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March Blitz

Last fm is discontinuing free music streaming in all but three countries namely, UK, US and Germany. Starting March 30, 2009 free streaming music to all will stop unless you pay subscription. Pandora then last fm.
The web site said this is a business decision. The three countries where free music will continue, offers advert support for free music service.

Dimdim is an excellent video conferencing service for the masses. It features true computer screen sharing with multiple parties. Up to ten with free account and if you decide to upgrade to premium up to 20 participants. You can upload your presentation to their website and participants can see them just like in a whiteboard.

The site also has a private chat feature but it seems overkill just for one on one communication. Dimdim accomplishes all these without any software downloaded to your computer. Just open an account at their website here.

This is great when you have a problem with your computer and the way to solve it is to show someone the screen. This is for those scenarios needing collaboration on a document/presentation with multiple parties seeing the changes in real time. Oh and if one of the parties can't make it, there's a recording feature for playback later.



Jetbytes is an on the fly file transfer service that accomplishes its job without storing your files in their servers (at least not very long). No opening accounts and no fuss. Simly point the file out and you will be given a download link which you can send to recipient.

As long as you keep the browser open to the website the transfer proceeds. The browser window has to remain open until the transfer is complete.

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