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MediaFire - FREE FILE HOSTING made Simple

When you need a place to host your files online that you want to give friends, family and others access to, then MediaFire is the place to go.
Just look at what they say:

MediaFire is the simplest way to host files and images and share them with others.

MediaFire is a free and unlimited file and image hosting web site with no strings attached. Our goal is to help make the internet a more interesting and media rich place by provide the fastest and most simple to use tool for sharing all kinds of files in almost any way imaginable. Registration is completely optional and every feature of the service is available to you whether you choose to create an account or not. If you choose to, creating an account is easy and free, allowing you to quick and secure access to your saved files from any computer.

Share Your Files and Images

Easily share large files and images by Email, Instant Messenger, and on your web site or MySpace page.

With MediaFire's easy to use sharing tools and embedding links you can share entire folders of files and images by email, instant messenger, or on your MySpace page, blog or forum. Folders also double as image galleries so sharing all your vacation photos or graphic design work in one place just got a whole lot simpler.

You just can't beat the price - $0.00!

I signed-up and had one of my ebooks uploaded in less than 5 minutes! That's Fast.

I would suggest using the sign-up process even though you are not forced to, because you can only make changes to your files and folders from your machine that you upload with if you don't sign-up and it's not a big deal anyway.

Kunaki -- CD/DVD manufacturing and publishing service

Kunaki -- CD/DVD manufacturing and publishing service


You will probably be surprised to find that when looking for a CD/DVD publishing house
that actually can deliver the goods, even when you just need one! Well, I was surprised
to find this service was available and not only available but the costs are just outstanding.

Here are the details as advertised on their website:

• Retail quality. Full-color, glossy, fully assembled, cellophane-wrapped, retail-ready products with free UPC bar codes. We manufacture to high-quality retail specifications letting you sell your CDs and DVDs at CD-Baby, Amazon, and other retail outlets.
• No minimums, commitments, or contracts. And, no setup, mastering, or hidden charges.
  
• No risk. We send you a free review copy of your product.
  
• Fast and simple. Design, configure, and manufacture in one day. Use our software to design your disc, case, inserts; and select your contents.
  
• Order what you need when you need it. Order 1 or 300 units. Order more when you need them. We can drop-ship to any address. Just-in-time production means risk-free, zero warehousing costs.
• Publish at no cost to you. Our automated factory accepts credit-card orders on your behalf. We manufacture and ship your product to your customers within minutes. We report sales with customer names/addresses to you and send you a check each month for an amount equal to the quantity sold multiplied by the price you set.

Now, if you are just getting started and the budget is tight, you may find this service to be as good as I say.

Rokario Software - Free Bandwidth Monitor

Rokario Software - Free Bandwidth Monitor
Continuing on the the theme of bandwidth issues I've been using this monitor from Rokario Software to keep a check on my bandwidth usage. It is a very cool little application that stays mostly in the system tray unless you want to watch the various amounts monitored like kb/sec incoming, kb/sec outgoing, traffic(transfer) this hour, (amount)downloaded today, uploaded today and traffic this month. You also get a daily log to see your past usage and compare data.

I've been determined to keep track of these issues since my run-in with the Broadband Rip-Offs that I mentioned in my last post!

The really cool thing, after all the different things you can monitor is the fact that you can use many different "looks" for the application and not only that, you also have the ability to create your own "look" and not just use it, but upload it to their website and let others use it too. Now, I know we all are not interested in going that far, but if you are it's very tempting and makes the whole application even more desirable.

Like I said I've been using this tool for a while now and have found it to be very informing, especially when I'm still having issues with connection speed and making sure I do not exceed any limits for any month. When you look at all the features and benefits you get from using this application and the fact that you can get it for FREE!! just make it a really valuable asset to my toolbox.

Rokario.com do offer a Pro Version of Bandwidth Monitor 2 for $15.98 which has about 9 more options available, but if you are just looking for a personal application then go for the FREE Version.

When Unlimited does not mean Unlimited

You may think this makes no sense and to most of the people that grew up learning English when I did (some time ago) this will not by any definition make sense. But when you are looking to find a ISP (Internet Service Provider) then the rules have been changed for the better, better that is for the ISP.

You see, there is this thing about ISPs that most people don't get to find out unless they are a "power user" or someone that is connected say for 18 of the 24 hours of the day and maybe they are the kinds of users which like to download loads of content from the online content providers.

You may not be aware that there could be anything worth downloading other than a few desktop wallpapers or tunes for your playlist. That's all the better for the ISPs because they are looking to become your Service Provider and you will be the "IDEAL" user for their services.

There are so many commercials, adverts, posters, etc. that are advertising to these "low bandwidth" users - Unlimited Broadband for a ridiculously low price and they are making out like bandits, charging for an unlimited service that you could not possibly use all that is offered if you tried, even if you really, really tried! Look at it from their point of view:

We provide a service that most users will never be able to push to the "limit", oh there is a limit! So we can confidently propose to those users the fallacy of "unlimited" because they don't have enough Free Time to be able to use even a small insignificant part of the bandwidth which we provide, so they will never find out that there is actually a "LIMIT" and most do not ever consider the case.

Now, take a different scenario and look at this "Unlimited Broadband" con.

The main householder, "user 1", spends all day, roughly 10-12 hours actually connected to the internet and is not only downloading but also uploading content to the Internet on one or more websites.

There is another user in the household, "user 2", and they are at university but do all of their coursework and research for their course at home because they are disabled and find it more to their liking to do it all from home instead of traveling to and from campus everyday or living away with a full time carer. This user is also using the same connection through a wireless router and is online roughly 8-12 hours a day and downloading as well as uploading throughout the day everyday.

Then we have our next user in the household, "user 3", who just likes to listen to the online-radio stations and they easily listen to this all day long for roughly 8-10 hours a day.
So far we have three users pushing the "Limit" of the "Unlimited Broadband" but wait, we have a couple more users to add to make this even more complex.

The next two users work a job outside the home, "user 4" and "user 5", are online chatting with friends, downloading pics, downloading ebooks, downloading music to put on phones and portable devices, etc. These users are the only ones that the service was envisioned for:

the crowd - the ones that are out most of the day and when they do get home, only have a few hours to get online and use the "unlimited" broadband they got for such a good deal!

But one day the householder receives a letter from the ISP regarding their usage of the service and is told in no uncertain terms that their usage is in contradiction of the terms of the agreement and a clause has been broken in the contract and to remedy this they can pay for "unlimited broadband" and of course the householder agrees because otherwise there would be a disconnection.

The next month brings the next letter from the ISP, again the terms of the contract seem to still be in contradiction with the user's use, but this time the ISP is giving no more warnings and gives notice of termination of the service forthwith. Of course the users are all up in arms about how this could happen and a call goes to the ISP to query the termination. The ISP is not interested this time and quotes the clause of the contract that has been broken and is immovable on the decision.

The terms of the disconnection are such that it will take about 12 days to disconnect the line and there are no other ISPs able to give the user a broadband line, either unlimited or not because the first ISP has not actually disconnected the service yet, so the user has to wait until the disconnection is complete before they can carry on their daily activities and so too do the other users in the household have to wait.

Well, 18 days later and there are no signs of being disconnected so the user phones the ISP and enquirers about the length of time till disconnection and the ISP has no idea but that the order has been sent through to the appropriate department and it shouldn't take much more than a couple more days.

In the meantime the user sets up a new account with a new ISP after phoning all the other ISPs and enquiring as to their "unlimited broadband" accounts, which turn out to be the same as or close to the first ISP as far as actual usage of the account.

Finally coming to a relatively new ISP with accounts designed for “Power Users” and of course there are “limits” to the account, but the limits this time are far superior to the other ISPs and they are not afraid to tell prospective users the limitations of the service upfront and letting them decide if it fills their needs.

Happy days! They can finally get back to some sort of normality without being disrupted by threats of disconnection or actually being disconnected because they broke one of the terms of the contract, which when searching for the said clause in the original contract, was never found to be included! Make up your own mind.

As this all was taking place, a well known and trusted investigative programme on TV actually did an investigation into the very same question of "Unlimited Broadband" and found that while these ISPs touting the "unlimited" banner were actually misleading users into believing they would have free reign to use as much of the service as they could possibly use. The only thing that was keeping them out of court for false advertising was the fact that most people do not know the difference between "unlimited downloads" and "unlimited connection" and it is this unlimited connection that they are selling in their packages.

One more definition that pertains to all this is the "Fair Usage Policy" which turns out to be something along the lines that; as long as you are not using too much of the service during peak times then all is well and good, but if you are exceeding this usage then you're in trouble!

So at the end of the day, when you have a large household and you think you're getting a really good package from an ISP who quotes "Unlimited Broadband" make sure that you are not going to be exceeding their Fair Usage Policy or their limits for how many Gigabytes a month Downloading and Uploading otherwise known as “transfer amount” you are actually able to use within limits, or was that unlimits!

You decide, but make sure you don't make the wrong choice, You Have Been Warned!

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That's Right, one of my mentors for copywriting - Michel Fortin is conducting a FREE WEBINAR tonite at 7:00pm EST and you should get on the call and watch via webcast to find out the tricks and answers that the great copywriter will be disclosing just for a select few: 500 people only, so be fast if you are at all interested in copywriting for your business, website, etc.
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