SmashingApps and FileBanker are teaming up to do their part for the environment. Average American consumes more than 700 pounds of paper per year, highest compared to anywhere else in the world.  Hundreds of thousands of trees are cut down per day to support the consumption of paper that can be easily avoided.

SmashingApps believes that we can change that by helping people save and share their documents electronically instead of printing them out each time.  We do not want you to print so much so we are offering 500 GB file hosting accounts for free at FileBanker. You will need to enter “smashingapps” in the promo code field. You can use these accounts to share all your documents without ever having to print anything.

Climate Change is a global issue and adapting green habits is good for the environment, but who knew it can get us great deals too. Here are some great environmental benefits for us if we always remember these to follow in our daily life.

• Turn off lights, computers and other appliances when not in use.
• Use compact fluorescent light bulbs to save money and energy.
• Plant trees to shade your home.
• Use solar power for home and water heating.
• Ask your employer to consider flexible work schedules or telecommuting.
• Install a low-flow shower head.
• Copy and print on both sides of paper.
• Unplug seldom used appliances.
• Use e-mail instead of paper correspondence.
• Buy products that you can reuse.
• Buy rechargeable batteries for devices used frequently.
• Buy the right amount of paint for the job.
• Use a ceramic coffee mug instead of a disposable cup.

All you have to do to get your free 500 GB file hosting accounts is to suggest that how to stop Climate Change by going Green and make a promise to follow this.  When giving your suggestion and making a promise please post a link to this post.  You can make it in any of the following ways…

Post it on Twitter, post it on your blog, or post a video of it on YouTube, or create a picture and post it on Flickr. Actually the promise is to do one green thing and share that message with all their contacts. You can make your promise anyway you like as long as we can verify it and don’t forget to follow us on twitter.

Once you have made the pledge post the link to your promise in the comments below and sign up for your free file hosting account using this form you will need to enter “smashingapps” in the promo code field. The last date to create your free account will be Friday, November 13, 2009.

Here are some sample promises you can post on twitter

* I promise to turn off lights, computers and other appliances when not in use. Do you?
* I promise to copy and print on both sides of paper.  Do you?
* I promise to buy recycled paper if printing is really necessary.  Do you?
* I promise to avoid miss-printing and if happens I will keep that pages for rough drafts. Do you?
* I promise to use e-mail instead of paper correspondence. Do you?

My Promise

I promise to turn off lights, computers and other appliances when not in use. Do you? http://twitter.com/SmashingApps/status/5573822809

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FortuneCity

At FortuneCity, You can get 1 GB of storage, web and FTP access, an easy blogging tool, online file manager, unlimited bandwidth on Fast and reliable servers.

110mb

110MB free No-Ads hosting account to create and host your personal and business websites. It  has PHP 5 support, detailed site traffic statistics, 600+ file type support, XML support and much more.

Zymic

Zymic is one of the most reliable and feature packed free web hosting services on the net. This free hosting features include PHP/MySQL, free domain names, Ad-free hosting and an overly generous disk and transfer allowance. Zymic.com’s free web hosting is ideal for personal and business websites.

Tripod

Tripod’s entry-level plan lets you discover the fun of site-building for free. With 20 MB of disk space and 1 GB of monthly bandwidth this could be your best web hosting. You can build and publish your pages using the popular Microsoft editor and Choose from over 10,000 images, including photos, clipart and other site essentials that are all free to use.

Brinkster

If you are tired of Google ads and all other outsourced solicitations on your free website? Brinkster would be the best choice as free web hosting. Whether you’re a homemaker, a small business owner or a savvy developer you can have a free website.

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All in One SEO Pack

This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. Using this plugin you can automatically optimizes your titles for search engines and generates meta tags automatically. IF you are beginner, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install and get relax.

Automattic Kismet

Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your site it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down to approve or disapprove them to publish on your blog.

W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. With this plugin, you can save up to 80% Bandwidth via Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RSS feeds.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. An advanced and versatile algorithm that is using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, and categories, YARPP calculates a “match score” for each pair of posts on your blog. You choose the threshold limit for relevance and you get more related posts if there are more
related posts and less if there are less.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes. Every single mobile device is detected and all aspects of your blog are tailored to the visiting handset. Sites aren’t dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but instead use the features and functionality that advanced phones offer.

ShareThis

The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more.

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

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Office Live

You can use this service for free online storage and document sharing. You can store files up to 5GB, and share with anyone, and collaborate on a single document. It will allow you to view Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint files from your Web browser.

My Phone

Microsoft My Phone syncs information on your mobile phone to a storage space on a web site hosted by Microsoft. If your phone is lost or stolen, or if you upgrade to a new phone, you can easily restore the contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and other information that you stored on My Phone to a compatible new or replacement phone. Most phones that run the Windows Mobile 6 operating system are compatible with My Phone service.

Live Safety Scanner

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.

SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive works well on any Windows or Macintosh computer with Firefox 1.5 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6 or higher. 5 GB of free online storage, available from any computer with Internet access. You can create personal, shared, and public folders and you can decide who has access to each folder.

Office Live Small Business

Office Live Small Business provides your company with everything needed to create a professional web presence for free, including easy-to-use website design and management tools, and 100 email accounts. You also get a free suite of professional business applications that will allow you to manage customers, projects, and documents and easily share information with employees, customers, suppliers and vendors. All this is security-enhanced, managed, and maintained by Office Live Small Business.

Live Sync

With this service, you can keep important files up to date on all your computers, PC or Mac. This will also help you to share folders to sync files with friends or coworkers very easily. There is an option to sign in to the Sync website for remote access to any computer where you’ve installed Sync.

Silverlight Streaming

Microsoft® Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live  is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich media as part of their Silverlight applications. The service offers web designers and developers a free and convenient solution for hosting and streaming cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences and rich interactive applications that run on Windows and Mac.

The Microsoft® Translator

The Microsoft® Translator is a free online translation service for worldwide web. You can type or paste text on the site that you want to translate and choose your translation language before you click translate. The Microsoft® Translator webpage widget allows you to bring real-time, in-place translations to your web site as well.

Live Mesh

With Live Mesh, you can synchronize, share and access files with all of your devices, so you always have the updated copy of your files. It’s very simple and easy that you can now access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file. The best of all this service is powered by Microsoft and absolutely free for everyone.

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MyFontbook

MyFontbook is an unique online font viewer that can save your time by providing a number of tools to view installed fonts quickly and easily. Unlike a classic font management tool, MyFontbook is platform independent and can be used freely through any web browser. MyFontbook tries to fill the gap between the limited font tools provided by your operating system and the expensive font management applications aimed at power users.

Box.net

Box.net’s online file storage makes it easy to securely share content as a link or a shared folder with anyone inside or outside your company. This will help you create an online workspace where you can share project files, add comments, assign tasks, start discussions or create new content.

Ronin

Ronin is a flexible application designed for creative professionals looking for an easy, affordable, web-based way of managing clients and invoices. You can send invoices and estimates in multiple currencies. The dashboard provides an at-a-glance summary of account activity for all of your staff users. Quickly access existing invoices and create new clients. Manage your account with simplicity.

Go2Convert

Go2Convert is a set of free web based tools that allow you to convert, resize a picture without having to install any software on your computer. It is not meant to be a complete Image editing software package. It is meant to be an easy to use solution to convert, resize your pictures and digital photos without the need to learn a complex software package. Once you convert, resize an image, you can choose to copy image’s URL or download it directly to your computer – It doesn’t get easier than that.

DeskAway

Managing projects and work via email is just so old-school. How do you keep track of tasks, issues, files, timesheets & feedback via email? How much work is still yet to be completed? Who is working on what? Where is all the communication related to this project? Is it done yet? What’s holding the project back? DeskAway is simple to use, feature-rich online service. This is a web-based project collaboration service that provides teams a central location to easily organize, manage and track their projects.

Atmail

Atmail allows users to access IMAP Mailboxes on any server of your choice. You and your users can experience webmail via a fluid, intuitive interface that excels aesthetically and functionally; a benchmark that very few webmail clients have achieved. Staying in touch with business or personal contacts is made easy by the groupware features of Atmail. The easy-to-use calendar events, tasks, and free-busy scheduler provide collaboration and communication around the clock, with the simplicity of a browser-based interface.

247webmonitoring

Having a good uptime is essential for the success of your website. 247webmonitoring will monitor it 24X7 from their servers and notify you whenever it goes down. This will check your website every 15 minutes to know it is up. They will send you notification by email or SMS when it goes down. So you can quickly fix the issue and you can stay happy. This way you can relax and focus on your core business. In future, you will also find out how fast your site is from different location.

ViewLike.Us

This is a brand new site that allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything. Using ViewLike.Us is perfectly free.

PDF to Excel

You can use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly, editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, you can do it entirely free.

Shareflow

With Shareflow you can share your team conversations so everyone involved can clearly see what’s being said, and you can all get more done. The more you use email, the more work you create for your team. Important information gets lost in the shuffle. The Shareflow bookmarklet gives you one-click access to post content from the web to any of your flows. You can use the bookmarklet with Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Gmail to share your email on a flow. Create multiple flows to organize different projects or teams. You can add or remove someone at any time and invited members can create their own flows, so different teams can work amongst themselves.

Vyew

Vyew is a new and powerful platform for real-time and always-on interaction between people and connent. Vyew’s clear-view workspaces enable a transparent collaboration flow with content. Review the past, work together in the present and prepare for the future.

SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive works well on any Windows or Macintosh computer with Firefox 1.5 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6 or higher. 5 GB of free online storage, available from any computer with Internet access. You can create personal, shared, and public folders and you can decide who has access to each folder.

ShowDocument

ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.

AlertFox

AlertFox is a revolutionary new self-service website transaction monitoring service that is capable of keeping tabs on the functioning and performance of all websites. You can monitor even complicated steps, (e.g., complete check out process, not just store uptime) , only AlertFox can monitor the function and performance of sites that are based on any of the major rich internet applications (RIA), including ActiveX, AJAX, Flash, Flex, complex HTML and Silverlight technology. AlertFox also helps SaaS users monitor their provider’s reliability.

tgethr

tgethr is for Project teams who need a no-frills, secure email-based collaboration solution and useful for families, friends, and clubs who don’t need the overhead of more complicated solutions. This is also best for remotely located people who still use email as a primary collaboration mechanism. With tgethr all correspondence over the web and email can be safely encrypted.

You can add a link to a web site by just typing in the address, or you can add addresses from your browser.

Because Transferr is web-based, you can access your Transferr home page from any computer, or any phone browser, anywhere in the world. To drag and drop to re-arrange icons, grab the top of any icon with your mouse and drag, you’ll notice a ‘Save Order’ button will appear at the top and bottom of the page when you start dragging. You can rearrange as much as you like.

In Transferr 1.0 you can save your web-browsers bookmarks and add them to Transferr as icons, it’s easy to do, just click the “Add an Icon” icon and click Import Bookmarks, we’ll show you how to do it depending on your web-browser.

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Flickr

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.
Pictiger

PicTiger is a FREE image hosting service where everyone is able to upload their own image, create a thumbnail from it, resize the image or the thumbnail, create their own albums, post their images to their sites, forums, blogs or anywhere they want.

Photobucket 

Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing. You can upload your photos, and share them with friends and family.

Pict

Pict is a free image hosting service that lets you upload and share your images with one click.
You can upload images up to 3.5Mb, JPG/PNG/GIF formats supported, it has automatic image resizing, multiple uploading & much more.

Free Image Hosting

Free Image Hostin is a web hosting service running on several dedicated linux web servers. Their dedicated server bandwidth is available for this service at no charge to all visitors. Registration is not required, but creating an account lets you manage your uploads and use other extra features.

iimmgg

iimmgg is a free image hosting and pictures sharing website. With this you can view how many people opened your pictures and galleries and to Keep your pictures organized on galleries. You can post images on blogs, forums, message boards etc.

TinyPic

Tinypic is a photo and video sharing service that allows you to easily upload, link and share your images on MySpace;, eBay, blogs and message boards. No account required, upload your photos today.

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imgur

imgur is the simple image sharer. It’s the best way to host your image, and is always completely free. Sharing your images has never been easier.

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filehosting

filehosting.org provides an easy possibility for you to send large files to your friends. Just upload the file you want to share with your friends and they send you a download link to your file. You can give this download link to your friends by mail or messanger. It is also allowed to link to the download page from websites and communities. This is easy, fast and reliable filehosting.

Savefile

This service can be used for uploading files up to 100MB each. After uploading you will be given a link, that others can use to download your file. Their filesize limit is 100MB and each file can be downloaded unlimited times.

Wiki  upload

wiki  upload is a free file hosting & sharing service. You can upload documents, videos, images, mp3s, ebooks, shareware etc. It supports upto 5GB file size.

FileSend 

FileSend is a free file hosting and delivery service generally used to send files that are too large for email.They offer a generous 120 MB of space for you to upload your files and send to your friends.

File Save

With FileSave you can share music, movies, pictures, documents and any other file with ease. Just upload them only once and share with all your friends. You can link to files from your MySpace, Facebook or Bebo page or post links on your blog page or forums or simply use as personal storage. It’s upto you.

InfiniteMb

InfiniteMb is a free file hosting service that enables you to upload and share unlimited files, images, videos and music with people around the world.

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Browsershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

WhatTheFont

For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.
Wix

With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.

DimDim

DimDim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.

FresBooks

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

Zapproved

Zapproved is a lightweight Web tool that makes group decision-making faster, easier and more accountable. It is a unique solution that introduces peer-to-peer and organizational techniques to improve the process of building consensus.

File Dropper

FileDropper’s beauty is in its simplicity. It has one click file hosting where you simply click on the upload button and select your file. After the file is uploaded you are taken to the page where the file is hosted. If the file is an image, it shows the image directly on the page for easier sharing. Upload size is an impressive 5 GB.

W3Counter

W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.

formatpixel

Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogs, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you too can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customise their appearance.

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Chevereto

Chevereto is a free script, written in php, that lets you set up your own image hosting on your web server. It is your hosting and your rules, say goodbye to the closures and restrictions. Currently the code is very tender, and is in its early versions.

osTicket 

osTicket is an attractive alternative to higher-cost and complex customer support systems; simple, lightweight, reliable, open source, and easy to setup and use. The best part is, it’s completely free.

Social Bookmarking Script

More and more people are using social bookmarks. Such services gives a great way to keep track of their own bookmarks, independently from the used browser and computer. This script gives you an easy way of implementing social bookmark links into your own website.

FancyForm

FancyForm is a powerful checkbox replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements. It’s easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supporting browsers. This is very quick to setup (only two lines of markup needed). It also numerous customization options.

PHP Web Stat

The PHP Web Stat offers you a highly configurable web tracker and detailed real-time web stat script. You will be able to analyze and monitor all visitors of your website. Our script is totally FREE and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Zoki Poll 

Zoki Poll is a simple and high-tech poll system, based on AJAX and XML. It can be simply integrated in almost every site. It is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript with small back end files in PHP.

phpWatch

phpWatch is a general purpose service monitor that is able to send notifications of outages via e-mail or text-message (SMS). The purpose of this system is two-fold: it allows administrators to easily check the status of many different services running on any number of servers and also allows developers to interface with the query and notification APIs.

Star Rating System

Star Rating System is an Ajax based free PHP script that lets you add star rating feature on your website or blog. This is really easy to install and uses MySQL database for speed and reliability.

XtraUpload v2

XtraUpload has all the features you would expect from a file Hosting Script. Free users as well as premium users have the ability to upload files but premium users get a lot more features such as viewing files, instantly downloading files and getting the URL’s of the files they have uploaded. You can also specify the file types, sizes along with many other options.

BugNET

BugNET is an issue tracking and project issue management solution built using the ASP.NET web application framework. Email notifications, reporting and per project configuration of fields and values allows efficient management of bugs, feature requests, and other issues for projects of any scale.

AjaXplorer

AjaXplorer is an easy-to-install file explorer for remotely managing files on a web server. Its “rich client” layout and actions make it accessible to any end-user for a variety of purposes: file management/sharing, photo gallery, code browsing, etc.

Tracks

Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like. It can be run on any platform on which Ruby can be installed, including Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux.

Visión

Visión is a simple PHP, Javascript, and CSS Photo (Image) Viewer. As you place images into the specified images folder, Visión automatically updates. Visión pre-loads images, is easy to setup, and is cross-browser compatible.