But here we are in August, and that vacation is nowhere to be seen and everything just has to get done RIGHT NOW. Where’s that vacation you’ve been waiting on for months on end?

Well, Adobe SendNow can’t send you on a sailing getaway – but it can send your most important documents sailing off securely and quickly to your clients and colleagues. Need to send out some new contracts? SendNow saves you a battle with that grumpy office fax machine. Have some video files that need approval from a client? SendNow lets you get those videos to their destination without an excruciatingly hot walk down the street to mail a hard drive.

For a limited time, an annual subscription to SendNow will be available for a super summer discount. Go check out the SendNow summer break savings today!

-       Rebecca Staley

Legal, IT, and consumer technology media have also expressed their excitement over the new updates. Stories in PCWorld and CMSWire, for example,  point out the Outlook plug-in and the ease with which you can share large files.

And we’d also love to hear what you think about the updates, and help spread the word!

William Lau, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Acrobat Solutions

We’re introducing Adobe SendNow for Microsoft Outlook – our new plug-in that lets you send large files right from your email program. Now you don’t have to deal with your IT department blocking you from sending large files. All you need to do is upload it to SendNow. Instead of having your large file go into the recipient’s Junk e-mail folder, you can track the files and know when recipients receive them. And recipients get a download-from link instead of a large mailbox-jamming attachment. What could be easier?

We’re also introducing one-click Convert to PDF. It lets you convert a file to PDF before you send it. We’ve combined PDF conversion (you get an unlimited number of conversions, by the way) and file transfer to get your important documents to others faster. When speed is of the essence – and when isn’t it? – Convert to PDF saves the step of having to use a separate PDF conversion service. What could be faster?

Both the Outlook plug-in and one-click Convert to PDF are available now. Convert to PDF is free and is available with both Basic and Plus SendNow subscription levels.

The Outlook plug-in is available for free download, and capabilities are linked to subscription levels .

So if speed and ease of use are important to getting your job done, what are you waiting for? Check out Adobe SendNow.

William Lau, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Acrobat Solutions

For the full article, go take a look at the PDF for Lawyers: http://www.pdfforlawyers.com/2011/10/adobes-sendnow-is-quite-useful-for-lawyers.html

William Lau

Senior Product Marketing Manager

- Rebecca Staley

Beginning today (Wednesday, August 17^th ) and running until August 24^th, please join our Adobe SendNow Tweetaway! We’ll be publishing tweets accompanied by the #TrySendNow hashtag.  Just follow us and ReTweet any of them to become eligible for our random drawing.  A year’s worth of hassle free, zero cost file transfers can be yours just for the price of a ReTweet!  Stay tuned to our Twitter account, keep an eye out for the #TrySendNow hashtag, and thanks!

The contest opens at 10 a.m., Wednesday, August 17, 2011, and closes 2 p.m., Wednesday August 24, 2011. The prize drawing for SendNow (no product prize exchanges available) will occur on or before 5 p.m., August 24th, 2011 with the winner announcement occurring that day well. The drawings are open to residents in North America only.

Actually, it’s a trick question. No such service could be easier or more effective than SendNow—except, perhaps, another manifestation of SendNow. The service that’s always been just a matter of a few clicks of the mouse is now even closer at hand with the release of our new Desktop App. In this new app, you’ll find all the pieces of SendNow that you’ve gotten accustomed to in the web-based version: easy file-sending capability, file tracking, and branding with your logo.

However, we’ve added a few extra tidbits to make the application even more convenient. First, the app saves you the trouble of opening a browser window; you can keep it running while you do your work—and it will always be ready for you when you want to send off your files.

Our second enhancement—available only in the desktop app—is the ability to drag and drop the files you want to send; this means a more intuitive interface and even fewer clicks for you. Instead of clicking around to find the file you want to send (“Where did I store that? Was it in ‘My Documents’? ….No; maybe on my desktop? No…”), just grab the file while you’re looking at it and drag it over to the SendNow application. Nothing could be simpler.

Finally, what’s better than the easiest and most effective file sharing desktop application? The easiest, most effective and totally free file sharing desktop application. If you’ve got a SendNow account, you can simply download and install the application—free of charge. How’s that for convenient?

To get started, head over to https://www.acrobat.com/sendnow/en/desktop-download.html and get downloading!

Rebecca Staley, Acrobat.com marketing specialist, Acrobat Solutions

 As always, 100 GB of file transference is available through Adobe SendNow!  Take a look, and join the conversation on our Facebook page!

This week, some very exciting enhancements to Adobe SendNow were picked up on and featured by the incomparable Harry McCracken over on the Technologizer blog in an excellent summary post (thanks, Harry!). The Technologizer article also highlights a piece of the industry-leading SendNow service that we happen to care deeply about: that people can send 100 MB files using Adobe SendNow’s free plan (and 2 GB files with SendNow Basic and Plus subscriptions).

We like to think that this is just common decency: allowing for truly large files (100 MB is not small!) to be sent free of charge is our (frankly superior) solution to a ubiquitous problem. While other services in the field may believe that 50 MB is generous enough, we happen not to agree.

We want SendNow to be the best it can be—the best available, in fact—and that means giving you what you need from a file transfer service. These features are based directly on suggestions that we heard from all of you, and we’re very happy to be able to offer them.

For more information, visit Adobe SendNow and Acrobat.com.

Rebecca Staley, Acrobat.com, Acrobat Solutions Marketing Specialist

The contest opens at 10 a.m., Wednesday, May 18, 2011, and closes 2 p.m., Wednesday May 25, 2011. The prize drawing for SendNow (no product prize exchanges available) will occur on or before 5 p.m., May 25th, 2011 with the winner announcement occurring that day well. The drawings are open to residents in North America only.