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In the continued effort to let you send files as easy as possible, from the location that is most comfortable for you, we have released an extension for the Firefox Browser. Firefox has been taking the Internet by storm with it’s open standards, open source and plug-in architecture. MS Internet Explorer has had the lead for many years but that is now changing rapidly. We are seeing sites with more than 40 or 50% firefox users!

Back to Aruna Send. This plug in allows you to send files from Firefox anytime you like directly from the sidebar (the place on the left where the bookmarks show if you push ctrl + b (or cmd + b for Mac). It allows you to be sending files while still browsing the Internet with one or several tabs still open. No waiting for uploads to finish, just keep on working in Firefox as normal.

The extension has been submitted to Mozilla to be included in their gallery and is awaiting approval there. For those who would like to try it out right away, here it is.

Aruna Send Firefox Extension download

Here are some screenshots:

Aruna Send in the sidebar

Sending a file

File has been sent with Aruna Send

Once logged into your Aruna email or Zimbra mail, you can find the Aruna Send Zimlet on the left hand side of your screen under “Zimlets” section

Click on Aruna Send to open the dialogue window.

Enter the email address of the recipient, enter your email address and then click “browse” to find the file that you want to send (100MB max currently).

When you are finished click Send.

You will then see the progress meter for your file upload.

When it is finished you will be given a link to your file. You can copy and paste this link anywhere and have access to your file.

Your recipient will also be sent an email with the link. We are currently in public beta and they will have 7 days to collect the file. After 7 days it will be automatically deleted from the server.

If you want to send another file, just click “Send Another”

Of course you can also use Aruna Send from the web or from the Aruna Yahoo widget on your desktop. Whichever way you choose, you can send files for free.

Just a quick post to let you know that you can find the Aruna Send Yahoo widget in the Yahoo! widget gallery here.

If you don’t have Yahoo! widgets installed yet, first go to the main page at http://widgets.yahoo.com and click install.

Next go here to get the Aruna Send widget.

Then enjoy sending files for Free!

It has been less than a week (only 4 days!) since we launched the Aruna Send widget for Yahoo! and we are happy to report it has been downloaded over 1000 times already.

If you haven’t tried it, go on over and get it and send large files for free, anytime right from your desktop (Mac and PC).

We will keep you posted on progress but so far things are looking good!

On the back of our release of the Aruna Send Widget for Yahoo Widgets, we are glad today to spread our wings a little further. In order to enable our other services to be more closely integrated with Aruna email, we have developed two plug-ins (Zimlets) that will allow customers to use the following services directly from Aruna email in their browser.

1. Aruna Send Zimlet – Will allow users to send large files directly from their webmail in their browser. It is free, there is no sign up and it will allow you to send up to 100MB files.

2. Aruna URL Zimlet – You can convert long and unwieldy web links (URLs) into short easy URLs from the Zimlet or directly inside of emails by right clicking on any link.

We are also releasing the Zimlets to the community of 6 million other Zimbra users. The services that the Zimlets offer will be free and there will be no charge for the Zimlets themselves. Zimbra uses must contact their Zimbra email server administrator and ask them to install the Zimlets.

We are currently getting the project page and documentation ready. In the meantime, both Aruna Send and Aruna URL Zimlets are available for download immediately below.

We have also set up a forum where the community can make suggestions, report bugs and discuss the Zimlets. We will post the address to that very soon as well.

Download Aruna Send Zimlet Now!

Download Aruna URL Zimlet Now!

Note: Both Zimlets are still considered beta software. We have tested them, they are working and we have not found any major bugs on our ZCS environments. You should also test them in your configuration before deciding whether to enable them in your live production environment.

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 Download

Aruna Send Widget is 100% free! Send files, try it out and enjoy!

Aruna Send Widget Screen shots

Today Aruna Labs announces the public beta of it’s next product, Aruna Send. Aruna Send was born from our own need to send large files to customers, disparate project teams, vendors, consultants and others not in our office. We were tired of clunky FTP and other solutions, so we built our own! We have plans and projects in the works to build out the Aruna Send product and offer it to the business world.

The public beta will allow you to try out the service and send files under 100MB for FREE. Yes free. Free as in speech. The files you send will be available for collection on the servers for 7 days. While in public beta mode, we will delete all files after they are 7 days old (from the time of sending).

Send your files Fast! We have not throttled back or limited the bandwidth at all as we want to test out the speed from all corners of the globe.

If you have any suggestions on how we can improve the service please send them by email to sendsuggestions@arunalabs.com. We appreciate your feedback and we will do our best to use them to improve Aruna Send.

Our development team at VisionTEN has done a great job so far and we are working with them to develop the enterprise and integration features that businesses will find invaluable. More news on the future features will be announced here in the near future.

Aruna Send – http://www.arunasend.com

Aruna Labs is a web services company that is devoted to providing software as a service to the enterprise. Aruna Labs can be found on the web at http://www.arunalabs.com.

Have you ever tried to attach files to an email message and have it bounce, rejected or just not work? We have and we wanted to solve the problem once and for all without additional software, ftp accounts and hassles. We just wanted to be able to upload in our browser and then send the link to whomever we want to give the file to. ArunaSend is just that, a web based service for businesses to send files to anyone on the Internet. Easy and simple. Period.

Currently, the free version is in internal beta testing and we will be releasing it to the public shortly. Secure file transfers and many other enterprise features are currently in development in our Labs. More info on that soon.