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A new online tool, JustPaste.it makes it easy to share text and graphics over the Web. This service allows you to quickly paste text directly from your word processor of choice onto the online page. You can then spruce up your documents with text formatting, colors and more.
Think you have it tough? You ain’t got it tough. The people who have it tough are on SimplyFailed.com. This is an entire web site dedicated to the idea of not succeeding. You can become a fan of them via Facebook, Follow them via Twitter, read through the stories or post your own.
Here are just a few of my favorite “fails” from the web site:
Now there are too many free image hosts out there on the Web today to name, so if you want to impress you had better do something slightly different than all the rest. Pict does that job very well, by shortening the free image hosting process to one step.
How simple is it? All you do is click on one of the empty “Upload Image” boxes, select the image, wait and you are done.
Really, that is it. No more. It is that simple. How simple? This is such an easy image uploading process that Picamatic decided to do almost the same exact thing.
Free image web hosts are a dime a dozen, and with that said here is another time for your piggy bank of free web hosting options. ImgLot delivers free image hosting with the idea of simplicity in mind. Trying it out, I uploaded a test image here.
Site features include:
The only thing that the web site’s creator is asking in return, is that you tell others about the ImgLot hosting service. After you upload your image, you are given the option of a direct link, a page, forum code for linking and HTML code too. You can also share your image on a number of different social news and networking sites.
Give them a shot at ImgLot.com and follow them on Twitter (@ImgLot) for more news and updates.
Want to do a little file sharing via Twitter? The new service FileTwt does just that. You can now easily upload and tweet about your files for free.
You can quickly share any file that is up to 20MB in size with your entire Twitter network or just a single follower. All you do to get things to work is give the FileTwt web site your Twitter details, find the file you want to upload, and then tweet away. Your newest tweet that you send out will have a special link attached that will let those who got the message download the file in question.
To get started, head over to FileTwt’s web site, and get signed up or try out the limited services for people who do not sign up for the extra features. File sharing via Twitter has never been easier.
Are you one of those people who are just more interested in posts and articles on web sites if they are in list form? If so, ListCamp wants you! This new resource promises to be a new way to discover and share resources from anywhere in lists.
There is no real science here, it is a web site with lists. Lists such as:
Another nice features include the ability to vote a choice up and down, and also the ability to sign in using your Google account. If you feel the itch to create a list (or just read one), visit ListCamp.com.
Want to share your art, your photos or your digital creations via Twitter? There are a lot of ways to get the task down, however here are the seven best image sharing sites that aim themselves at the tweeter on the street.
Know of another you love to use, but didn’t make it on the list? Leave it in the comments.
Everybody these days is promising to make your URLs you share shorter, but not many are making them longer! Longr.us is a simple web site that will make your web site addresses just a little longer. For example it took:
and turned it into:
See, that has to be at least 10% longer! All kidding aside, there is a purpose to this. As you can see from the example above, it doesn’t give you a random mix of numbers and letters. Instead if stays focused on explaining where the link came from and what it is about. They also promise the long URLs are guaranteed to fit in 140 characters (for you Twitter users). They even have easy access through a bookmarklet too.
Before you laugh it off as a goofy idea, give it a shot. You might find longer is better (when it comes to sharing your links!).
Need an easy way to upload a file to multiple free file hosting services all at once? Upload Mirrors might make this tasks the easiest out of all the solutions I have found online that claim to do the same.
All you have to do is select the file you wish to upload, select the services you would like to upload to, and then the upload button will generate your single download link. Which free file sharing services are supported?
Once you get the download link, you can easily share it with your friends on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and other networking platforms. If you are in search of an easy way to make a few mirror downloads for the free file you wish to distribute, Upload Mirrors is well worth bookmarking.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
