At some stage, when I get round to making up some productivity templates, I’ll need a place to store then as I don’t want huge hosting bills. Anyway I wanted something free, that allows free public downloads (that’s a paid extra at box.net … stupid! immediately they lose all that free publicity), that doesn’t delete your files after 30 days if they haven’t been accessed (eg savefile.com) and has a nice community. Good design would be just an added bonus. Well I found all that at eSnips:
eSnips.com - Get 1GB free storage to upload and share files, photos and videos

I love the little birdy logo and the fact that the CEO is a woman. You set up folders which can be public or private, public folders have their own static (and short!) web address. You can link directly to a document or create cute little “widgets” buttons.

The fellow eSnippers all seem like a nice bunch, it’s not as daunting as the bigger players. Pigment is my favourite. He’s an English artist and here are some widgets linking to his paintings:
chair01
shadow3
Beaware

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