Microsoft in the beginning of December launched a SkyDrive update that improved the functionality of the service significantly. One of the biggest new features is what Microsoft calls simple app-centric sharing. This basically adds easy sharing options to applications. Instead of having to leave the application they are working on and thinking about file permissions [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Microsoft have today announced that new features are rolling out to users of its SkyDrive service.  There’s no wait for the new features either as they’re going to start rolling out immediately.  SkyDrive has come under extensive criticism in recent months for limiting the sync storage that Windows Live Mesh (and Windows 8) can use [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Online photo sharing websites are very cool.  They’re a great way of being able to share with your friends and family your adventures, holidays, events and special occasions without clogging up everybody’s inbox with photos they may not want to see.  Let’s face it, not everybody will be interested in photos of my holiday to [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud hosting service, has been around since 2007. The service gives users access to 25 Gigabytes of free online storage, for file hosting, sharing and collaboration. While it has been a great service to store data online from the start, it felt slow at times especially when navigating folders or photo albums in [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Online Services

The prime choice for most users who wanted to manage documents online was up until recently Google Docs with its advanced set of features. Microsoft yesterday launched the Office Web Apps on SkyDrive service which might put a serious dent into Google’s domination. Office Web Apps on SkyDrive has been made available for users in [...]

Categories: Microsoft, The Web

Windows Live SkyDrive is a popular file hosting service on the Internet maintained by Microsoft and linked to their Windows Live service. Users with a Windows Live account can sign up for SkyDrive to make use of the 25 Gigabytes of online storage. No official software to maintain the files is provided by Microsoft. Thankfully [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

the data storage software Gladinet allows Windows users to mount cloud storage as local folders in Windows Explorer. Supported are not only online storage services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Google Picasa, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Docs and Folders from remote PCs but also online applications like ThinkFree. A later to be released premium [...]

Categories: Software, Windows