Free file storage and sharing

If you have media or data files to share with others through your website or blog, here are free file hosting and sharing sites.

Be warned though that some of the files already hosted on these sites can be dodgy in their content, so please be careful!

iFeeder is a free image and video hosting solution with tags

youtube - Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!

yourfilehost is an online file storage service to easily share files with everybody you want!

putfile is a FREE dedicated digital media hosting service.

putphoto - the FREE photo album website!

flickr - "the best way to store, search, sort and share your photos!"

First Birthday

It's been a year since I started this blog! Time for a cup of tea and some cake to celebrate!

So far this year I've just been using this blog as a handy place to keep a record of the best freeware I've found, and links to my favourite websites. I've recommended it to my friends as they often ask me where they can find good free software or resources for various things, and if anyone else found this blog and enjoyed it as well - then all the better!

Maybe this year I'll use it as more of an outlet for my personal "ponderings" as well... who knows... time will tell! :)

Urban Space

Urban Space: "STILL LIFE... PHOTOS. Very personal and touching, these photos convey a lot of emotion and have a magical quality about them... simply beautiful."

Christian Solidarity Worldwide - A Voice for the Voiceless

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is a human rights organisation specialising in religious freedom. CSW works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs and promotes religious liberty for all.

Through the information provided in this website readers can join in and Take Action to help those who are persecuted through prayer, protest and provision.

There is also on online version of their Response magazine and Prayer Diary.

Free Serif Software

Serif Software "are giving the people what they want: Software With Imagination... for Free!

That's right, 100% completely free software. No gimmicks. It's yours for free. Download today and start using the most user friendly software around." - End of official website blurb!

5 software packages are available for download -
* PagePlus - Desktop Publishing
* PhotoPlus - Photo and Image Editing
* WebPlus - Web Site Design & Publishing
* DrawPlus - Graphic Design and Vector Drawing
* 3DPlus - 3D Animation and Modeling

Independent reviews have spoken favourably of these freeware applications. Pageplus appears to be the only freeware desktop publishing program available on the web so if you're looking for one this seems to be a good program to start with.

For a really good photo and image editing program I prefer Photofiltre over Photoplus but they are both very good programs.

Starfall - Free learn-to-read website

"The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling."

My kids go to this website often as they absolutely love it. The lessons are well thought out with a lot of clever interactive flash animations that are extremely intuitive for ages 3 and up!

I highly recommend it!

Photofiltre - Free Digital Image Editor

This is what Robin Good at Master New Media has to say about Photofiltre:

"This is the best free digital image editor for Windows PCs that is available out there bar none. I don't know how I have been missing this tool, but you can be sure that, if you are a non-technical user, this is the only software you will need to do 99% of your digital image editing tasks.

Photofiltre is a perfect tool for anyone with some basic familiarity with digital imaging who wants to avoid getting into the complexity and price tag of Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.

While for many years I have strongly recommended and used IrfanView (free) for most of my basic digital image editing tasks and Serif Photo Plus 5.5 (free), I must admit that I have switched to Photofiltre in no time at all. I would sincerely recommend Photofiltre to any non-technical user needing to work with digital images. At this price level there is really little else that can do this much.

Highly Recommended."

For the full review, you can read it here.

Photofiltre can be downloaded for free here:
http://photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup-en.exe (English version) 1.6 MB

Plugins for Photofiltre - a super collection of great plugins: from screen capture to fish-eye lens distortion correction and everything in between.

Gallery of images created with Photofiltre.

Tutorials.

Development kit Sources in Delphi, C++ Builder, C and ASM - Version 1.0 beta, April 2004, 350 Kb

Free Images and Visuals

I was going to post about the best websites available to find royalty free images and photos, but then Robin Good wrote a great article that provides a comprehensive and detailed list:

I also recommend having a look at these photo blogs. While the photos aren't normally royalty free, they ARE very good:

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ - a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days.


http://photo-a-day.blogspot.com/ - A picture from each day of Tim Halberg's life from August 31, 2005 onwards.


http://visiondaily.blogspot.com/ - a great blog with Christian inspirational photography and messages