Aruna Send Widget - Send large files free from Mac OS X and Windows widgets
In our mission to make applications that are easy and convenient to use, it was only a matter of time before we start to offer other methods to access Aruna Send (other than the web). Today is the first public beta release of the Aruna Send Yahoo! Widget. If you don’t know about Widgets yet, they are handy mini applications that can easily be accessed at any time on your desktop. There is a good article that gives an overview of the major widget platforms available today.
For the first Aruna Send widget, we have chosen the Yahoo! widget platform. They have over 4000 widgets available now and all of them work cross platform on both Mac OS X and Windows. That was a major plus for us in the decision on where to develop first.
The aim of the widget is to make it as easy as possible for you to send files. For those who already are running widgets, just download the Aruna Send Widget and you can upload files and send them to whoever you wish. Your recipient will have 7 days to collect the file (this 7 day period may go up or down after the beta period). The widget itself does not expire but we will have future versions and updates that you will want to watch for periodically. No sign up or account is necessary to use the service.
For those who don’t have Yahoo! Widgets installed, it is easy.
1. Go over to http://widgets.yahoo.com and click on the Install button. The widget application will be installed.
2. Then download the Aruna Send widget. Just double click on the file ArunaSend.widget and it will be installed and you are ready to go.
The process is the same on both Mac and PC.
We will be putting the widget up on a Aruna Widgets project page soon. In the meantime, Aruna Send Widget is available immediately below. By downloading it you will be able to see what your recipient will see when they collect the files that you send them.
Aruna Send Widget is 100% free! Send files, try it out and enjoy!
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Aruna Send Widget Screen shots
May 4th, 2007 at 12:50 am
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May 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
[…] Aruna Labs wanted to offer several alternative access methods to their new file sending service - Aruna Send. We helped them build a “widget” so that both Mac and PC users can send files for free, right from their desktop and not have to go to the web if they don’t want to. The post about the widget release on their blog says it all so look there for all of the details. […]