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Megaupload founder strikes back, develops API to connect non-us servers offering on-the-fly, easy, one-click-encryption, free of charge

The shutdown of file-hoster Megaupload.com and arrest of founder Kim DotCom was a shocker. Now while the trial is still underway, Kim DotCom is all determined to give anti-piracy agencies future sleepless nights with his promise for a new API which would make file-sharing, safe, easy and private.

Tweeting “They abused the wrong guy. I am going to turn this world upside down. Power to the people. Bye bye Echelon." (Echelon - a secret government operated global digital spying network), in further tweets Kim DotCom revealed his plans for an API which seems to offer developers power to create file-sharing applications which would use storage and bandwidth of globally distributed servers with on-the-fly encryption, ensuring complete privacy from government agencies.

Grab WinZip Courier worth $24.95 for free and experience the easiest way to compress and email large attachments

Emailing large files which surpass the 10/20 MB maximum file-size limit imposed by most email services today is a hassle we have to face every now and then, while there are free online solutions like FileFlyer and YouSendIt, these web-based services have failed upload issues on slower connections.

If you happen to email large attachments here is an great opportunity to grab WinZip Courier utility worth $24.95 for free designed to tackle exactly this issue, using WinZip Courier users are able to Zip, encrypt, and safely deliver large files via seamlessly integration with email applications, office suite and even web-based email services like Gmail.

Winzip Courier Activation

WinZip Courier features seamless integration with popular email clients and web-services, automatic file compression of outgoing files, support for emailing compressed file-size upto 2GB, secure password protected and encrypted file delivery options, one-step image resize and more all from an integrated, easy to use interface, right from the application of your choice.

Winzip courier

Amazon Glacier - Low cost data storage for just $0.01 gigabyte/month

Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier is the latest offering from world's largest cloud service provider, the service offers online data storage service at rock bottom pricing at just $0.01 gigabyte/month with no bandwidth charges for uploading data.

The pay-as-you-go storage service is designed and suited for data which does not change much (cold storage) and is basically archival in nature - the service offers users with one of the best low-cost, secure, durable and flexible online storage solution currently available.

Free CDN Account with 1 Terabyte bandwidth

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed at various location all across the world to serve digital content, CDN's offers website service providers to make use of multiple servers all over the world ready to deliver there content to end-users from their nearest location with fastest route. Apart from the website loading speed improvements using a CDN service also takes away load from the main origin server letting it work more efficiently.

CDN

MaxCDN is one of the leading CDN service providers and the one we use of this blog, normally they charge $39.95/year for 1 Terabyte of bandwidth but under a limited time promotion users can grab it for free.

uTorrent users reaction on Windows 8 Metro UI !!

Success and failure of upcoming Windows 8 release largely depends on how users respond to the new "Metro UI" interface, while some are loving it many simply hate the new design. Here is how users responded to the news of popular torrent client utorrent being developed for the Windows 8 Metro UI.

utorrent

Favkeeper - Free, cross browser bookmark synching with cloud backup

Synchronized web-browsing across devices is a common feature amongst modern web-browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, the ability to have in-sync web-browsing history and other settings is definitely a must have feature considering we have many computing devices including desktop, laptop, mobiles and tablets nowadays.

However very useful, the built-in feature only allows users to sync between same web-browser, and if you are looking to get your bookmarks synced across multiple browsers and devices free utility and cloud service FavKeeper is the solution. FavKeeper allows users to not only have cross-browser bookmark synching but also unlimited free cloud backup.

Bypassing desktop browsing censorship when using mobile only data plans

Some cellphone carriers restrict users from desktop web-browsing on low value data plans and when trying to access any website from computer they are blocked and something similar to following is shown instead of loading the webpage.

Access Blocked on desktop By Aircel GPRS

Free EA Games for Desktop, iPhone, iPad, Android and Web-browser

Electronic Arts is one of the biggest game studios, apart from paid blockbuster gaming titles the company also offers games for free. EA offers a large selection of free games for a variety of platforms which includes iOS, Android and web-based flash games. This list also includes popular titles under "Free4Play" offering.

Popular iOS and MAC email client "Sparrow" now belongs to Google

Elegant, lightweight and fast email client "Sparrow" for Apple Mac OS X and iOS platform got acquired by Google, Sparrow is a popular utility which uses a simplified user interface and is tightly integrated with Google and other IMAP email accounts. The simple to use email client features drag-and-drop attachments, Dropbox/Box.net support for uploading attachments, Growl support, Gmail labels and keyboard shortcuts, as well as threaded replies and easy switching between accounts in desktop version.

Both the iOS and Mac versions of Sparrow offer a better usability then native email clients on respective operating systems.

Sparrow

With Google's purchase of the client utility, one can safely assume and expect "Sparrow" themed changes in Gmail in future.

Reserve your Outlook.com email ID before someone else does...

Microsoft is betting high on cloud computing and it's recent release of Office 365 certifies this, Microsoft has now opened it's gates for free account registrations at outlook.com - so hurry-up and go grab yourname@outlook.com before anyone else does.

Based on now Microsoft universal Metro UI interface the free web-mail service looks snappy and elegant.

Outlook email grab
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