offering of PhotoMail comes after Yahoo acquired Flickr,a photo sharing and storing service. Flick is supposed to have 5.5 million photos. Combined with Yahoo Photos, it gives them an unmatched range of photo collection, that is now ready for you and me to use.
The concept is simple. Any picture, whether on your computer's hard disc or from the web can be sent along with your email. It has a simple drag and drop facility. To prevent email messages from being bloated, the email sends a thumbnail only.
Though sending photographs via email has been possible for a long time, every attachment was a chore. Pictures take up huge space and mailing them is tedious and time consuming. PhotoMail uses a shortcut method, where it sends a thumbnail image. When you click on the thumbnail, the picture can be enlarged. PhotoMail works by placing small thumbnail pictures in messages and storing the actual large photo files on a server of the Yahoo Photo online album service, says Andy Spillane, vice president of Yahoo Mail.
There are hiccups though. The service was launched on Thursday, and is still in beta stage. So it will be some time before it is thrown open to all. Only jpeg images are allowed so far. Moreover in the initial days the total size of email would be an issue, since the maximum attachment size is limited.
Yahoo, the search engine that virtually introduced us to the net, before the advent of Google has in recent days announced scores of measures to ensure that its dominance as the most visited site on the web remains unchallenged. It recently increased the quota of email space to 1 GB, apart from announcing the launch of music download service. Yahoo music offer a catalogue of over a million tracks.
The offering of PhotoMail comes after Yahoo acquired Flickr,a photo sharing and storing service. Flick is supposed to have 5.5 million photos. Combined with Yahoo Photos, it gives them an unmatched range of photo collection, that is now ready for you and me to use.
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