Soundsnap a sound effect sharing site, where anyone who makes good high quality sound effects can upload and share with the world. Soundsnap organizes sounds by categories, and each one brings you to other deeper categories to find that specific sound your looking for. On the listings page, Soundsnap provides each sound effect with a flash preview and sound wave pattern. The site is pretty stable most of the time. However, if you click on a WAV file and then click a preview sound after that, it causes Internet Explorer to display an error that it cannot download. This goes away if you refresh the page.

One of the things we liked is their use of tags. Each sound file has their own tag, which helps you identify what exactly is going on. You can also use these tags to find deeper search results, for example, if your looking for laugh tracks but with only a female voice, the tags can be typed into the search bar and they’ll show up in the results. The only thing we would like from this service to make it easier, is to be able to click on multiple tags on the same screen. That way people wouldn’t have to type anything in the search bar to get relevant content.

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Blingee may be just another site like pikipimp, but its far far easier to use. Blingee’s website is clear from obnoxious ads and crazy pop-ups and gives you the tools to create your trendy blingin masterpiece. One of its notable features is the Fill Area tool. You can instantly add your own background below your photo. Although it works better if you have taken your photo against a white wall. Blingee also allows you to add graphics from other glitter sites like myspaceglitter, in a feature called "Stamps" You can upload any photo and it will shared for other users to create their own images. Adding bling to a picture is as easy as clicking certain spots of where you want it to go. Rotating is done much much better than pikipimp, as it doesn’t squash or stretch it. Of course with using glitter graphic sites, the main drawback is your photos will have poor quality due to Gif Standards. We’d like to see if a site like this could make use of flash and keep pictures high quality with all their bling.

 

After you have finished creating your picture you must then register, it will then provide you the code needed to direct link to the image. Now Blingee gets a bit ridiculous in advertising considering it adds a black logo on each image. So here’s how we can remove Build Your Own blingee, while keeping the link back to the site. We’re nice people OK :) but don’t push us Blingee.

  

Removing Unnecessary Build your own Blingee Advertisement. Look at the Code Below

<a href="http://blingee.com/blingee/view/17523460-webappsreview" alt="Build your own Blingee" target="_blank">
<img alt="webappsreview" border="0" height="160"
src="http://image.blingee.com/images12/content/output/2007/7/22/67392172_e25eba33.gif"
title="webappsreview" width="106" /></a><br /><a href="http://blingee.com" target="_blank">
<font size="2">Build your own Blingee</font></a><br /><br />

The example above shows a complete code you should put on your myspace. To make this cleaner remove everything you see above thats highlighted in green. Of course your not supposed to use MY code, but you should look at your own code for your own picture and remove what I highlighted. When your done the resulting code will look similar to the one below

<a href="http://blingee.com/blingee/view/17523460-webappsreview" alt="Build your own Blingee" target="_blank">
<img alt="webappsreview" border="0" height="160"
src="http://image.blingee.com/images12/content/output/2007/7/22/67392172_e25eba33.gif"
title="webappsreview" width="106" /></a><br />

Now your done! Enjoy making blingin pictures!

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Whether your using a Flash Mp3 Player, or using Windows Media Player to play your mp3s, here are 7 places you can use to host your MP3s. Each site is different and have different restrictions.

OneDump

OneDump provides the easiest interface to upload Mp3s First Click on [Upload Audio] and Browse your computer to upload the MP3. After your done, the direct link to your  MP3 will be the last box. Copy And Paste this into whatever MP3 Player site your using.

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Bandwith: Unlimited
Upload Size: 5mb each

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MinorCrisis

 

MinorCrisis is one of the new mp3 hosting sites specifically catering to hotlinking, and supplies an MP3 search.
First, Uncheck Share File. Click Browse and choose your MP3. Click Upload.

Limitations

Bandwith: 500MB a day
Upload Size: 5Mb *Unregistered || 50Mb *Registered   

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MailboxDrive

MailboxDrive’s interface is a bit obnoxious and the steps it takes to get a file activated is silly.
First, Register by clicking Register Here on the right side. After you fill out your information, update your contact information Click on Upload Music Upload the song. Open your Email Activate the Song by going through the link in the email. Click Your Music The mp3 will be the numbers before Play Button. Right Click on the Link, and press Copy Shortcut.

Limitations: 

Bandwith: Unlimited?
Upload Size: 50mb

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FileAve

FileAve registration process is a bit strange as it sends you off to its sister website for no reason. If this happens to you just go back to fileave.com and login from there. First Register by clicking SignUp! Fill out your details. Log In! Click Files, Upload Files, Browse, and select your MP3 Click Upload and Click Files again Right Click on your MP3 File and press Copy Shortcut The direct link to your file is within the shortcut. If you want to quickly embed the file, click Get Codes for ways on how to put it on your website.

Limitations:

Bandwith: 1GB a Day
Upload Size: up to 50Mb

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SnapDrive

Similar but not as obnoxious as FileDen, SnapDrive allows users to instantly create a flash player they can put on myspace. Register First, then Click Add Files Click Upload, then Click My Files The Direct Link of the Mp3s can be found by clicking Edit next to the file name, then clicking URL. SnapDrive also hosts their own mp3 flash player which you can read about in their blog.

Limitations:

Bandwith: 500MB a day
Upload Size: 100MB

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Well there wasn’t any news as to why Lovemyflash stopped working last month but now the site and server is faster now, and all layouts are working. Here you can read our review of lovemyflash.

 

Update July 23, 2007

We have just been informed that lovemyflash is now working, you can read our post for more information.

 

 

 

 

Today we review 7 up and coming image sites. Will these sites reign as new alternatives to Photobucket, Imageshack, and tinypic? Lets find out!

Photolinko

The site is a bit cluttered with Ads, but is pretty nice and easy to upload. The fun stops here once the image linking codes are shown. Each image linking code has a direct link back to photolinko, including a text link below the image. Its pretty easy to remove it out, but for people who don’t know how to, they’ll have to deal with it. The site has linking codes for Myspace, Forums, and HTML. [photolinko]

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JPEGR

One of the few black interfaces to upload images. Its very clean and tidy. Uploading images are pretty fast, sometimes too fast that the image shows itself as a red box because it hasn’t been processed yet. After a few seconds you can go to the direct link of the image and it will load correctly. Linking codes are clean and nice. The site has linking fodes for HTML, and Forums. [jpegr]

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img.la

img.la reminds me of the heiress Paris Hilton. With its sleek and sexy design, the forms move up and down moothly allowing you to upload your image and read more information while its being processed. Unfortunately, just like Paris Hilton, the site was too stuck up that it didn’t want to give us the linking codes to any image and failed to show us where the image uploaded to. This site has failed due to bugs. [img.la]

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thumbq

The site was pretty simple, it had some ads though. There are 5 forms to upload images. The linking codes were only to a direct link, it didn’t have any other options. [thumbq]

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xmgimage

You have to sign up inorder to use this site. Which is unfortunate to people who want a quick linking code. The site also provides a nice image editing tool but without any undo options for some strange reason. Linking codes can be directly inserted in your myspace by login information (Web Apps insists that you don’t give any website your Myspace Login Information). Instead you can direct link, or choose Friendster or Facebook share. [xmgimage]

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imagehigh

Imagehigh has a large form to upload as many images as you want as long as you abide to the terms of service. They even put a scare tactic saying your IP has been logged for who knows what.. Anyways as we were trying to upload the image, it redirected us to a blank page and we don’t know where our images went. This site has failed due to bugs. [imagehigh]

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bayimg

bayimg is the Pirate Bay’s image hosting site, promissing that images won’t go down with DMCA notices unless they are "illegal". Bayimg requires every image have a removal code. You can also upload images within a zip file as an album. Direct linking isn’t shown after you upload the image, you’ll have to right click and select properties to see the direct linking URL. [bayimg]

 

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OneDump came along to the file hosting market with 3 simple choices. You can host your Mp3s and even hotlink them for Myspace Flash Music players. You can host your pictures and spread them on forums and websites. You can also host your terrible fanfiction stories as .txt or .doc files. There’s some good things going on at OneDump though, for instance, its not bombarded with advertisments, it allows adult images,  and there is no bandwith limits. Remember though, with every other file hosting site, copyrighted files have a higher chance of being deleted from the server. You can also register incase you want to keep track of your files.

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Dizzler is too big for your myspace layout, and you want it smaller? Well, Dizzler doesn’t allow the option to resize through their music player page, but we can hack around that.

In order to change the size of Dizzler Music Player, take a look at the code

<embed src=http://player.dizzler.com/KmF8NDk1NzEx&ms=1
width=”500″ height=”350″ quality=”best” scale=”noborder” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” ></embed>

Do you see height, and width? These tell you how long and wide the player will be. So in order to make it smaller, change the value after height and width. A small Size would be height=”250″ width=”150″. Lets Change the Code of the Height and Width to “250″ x “150″

<embed  src=”http://player.dizzler.com/KmF8NDk1NzEx&ms=1″
width=”250” height=”150” quality=”best” scale=”noborder” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” ></embed>

Now we’re done! Now it should be small enough to fit in your layout, but you won’t be able to read it, but thats something you can’t fix.