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Have you ever been in one of those urgent situations when you need to send or receive an important file from your client, boss, colleague or teacher, but it is too big to be attached or transferred to your email?. Today, we’ll go through a brief review of one of the most famous and used online file transfer services. Let’s review YouSendIt.

YouSendIt provides a trusted, convenient and smart solution for transferring large files over the Internet, replacing the need for FTP transfers or overnight courier. YouSendIt makes it really easy to deliver files larger than what your email service may allow.

YouSendIt has different service plans. Most of them have a monthly fee. These plans allow you to send files up to 2GB, but the service Lite is completely free.

YouSendIt can now count more than 10 million people among its registered users, which is a big step for a small business that started in 2004. Part of the reason YouSendIt’s had its best two quarters in the company’s history this year is that enterprises are catching on, and the company’s Corporate Suite now has 1,500 registered companies after only two years in the market.

Some of the larger companies using YouSendIt’s solutions are Shell Oil, Sprint and ABC.

Beyond being a really simple information transfer service and alleviating email restrictions, YouSendIt in many cases is replacing FTP systems as a simpler, more secure way to transfer data.

The free service allows you to:

* Send files up to 100MB with a 1GB of monthly download limit
* Allow up to 100 download of every file
* Keep track of your friend’s and family’s email addresses in one handy location
* Give your recipients 7 days to download the files you’ve sent

How does it work?

Step1
Enter the recipient email address and an optional message

Step2
Attach your file and click “Send it”

Step3
Your recipients receive an email that lets them inmediately click and download the file

A really useful tool to keep in mind for your daily work duties and files transfers.

Recently, YouSendIt reached 10 million users and released a press note:

YouSendIt Soars Past 10 Million Users

Rapid growth propels YouSendIt to world’s most popular secure digital file delivery service

CAMPBELL, Calif. – August 20, 2009 – YouSendIt, Inc. announced its latest milestone today, now counting more than 10 million people among its registered user base, accelerating at the rate of a quarter million new users each month. Since its founding in 2004, YouSendIt has established itself as the most widely used secure digital file delivery service on the Web, capitalizing on increased corporate demand for fast, secure and compliant information transfer.

Experiencing its two best quarters in the history of the company this year, YouSendIt now has more than 100,000 paid subscribers and completes more than 10,000 new pay-per-use transactions per month. In addition, YouSendIt’s corporate solution has attracted more than 1,500 companies after a mere two years in the market.

YouSendIt has seen significant traction among small and midsized businesses and within specific line-of-business functions where the need for secure, fast delivery of large volumes of digital data is paramount. YouSendIt is also finding success among large enterprises, counting organizations such as ABC, BP, Chevron, Conde Nast, Disney, GE, MTV, Shell Oil, Sprint, Starbucks and the US Army among its customers.

“Five years ago, we set out with one goal: to delight our customers and exceed their expectations. Now, 10 million registered users later, YouSendIt has validated secure digital file delivery as a viable professional and business solution for critical, secure information transfer,” said Ranjith Kumaran, CTO and co-founder of YouSendIt. “Moving forward, our focus will continue to be on easing the pains of business document delivery and collaboration, while increasing value to our IT customers with cost reduction, enhanced security and compliance enforcement, all of which will help us continue growing our leading market share.”

YouSendIt’s 10 millionth user was Barry Smith, MD, PhD, director of The Rogosin Institute in New York City, a not-for-profit institution for research, treatment, and education relating to kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer and lipid (cholesterol) control. Employing more than 350 doctors, nurses, researchers and administrative employees, the Institute’s mission is fostering understanding of disease and bringing the resulting research advances to patients and clinics as quickly as possible. Rogosin is an affiliate of The New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College and is a member of the New York- Presbyterian Healthcare System.

The Institute needed to send large files—such as data from clinical trials of potential new therapies, research data and manuscripts, protocols, and digital imaging files—to collaborators both within and outside the Institute, as well as government agencies and institutional review panels. All of this data had to be sent back and forth quickly, reliably, and— most important—securely.

“YouSendIt lets us deliver critical laboratory, clinical research and care information, and work products quickly and safely throughout our Institute, as well as to a variety of outside partners,” said Dr. Smith. “We no longer need to worry about the capacity of the recipients’ e-mail servers or networks. File transfer has become a smooth and simple process.”

In addition to its growing customer base, YouSendIt has also expanded its service capabilities and debuted its first mobile application for the iPhone this year. In July, it also unveiled a new Microsoft Outlook plug-in, allowing users to send entire folders via the digital file delivery service. The company also received industry recognition for its market leadership. It was awarded a Stevie Award for “Best Overall Company,” voted a Webware 100 winner, and named a Network Products Guide Hot Company and a Red Herring North America 100 winner. For more, please visit our blog at: http://blog.yousendit.com/.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.yousendit.com/

I always remember those old times at school or college when I needed a scientific calculator for an unexpected test and had to run and work miracles to get it for my answers. Today, those are just funny memories. You can find  about anything on the Internet, especially, the important and vital tools for your education and school. Today, we’ll review a very useful tool: Encalc.

According with the Official Website, Encalc is a free online calculator with support for variables and dimensional units (meters, inches, Amps, etc). It makes unit conversions and evaluating formulas simple by abstracting away the calculation part from your side to the computer’s side. Encalc was made to simplify long, dimensionful calculations. You can also define variables in order to vary the parameters independently of the expression.

Encalc supports the abs, sqrt, log, ln, exp, sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, and cot functions, as well as the inverse trigonometric functions arcsin, arccos, arctan, arccsc, arcsec, arccot. It also works with binary and hexadecimal numbers. Encalc supports logical comparison calculations.

The calculator does not require any installation. It is located on the web and works through your browser.

It’s now possible to share Encalc through your website or blog. To do so, simply copy the code below and paste it on your blog or website.

Embed calculations of your choice

If you have a specific equation that you’d like to put on a website, you can do so easily. First, type in your expression and any variables on the main calculator. Then click on “Embed This” in the top right corner of the calculator. You will be taken back to this page, along with your expression.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.encalc.com/

Facing so many different things, activities and responsibilities, if we can’t take control of our tasks and time, we’re dead. That’s why it is so important to adopt a personal time and task management tool and be able to take control of all our daily activities, tasks, meetings, responsibilities, objectives and goals. There are dozens of online services offering you time or task management tools. Today, we’ll go through a brief review of a new fresh, easy-to-use and friendly task management tool: ToBeeDo.

According with the Official website, ToBeeDo is an online to-do list and task management service that saves time and helps get stuff done faster.

ToBeeDo’s interface is very unique in this industry and the developer team hopes it’s something new that you will love and use with pleasure. ToBeeDo’s goal is to have an intuitive and simple interface that allows you to save time and money.

With ToBeeDo you won’t have to worry about updates or hosting. ToBeeDo hosts the application for you. This way, you are always using the latest version of our service.

Stop juggling tasks in your brain. ToBeeDo helps you to stay on top of your busy life simply and quickly. You will never forget what you need to do next.

What are some of the benefits of using ToBeeDo?

Save your money
ToBeeDo is a service by subscription that billed on a per user per month basis, so you will use what you need and pay for what you use. An on-going monthly expense is easier to incorporate into your budget than a large one-time outlay. You can cancel or change your subscription at any time without losing a large initial investment.

Save your time
The software is already running on our servers. All you need to do is to create account and start using ToBeeDo.

Other
* Friendly, fast and simple interface
* Hierarchical folders in each project
* Time tracking ability for every task
* Taggable tasks
* Multiple contexts

ToBeeDo works with Google OpenID platform. You can log on this service with your own Google Account. This way, you won’t need to create an account.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.tobeedo.com/

Sharing your personal/business email address in Twitter, public forums, Craigslist, Gumtree, Social Networks, Chat rooms, Blogs, etc., might expose your email to some spam robots and email harvesters constantly browsing these sites to collect new victim emails. Today, we’ll bring a brief review of two useful free online tools that help you to protect your email address from these security and privacy risks. Let’s review scr.im and emailcover.

scr.im is an online service that allows you to convert your email address into a short, cute and safe link you can share anywhere on the web.

How does it work?

Step1
Type your email address

Step2
Select the url you want for the scr.im link

Step3
Start sharing your email account everywhere you want safely with your new scr.im link

Visit the Official Website: http://scr.im/

Emailcover provides this free service which hides your email address in a CAPTCHA image to help prevent spam email being sent to your email address. This dynamically created image never looks exactly the same, making it just a little harder for spam bots!

How does it work?

Step1
Type your email address

Step2
Get your CAPTCHA image and share it with confidence anywhere you want

Visit the Official Website: http://www.emailcover.com/

One of the biggest concerns for every professional, small business owner, student and even for any family, is how safe is their personal/business data on the network, or how reliable is their internet access and safety when someone tries to access harmful websites. It is always useful to set your security options in your router or DNS Server and install an anti virus in your computers. Today, we’ll provide a brief review about OpenDNS, a free security tool that will bring extra protection to your network at home or personal business. Let’s review OpenDNS.

According with the Official Website,  OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. OpenDNS services enable consumers and network administrators to secure their networks from online threats, reduce costs and enforce Internet-use policies. OpenDNS is used today by millions of users and organizations around the world.. OpenDNS is a free service that works for networks of all sizes, from home networks to K-12 schools, SMBs and large enterprises. Learn more about how OpenDNS can benefit you by selecting your network type on the left.

What are some of the benefits of using OpenDNS?

Security

• Industry-leading anti-phishing protects everyone on your network from fraudulent phishing scams
• Award-winning Web content filtering gives you the power to block up to 50 categories of content
• Detailed statistics empower you to understand your network traffic and spot trends before they become problems

Infrastructure

• OpenDNS globally distributed network makes Web sites load noticeably faster on your network
• Anycast routing technology makes your Internet more reliable, freeing you of intermittent outages

Navigation

• Browser Shortcuts let your users map a short term to a long URL via the address bar
• Typo correction auto-corrects the most common typos in top-level domains
• OpenDNS Guide provides helpful search results when your users try to visit a Web site that isn’t resolving

For more information about the services and configuration, watch a short video here

Visit the Official Website: http://www.opendns.com/

Not just professional musicians, singers or music bands, but everyone can get their own free music server. If you’re a professional related with the music world, the tool that we’re about to review might be perfect for your business, services or plans. Today, we’ll go through a brief review of a new free open-source music server that will allow you to manage your music and let your friends and fans to listen your music list and production. Let’s review Sockso.

According with the Official Website, Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server for everyone! It’s designed to be as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some mp3’s can get their friends listening to their music across the internet in seconds!

What are the key features?

* Simple setup (no install! just double click and go!)
* Supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, Flac, and WMA
* Easy web-interface for your friends, and a GUI for you!
* Online flash music players, playlists, search, etc…
* Download single tracks, or entire albums/artists or playlists
* Statistics like most played, recently popular, etc…
* Completely customizable/skinnable web interface
* User and site playlists
* Gui-less console mode for running on servers
* User account control, with playlists
* Uploads from users
* Album art for artists and albums
* Re-encoding of output streams to save bandwidth if needed
* Cover Flow style artwork view
* Last.fm related artist and scrobble log integration
* Multi-format access logs
* SSL support
* Translations: Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, French, Italian and German

Visit the Official Website: http://sockso.pu-gh.com/

A good friend sent me few days ago a video with some amazing and extremely interesting facts about Socia Media and how it has come to create one of the greatest revolution processes ever known in human history.

Here’s the video:

The video has said it all. As shown on this short video, I personally believe that Social Media will break paradigms (it is breaking them right now!) and will create and expand the way we see and understand things in business, education and life.

The key for professional and business success will be focused on how well we’ll understand people and all the communication process through Social Media. We can see it now, how Social Media is breaking all kind of boundaries (social, political, economical, etc) and brings so much opportunities and a massive avalanche of information available for anyone and everyone, at anytime, anywhere… in just a matter or seconds.

I hope you could enjoy this video as much as I did. If you’re a small business owner, an individual providing any given professional service,  a student or just a reader, think about it and start changing your own paradigms about Social Media and all the great opportunities it brings to all of us and how it will change the world forever.

It really sucks when we try to open a new account in a new social network or online service and at the end of the process, the system says that your desired username has been already taken. Then you’ll have to start o be creative and get new and different usernames for all your new accounts, and at the end, you’ll have as many usernames as social networks or popular sites are in the Internet. Today, we’ll bring a short review about a really cool and extremely useful free online tool: Namechk.

Namechk checks to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Namechk helps you to promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites.

How does it work?

Step1
Type your desired username

Step2
Click on Chk

Step3
Namechk will show you if your desired username is available or taken in more than 70 different Social Networks and Online services

Visit the Official Website: http://namechk.com/

If you have decided to launch or take your own Blog to the next level using Wordpress,one of the important details to consider is your template. You might have the chance to choose within hundreds of really cool free templates on the Internet or pay for one (which I believe it’s a waste of money, unless you’re trying to launch a high level and unique Blog!).  Today, we’ll offer a brief review of a free automated web designer tool that will help you to create your own Wordpress Blog Template, giving you the chance to create and design a new template with your own and unique personal touch. Let’s review Artisteer.

According with the Official Website, Artisteer is the first and only Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website templates and blog themes.

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If you’re trying to improve your business website and get more attention and visibility,  or simply get more tips to boost your marketing campaigns, then Hubspot can help you with two free interesting tools. Hubspot has launched a free online SEO tool to help you to get your online Score and a complete Marketing Report. Let’s review Website Grader.

According with the Official Website, Website Grader is a free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective. Read the rest of this entry »