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There are several web sites providing a lot of free space for storing your files and media like photos, music (mp3s) and videos. They also offer file sharing besides file storage.

Listed below are few notable free web services offering file storage and file sharing (our emphasis is on file storage aspect):

MyBloop

The site to upload and share files for free with infinite space.

Summary:

• Unlimited space. There are no limits on storage, bandwidth or the number of files you can store.
• Max file size: 1GB
• Allowed file types: Everything (music, videos, pictures, zip files, exe files) except .js and .php.
• Provides a desktop client with easy drag and drop facility besides a web based file manager.
• Files can be set as private or public. However, if you give the link to a private file to someone, they will be able to access it. So just make sure you give the private link only to people you want to allow access to. Also ensure that you aren’t making any copyrighted material as public since MyBloop allows music, videos and movies to be uploaded as long as it is marked private and is not shared with anyone else.
• Hotlinking is allowed only for image files.
• Users can download all files types except for music.
• Lets you embed a single mp3 or a playlist on your blogs/sites. Playlists have interstitial voice ads.

A 5 minute tutorial about the main features of MyBloop website:

URL: http://www.mybloop.com/

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Wished there’s a single place that covers everything Chrome, Google’s new browser? The unofficial Google Chrome Wiki has links to tutorials, tips, tricks, add-ons (should really be called ‘hacks’ at this stage), themes and more for Chrome.

Check it out: http://www.gchromewiki.com

  You can edit the page and add any relevant links and text after creating a free account (Email id not mandatory).

Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus is an utility which detects and removes malicious software and spyware. It has received the highest rating from PC World last year.

Spyware Doctor has the most advanced update feature that continually improves its Spyware fighting capabilities on daily basis. As Spyware gets more complex to avoid detection by AntiSpyware programs Spyware Doctor responds with new technology to stay one step ahead.

(Links to download the free version are at the end of this article)

Privacy Guardian guarantees your privacy by ensuring all traces of your online Internet and computer activities are permanently erased and unrecoverable on your PC. Privacy Guardian also restores valuable hard drive space and speeds up system performance by cleaning out old and unused temporary records.

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The current latest version of official delicious add-on for Firefox replaces your standard browser bookmarks with bookmarks from your delicious account, besides providing useful buttons for bookmarking a page and bringing up your delicious bookmarks.

If you are interested in just adding the buttons and not the entire functionality provided by the official add-on, you might want to get the classic version. Unfortunately the add-on that page is not compatible with Firefox 3.0+. It has been modified to work with the latest Firefox by Micah Sittig and can be downloaded from here.

I have created a mirror for it here.

How the add-on works

The above add-on adds 2 buttons in Firefox like so:

Clicking on thebutton takes you to your bookmarks page at delicious.com.

Clicking on the button brings up a window like so:

where you can enter description for the bookmark (up to 1000 characters) and your tags. The tags can either be selected from recommended list at the right or typed (suggests your existing ones as you type)

Setting up keyboard shortcut to bookmark a page to delicious

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bit.ly is another web service like the popular tinyURL. You paste the long URL in the text box at bit.ly, optionally set a custom keyword and click on Shorten button to get the shortened URL.

For example, let’s say that I am researching on water purifiers and came across a page whose URL is http://www.eurekaforbes.com/products/healthylife/wpurifier.php. Now I want to be able to go to this link in the future without having to bookmark and by just typing out an URL. I can go to bit.ly, specify ‘aquaguard’ as the keyword and it will generate this URL which points to the same page: http://bit.ly/aquaguard.

bit.ly doesn’t yet have all the useful tools like a Firefox add-on or integration in Twitter clients like twhirl. A browser bookmarklet is available though. But with a good API to shorten, expand and extract URL info, I am sure bit.ly is going to replace tinyURL from its #1 spot.

Visit bit.ly.