Any suggestions on free place to store zip files online so they can be download in the forum?
Mediafire is a good place for free, but like many free file hosting, you have limits, like time delays, adds and so on. Drop box has to be my favorite as far as free goes, its easy to upload files, and share the folder or files. If your sharing large files, I recomend free tier Amazon S3 service, its free with some limits, but not many, and when you are on a paid tier its very cheap.
If your just uploading to share hobbie files with others Dropbox is the way to go.
tez thanks - DropBox looks good.