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RapidShare is undoubtedly the most popular and old file sharing network today. Other networks include, megaupload, mediafire, megashare, sendafile and lots more. Their business model is based upon revenue generated from Premium Accounts and selling advertisement space. RapidShare has become so popular that there are many RapidShare Search Engines today, which delve deep into RapidShare to bring file URLs to you for download.

But I have just found a file sharing service, with lots of additional features, which make it an ideal service for file sharing.

Welcome to Drop.io.

It is a place, which allows to store and share any files privately, without accounts, personal registration, or an email addresses. These files are fondly called drops and are not ‘searchable’ and not ‘networked’.

It allows you to set various things like a password, whether others can add to the drop, and how long you want it to exist.

The interesting part is that this space can be used as a community space, where others can add, delete or edit the files available there. For instance, this space can be developed as a sort of communal blog, and give anyone the option to add, annotate or upload different files. And there are lots of ways the files can be uploaded onto this space. They can upload usually via Web, or through email, or through FAX or even leave voice mails by calling a dedicated number with an assigned extension.

The interface is neat and clean, and it is fun to use. However I wish that the entire gamut of services available there should be more searchable, because at first glance, it just looks like any other file storing and sharing service. Yet another problem, which I found that it is not possible to associate privacy features to individual files. These settings are attributed to the entire space at one go.

All in all, a nice web tool.

Last year around during Fools day there were a few tricks played by Google which left people clueless about toilet wifi and also some Gmail on paper. This year around there has been an increased participation by top bloggers in the April Fool’s celebration and I have been amazed at how these bloggers are really enjoying Fool’s Day.

Here are some posts from the bloggers I follow and what they are using to fool people.

Darren from ProBlogger had posted about PayPerTweet which announced to the world about getting paid for helping advertisers by twittering about them. If you use twitter you can follow me here.

TechCrunch founder Micheal Arrington posted about why he is going to sue FaceBook for $25 million while he is liable for $150 million.

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Well I could not just hold myself from posting this but this image actually says much more than it does and for everyone in love do take this as a way of knowing about the sacrifices people do to keep being with you.

Happy Loved Life From Techie Buzz.

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Well literally speaking they turned off the lights on their homepage in US, UK and Canada. If you are one them who are not seeing this home page then check out the screen shot below which I took at 4:31PM EST (Eastern Standard Time in US).

Well it’s a bit tougher to search now as its quite dark now.

Inspiration for this post even though I saw this earlier came from Download Squad.

To all those who are using WordPress Automatic Upgrade and may have upgraded to WordPress 2.5 there is a bug which was reported earlier which breaks automatic plugin updates which is a feature in WordPress 2.5.

This feature breaks because of a library we used to handle zip files which is also used by the plugin updater. Since the plugin updater does not need to check if the class in question has already been instantiated I have changed the code in the plugin to ensure that the PclZip library is not loaded while updating a plugin.

Anyway for those who do want to continue using WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin please update to the latest version first or else if you are already using WordPress 2.5 first deactivate the plugin and then update and activate it.

I take immense pleasure in saying this too that WPAU has reached version 1.0 and actively supports upgrading from WordPress 2.5 to any new version that may be released.

Download: WordPress Automatic Upgrade v1.0

WordPress 2.5 has been released officially today at the Dallas WordCamp after months and months of delays and version skips. This blog has been updated to the latest version using WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin.

Have you updated yet? Do let me know your feedback on what you think about WordPress 2.5.

A note for WPAU users after upgrading the file and clicking on the link to update the database when you come back to re-activate the plugins you may need to login again but don’t worry since you will directly be taken to the page where the plugins are activated again, so do not close the window that asks you for your login or else you will have to manually reactivate the plugins yourself.

Have fun once again and cheer that WordPress 2.5 has finally been released.