When I first came across MediaFire, i was very much attracted to the features like free file hosting service, unlimited file sizes, no required signup process, and most of all free unlimited file storage, as said in LifeHacker and online tech tips.

I have uploaded lot of files and created folders, many are private and least of them are public. After that i didn't login for about 4 months, thinking that files will be there on the MediaFire server, as I am a registered user.

One day i signed in and clicked on My Files tab, and i was shocked seeing a message "There are currently no uploaded files in your account, please upload them". Then i sent email asking customer support about deletion of my files in my account. And they said this

Thank you for contacting us. There is currently no time limit on how long uploaded files will be stored as long as you access your account (i.e. login to your account) at least once every 60 days OR at least one of your files is accessed (i.e. downloaded) every 30 days. If your account is not accessed within the time limit, then the files in your account will be cleared.

Please keep in mind that MediaFire was designed to let people host files and images to share with others. It was not meant to be used as a backup service.  If a file is deleted, then both copies of the file are deleted from our servers. No other backup copies are made, and the file will no longer be available for download through MediaFire.  We are very sorry for any inconvenience.

In my reply to the mail, I asked them to include these two paragraphs in their FAQ section. So that users like me don't get any inconvenience using MediaFire.

So folks before using any service like this be sure to make a backup of your files. You may not know, when your files are going to be deleted.

Site URL: http://www.mediafire.com/

Some sites and blogs allow users to save their blog/site pages as PDF. PDF gives user the advantage of using it on any platform and it  considerably occupies less space than the actual page.

Saving web pages PDF means you can read the contents of the page offline later. Some times you may want to save favorite Photoshop or 3dMax tutorials to your system to practice later, in this case you can go for PDF Download.

Also see: Unlock password protected PDF

PDF Download is a Firefox addon that allows users to save any web page in PDF format from browser. Generally web page contains different unwanted elements like banners, ads, Flash elements, pictures, text, and so on. To make converting process faster and to exclude all the unwanted web page elements from the web page you can use Firefox addon Aardvark.

Also see: Converting other formats into PDF

Aardvark removes unwanted web page elements easily with just a right click. Which makes process of converting web page into PDF faster and you have clean pages in PDF, only the content you needed.

Tip: Advark will come handy when you are going to print pages. By removing unwanted elements in web page, you save your printer ink and printed pages will look clean with only content you needed.

If you think you have converted lot of web pages into PDF files, you can combine all your PDF files into one PDF file at PDFHammer.

Related: Printing blog articles and web pages

Giveaway of the day project offers free licensed software everyday. It is the best place to get free licensed software to download.

As the name itself suggests, everyday a new software is given away to visitors. Software product is available for download for 24hours and is free. Visitors get legal version of the software, with out any trail and limited versions. The download link will remain on the web site for limited period of time, how ever if the software publisher agrees it may be extended. Visitors can have review software product and the info of other products from the software publisher. This information is will remain on the site even when the download period expired.

They have also started Game Giveaway of the day. Every day a new Game is kept for download.

Web site says software and game that are kept for download are 100% clean with no adware and spyware. So one can download and install safely.

Site URL : http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ for Software downloads

Site URL : http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/ for Game downloads

Many people use desktop torrent applications to download torrent files. The most popular desktop torrent downloader,well known for its top download speed, is uTorrent. There are new applications coming day by day with torrent download features (like the FlashGet, a windows download manager with a new feature to download torrents files).

But many people don't know that there is a site to download torrent files directly from browser itself, called BitLet. It is an online Bittorrent client. To download just paste the address of the .torrent file and click Download Torrent, and select the directory you want to save the file.

Site URL: http://www.bitlet.org/

Also see: Download Movies, TV shows, Music albums, Softwares, Games

There are tons of Photoshop tutorials that tell you how to make pictures look like centuries old. But all of of those Photoshop tutorials are not so easy.

So here I want to show you site that makes your pictures to look like centuries old. Its a Japanese site, you can also select English language on the top right corner of the site.

Site allows visitors to select a picture from his/her system or simply paste URL of the picture  on servers.

URL: http://labs.wanokoto.jp/olds