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Instant messengers are blocked at most work places, school's and universities using sophisticated firewalls and internet censorship applications, however such restrictions can be easily bypassed using web-based messenger services, allowing you to chat using your preferred IM service like Yahoo Messenger, GTalk, AIM or MSN without installing anything on your computer.

After FolderShare from Microsoft, Dropbox is another similar service, but with much better interface and ease of use, currently under closed private beta the service allows users to synchronize files between multiple computers both Mac and PC.

DropBox makes file-sharing and syncing as simple as it can get, The client integrates with the files system and you just need to drop your files inside the special dropbox folder and rest is taken care in background by the Dropbox client. As a file inside the special dropbox folder gets changed, automatic file syncing takes place and online version of the file is updated.

All files inside your Dropbox can be accessed and shared anytime using the online interface, even when your computer is powered down, the best thing about the service is its ability to retain older versions of the file as a backup copy, incase the file gets deleted by mistake from the Dropbox folder.

If Windows SkyDrive's 5 GB of free online storage is not sufficient for your needs, ADrive is offering a massive 50 GB of free secure online storage with file-sharing enabled, and unlike Mediamax 25 GB free storage offer with download limit, there is no such