The move was part of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's policy of running smoke free sites.
Despite the demise of Napster's free-for-all format, the use of peer-to-peer technology and online music swapping remained a popular endeavor thanks to emerging free sites like KaZaA, Morpheus Music City and Audio Galaxy, to name just a few.
These services reckon to win fee-paying subscribers despite competition from free games sites by offering better or more-up-to-date games.
As well as the main national museum in Cardiff, the free visitor sites include the Big Pit mining museum at Blaenavon in south east Wales and the Welsh Slate Museum at Llanberis in north Wales.
Game Informer is really the last bastion of video game print journalism, and according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations saw an unprecedented increase of a THIRD in subscriptions in 2010, despite the countless, free gaming sites and blogs currently available to anyone with an internet connection.
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But both Match.com and Yahoo have been accused of placing bogus profiles to keep subscribers. (The companies say the claims are baseless.) And many young urban hipsters are choosing to troll for dates on free social networking sites like MySpace.com.
Commercial entities such as social media sites offer free services and yet make money.
Many legal and rental web sites offer free or low-cost forms that you can download.
Intuit and Block Financial offer tax preparation to low-income filers for free through their Web sites.
Cadw and Civic Trust Wales' Open Doors initiative includes opening all Cadw sites for free on 12 September.
"Fans are used to free content on these sites, and it's hard to start a subscription in this environment, " Russo says.
While most of the sites are free, three charge for admittance.
Smaller social networks, image-sharing sites, free website hosting platforms and hacked websites are increasingly being used by content distributors desperate to avoid detection.
Last month a BBC investigation spoke to internet surfers who said they had lots of messages when they signed up to the sites as free users.
Nonetheless, the sale put off some readers, who considered McClatchy's Fresno Bee and Modesto Bee newspapers too dowdy to be associated with the hip, free-wheeling Famous sites.
These include links to his books, how-to's on building Web sites, free fonts and wallpaper, advice on getting a job at a startup and pictures of cats and himself.
When combined with the free online textbooks at sites like Textbook Revolution and TextBooksFree, plus other course books from Google Books, World Public Library, and Project Guttenberg, M.
Another recommendation was to identify appropriate mechanisms for UNESCO to improve technical assistance for the implementation of the Action Plan and the safeguarding of the values of the site, including the provision of advice, the granting of permits, the facilitation of works, and the free access to the sites.
The company, Zuffa, says many of its fights are posted illegally online, either for free or with the pirate sites selling advertising on them.
Some things really are too good to be true, and unfortunately, sites that offer free shipping can sometimes fall into that category.
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We asked Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist at Think-Health, to recommend a few different sites that are free to the public.
If you don't buy the Sunday paper, you can still receive the coupons that appear there for free by visiting the Web sites of distributors RedPlum and SmartSource.
Instead of relying on electronic distributors, Smith approaches second- and third-tier Web sites that offer free games and gimmicks, paying them a fee (depending on the number of different visitors).
SanDisk also offers downloadable Cloud Catcher software, which allows users to backup and organize personal data from some of their favorite social media and online sites, hassle free on a SanDisk USB drive.
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Although user license agreements at social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn prevent Paterva from offering data searches involving social networking sites, the free version still has plenty of tools to give users a head start at finding interesting and "hidden" relationships.
Sites like EdGate.com and Family Education Network aggregate learning content and offer free services geared toward parents in general, while sites like Homeschool.com, Homeschool World and Eclectic Homeschool Online target domestic education -- the latter two with a Christian slant.
Most free, user-based Web sites will quickly remove any offensive language added by an unscrupulous visitor.
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