<p>Attachments.me has just announced that it will be shutting down its service, effective November 11. The company has not cited a reason for the move. However, it did say that users who upgraded to any of its paid plans will receive a prorated refund. It suggests looking at alternatives such as Yesware, IFTTT, and Cloudy for Gmail.</p><p>If you're not familiar with Attachments.me, it's a service that enables you to share files from your hard drive or from the Cloud right in Gmail through the company's website or using its iOS app. You could take a 100MB file and simply pass it along to a third-party without having to spend precious minutes or hours trying to upload it to Gmail. It even was integrated with Google Drive.</p><p>Company CEO and co-founder Jesse Miller has said Attachments.me's mission was "to make sharing files in email a good experience for both the sender and receiver and finding."</p><p>The company has been around for 2.5 years and received $2.5 million in funding, all from the Foundry Group.</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/29/gmail-search-tool-attachments-shutting-service-november-11/">Keep reading...</a></p>