Here’s a fast email tip for Googlites. So your Gmail likes to send your application programs through their mail service. Well that’s not completely true; as with most computer programs it can be made to go through. Google claims security reasons why they do not like .exe and other file extension in attached files to emails. The attached file will fail to load the composed email. It will show a pop up box, it will basically say no you can’t do that, thus, leaving you with the sneaker net, a USB flash drive and possibly harm to the system from jumping down steps.
So you decide to use WinZip to hide the executable file extension; to your surprise Google sees right through the zip file, yea they almost thought of everything. The following step will let you send .exe files through your Gmail account.
At this point you have to change a default setting in windows explorer. You go into the view tab and under the options you select the folder options and proceed to the view tab and select the “Hide extensions for known file types.” Take the check mark out of the box and leave the box empty. Then click apply and exit. You then need to close Windows Explorer and reopen.
Now you can continue by going into windows explorer and finding the file that you would like to send. You then right click on the file and select properties. “Bahbah.exe Properties” will show at the header, down below is a text box with the file and the extension name. This is where you can change the extension name, now you will have to delete the .exe and replace with .txt.
Here is a brief explanation why this is that way, .bah is a just a way for the computer to know how to read a file and for which program to open the .bah file. So saving the .bah under a different extension does not do anything to the file.
There is also another option to do the same thing. You can go directly to your files, search for your document, right click on it and change the name from what it was to .exe. Now that you have changed the extension you now email the file to whomever you would like. Now the recipient of the file does have to change the .txt to back to an .exe again to use it.
They do have a wonderful file limit size of 25 MB. To combat this problem area you could use Win Zip, which is a file compression tool with windows 7 and 8, 8.1. Win Zip isn’t the cure all it only does a slight compress so it is limited. This tool is in a file selection when you right click the name file. In the pop up box you select send to in the tab out you would need to select compress file folder. Now don’t worry the file you created has not been lost you have to go back where the original file was, it will be in the same area, and it will be named the same but with a .zip.
Yes there is an option for Google drive with 15 GB worth of storage and more if you fall under certain criteria. However this might cause some personal security problems. Google is known for data mining.

Robert Midura is a member of the Computer Technology Senior Seminar course and is planning on a career in networking. A link to this article can be soon seen at http://www.rmidura.com/beaconarticle