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Tried out the free version of Grooveshark today. Rather than selecting songs from “similar” artists to the on you chose as Last.fm does, Grooveshark allows you to search for exactly what you want. The you can make playlists that remain available (as long as you save them).
In addition, you can upload your own stuff from your computer to add to what’s in Grooveshark. Haven’t apparently yet found how much space is available to you on the free account. The VIP account, which costs US$3 per month (same as Last.fm) apparently allows to you to store 50,000 songs which is about 300 GB and that’s a lot. Not sure though if this is just for your own stuff that you upload to Grooveshark or it includes all songs you’ve saved in playlists.
In any event, I’ve been using Grooveshark all day and I’m extremely impressed. Quite a chance I’ll end up paying for this.
I used to love cl1p.net whose main feature, as far as I was concerned, was the ability to upload a file (up to 30MB) which I could then access from any other networked computer.
Then, suddenly, the file sharing option was dropped. Nothing about this appeared on the homepage nor did I come across anybody else refer to this loss. Am I really the only one who found this useful? In any event, cl1p.net is now just useful as an online copy&paste facility. But I want more.
Well, now there’s a substitute, file2.ws, which does basically the same thing alhough the maximum file size is limited to 15MB. So, for example, I uploaded a 1MB photo and file2.ws provided me with a url. When I clicked on the url, the photo opened instantly an gave me an option to download it.
Unlike cl1p.net, however, seems to handle only one file at a time.
I found out about this in this article where a number of other similar tools are reported.
[Actually, I had forgotten about Postica which is a kind of online postit note system. It also allows you to "post" files up to 5MB in size that you can subsequently access from anywhere]
