Grab Tube’s Converter is a free online application which allows you to download videos from any URL including YouTube and then convert it to other formats. It can also convert from one media format to another after loading the file. This free online service allows you to convert FLV (YouTube), AVI (Windows Video), 3GP (cell phones video), MP4 (Mac + Windows) files to any of the following formats- MP3 (digital audio files), MP4, FLV, 3GP, MPG(MPEG) and AVI.
GrabTube converter allows you to upload file size of maximum upto 20MB and the video formats supported for upload are .flv, .mp4, .3gp, .avi. The service also allows you to download the videos from YouTube by specifying the URL.
The possible modes of conversion using this tool are;
FLV to MP3
FLV to MP4
FLV to AVI (to the most popular video format)
FLV to MPG [MPEG] (Flash video to MPEG /downloadable movies/)
FLV to 3GP (to watch YouTube videos on your cell phone /beta 2.0/)
MP4 to 3GP (PC/Mac video to mobile video)
MP4 to MP3 (to get a ringtone)
MP4 to FLV (to upload your video on some website)
MP4 to AVI (some old video players can play only AVI files)
MP4 to MPG [MPEG]
3GP to MP3 (mobile video -> ringtone)
3GP to MP4 (mobile video -> MAC/PC video)
3GP to FLV (mobile video -> Flash)
3GP to AVI (mobile video -> PC video)
3GP to MPG [MPEG] (mobile video -> downloadable video)
AVI to MP3 (to get a ringtone)
AVI to MP4 (PC video -> MAC video)
AVI to FLV (PC video -> Flash)
AVI to 3GP (PC video -> mobile video)
AVI to MPG
The service is totally free of cost and the only restriction is the file size, which is maximum of 20MB.
In the current online environment file sizes are rapidly increasing and it is becoming a lot easier to share files. Here is a list of the five most popular file sharing services available today.
Box.net – Box.net is probably the most popular file sharing service available today. Box.net provides their users with 1GB of free space, collaboration tools, web service support and rss feeds. Like many others in this Hive Five, Box.net provides direct links to files so users aren’t held up at a landing page to get their download. Box.net’s biggest drawback is its free account’s filesize limit, which sits at a rather paltry 10MB.
Drop.io – Drop.io has one of the most simplistic interfaces around and it doesn’t even require registration for use. Drop.io specialises in document sharing, offering built-in previews of everything from images to PDFs. The free account has a 100MB storage limit, so unless you’re ready to spend some cash, Drop.io is best-suited for smaller files. Make sure you keep a close eye on drop.io cause they are adding more new services every month.
Windows Live SkyDrive – Windows Live SkyDrive currently offers users a free 25GB of storage space. Although this isn’t as big as Drop.io, it is only a new service from Microsoft SkyDrive works on a folder-based system, emphasizing the ability to organize your files in personal, shared, and public folders. SkyDrive requires a Windows Live account to get started, individual uploads are limited to 50MB.
MediaFire – Users love unlimited storage, and MediaFire offers just that. The service is free, offers unlimited disk space, and requires no sign-up to use any of the site’s features. The files you upload, however, can only be up to 100MB in size.
FolderShare – FolderWShare is more of a file syncing toll than a traditional file sharing service. FolderShare lovers emphasize the ease with which they can share a folder on their desktop, then quickly sync the folder’s contents to a friend’s computer. All you have to do is set it up, then any file you drag into a shared folder is automatically replicated on computers you’re sharing folders with.
File hosting is a big issues these day. Files are getting larger and larger and because there is always a risk of losing or breaking your hard drive, it is a good idea to also backup your files online. Here are the top 5 file hosting sites available today.
FileSavr.com makes file hosting easier with Web 2.0 technology and the use of Ajax and Flash. FileSavr has 10 GB upload size limit, currently the largest available on the internet. This allows users the flexibility to upload any large file of 10 GB or less.
FileDropper’s beauty is in its simplicity.It has one click file hosting where you simply click on the upload button and select your file.After the file is uploaded you are taken to the page where the file is hosted.If the file is an image, it shows the image directly on the page for easier sharing.Upload size is an impressive 5 GB.
FileFactory lets you host files up to 300MB for free. You don’t have to register and there is nothing to download. Your files can be downloaded an unlimited number of times! One thing we found very annoying and spammy about FileFactory was the number of ads they have on the page.
With File Den’s free file hosting and online storage service it’s easy to share files across the internet with friends, family, work associates or anyone else. They allow our users to direct link to their files also giving you the oppurtunity to embed your files into your webpages, myspace or other social networking profiles.
Fileqube has an eye-pleasing design that shows its intentions well.When you upload a personal file it gives you a download link, a link to remove the file, and embed code to drop your file’s link on a website.The only downside is the 150MB file size, which is rather small with some of the other sites in comparison.
LimeWire is clean, safe, virus and malware free p2p software.it has build in media player with optimized search result.supportes download from multiple hosts.
This was one of early p2p program when p2p was still new concept. It supports wide variety of networks like Gnutella, Gnutella2, EDonkey Network, BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP network protocols and which can handle magnet links, ed2k links, Piolet links, and the now deprecated Gnutella links.
Shareza has billions of users and uncountable numbers of files shared across shareaza network
Like Shareaza, Kaaza was one of best and most popular p2p during early days of p2p evolution. but in past few year due to many issues like virus infected files, lawsuite, spywares, Kazaa has lost its
popularity.
However kazaa has been continually trying to make Kazaa network virus and spyware free with many new features like built in virus scanner, infected file blocking made available in latest Kazaa Client to protect users.
Kazaa Lite is one of best client of Kazaa P2P network for file sharing. Supported Operating System:
spyware, adware free
p2p file sharing with application multi language support. iMesh claims to have over 15 million FREE songs & videos Over 2 million original high quality songs licensed from the record labels.
Personally I liked iMesh for downloading music and videos but haven’t found it good for downloading any freeware software or application.
eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world thanks to its open source support and based on edonkey2000 client.
eMule has Multilanguage support with ability to connect to multiple servers and intelligent file corruption detection system to help you in getting genuine files. eMule is free from
spyware, adware and its completely free.
eMule is also available in portable form to run from your USB derive
peer to peer file sharing protocol. This protocol improves the overall usability of peer to peer network, ability to downloads single file from multiple peers simultaneously. KCeasy supports multiple networks for file sharing. Supported Operating System:
Windows XP, Vista Download KCeasy
Ares is one of my favorite p2p program and I have been using it from last 4 years, ares network is not that much big as compared to other p2p but its completely free from viruses, spywares and adwares.
I haven’t got any infected files or corrupted installer. Ares List is used more then normal Ares client because of its low size, speed and performance.
Soluseek central server type of P2P file sharing application. Soluseek is good old
p2p file sharing program best of sharing music files. i haven’t tried soluseek ever but have heard that soluseek is best of music, audio, Mp3 file download. Supported Operating system:
Windows XP, Vista Download Souleseek Client
Ten years ago, who would have thought that most of our work would depend on the internet? The internet allows us to have easy access to our files, anywhere, anytime. We chat face to face with friends, meet clients virtually, process payments in a flash and much more. The internet is huge and you can’t get enough of it. It has no end.
While on the topic of the internet, you can call the current scenario, the Web 2.0 revolution, the next dot com boom. Web apps are torrenting the internet with their numbers and new ones pop-up everyday.
Today, I will talk about the latest additions to the pool, of course; the ones you probably don’t know about.
With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide, it only takes 5 minutes to learn how to use Prezi.
With Wix, you can create stunning flash websites for free, all from your internet browser! It offers you a simple powerful online platform to make flash websites, MySpace layouts and more. No downloads or programming needed.
NiceTranslator is a fast, easy to use online translator designed with simplicity and functionality in mind. It is ajax powered, so you get the translations on the fly!
Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. You get a very easy to use photo editor that lets you add photo effects, custom text or speech bubbles and much more.
WobZip is an online tool which lets you uncompress compressed files online. It supports many formats including the major ones as Zip, RAR, 7Z, Gzip, TAR, ISO etc…
Create an invitation in seconds, add entries from mobile, twitter, email, iCal, gCal or Outlooks. And of course, send them with ease from withing the app.
Fliggo is an out-of-the-box, all-in-one, solution for creating your own video website. It can be a video blog, a YouTube-like community or a private site for your company or family.
SlideRocket is an online, flash based tool for creating slides and presentations. It brings together a complete package of online slide making with features such as an intuitive interface, themes, flickr integration and much more
Ziddu is a new free file hosting solution with features such as unlimited storage space, fast uploads and downloads, file management, a sharing community a referral program and the ability to earn money with your downloads.
YoutubeReloaded creates an embeddable playlist of YouTube videos that can be added to any website. Simply choose a playlist type to create your free youtube playlist.
FriendPaste is a an online tool where you can paste code snippets of many different languages to share with friends. It sports and intuitive interface with support for syntax highlighting.
Survs is a collaborative tool that allows you to build, deploy and analyze online surveys. With a great user interface, Survs is currently in private beta, though a single request fetched us an invitation.
With SendPhotos Mobile, Web and PC you can upload photos, edit them, create photos albums and share them online with whoever you want. Also available for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry.
BackupURL creates instant cached copies of web pages. The content of a web page stays the same while you share the link provided. The cached page can also be used for referencing or even mirroring data. The cached page will always be online (html,css,images) no matter whether the original site is up or down.
CC Betty organizes your message and its contents – photos, addresses, documents, links – and create a mailspace where everyone can track replies, view and add content. You just CC your messages to her!
Make your emails pop with signatures that reflect your personality and change with every email you send! Create signatures with your twitter status, flickr photos, blog entries, youtube stream and much more, all realtime.
Twe2 is a service which sends you your twitter replies, direct messages and custom searches that you specify free to your mobile as SMS. Available in more than 230 countries.
Markkit is a web2.0 text highlighter. Drag’n’Drop the markkit yellow pen into your browser toolbar. Whenever you want to highlight text in a web page, click on the markkit bookmarklet.
So which ones are your favorites? Discuss in the comments, and dont forget to give it a digg
(By) An avid freelance writer and technology enthusiast, Keshav Khera is young geek from India. Fanatic about the web, he also writes a blog and makes unsuccessful efforts to avoid twitter.
So you want to upload a file. For that, you can either head over to a file host like rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire, zshare OR head over to Gazup.com to upload the file to ALL of them at once!
Gazup is a file mirroring site that uploads your file to multiple hosts. Once you upload a file to Gazup, it quickly mirrors that file to multiple hosts, namely 9 of them: Rapidshare, Megaupload, Netload, zShare, FileFactory, HidMyAss, Badongo, MediaFire and Upload Box.
Once the file is mirrored, which does’t take long, you get a download page where all the mirror links are given. This download page is a permanent one so you can share its link with others. You can upload files of any format and max file size is 400Mb (Depends on the hosts you select). You can also upload files by URL, 5 at a time.
There are no daily limits or restrictions. Their service is free but registering gives you certain benefits such as a private control panel, management of uploaded files etc.
(By) An avid freelance writer and technology enthusiast, Keshav Khera is a young geek from India. Fanatic about the web, he also writes a blog and makes unsuccessful efforts to avoid twitter.
Grab Tube’s Converter is a free online application which allows you to download videos from any URL including YouTube and then convert it to other formats. It can also convert from one media format to another after loading the file. This free online service allows you to convert FLV (YouTube), AVI (Windows Video), 3GP (cell phones video), MP4 (Mac + Windows) files to any of the following formats- MP3 (digital audio files), MP4, FLV, 3GP, MPG(MPEG) and AVI.
This is one of best, fastest, safe and widely used p2p program. Performance of BitTorrent is way better then any other available P2P programs.
LimeWire is clean, safe, virus and malware free p2p software.it has build in media player with optimized search result.supportes download from multiple hosts.
This was one of early p2p program when p2p was still new concept. It supports wide variety of networks like Gnutella, Gnutella2, EDonkey Network, BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP network protocols and which can handle magnet links, ed2k links, Piolet links, and the now deprecated Gnutella links.
Like Shareaza, Kaaza was one of best and most popular p2p
Bearshare is pretty 
eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world thanks to its open source support and based on edonkey2000 client.
Ares is one of my favorite p2p program and I have been using it from last 4 years, ares network is not that much big as compared to other p2p but its completely free from viruses, spywares and adwares.
