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Filed under: Internet, E-mail, P2P

Send and receive files directly with PipeBytes

PipeBytes
Ever need to send a file to a friend, relative, or colleague, only to be stymied by your email provider's 10 or 20MB file attachment limit? There are plenty of sites out there that help you get around this restriction, including YouSendIt, MailBigFile, and Driveway. But while each site lets you send large files, there's still a cap on free file transfers.

PipeBytes doesn't cap your file transfers, because PipeBytes doesn't actually have to save anything on its own servers. The service basically helps you connect with one other user at a time. Just click the "Send File" button, choose the file you want to send, and PipeBytes spits out a code. Give that code to the person you want to send the file to, and they can initiate the transfer by clicking "Pickup File."

The upshot of the service is that you can send pretty much anything you want over the internet for free. The downside is you can't close your browser window. So really, PipeBytes is a lot like sending your friend a file using your instant messenger client -- but you don't have to make sure s/he uses the same instant messenger as you.

The site appears to be advertising supported. While you're waiting for your file to transfer, PipeBytes shows you YouTube videos with AdSense embedded.

[via Read/WriteWeb]

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Video, Web services, Beta

Skype 2.6 Beta is ready for Mac users

skype for mac 2.6 betaAre Mac users ready for another version of Skype? It's still not level with the Windows offering, but its here.

Skype 2.5 was released for Mac way back in November, with Skype for Windows currently sitting at 3.1. The announcement has just been made that the new version of Skype for Mac has been released. The main focus of this release was quality, but there are a few more features that snuck their way in.
One of the biggest features built into Skype on Mac is the transfer option. Users now have the ability to transfer an ongoing call to another Skype user. During an incoming call, clicking "More" in the call window and choosing a Skype contact that you want to forward the call to will transfer it.

Other additions include:
  • Indicator when users are writing a message
  • Public chats
  • Pay with Skype credit seamlessly when making a Skype Prime premium call
  • DTMF tones during Skype to Skype calls
The Skype 2.6 Beta is ready for Mac can be downloaded here. Scroll down to the Skype 2.6 Beta for Mac download box.

Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Fun, Internet, Web services

Amazon Web Services reaches 220,000 developers

amazon web servicesAmazon recently released its fourth quarter results, and the fact that developers joining Amazon's web services grows over 55% each year struck struck Larry Dignan. I didn't think that this many developers were into this feature as I haven't heard too much about apps that have been created. We wrote about wrote about Amazons S3 service when it launched in March 2005. The service allows developers to use Amazon's data storage and transfer capabilities for free. There are monthly fees, however, for storing and transferring data, and it can only be accessed by API's. What can you use S3 for? DLS covered S3AjaxWiki, a wiki solely existing on the S3 service. We also gave props to a Python script creator who developed a way to back up Flickr photos.

If you want to add your name to the growing list of developers, or just check out some of the other neat applications people have created with the Amazon Web Services, there are tons of tutorials, tools and code samples. If you have anything to share, or if DLS readers have hooked up with the S3 service to create something interesting, please show off your skills in the comments.

Filed under: OS Updates, Hardware, News, Windows, Microsoft, Commercial

Microsoft's "Windows easy transfer"

Windows Easy TransferWith Vista approaching our PCs next year like a 1970's shag-mobile that has a weird start-and-stop brake problem, many PC users will be hard pressed to find an easy way to move everything from your XP machine, to that spankin-new Vista machine you'll get during the holidays this year. I won't have this problem, since I back everything up and am accustomed to reinstalling everything anyway, but my family will need an easier way. Microsoft's new "Windows Easy Transfer" idea is supposed to be able to handle this all-too-common problem of moving everything to a new digital home. It will consist of a special transfer cable or use of your network and a piece of software to handle the transfer. Sounds simple enough right? Personally I am skeptical on this one. Microsoft has been pretty out-to-lunch with past "pc-to-pc transfer" ideas in the past, which makes me wonder if this will be a viable route for the general populace to use in practice. Hopefully Microsoft has figured it out, because it would really help the adoption of Vista among many people who consider easily moving their stuff to a new PC a deal-breaker for buying one in the first place. Look for Microsoft's new "Windows Easy Transfer" product being sold by cable vendors. My guess is that it will available for sale around January or February of 2007 in tandem with Vista (for consumers).

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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