Wordpress is a term you definitely knew or at least have heard about a lot and there’s no need to talk about its important role in today web design.  As a web designer, whether you like or not, you cannot neglect it if you want to continue your business. In this post we have put together a list of some of the best Video Tutorials on Wordpress (including designing and coding for wordpress). Here’s your chance to learn Wordpress if your time is limited and don’t have much time to spend on books.  The video tuts featured here are for both beginner and advanced users.

1- Designing for Wordpress

In this three parts series Chris Coyier’s goes to walk through designing for WordPress:

Part one:

• Running time: 16 minutes
• This part is about downloading and installing Wordpress and installing the ‘starkers’ theme.

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Part two:

• Running time: 53 minutes
• In this part you will go over the theory behind designing for WordPress.

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Part three:

• Running time: 59:38
• In this part you will learn how to finish up the design and start in with some more advanced functionality.

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2- Hodgepodge of Wordpress Tricks

The running time of this Wordpress video tutorial is 43 minutes and it covers:

• Listing categories with a built-in function and building a tabbed navigation from them with “current tab” functionality
• Numbering comments with a simple incremented PHP variable.
• Improving WordPress search with a plugin and making better design choices.
• Live comment previews with JavaScript and/or plugin.
• Setting better titles for all pages.
• Setting different backgrounds based on URL.
• Setting different styling based on the post ID.

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3- 10 Tips To Make WordPress Hack-Proof

What a fantastic Wordpress video tutorial is really is! It would be perfect to learn some security tips to avoid getting hacked and keeping your Wordpress secure.

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4- Add a twitter field to your form (Wordpress) wp-twitip-id

A five minutes Wordpress video tutorial that is about installing and configuring the wp-twitip-id plugin for Wordpress blogs.

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5- All in One SEO Pack – WordPress Plugin

‘All in One Seo pack’. Yes, it’s the name of one of the recommended Wordpress plugins and this Wordpress video tutorial shows you how to use it for Wordpress.

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6- Configuring Wordpress

Here you can access 8 series Wordpress video tutorials that all of them are about configuring Wordpress:

Part 1:

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7- Creating a Wordpress Template

In this 3 series Wordpress video tutorials you will learn how to create a simple Wordpress template:

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8- Using CSS and Blockquote

It’s really recommended to watch this video to see how you can use the blockquote icon (the indent icon) and CSS formatting to make an otherwise normally-formatted paragraph change color, change position, and italicize. In this way, any time you needed to use that particular formatting on a page, you would just use the blockquote icon.

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9 – Lost Password, Update User Info

Have you ever lost your password? Don’t miss this video tutorial to learn what to do after losting password and learn how to update user info on Wordpress.

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10 – Sharing Your Content for Traffic – Tutorial

This video tutorial helps you to Learn how to share your blog content and improve traffic while knowing exactly where your traffic is coming from and which articles generate it.

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11 – 10 Advanced Wordpress Video Tutorials

While I was searching, encountered with 10 perfect advanced Wordpress video tutorials that are avalilable for direct downloading in .zip format. In the list below you can see the tittle of all of them:

1. How to Upgrade WordPress Using cPanel
2. Upgrading WordPress Automatically Via The Dashboard
3. How to Install and Set-up Windows Live Writer
4. How to Use Windows Live Writer to Write Content
5. Installing New Plugins in Windows Live Writer
6. How to Create Backups for Your WordPress Blog
7. How to Edit WordPress Theme CSS Styles
8. How to Create a Static Front Page in WordPress
9. Introduction to Getting a FeedBurner Account
10. . Redirecting Your Default RSS Feed to Feedburner

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12 – WordPress Tutorial Custom Post Background

This video tutorial can answers one of the common question of many Wordpress users, which says: “Can I have different backgrounds on different pages?”

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13 – Advanced Wordpress Thumbnail Generation

The title says all about this video tutorial. Yes! in this tutorial you will learn how to have thumbnail on your Wordpress blog.

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14 – New Features of WordPress 2.9

This tech video from Kentucky Classroom teaches you all about Wordpress 2.9’s new features.

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15 – How to Run WordPress on Your Windows Computer Using XAMPP

This video tutorials includes two parts to learn you how to simply run Wordpress on your Windows Computer.

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In today blogging world getting high rankings for any valuable niche is really hard and without paying some $$ or even some $$$ you’re not going to see your blog/website on first page of lovely google (usually).  But along with purchasing relevant back-links you must consider some essential tips to not annoy Google’s robots. Your Wordpress powered blog/website should be attractive for those robots looking for pretty websites!. As you use Wordpress, there are some SEO pitfalls you may not know. So in this post, we’ve put together all you need to get your website a better ranking on search engines. Let’s enjoy!

1. The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog

If you are looking for a fantastic comprehensive guide with a good categorized table of content at the first to learn more about SEO for Wordpress, this tutorial would be yours!

This tutorial will also be useful to start learning about SEO for Wordpress from scratch.

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2. 10 Important Tips to Optimize Wordpress for Search Engines

Although many publishers think that Wordpress doesn’t require any Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but in this tutorial, Ayaz Malik has made a list of 10 necessary changes for getting max out of search engines.

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3. 20 Practical SEO Tips to Super-Charge Your WordPress Blog!

This tutorial covers some useful subjects including: pinging, sitemaps, canonicalization, link juice, header tags, slugs, tags, timestamping, social media, permalinks, and a whole lot more!

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4. Brilliant Wordpress SEO Tips for Bloggers and Webmasters

This Wordpress SEO tutorial is simply about some common Wordpress SEO tips. It’s really recommended for all Wordpress users to use all tips in it.

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5. SEO for Wordpress

This tutorial includes some tips and video tutorials which are all about SEO for Wordpress.

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6. Setting Up Wordpress for SEO

In this tutorial there are a number of  advanced tweaks and WordPress plugins you can install to help with URL structuring, search engine crawling, handling duplicate content, optimizing title and meta tags, images and internal linking.

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7. 9 Must-do WordPress SEO Tips that you might have missed

This tutorial is a different one! It’s not about some repeated tips in some other related tutorials. But it’s just about some short and useful tips that may some users miss them.

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Christmas is a holiday season and it’s the time you should do something not related to your daily work. You know exactly how to spend your holidays and I’m not going to talk about it here anymore. The purpose of this post is to prepare a (somehow) Christmas gift for those who love learning new things ever on holidays. Of course this post will help designers that don’t know a lot about Adobe Illustrator power and have been looking for some great tutorials to learn on their spare time of Christmas holidays to start the new work-year more strongly!

These tutorials are hand-picked under the following categories:

• 1- Character and Cartoon Design Tutorials
• 2- 3D Tutorials
• 3- Logo Design Tutorials
• 4- Text Effect Tutorials
• 5- Patterns

1- Character/Cartoon Design Tutorials

Creating vector characters in Illustrator

This tutorial let you know how to go from sketch to the finished product to design a perfect character like above.

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How to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a funny looking cartoon style just as like as the final image preview above.

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How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale

In this tutorial you will encounter with 16 steps to learn:

• How to create a vector illustration from sketch to finish in Adobe Illustrator according to the demands of micro-stock websites.
• How to clean up your Adobe Illustrator file before saving it in EPS format.
• How to find and close all open paths.
• How to save EPS and JPEG files correctly for micro-stock sale.

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Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

This tutorial shows you how to spend 22 short steps to create a cute panda bear face icon all from ellipses (well, actually there is one rectangle for the background). The great part about this tutorial, is that you can easily apply the techniques to other icons, illustrations, logos, or other projects.

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Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator

As you can see the final image above, this illustrator tutorial gives you some steps to create a nice funny monster as your character. You will be working with the basic shapes to start, then use a variety of gradients to add depth.

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Create A Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon In Adobe Illustrator

Since twitter is one of the most common social medias, this tutorial would be really useful to create a nice twitter character for your own projects. This tutorial contains 31 really short steps.

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How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character

This illustrator tutorial will show you how to create a cute bunny character. It uses simple shapes and gradients that are easy to apply to other character illustrations. The great thing about his tutorial is you don’t have to be an amazing artist to create it!

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Create a Super Happy Octopus Character

As an amazing illustrator tutorial, this let to follow 21 steps to create a great happy octopus character.

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Vectorial character design with Illustrator

This illustrator tutorial would be really helpful to design a cartoon monkey character for horror films.

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How to Create a Web Site Mascot

This tutorial is going to give you an overview of how developed a character from the initial brief through to the final site mascot.

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How to Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines

In this illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create an amazing cartoon character like above using 19 steps.

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2- 3D Tutorials

How to Create an Open Book with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel Tool

In this illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create an open book mostly with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel Tool. You will learn how to create open pages with graphics and add a wavy background. Also the book can be customized by applying your own graphics to the pages.

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Create a Can of Beans by Mapping Vectors to a 3D Object

Illustrator has offered a range of 3D tools for some time and this tutorial aims to get you started familiarizing yourself with them over 12 steps. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a can of beans, built entirely from vectors, using the Symbols palette, the Extrude tool and Illustrator’s Image Mapping.

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Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design

This tutorial is perfect for the advanced beginner who wants to take her skills to the next level. In this tutorial you will learn how to create 3D text and use depth-of-field to enhance a design.

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3D Blue LCD Alarm Clock – Illustrator Tutorial

Another 3D illustrator tutorial that is about designing a 3D Blue LCD alarm clock. This tutorial contains 16 steps to cover using some 3D techniques on illustrator.

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3D Charts in Adobe Illustrator CS

This illustrator tutorial is about adding depth to graphs to create a 3D scene. It is really recommended to take a look at this tutorial to have more effective and eye catching graphs.

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Create a Checkered 3D Chess Figure Scene

As a perfect illustrator tutorial explains how to create a 3D chess scene with the help of the 3D Revolve Tool and gradient masks. This is a great introduction to the 3D Tool in Illustrator, and shows you how to pose your creations within an illustrative checkered environment.

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Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon

Learn to make a handy calendar icon to use on your blog, website, or print projects. We’ll use Illustrators Path and 3D tools to create this design. Also, a simple page curl effect will be demonstrated as well. Let’s jump into this tutorial.

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3- Logo Design Tutorials

Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways

In this perfect illustrator tutorial you will learn how to design a logo just as like as the final image above step by step.

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Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment

This great illustrator tutorial contains 25 steps and help you to learn how to design a logo that requires a Green style applied to the design. Also you will learn how to create a green type treatment.

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How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment

In this Illustrator tutorial, you’ll see how to create a trendy retro type treatment with a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes. It’s a relative easy tutorial containing techniques that can be quickly applied to many other type treatments and various graphic elements.

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Creating a crazy cool logo

This illustrator tutorial is all about designing a really beautiful logo just as like as above using 10 steps.

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Design a Grungy Circular Logo

Another illustrator tutorial about designing logos. It simply help you to learn how to design a logo like above using 10 steps.

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4- Text Effect Tutorials

Create a Swirly Type Treatment

This Illustrator tutorial contains 26 steps and will show you how to create a swirly type treatment. With a free font, some brushes, and gradients you can easily create this type treatment.

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Bling Bling Text Effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to create the eye catching bling bling effect above using illustrator. You will learn how to create the texture and apply it to any text.

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Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you would learn a blueprint technique. This is a quick demo using a blend of live effects, filters, and even a little gradient mesh to create a seemingly complex logo treatment.

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Ornate lettering

This tutorial shows you how to create ornate lettering from sketches and vectors in Illustrator, make it three-dimensional in 3ds Max and fine-tune the final result in Photoshop.

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Adding Gradients to Text

As you may know, In Illustrator, you can’t apply a gradient to text the way you normally add gradients to other objects. But this tutorial teaches you how to do it.

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Create a cool water effect

In this great illustrator tutorial you will learn how to use mesh tool to create water droplets , use the symbol sprayer tool using symbol of water droplets and dispersing them.

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Quickly Add Grunge To Text

As a quick illustrator tutorial it would be really useful to learn about adding grunge effect to a text.

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5- Creating illustrator Patterns

How to Create a Pop Design Element

This tutorial is for beginner to advanced users. During this tutorial you will learn how to use brushes , create your own brushes , learning how to speed up your work process by using brushes.

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How to Create a Seamless pattern in 10 steps

As the author of this tutorial says, since he has seen that many illustrator tutorials which have been written about creating patterns, are confusing and limited to basics, has decided to write his own tutorial. So, hopefully his step by step tutorial would be useful for you.

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Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator

It is really recommended to follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a range of simple vector objects based around the theme of a designer’s lifestyle, then tile them together into a cool looking repeating pattern.

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Creating seamless patterns in Illustrator

In this tutorial you can find the answer of one of the most common users’ questions. Yes! you will find out how to create seamless patterns in Illustrator.

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Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator

Another illustrator tutorial for creating patterns that is a bit different than the others. In fact this tutorial gives you some new ideas and techniques to create your own illustrator patterns.

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Intricate Patterns in Illustrator

This illustrator tutorial would be a bit harder that other ones. It contains 17 steps to create intricate pattern in illustrator.

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Tweaking Firefox to have a better performance is an exciting experience. I know you may have added a lot of extensions to your Firefox (your internet OS!) and can’t live without them. So if I say disable them to have a faster Firefox, you would ignore this article entirely! But wait a minute, there are more effective ways to improve Firefox performance that don’t need to talk about your add-ons only!

In this article, I’ve introduced lots of tips, tweaks and plugins which will affect on your Firefox memory usage, startup time, and its general performance. Here are what we’ve covered:

• Before getting started
• Make Firefox faster
• Reduce Firefox memory usage
• Speedup Firefox startup time (to make your Firefox as speedy as Chrome)
• Set Firefox to have more screen space

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Before getting started

Make a backup about:config

Before getting started it’s always recommended to make a backup of your Firefox settings (about:config) in case you need to revert to the default:

In Windows XP:

Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile ID>.default\

In Windows Vista:

Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile ID>.default\

Create new profile to examine

To test the suggestions it’s really recommended to create a new profile to experiment on. Then if the results were great you can set it as your default profile.

Make Firefox Faster

1. Optimizing Firefox for Broadband

In default, Firefox is optimized for dialup connections. If you are interested in optimizing Firefox for DSL or cable or Broadband connections, you need to edit config file in Firefox:

1. Type about:config into the Firefox address bar and press Enter
2. Then if Firefox shows a warning massage, press the button ‘I’ll be careful, I promise!’
3. Type network.http.pipelining into the filter bar to find it under preference name column. Then double click on it to change its value to True to enable HTTP pipelining.
4. Into the filter bar type network.http.proxy.pipelining to find it. Then change its value to True.
5. Then find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Right click on it and click Modify. The default value is 4. Change it to 15 as an ideal value.
6. Next make a new integer value (to do this right click on a blank space and click: New –> Integer) name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and press OK. Finally set its value to 0 and click OK.
7. Finally create a Boolean value (to do this right click on a blank space and click: New –> Boolean) name it network.http.pipelining.firstrequest and click OK. Then set its value to True.

Also these are some advanced network settings for broadband user with at least a 2 Mbps (256 kB/s) connection. To use these tips just type about:config into the Firefox address bar and hit Enter. Then find them using the filter bar, next right click on them and select Modify, and change the value and click OK:

• Find network.dnsCacheEntries and change its value to from 20 to 512.
• Find network.dnsCacheExpiration and change its value from 60 to 3600.
• If your ISP doesn’t support IPv6, you can disable it. To do this just find network.dns.disableIPv6 and change it default value to True.
• Find network.http.max-connections and increase maximum number of simultaneous connections to 48 or 96.
• Find network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server and increase maximum persistent connections per server from default 6 to 12
• Find network.http.max-connections-per-server and increase maximum connections per server from default 15 to 24

2. Loading large pages faster

Large and intricate web pages can take a while to download. Although Firefox doesn’t have any delay here but since in default it should shows you what it’s received every 0.12 seconds and this causes to increase loading the web pages. Well, to avoid this:

• Make an integer value (go to about:config screen, right click on a blank space and select: new –> Integer) then name it content.notify.interval and set its value to 500000. (It is five hundred thousand and not fifty hundreds)
• Make a Boolean value (go to about:config screen, right click on a blank space and select: new –> Boolean) then name it content.notify.ontimer and set its value to True.

3. Set Firefox to ignore some interrupts before loading pages

If you haven’t moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, that means its interface becomes less responsive. To reduce the content switch:

• Make another Integer value (go to about:config screen, right click on a blank space and select: new –> Integer). Name it content.switch.threshold click OK and set its value to 250000 (one fourth of a second) then click OK to finish.
• To extend our tip to user interface create another Boolean value (go to about:config screen, right click on a blank space and select: new –> Boolen), name it called content.interrupt.parsing and set its value to False.

4. Set Cache

While you are browsing Firefox stores some scripts and images of the web pages in a local memory cache. And they can be retrieved faster if you open the same page. If you have plenty of Ram:

• Make an Integer value (go to about:config screen, right click on a blank space and select: new –> Integer), name it browser.cache.memory.capacity and set its value to 65536.
• Restart Firefox

5. Disable Delay Time While Installing Add-ons

Every time you want to install a Firefox add-on, you will have to wait for some seconds before the installation starts. To avoid this delay time:

• Type about:config into the Firefox address bar
• Then type security.dialog_enable_delay into the filter bar to find it
• Right click on it and select Modify. Then change the value to 0.

6. Optimize download options

On Firefox go to Tools –> Options –> Main. Then set your Firefox to:

• Close download window automatically
• Choose a folder to save your downloaded files
• Go to privacy tab and turn off download history.

7. Control animations

This would be one of the easiest configuration to limit animated images. Just follow the steps below:

• Type about:config into the Firefox address bar and press Enter.
• Type image.animation_mode into the Filter bar to find it.
• The default value is Normal. Right click on it and select Modify. Then change the default value to None and press Enter to stop all animated images.

8. Use Blank Homepage, Default Theme and  Minimal Extensions

• Set your Homepage to about:blank
• Use default theme
• Just install most-have Firefox extensions

9. Use Fasterfox add-on

Fasterfox in a helpful extension that allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as pipelining, DNS, simultaneous connections, cache and initial paint delay.

This extension works with Firefox 3.0.4 (doesn’t work with Firefox 3.5 right now)

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10. 4 Firefox download managers for Faster Downloads

Here I’m going to introduce four Firefox add-ons that help you to have faster downloads using Firefox. They also allow you to manage your downloads:

1. DownThemAll

I really recommend this download manager. It has almost all features that you can desire from a download manager. You can increase your download speed up to 400% using this Firefox add-on.

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2. Download Statusbar

Another Firefox add-on that works as a download manager and let you view and manage downloads from a tidy status bar.

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3. Custom Download Manager

This is another Firefox download manager that you can show it on the side bar, tab or window. Also it’s compatible with Windows, Linux, MacOSX and support some different languages.

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4. Downloads in Tab

Another Firefox download manager that opens “Downloads” manager in tab from Tools menu or automatically when a download starts (default). It also let you have some more options.

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11. Block Flash

As you know there are many unwelcome flash files on many web pages. Since loading them causes reducing your Firefox speed it’s really recommended to use a Firefox add-on to block them all. FlashBlock causes that Firefox doesn’t load flash files automatically. But after loading web pages it gives you a play button to let you load every flash file you want.

To add the plugin to your Firefox click below:

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12. Use SpeedyFox

SpeedyFox is a small Firefox tool that optimize Firefox speed. Although you may not feel any difference if you try SpeedyFox on a fresh Firefox install, but it works great after you have been using Firefox for some time.

Top features:

• Boost Firefox startup
• Speedup browsing history
• Quicker operation with cookies

To us SpeedyFox just close Firefox. Then run SpeedyFox and point it to the profile you want to optimize. For more information and downloading SpeedyFox click below:

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13. Use an optimized build of Firefox

1) There is an optimized build of Firefox for both Windows and Linux users that is called Swiftfox. Swiftfox has builds for both AMD and Intel processors and is based on the most cutting edge Firefox source code available. To speedup Firefox speed and reduce Firefox memory usage that would be really recommended to use Swiftfox.

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2) There is another optimized build of Firefox called Pale Moon. Pale Moon is the customize built and optimized Firefox browser for Windows operating System.

Main Features:

• Highly optimized for current processors
• 100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
• Uses less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
• Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
• Support for SVG and Canvas
• Support for Firefox extensions and themes

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14. Block unwanted banners

As you know loading unwanted elements reduce Firefox speed. There is a Firefox add-on that help you to block unwelcome banners, advertisements and pictures which is called Adblock plus.

To see more features and add it to your Firefox click below:

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15. Clean up bookmarks, avoid Live Bookmarks

To clean up bookmarks to avoid having duplicated or dead links use the CheckPlaces Firefox extension, and uninstall it after you’re done:

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Firefox checks Live Bookmarks every hour for updates. Also it’s recommended to use a dedicated RSS reader.

16. Use Tweak Network

This is a Firefox add-on called Tweak Network. It will speed up the loading of web pages and increase the maximum number of simultaneous downloads from a site.

To add it to your Firefox click below:

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Reduce Firefox memory usage

1. Restart Firefox

Sometimes Firefox memory usages grows up more and more and you need to free some memory to avoid Firefox using abnormal memory. Well, sometimes it would be useful to restart Firefox to free some memory.

2. Clear Firefox download history

Open Firefox and go to Tools –> Options –> Privacy then just leave Remember what I’ve downloaded unchecked and press OK.

3. Optimize content type handling

Opening files into Firefox needs big mount of memory. To avoid this go to:

Tools –> Options –> Applications

• Then set your files (like: pdf, zip, rar and etc…) to be saved instead of being open into Firefox. Finally press OK.
• Change Web Feed from Preview in Firefox to your favorite RSS reader.
• Set mailto to use your favorite desktop email client

4. Keep your Firefox up to date

It is really recommended to use newer versions of all Firefox extensions, Themes\skins, Plugins and … That is because of improving newer extensions, plugins and themes. Don’t forget to keep these plugins up to date forever: Adobe reader, Shockwave, Java, Flash.

5. Set Firefox to use less memory upon minimize

In default almost all software need less memory when you minimize them. But to set Firefox to work like this we should follow these steps:

• Type about:config Into the Firefox address bar and hit Enter.
• Then make a Boolean value (Right click and select New –> Boolean) and name it config.trim_on_minimize and set its value to True.
• Restart Firefox

Now you would be able to minimize Firefox to free some memory. In fact when you minimize Firefox its memory usage come down to about 8MB. But when you return it to desktop its memory usage grows slowly.

6. Set Firefox to have fixed size of memory usage

In default Firefox uses a percentage of memory on your computer. I mean if you had more memory, Firefox will use more memory. To avoid this in order to having a fixed size of memory usage for Firefox:

• Type about:config into the Firefox address bar.
• Then type browser.cache.memory.enable into the filter bar to find it. Then right click on it and select Modify. Next change its value to True.
• Then make an Integer value (Right click on a blank space and select New –> Integer) then name it browser.cache.memory.capacity. To set its value you should work according to mount of installed memory on your computer just as like as below:

7. Use RamBack Plugin

This is a helpful Firefox plugin that is called RamBack. RAMBack will causes Firefox to issue an internal notification to free up memory that is otherwise held for performance purposes.

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8. Use Portable Firefox

If having free memory is a critical problem for you it is recommended to use Portable Firefox. Because of less memory usage of portable Firefox.

9. Disable “Back-Forward” cache

Firefox has a special “Back-Forward cache” for recently visited pages that works differently than the regular browser cache. In default Firefox saves up to 8 pages. To disable “Back-Forwarding”:

• Type about:config into the Firefox address bar.
• On about:config screen, type browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers into the filter bar to find it.
• Its default its value is “-1”. Change its value to 0 (Right click on it and select Modify then set its value to 0 and click OK to save more memory.

10. Increase Cache & Reduce History Size

• On Firefox go to Options –> Advanced –> Network and increase size of space for the cache under offline storage section.
• On Firefox go to Options->Privacy, use Custom settings for history, and reduce length of remembered history.

11. Remove unused search engines

Open Firefox and drop down in the search box. Then select manage search engines. Then simply remove every search engine that you never use.

Speedup Firefox startup time

One of disadvantages of Firefox is its startup time. It takes 5 to 30 second to start depending on your Firefox settings. Here we have put together some tricks to speedup your Firefox startup time:

1. Using Firefox Preloader

Firefox Preloader is an open source utility that is designed to load parts of Mozilla Firefox into memory before it is used to improve the its startup time. To see different version and get download like click below:

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2. Don’t let Firefox to check some options before startup

1. When Firefox starts, it usually checks for Firefox updates. Updates for all add-ons, search engines and its core. To turn them off go to Tools –> Options –> Advanced –> Update then uncheck all the Automatic Update checkboxes.
2. On Firefox go to Options->Advanced->General->Accessibility and Uncheck Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup.

3. Set Firefox to start as fast as Google Chrome

I’ve tried this trick personally on XP and have seen that it really works. To apply this amazing trick just follow the steps below:

• Right click on Firefox shortcut
• Select Properties
• Switch to Shortcut tab
• In the target box add “ /Prefetch:1” to the end of the line (don’t forget to put a space before \Prefetch) and click OK.

• Finally open Firefox and enjoy!!!
• What does Prefetch do? Prefetch basically keeps apps “on hold” so they load faster

Set Firefox to have more screen space

There are some elements on Firefox that reduce the space for reading web pages and this would be a problem specially for small screen netebooks. So, these useful tricks maybe solve this problem.

1. Use Meerkat

Meerkat is a Firefox add-on that Optimizes the Firefox user interface to be more suitable to Netebook devices.

What Meerkat does:

• Hides the status bar when there is no activity
• Removes the menu bar, rebuilt into a drop down button placed on the navigation bar
• Adds downloads and bookmarks buttons to the right of the location bar, followed by above mentioned menu bar button
• Reduces the navigation bar icon size to the small setting

Typically Meerkat delivers about 60 pixels of vertical screen real-estate back to the user.

Visit their website to see more information and get download link.

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2. Hide Tabs

There is a Firefox add-on that allows to use two keyboard shortcuts to hide or unhide tabs and is called HideTab. It simply let you hide all of your current tabs using ALT+Q shortcut and also let you restore them again using CTRL+ALT+Q.

To add it to your Firefox click below:

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3. Maximize Firefox 3.5’s Viewing Area for Your Notebook

Whether you want to maximize Firefox viewing area for your notebook or your PC you should read this tutorial:

Your notebook’s screen is tiny and processor less than mighty, so you want to maximize the web page viewing area without any performance-killing Firefox extensions. Here’s how to consolidate Firefox 3.5’s chrome for your Windows or Linux-based notebook.

Even if you don’t have a notebook, these modifications still work if you want to consolidate Firefox 3.5’s chrome on your regular PC.

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Whether you’re going to backup your important files to download later, or want to share/send some fat files that cannot be sent via an attachment, finding a great free file hosting service will be vital. Personally I mean great service something don’t bother you for its free service by lots of annoying ads, different restrictions, bad design, long delays, low speed, and other things you’ve experienced while working with some free services.

Here, in this post, I’ve put together a traditional list which will hopefully help you get familiar with the most popular free file storage sites and their features. So you can make a better choice. Some of the sites featured below have a number of great features such as providing direct link, Uploading without registration, Unlimited space, easy-to-use firefox addons and much more.

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1. Drop.io

Use drop.io to privately share your files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, mobile, and more. Create each drop in two clicks and share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.

Drop.io has provided many perfect ways for users to upload in just two clicks via web-Email, MMS, Facebook, Firefox extension, Phone and fax input and also provided many various outputs including: web, Email, MMS, twitter, iTunes, Fax and more.

To upload your files you need to create a ‘drop’. A drop is non-networked, non-search able. Also every ‘drop’ can be password-protected and doesn’t need any type of account registration.

• Sign up is needed? yes
• Direct download link? yes
• Resume Download? yes
• Let others to add or delete files? yes, you can manage your ‘drops’ to do this.
• Maximum space to upload? 100MB for per drop
• Period of file expiration: one year after last download (one year inactivity)
• More: to know fully features of Drop.io visit it and watch their video file on their front page.

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2. Easy Share

Pretty great service that gives you 4 different ways to upload files – web upload, FTP upload, upload with Easy Share software and remote upload – very handy.

Maximum file size per upload is 100MB and unlimited storage and no registration required if You want to just upload file, however for managing files and uploading files from FTP, I suggest to register. Very good service and completely free.

To start uploading your files using this website, visit it.

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3. Box.net

box is one of the most famous file hosting services that allows to easily create an online workspace to share your projects there as a link or a shared folder and also let you add comments, assign tasks, start discussion.

• Sign up is needed? yes
• Maximum space to upload: 1GB
• Bandwidth: 10GB for free

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4. File Savr

FileSavr’s goal is to simplify the process of file hosting. We provide fastest and easiest file hosting service as an alternative to sites like MegaUpload and RapidShare. Unlike the other sites, we do not force users to sign up for paid accounts to download files, we do not show long countdown timers, pop up ads, or any other spam related activities. Our goal is simple, to offer the most basic file hosting service so you can share your stuff quickly.

• Sign up is needed: Yes
• Maximum space to upload: 10 GB (This is really great to upload large files)
• More about this online service: Not showing long countdown timers, pop up ads, or any other spam related activities. The use of this service to upload copyrighted or illegal material is not allowed, and will be removed and the offending individual may be banned from using our services.

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5. File Front

File Front offers free file hosting for up to 1GB. You should be aware that this service is limited for video gaming files.

• Sign up is needed? yes
• period of file expiration: up to 6 months

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6. ShareSend

ShareSend is another file hosting service that we are going to write about. Their website is really simple and user friendly with no advertisement.

• Sign up is needed? yes
• Maximum file size to upload: 100MB
• Period of file expiration: sixty days inactivity

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7. YouSendIt

YouSendIt is not typically a file hosting service. It works more like a service that let users to send large Email attachment.

• Sign up is needed? yes
• Maximum file size for free account: 100MB
• Download restriction: the file can be downloaded up to 100 times

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8. SendLargeFiles

SendLargeFiles has provide a nice and user friendly interface. As they have written on their website ‘DropSend is an application to send large files to other people without being restricted by email attachment sizes. With DropSend you upload a file online and the receiver gets an email with a download link‘;

• Sign up is needed? yes
• Maximum file size to send: 2GB
• How many sends? 5 per month
• More: Business plan available for group file-sharing

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9. DivShare

DiveShare allows to its users to upload every kind of files. You can use it as a media hosting. DriveShare also has provide a dashboard with a tabbed menu to access: all files , audios, images, videos and documents.

• Sign up is needed? yes
• Space to upload: 5GB
• More: password protect

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10. 4Shared

4Shared is one of the most famous file hosting services on the web. Some amazing more options: desktop application for advanced uploading called 4Shared desktop. 4Shared toolbar which gives you instant access to 4Shared desktop, 4shared home page and personal 4shared account.

• Sign up is needed? yes
• Space to upload: 1GB

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11. badongo

badongo.com has provide many perfect tools for the users. It also let you play your videos, music, and photo slideshows anywhere. Some other great options are: Unlimited Storage Space, File Management, Photo Albums, Music Playlists, FTP Uploads.

• Sign Up is needed? yes
• Space to upload: 12GB

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12. FileDen

This is one of the best user friendly and clean websites which offers 1GB upload size. Fast download speed would be another great feature. This Free file hosting website has provided many features that you can check them out in the FAQ page of the site. To use this free online service you just need to register.

File Den’s servers are located in the Gnax datacenter, Atlanta. They currently run on a network of more than 20 servers – expanding monthly in order to continue offering the best service they possibly can.

File Den currently provides its file hosting services to almost 2 million registered users worldwide – growing by thousands on a daily basis, so register today and see just exactly what you’re missing!

• Sign up is needed? Yes
• Maximum Space to Upload: 1GB
• File size/ File numbers limitation to download: 5 GB a Month
• Download speed for free users: 100kb/sec.
• Direct link: yes
• Embedding files? yes
• Sharing files? yes

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13. zShare

There is no limit how long files are kept on the server, but if files are not downloaded for more than 60 days are automatically deleted.

• Sign up is needed? no, but with registering a free account you can upload bigger files
• File size to upload: 500MB
• Space to upload for an account: 1024MB
• Direct link: yes
• Download limitation: no (every file could be downloaded for unlimited times)
• Period of file expiration: Files not downloaded for more than 60 days are automatically deleted. (60 days inactivity)
• Any file type restriction? yes, p o r n o g r a p h y, copyrighted material, any kind of offensive things

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14. Store & Serve

Features of this free file hosting service is listed below:

• Sign up is needed?
  No. But it is possible to have a free membership account. This free account makes you able to have these features: more download speed up to 150 KB/s, manage your uploaded files and review your file statistics.
• Options:
  After browsing for your file to upload, you can set a title, a description and tag(s), select a language and also set the options for private or public.Then you will receive four links including download link, delete link, forum link and  also receive a html link.
• Maximum space to upload: 100 MB for all and 250 MB for the users who register as free members.
• Time Limit: 30 days inactivity for all and none expire for the users who register as free members.
• More about this online service:
  Direct link (This would be amazing), Parallel downloads is available just for members, Using file manager.

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15. SendSpace

Another great free file hosting to upload very big files.

• Sign up is needed? No (But registered users will be able to Addressbook, Track and edit uploaded files, set account preferences, Invite a friend)
• Options: First you should browse for your file then it is optional to write description, recipient’s Email and your Email. You can also use Multiply file uploader.
• Maximum space to upload: 1.2GB
• file size to upload: Up to 100 GB
• Period of file expiration: 2 weeks
• More about this online service: This service has provided ’send space wizard’ as a desktop tool that lets you upload\download multiply files into your account.

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16. MegaUpload

A nice file hosting site that allows to upload easily and fast.

• Sign up is needed? No
• Options: In home page you have a flash menu that is interesting and let you to have more options there. For each file you must type a meaningful description and after uploading you will receive the download link.
• Maximum space to upload: 1024 MB
• Period of file expiration: 30 days inactivity.
• More about this online service: You can download Mega toolbar for IE and Firefox to transfer your files easily.

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17. TransferBigFiles

As the title shows, this file hosting website allows to upload big files.

• Sign up is needed: No
• Description: At the first step you should browse for your file and you can also select multiply files to upload (up to 5 files). then should type recipient Email (up to 4 Emails). In advanced options mode you would have more options:
  -  Including a message to recipient(s)
  -  Password protect access to file(s)
• Maximum space to upload:
  1 GB
• file size \ file number limitation to download:
  This is not limited (because you don’t need to register)
• Hosting duration for each file:
  For a minimum of 5 days up to 10 days (registered users can manage their files to expire them)
• More about this online service:
  You can have password protection for your files and

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18. File Factory

Free file hosting and file sharing to upload up to 25 files of any type, under 300MB each.

• Sign up is needed: No
• Description: After selecting your file(s) and uploading them you will receive a link in HTML format that you can copy it.
• Maximum space to upload: 300 MB for each file
• File size \ file number limitation to download: You can upload 25 files once
• Hosting duration for each file: If your file has not been downloaded after 90 days, it will automatically be removed. Files for Premium Members are never deleted as long as their Premium Account remains active. If you have a Premium account and your account expires, the files in your account will be subject to the 90 day rule.
• More about this online service: Your decide who you want to share your files with. Keep your files private, or send your download links only to friends or family. Alternatively you can choose to share your download links on blogs, forums and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
• Use our handy flash widget to embed you folders or music on your blog or profile. Upload and download files at lightning speed with our FileFactory Turbo application which supports multiple threads and download resuming.

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19. FileQube

This service is completely free. Some great features are: web file manager, different widgets to make Your life easier, tags, quick search, hot links, RSS sharing and etc.

• Sign up is needed: No ( But if you create a free membership there you will be able to manage your files)
• Space to upload: 2GB
• Maximum file size to upload: 150mb
• Description: First your browse for your file and upload it. then you will receive for links and colds including html code, download link, delete link and forum codes then it is possible to submit your email to be able to manage your uploaded files.

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20. Media Fire

This is one of most used free file hosting services on the web.This service offer a bunch of free, great options and unlimited storage but only 100MB per file. Here you can see features of free account:

• Sign up is needed? No, but having a registered account lets you to have more options.
• Maximum file size to upload: 100MB
• More: Unlimited downloads, Unlimited bandwidth, Image gallery

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21. Adrive

Another good file hosting service in our varied list which lets you to share your files. You can see some features of this file hosting service below:

• Space to upload: 50GB
• Ftp (file transfer protocol)? Yes
• Tools: Adrive desktop

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22. File Dropper

Very fresh designed site without any annoying countdown timers or blinking, aggressive advertisements like some other ones.

• Sign up is needed: No
• Description: Simply browse for your file to upload it and then receive two links including a download link and a html link.
• Maximum space to upload: 5GB
• File size \ file number limitation to download: It appears to be unlimited (but not mentioned in the site)
• Hosting duration for each file: The files are kept forever as long as they are being downloaded.

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23. Uploading.com

They have a very light, simple and user friendly home page. So easy.

• Sign up is needed: No
• Options: After uploading your file you will receive 4 text fields including download link, file delete link, download link in HTML format and download link in forum code.
• Maximum space to upload: 100 MB
• Period of file expiration: Your file will be deleted after 30days.

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24. Rapidshare

One of the most famous file hosting services that many users use it. But as you see in our varied list, today there are many more interesting file hosting on the web.

• Sign up is needed: No
• Options: It is much simple to work by Rapidshare! First you browse for your file and then an upload button appears. then you press this button and receive a download link and a delete link.
• Maximum file size to upload: 100 MB
• Download restriction: your files just can be downloaded for 10 times.
• Period of file expiration: 90 days inactivity
• More about this online service: Rapidshare has provided some tools including Rapidshare manager, Rapidshare uploader, and Rapid share checker (this would be helpful to check a link in Rapidshare and find out if your file is removed)

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25. Turbo Upload

This would be last website listed here.

• Sign up is needed: No
• Description: After selecting a file to upload you can set a password and also a description for it then you will receive two links including a download link and a delete link. You can not upload these file types: .exe, .php, .sh, .bat, .cgi, .pl
• Maximum space to upload: You can upload 10 files at 100MB each.
• More about this online service:
• You can also upload URL via this online service.
• 5GB RAID Protected Account Storage
• Up to 10mbps Download Speeds
• URL Uploads !!
• Blazing Unlimited Upload Speeds
• Unlimited Downloads
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Password Protection
• Image Galleries
• File Folder

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