Have you heard before FileSwap? You may think that it is like those Peer-to-Peer service in which you swap files among your friends or among others, well……hmmm….it is like that! But the thing is unlike other services, you get a random file instead. So if you upload a file let’s say an mp3 file of your own, you may get back a jpeg picture of a dog sleeping on the couch. There is no telling what kind of files you will receive. Yes, that’s right, it’s just a weird little service. So you can swap text files, music files, pictures and pdf files. Not executable files like those programs. I am sure this is to prevent viruses and spyware/adware from being shared through this service, which is a good thing. I really hate those stuff.

It is like the Russian Roulette. You will never know what you will get. I think it is meant to be interesting. And I must say, it is quite interesting to get a file and not know what it is beforehand. Kind of like a Christmas gift exchange thing we had back at the office. Everyone is so excited trying to figure out what and who bought gifts for them. But this time you do it with complete strangers on the Internet. Oh, isn’t this just so damn fun? Of course, if you have the time and if you have a lot of files, you can spend the entire day doing file swaps with strangers.

It is just too bad that they have a size limit of 500kb. That’s very small, considering that nowadays those “standalone” files can get up to 2-3MB in size. And they have limited support for file types. So a lot of files cannot be swapped like powerpoint presentation files, flash files, movie files and so on. Hopefully they can improve on this and maybe in the future we will be able to swap even more files with strangers, like that nice guy from Afghanistan who gave me a dirty bomb recipe. Thanks!