Aruna Labs Blog

Hot off the Aruna Labs’ release presses is the Aruna Send Pageflakes Widget. Now you can add Aruna Send to your personalized Pageflakes page.

To add the Aruna Send widget to your Pageflakes page click the “+ Pageflakes” button below:

If you haven’t seen Pageflakes yet, you can also click on the button and it will take you there and you can check it out.

Aruna Send Widget in Pageflakes – Screenshot

Today we have released our Aruna Send Widget for Netvibes. Netvibes is a fully customizable and configurable home page / portal where you can add news, apps, feeds, pictures, blogs or any widgets that are available for the system.

If you already use Netvibes, just click the button below to add Aruna Send to your Netvibes page.

If you would like to check out Netvibes, just click on the button above and Aruna Send will be your first widget!

Have fun sending files free from Netvibes!!

Screenshot of Aruna Send in Netvibes

We now have the Aruna URL Google Gadget available for you to put on your personalized page at iGoogle.

To add Aruna URL on iGoogle click on this button…

To all developers who are looking for a simple URL shortening service that is free and will integrate into your application. Look no further. Today we have released the Aruna URL API just for you.

Instructions are here.

Go create your applications with Aruna URL shortening service, it is free.

Today we launched our Aruna Labs custom HTML widget. You can now make short URLs directly from your blog or website. We have four colors on offer to start (more colors coming later) to be able to match your website.

Just select the color you want. Then copy the HTML code and paste that into your website. Done.

Here are some screenshots.

Of course you can still use Aruna URL from the web or Yahoo widgets as usual too.

Help out and spread the word about Aruna Send. Here is the button to add Aruna Send directly to your iGoogle page.

Aruna Send

Recently, Google has changed their Personalized homepage over to the new iGoogle name. Many of us have been using Personalized homepage from google to view our news and customize our online life and info.

For those iGoogle users out there, now you can send files for free with Aruna Send from your iGoogle (or Google personalized homepage).

It is easy here is what you need to do:
1. Sign-in to your iGoogle page (or sign up if you don’t have an account. You can get an account here)
2. Goto this link.
3. Click the button there to add the Aruna Send gadget

That’s it!!

Here is a screenshot of the Aruna Send Google Gadget on our homepage

And of course you can still send files from the web, from the firefox extension and from Yahoo widgets.

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

We have another widget rolling off the presses here at Aruna Labs. Today we are releasing the Aruna URL Yahoo! Widget. This widget will allow you to make short URLs or web links from your desktop without having to go to the www.arunaURL.com website. Here are some screenshots:

Enter the URL that you want to shorten and then click “Make it small”

Your short URL / web link is given back to you. You can now copy it and then use it as you wish.

If you don’t have Yahoo! Widgets installed yet, we highly recommend it. There are over 4000 widgets that make your life on Mac or PC much easier.

Here is what the Yahoo! Widgets tool bar looks like (Aruna URL is the yellow one!)

To use the Aruna URL Yahoo! Widget:

1. Go to widgets.yahoo.com and install the widget software
2. Download the Aruna URL widget here (first unzip it, then double click the .widget file it to launch it)
3. That’s it! Go ahead and make URLs with ArunaURL on your desktop. It is free!

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.