The Best Free Offers Blog

2011-10-04T03:58:00.000-07:00

30 September
Syncplicity - Free 2GB online backup: automatic backup; get more free space when you invite your friends (one for 1GB); up to 2 computers; iPhone & iPad access; private sharing.

2010-12-11T06:26:00.000-08:00

10 December
Memopal - Free 3GB online backup: automatic backup; get more free space when you invite your friends (one for 500MB); send files larger than 1GB; data transfer using 128 bit encryption; protect all your computers with the same license; with your password you have access from any internet location; private sharing.

2010-08-30T05:50:00.000-07:00

The forum for the best free offers has been down for more than two months due to recent changes at awardspace.com.
Now it is up again.
Thanks for your support.

2010-06-06T01:30:00.000-07:00

6 June
OOdesk - Free cloud desktop: free 10GB online file storage also; iphone & mobile access; create & manage your content by adding applications & widgets from all type of providers; organize & view your photos; stay in touch with friends & family through information flow management & instant messaging; media player; online office; uploading via Java or HTML; e-mail client; public file sharing.

2010-04-17T04:57:00.000-07:00

17 April
Ovi Files - Free 10GB online backup: synchronization between multiple computers & Nokia mobile devices; access your digital content wherever & whenever you need; client software available for Windows only; private sharing.

2010-01-23T06:18:00.000-08:00

23 January
Startforce - Free cloud desktop: free 5GB online file storage also; Kingsoft Office online; mobile access; calendar; instant messager (supports ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN & Google Talk); media player; Bulk Uploader / Downloader; e-mail client.

2010-01-23T00:49:00.000-08:00

A new section The Best Free Cloud Desktop is added.

2010-01-10T02:02:00.000-08:00

10 January
icloud - Free cloud desktop: free 3GB online file storage & online backup (with 150MB single file size limit) also; instant messenger (supports MSN, ICQ & Google Talk); calendar; photo manager; media player; WebDAV.

2009-12-05T19:44:00.000-08:00

6 December
GLADINET - Free software: Gladinet Cloud Desktop maps cloud storage as a virtual drive and automates online backup with local files. It is a personal cloud agent, an open online backup platform, and a desktop delivery agent for cloud service providers. Amazon S3, EMC Atmos, Windows Live SkyDrive, Box.net, Google Docs & Picasa are supported. Strongly recommended!

2009-11-08T00:59:00.000-08:00

8 November
The Best Free Online File Storage - Two free online file storage services Onehub & ZumoDrive added. Strongly recommended!

2009-10-30T23:56:00.000-07:00

31 October
gDisk - Free Gmail applications for Mac OS X: a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet.
Live Mesh - Free 5GB online backup & sync: free online file storage & media library also; synchronization between multiple computers & mobile devices; client software available for Windows, Mac & mobile systems; private sharing.

2009-10-18T09:10:00.000-07:00

19 October
SugarSync - Free 2GB online backup: free online file storage & photo album also; stream music without storing the songs on your computer or mobile phone; for every friend you introduce to SugarSync, they'll give you both 250MB of bonus space up to a limit of 5GB; client software available for Windows, Mac & mobile systems; available through Windows Explorer; easy file sharing with Public Links.

2009-08-08T08:14:00.000-07:00

8 August
Liondrive - Free 5GB online storage: uploading via Java, FTP, HTML or WebDAV; stream your media files; directly view your document files; directly access your files in archives; 20GB bandwidth limit per month for downloading; powerful file sharing.

2009-07-19T05:24:00.000-07:00

19 July
Dropbox - Free 2GB online backup: free online file storage & photo album also; 30-day undo history of file operations; for every friend you introduce to Dropbox, they'll give you both 250MB of bonus space up to a limit of 3GB; client software available for Windows, Mac & Linux; private sharing only.

2008-12-03T20:19:00.000-08:00

4 December 2008
SpiderOak - Free 2GB online backup: free online file storage also; continuous backup; retention of all versions of your files; web access; easy sharing.
The Best Free Online File Storage - Two free online file storage services Huddle & Storegate added.

2008-11-08T05:53:00.000-08:00

It has been more than one week since the 5Gigs server was down again.
There is no info for this downtime. It seems that the 5Gigs company has run out of business. So the website updating is suspended, until we know of the situation.

2008-09-19T08:13:00.001-07:00

19 September
Bluestring - Free online media center: make a creative story of your special events, memories & more combining your photos, videos, music, and transition effects; store, organize, share & stream your media files online quickly & easily; connect to your Xdrive online storage, AOL Pictures, Picasa & more; you can use your AOL/AIM Screen Name or your email address to sign in; with String It, you can share your creation from an event with friends & family and then invite them to add their own photos, videos, or music to it to keep the story going.
Kadoo - Free 10GB online file storage: 1GB single file size limit; beautiful web interface; Java or HTML uploading; stream your media files; public or private sharing.

2008-08-06T06:08:00.000-07:00

4 August
Adobe Acrobat.com - Free online office: free 5GB online document storage; create, edit, share & collaborate on your documents online; send documents without e-mail attachments; embed your documents in webpages; meet live over the web and share your screen with anyone; convert 5 documents to Adobe PDF online for free.
Pictomio - Free software: freeware that sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing & management of your photo & video collection; get the full power for your GPU; display photos by the date taken and EXIF values (e.g. type of camera) as well as sorted by category & album; integrated EXIF editor. Strongly recommended!

2008-06-21T09:08:00.000-07:00

18 June
DatR - Free 1GB online file storage: 250MB single file size limit; HTML uploading only; easily send WAV & MP3 files to phone; stream your media files; public sharing.
GoStats - Free web statistics & counters: can be invisible; allow private statistics; detailed viewing of recent visitors, geographic statistics and supports multiple websites; you must have weekly stats email enabled to select invisible counter.
Giveaway of the Day - Free licensed software: Every day they offer for FREE licensed software you’d have to buy otherwise. The software will be available for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher) and that software will be absolutely free and be presented in its full functionality.

2008-05-31T04:45:00.000-07:00

Glide OS 3.0 The Complete Mobile Desktop Launches At D: All Things Digital

Version 3.0 of the Glide Mobile Operating System Unveiled Today to Technology Executives at D6

Carlsbad, CA, May 29, 2008 - (PR Newswire) TransMedia launched today at the D Conference hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher the all-new Glide OS 3.0 universal computing platform.

Glide is the complete mobile desktop solution featuring more than 20 advanced productivity and collaboration applications with both offline and online access. Glide runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile - and supports over 75 mobile devices. Glide is available in 18 languages including English, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.

"Wouldn't it be great if you could have one compatible file and information management system and one compatible set of applications for all of your devices and what if you could extend that compatibility to everyone you communicate, share and work with?" contemplated TransMedia Chairman & CEO, Donald Leka with the audience at the D Conference. Mr. Leka continued by explaining "that was the goal when we set out to build Glide -- to develop a technology that could cut -- or Glide -- through proprietary OS, hardware, software, file format and network barriers -- like butter."

Glide OS 3.0 has many new features and an all-new design. Key Glide Applications include:

• "One" (Synchronization for Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows)
• Glide Mobile (Full Suite of Glide Applications for Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile)
• Glide Photo Editor
• Glide Write (Word Processor)
• Glide Presenter (Presentation Application)
• Glide Crunch (Spreadsheet Application)
• Glide Ad-Free Email
• Glide Groups & Projects
• Glide Meeting - Video, Audio & Text Chat With Integrated File Sharing
• Glide Calendar
• Glide Contact Manager
• Video Jukebox
• Music Jukebox
• Slideshow Creator
• Widgets (Calculator, Stickies, RSS Reader, Weather, Music Player etc.)

Glide web applications use a combination D/HTML, AJAX and Adobe Flash. Mobile and embedded devices can also access the Glide OS via HTML, XHTML and WAP and CHTML web browsers. Glide OS native applications on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and mobile and embedded devices use a common C++ code base. Native applications communicate and synchronize with the online Glide OS via web services.

Glide offers a comprehensive application suite for Linux (both 32 bit and 64 bit) that is cross-platform compatible making it possible to take Linux mainstream and provide an attractive and powerful alternative to Windows and Mac.

Glide Mobile Device Support (Over 75 Devices)

• Apple iPhone / iPod Touch
• BlackBerry Pearl (8100, 8120), Curve (8300, 8330), 8700, 8800
• Casio G'z
• HP iPAQ, hw6510
• HTC i-Mate, Touch and Touch Dual, AT&T Tilt 8925, T-Mobile Shadow
• Kyocera Neo E1100
• LG VX8100, VX8300, VX8700, enV2
• Motorola Ming, Razr V3, Razr2, SLVR, ROKR, Q, Q9c, Z9
• Neonode N2
• Nokia E61/E62, N95, N800, 6102i, 6300, 6682, 9300
• Palm Treo 650, Treo 680, Treo 700P, Treo 700W, Treo 750, LifeDrive
• Samsung Blackjack, A707, D807, A920, Verizon FlipShot SCH-U900, Instinct
• Sanyo Katana LX
• Sony Ericsson w600i, w810i, Z750a
• T-Mobile SDA, SideKick, Wing

Glide's Rights-Based Platform

The entire Glide System (including all Glide applications) is governed by a rights management system.

• User Assignable Rights
• File Viewing (Set Number of Views)
• File Download (Set Number of Downloads)
• File Upload (Limits MBs, GBs)
• File Transfer (Between Accounts)
• File Modification (Non-Destructive, Version Control)
• Group / Project Management (Manage participants, rights and other group and project parameters)
• File Computer Sync Access (for offline group collaboration)
• Parental Controls (for children from ages 1 through 12)
• File uploads and transfer require parental approval
• Individuals must be pre-authorized by parent and added to a "child safe" contact list to communicate with child
• Children can only view "child safe" files, contacts and locations
• Graphical child-friendly user interface with integrated drawing tools and child created desktop themes
• "Child Safe" portal content
• Content Identification
• Media Fingerprinting
• Content owners determine user sharing and use rights

Glide Privacy and Social Networking

The development of Glide OS 3.0 as with its predecessors has considered the serious consequences of advertising business models found in online web services (in particular the threat to online consumer privacy) and developed a viable and sustainable alternative. In Glide OS 3.0, a user establishes his own personal web space and sets his own rules of online engagement. Each user can control how their personal web interacts with the personal webs of others. In contrast with ad driven online communities, Glide users get to individually set all of the ground rules and are empowered with tracking tools to protect their personal information and files. As privacy awareness grows and alternatives emerge, people are increasingly opting to protect their personal information and interact in a more intuitive and natural way.

Automatic Device Identification and Compatibility Engine

Glide's automated device recognition and trans-coding system makes it possible to share virtually any file with virtually anyone overcoming proprietary hardware and software barriers when sharing files with family, friends and colleagues. Glide makes it possible for individuals and families to purchase virtually any combination of computers and smart phones and be compatible with each other and with work.

• When shared with others, files are automatically converted and delivered in the appropriate format and optimal size
• Glide's automated device identification and compatibility engine functions within Glide's communication, collaboration and productivity applications
• Glide provides support for over 250 file formats

"One"

Glide's new Sync application called One, provides file synchronization across Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers. Users can automatically synchronize all of their files including video, music, documents and photos to and from Windows, Mac OS X and Linux PCs with mobile access on over 75 mobile phones.

Glide also enables rights based file synchronization with other user accounts for secure online and offline social and business networking through the new Glide Groups application. A Glide Group is a place where family, friends, students, colleagues and people who share a common interest or cause can securely network, communicate, share information and collaborate online and offline. Glide Groups works in tandem with Glide's synchronization technology enabling friends, family and colleagues to remain in sync. All files added by users and file edits whether they are made online or offline are automatically replicated across all targeted online and offline synchronized group locations. Assignable rights control how files and groups are accessed both online and offline.

Glide's synchronization technology also works in tandem with Glide's version control maintaining complete records and user-friendly access to previous drafts. All file edits whether they are made online or offline are automatically replicated across all targeted online and offline synchronized locations. Another new feature called Glide Spider is a file location tracking system. Spider identifies the location of all copies of a file and who has file access with the ability to immediately change or revoke access rights.

Finally, Glide's synchronization technology works together with Glide's device recognition and file transcoding technology making cross platform personal and collaborative computing seamless.

"Glide is the complete mobile desktop solution providing a secure and powerful platform for personal and collaborative computing," said Mr. Leka. "Glide untethers you from your computer desktop and effectively transforms 75 models of mobile phones and counting into 75 powerful mini-computers."

Press Contact:
Marcus Farny
+1-212-675-6664 ext. 105
media@transmx.com
TransMedia: www.transmediacorp.com
Glide OS: www.GlideOS.com
Glide Mobile: www.GlideMobile.com

2008-05-02T23:50:00.000-07:00

3 May
Ubuntu - Free software: a community developed, free and open source, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops & servers; contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document & spreadsheet software, instant messaging & much more; will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates.
FreeMySQL - Free website tools: Being the first free mysql database provider to have a control panel for their clients to manage free databases, they give you the option to have multiple databases under one account. You are never limited to how many you can create, with a max of five at one time.

2008-05-02T20:57:00.000-07:00

The 5Gigs server is down now and then these days. If this situation persists, I will consider to give up this server.

2008-03-29T03:01:00.000-07:00

28 March
8TT.org - Free 5GB web space: 10GB per month bandwidth; no ads on your site; no forum posting required; they backup your data on a nightly basis; able to host your own domain name; PHP & MySql with 10 databases; control panel; FTP access.
Other Free Offers - Free online image editor & photo gallery Adobe Photoshop Express and free document sharing & conversion Adobe SHARE beta added.

2008-02-28T04:10:00.000-08:00

Google acquired hosted wiki service Jotspot in October 2006. The service immediately stopped taking new users, although existing users were supported. Now, nearly sixteen months later, Jotspot has been relaunched under the Google Apps team, as Google Sites.

Google Sites looks absolutely nothing like Jotspot, other than the fact that both are hosted wikis. All of the structured data templates launched by Jotspot in July 2006 have been stripped out. Users now have a choice between just five basic templates - a standard wiki, a dashboard where google gadgets can be embedded, a blog-like template for announcements, a file cabinet for file uploads, and a page for lists of items. Instead of creating structured templates, users will now simply embed spreadsheets, presentations and word documents from Google Docs, as well as Google Calendars, YouTube Videos and Picasa Albums.

Like Google Docs, Google Sites wikis can be made private, shared with others, or made public. Users can select from a variety of templates, but cannot yet customize the look and feel of the site. Somewhere down the road, Google says, they’ll release an API for the new service as well. Editing is done with a rich text editor that allows for basic formatting.

Google Sites is a free product, with limitations on support and storage (10 GB). Users can upgrade their Google Apps account to a standard edition, also free, and map their own domains to the site. A premier edition is also available for $50/user/year that includes a service level agreement, support and more admin capabilities.

All wiki pages have RSS feeds associated with them to allow users to track any changes.

Existing Jotspot users will continue to be supported on the old platform for the near future, and they will also be given instructions for porting their Jotspot wikis to Google sites.

In an interview today, Google’s Management Director of Enterprise Matthew Glotzbach called the combined products under Google Apps a “Microsoft Sharepoint killer” because it’s allowing businesses to collaborate without all that expensive Microsoft software. It may not be a Sharepoint killer yet, but Google Apps constitutes 2-3% of Google’s total revenues. Some point soon, its going to start hurting Microsoft.

Sample screenshots:

2008-02-17T06:19:00.000-08:00

16 February
GOPC - Free online desktop: free 100MB online file storage & free 10MB email also; gives you a host of open source programs that are functionally equivalent to and compatible with programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PhotoShop & many other programs that you're familiar with; share files or directories with other users; safe & secure.
ADrive - Free 50GB online file storage: 2GB single file size limit; multiple files & folders uploading & downloading via Java; public sharing only.