Gmail has Increased its Attachment Limit to 20 MB!

Google is flying with all its colors. Earlier this week, Gmail, one of the most popular free email client has announced that it has increased its attachment limit to 20 MB from 10 MB. This means, now you can send share your favorite pictures and songs with your friends. Gmail is emerging as a leader in free email and pop3 email service providers. Earlier it was released as a private beta by invitation only, but in February this year, it has gone purely public. According to Google, they are increasing the storage capacity of Gmail with a rate of 145 MB a year and the team hopes that the storage capacity will reach a mark of 3 GB by the end of 2008, imagine then we can use gmail as our hard disk.



Gmail Drive In your Windows Explorer

Download this gmail driver to get the Gmail hard disk. . It comes as one of the drives in your windows explorer, in which you can drag and drop your files. This feature is really cool, you just need to open the gmail drive in your explorer and login to your account then start drag and drop.



The main aim of Google is to provide a rich user experience, with programming like Ajax and java scripts, Google is delivering this very efficiently. Gmail also offers spam filtering system, through which a message marked as spam will automatically get deleted after 30 days. They have recently launched a downloadable version of Gmail for mobiles.

Funny Story

Gmail was a project begun by Google developer Paul Buchheit a year before it was announced to the public. For several years, the software was available only for internal Google employees. Gmail was finally announced in 2004, this news came as a rumours. They day being an April Fool’s Day, nobody believed this news. As Google was knows for making April Fool’s jokes (such as Pigeon Rank . Then finally Rosenberg, Google’s vice-president of products was interviewed by BBC News as saying, “We are serious about Gmail”.


The major competitors of Gmail were Hotmail, Yaboo, AOL. There were many ups and downs with the storage capacity offered by all these email clients. But finally Gmail managed to get on top with the attachment doubled this year to 20 MB. But as far as storage limit is concerned, earlier this month, Yahoo has announced their un-limited storage capacity.