Internet has exploded to a huge pool of online services and information network from its birth few decades back. Due to high demand for free online services, a lot of stuff has been made free of charge by the services websites, in turn they plan their revenues from other strategies. Well its still difficult for a normal internet user to find all these awesome hidden services that surprisingly come for free.So here is a list i compiled to make your job easier of getting those cool services so that they dont go unnoticed in your life.
FREE ONLINE STORAGE
DropBox- Free 2GB of storage space and easy to use and huge user base.
Box.Net- Free 1GB of storage space with 25Mb single file limit.But has great pricing plans.
SkyDrive- Free storage space of upto 25GB from Microsoft. But has a lame 50MB single file size limit.
SugarSync- Free storage space of 5GB from Gizmodo
UbuntuOne- Online Storage solution from Ubuntu called the Ubuntu One offers 5GB of Free storage.
EDUCATIONAL TUTORIALS AND FREE COURSES
AcademicEarth-Watch video of more than 1,600 lectures by professors of Harvard, MIT, Stanford,Yale and more top universities. Covers a range of tutorials on a wide area of subjects.
LiveMocha- World’s largest online language learning community, offering free and paid online courses in more than 38 languages. Members can register and take introductory courses on the site for free or can also take up premium courses.
WEB DEVELOPERS TOOLS
Google Page Speed- An open source project from google which analyses a web page and provides free suggestions on best practices and optimization techniques on speeding up your website.
FireBug- Firebug gives free web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
PingDom Tools- A st of awesome tools that tests the performance,DNS health and loading times for a website.
Loads.in- Test your website loading from over 50 locations worldwide and also check with various popular browsers across the world.
EARN MONEY
Freelancer- World’s largest outsourcing marketplace, empowering entrepreneurs & small businesses worldwide. Sell your projects using bids or you can work on projects to earn money.
Prizes- Earn big money by answering small questions like helping in naming a brand or any other small tasks. Service provided by “Google” and is currently under beta.
FREE INTERNET PHONE CALLS
Google Voice- Google Voice is the very best way to make free Internet phone calls(restricted to US and Canada). With Google Voice, you can make free phone calls, free PC to phone calls (via Google Talk browser plugin), and free PC to PC calls (also via Google Talk).
Freebuzzer- Supports over 40 countries and works a lot like Google Voice , that it connects your phone with the phone number you dial. Your free call is limited to just two minutes and you can only make three free calls a day.
EvaPhone- Supports calling any phone across the world with limitations to short minute calls based on locations and an advertisement at the beginning before the call starts.
FREE MUSIC
Spotify - A free peer-to-peer music streaming service that allows registered users to play and listen to almost any tracks or albums, and with little or no noticeable buffering delay. You can browse your Music by artist, album, direct searches or playlists. The Free membership plays ads in between and the premium version skips the ads.
Pandora- Its a automated music recommendation and also a Internet radio service. Allows users to enter a song or artist and responds by playing similar music selections as the users taste. Users can then provide feedback on approval or disapproval of songs played by the service. Again this service is available free for registered users (with advertisements). Presently, access is restricted to the U.S. due to licensing constraints.
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Facebook- The service requires no introduction and is the worlds largest social network with amazing features and user friendliness. A great place to be to connect with your friends online.
Twitter- Tweeting your way with all your updates and recent happenings also helps during movements to spread the word. A powerful social network to follow your interests and people.
LinkedIn- A social network for professionals and a service which is helpful for getting you a right job and spreading your skills or expertise online.
FREE ONLINE TV
Streamick – Has More then 300 real TV channels from across the world to choose from including NBC, ABC, ESPN, BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and ranked by the site users.
TvWeb360 – TVWeb360 gives you free access to over 1000 TV channels from around the world in 15 different languages including English, French, Spanish,italian etc. You can browse these channels by categories like news, sports, music, lifestyle and more.
Free TV – Includes Lists of thousands of TV links, Movie links, and Live TV channels online.
TV Channels Free – TVChannelsFree is a website that provides around 3000 TV channels from all over the world. All listed channels can be watched for free. You can stream live TV channels from over 60 different countries , starting from popular new channels like BBC, CNN and EuroSports to local channels from the United States.
Hulu – Hulu is a popular web service that offers you to legally download full episodes and video clips of your favorite tv network shows and major motion films. The quality of the video is very good and clear. Hulu organizes the shows based on categories like “Comedy” or “Action and Adventure”, and so finding your favorite show is very easy.
If you know some cool and amazing services online and want to add it to the list, then let us know by your comment. Cheers..:D
anything that's for free that are found in the internet would be the greatest thing anyone can have. Practically speaking free internet would be the greatest thing you can enjoy. Those free tutorials are a huge help especially for students who are researching about school projects and school stuffs. And also to some business minded people those earning money in the internet is another huge boost to there income and profit.
well said..:D..web services will be great as they continue to offer more free services with their alternative revenue from ads etc. This helps a lot of students to learn free via the tutorials or offer great services for free to improve peoples lives..:)
Practically speaking free internet would be the greatest thing you can enjoy. Those free tutorials are a huge help especially for students who are researching about school projects and school stuffs.
In SOCIAL NETWORKS Facebook And Twitter is Best
I switched to VM from BT over a year ago and have had no complaints about the internet service until now – it was a lot better than by old ADSL BT service. Shortly after the new year I started to notice streaming videos were getting stuck and ping rates were increasing dramatically in online games.
I’m fairly confident this is a purely an over-utilisation issue because the service is fine at 8am – pingtest.net records an A rated service; but by 5pm in the evening it shows an F grade with pack loss around 28% and equally horrific ping/jitter.
At peak time games are out of the question, as is youtube/iplayer. Even browsing web pages is a hassle as the high packet loss means pages often have to be re-requested. Quite simply the quality of service is appalling making my old ADSL line look positively wonderful; which is a sad state of affairs.
Can anything be done to get back the service I used to have? Would upgrading to the XXL service (from XL) get me away from the congested UBR? (if that is a the issue)
I would like to get my IE bookmarks from the full backup I have on an external disk (made with windows 2000 backup utility) but don't know what file I'm looking for. I forgot to export them to a bookmarks.htm file before wiping the system.
Practically speaking free internet would be the greatest thing you can enjoy. Those free tutorials are a huge aid particularly for students who are paying close attention to about school projects and school stuffs
yeah….internet is one of the best thing that has happened….u get a lot of help on all..like forums ,tutorials, information etc….i cant list them all..but will try to share what i find interesting/..:D