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New Year, New Features

In this issue, we'll discuss Pando's newest offerings, including an exclusive preview of Pando's Premium Services. You'll also get tips for easily sending those holiday photos and videos you took (trust us, we took a ton, too), learn how "2 Guys Named Joe" use Pando for their podcasts and more. So, take a minute to kick back and enjoy...

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Take Pando to Professional Levels

Not only is the year brand new, so is Pando's family of premium services. You can, of course, continue to use regular Pando for free. But perhaps you want to send more than 1GB at a time. Need to extend file expiration to 30 days or even make it unlimited? See if one of our paid premium options is right for you:

Pando Plus - Targeted primarily to the personal power user, our least expensive package ups the ante in personal file transfer.	Pando Pro - Designed with the business user in mind but ideal for anyone who needs to send 5GB at a time, this package lifts the burden of large-file transfer so you can get right down to business.	Pando Publisher - Sporting our fastest delivery speeds and loaded with features, this package is first-class file sharing. Ideal for podcasters and video-bloggers alike, Pando Publisher boasts a 50GB file limit and packages that never expire.

Post Pando Packages on the Web

Post Pando Want to make your full-length, full-screen home videos, folders of original quality photos, or podcasts available on your site or blog for one-click and RSS downloads at no cost to you? If you know how to copy and paste text into your Web site or blog, you can publish with Pando! You can even password-protect your posted files to control who can download them. Step-by-step instructions here.

Share Holiday Memories with Pando

Well, the house is finally empty, the dishes are clean and the decorations are put away. As you sit down to your computer and begin uploading all of the photos and videos you took over the past month, you realize that you'll need a fast and efficient way to send them to your friends and family. Good thing you have Pando! With a simple drag, drop and send, your loved ones will be reliving the holidays in the click of a button. If you haven't tried Pando yet or it's been a while, view our video tutorial by clicking the pics below:

Sending Prettier Packages

You wrap your presents; why not make your Pando "Packages" more attractive? Packages can be customized with descriptions and thumbnails, adding a unique personality to every package you send.

Click the picture (left) to learn how to create:

Custom thumbnails
Unique package names
Great sender names and email addresses
Interesting package descriptions

But Can Granny Play the Video?

If you tried to email home video before Pando, you'll remember the name of the game was compression. No matter how gloriously large your monitor, the end result was a video that played at the size of a postage stamp.

Now that you have Pando, you can send video that can play at full-screen and high resolution. But the number of video formats can be dizzying. What's the best format to use so the most people can enjoy the holiday videos you share?

"The video format that I'd recommend is MPEG-4," says Laird Popkin, Pando's co-founder and CTO, "It's a high-quality format that is supported by both Mac OS X (QuickTime) and Windows (Windows Media Player)."

As a side note, if you have been sent a video file that you're having trouble playing, and you already have the latest versions of QuickTime and Windows Media Player installed, we recommend installing "VLC Media Player" (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/), a free and very powerful media player that runs on Windows and Mac and plays nearly every popular video format.

Podcasters Prefer Pando

Although only one of them is officially named Joe, Ed Maurer and Joseph Hershey produce a podcast called "Two Guys Named Joe: Tech for the Average Joe." The guys offer their listeners useful advice, interspersed with a few jokes, insults and the occasional expletive. Recently they discovered Pando when Ed needed to get a rough edit of their podcast to Joe and didn't want to deliver the file in the usual way: by driving to Joe's house. We're glad to have helped, but we hope "the Joes" start using Pando to RSS-deliver their podcast, too. Stay tuned!

Ed blogs:

"When doing a podcast with someone else, the problem eventually arises when you need to send a huge audio file of a terrific podcast to that other person. So how do you do it? Email is too slow or inevitably you have a file size limit. You can pay for a service like EVault, but it costs an arm and a leg. Along comes Pando and our problems are solved... I am sold on its usefulness for podcasters or others who need to share large files. Power to the Pando!"

Click below to hear a "Two Guys Named Joe" podcast with useful tips for buying a digital camera (rated PG-13).

Thanks for Sharing, Ed and Joe!

Download Episode 10: Buying a Digital Camera

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