For you Hotmail users out there, Microsoft’s e-mail service will be getting a big bump in memory thanks to new integration with SkyDrive, its free online storage service. Bottom line: It now dishes out 25 gigabytes of space. This all comes through the recently released Wave 3, which makes big changes to the way we use Live apps. We have already seen new changes to their mail app, and now a little extra space makes for a nice topping. Some new features include: Hotmail's minimum storage space is 25GB. The ability to download e-mail attachments from Hotmail into SkyDrive. SkyDrive...
Windows Live SkyDrive - Your Internet Hard Drive One needs to be extremely careful when choosing an online file storage service because you never know how long will a company survive if they offer everything for free. There’re so many examples to prove that. AOL is shutting down XDrive, OmniDrive disappeared overnight, DivShare blocked their users in Asia as they were not contributing to the bottom line and MediaMax closed abruptly without letting users download their existing files. Now Microsoft has introduced an upgraded version of Live SkyDrive, a free online file storage service, that looks like a perfect...
Windows only: Create and mix your own file and media playlists with Freepath. Users can create file playlists from a variety of sources: files from their own computers, video files found on YouTube, photos from Flickr, nearly anything you can drag and drop from the web or your own computer can be dumped into Freepath. Once the files are placed within a playlist, users can opt to keep the list as spartan or create a slideshow complete with transitions and extra effects. One of the more unique features of Freepath is that files remain editable once they are embedded into...
Free online storage and sharing site Drop.io was already a pretty streamlined service—upload a file, copy the "drop" address, then share it with anyone you wanted to have access to your files of up to 100MB. Since opening up an API, though, the service has spawned an even more streamlined service, uSend.io. Click to choose a file, enter emails separated by commas, and your recipients get a link to your file (also with a 100MB limit). No ads on the download page, no wait times, just shared files. For another intriguing remix of Drop.io's service, check out Collab.io, which sets...
If you haven’t played with a microscope since your school days, you may have forgotten about the tiny intricacies of the world around you; this may be a good thing since the real creepy crawlies are often invisible to the naked eye. For approximately $93, you can now have a USB microscope that sits on your desk and magnifies up to 200x, displays images with a resolution of up to 1600 x 1200, allows you to take stills or AVI movies and includes 2GB of free online storage. Check out the test pics for yourself and decide if forensics...
We've seen digital microscopes before, but few can claim that they have a 1600x1200 sensor, 200x magnification and 2 GB of free online storage. This £50 device works improves upon last year's 640x480 Microscope Pen from the same company, and lets you take stills or AVI movies.. And the test pics from the microscope don't look half bad (if they're actually real). The USB microscope can be found over at [IWOOT via Geek Alerts]....
Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Google, Freeware I've used the GMail Drive shell extension for a long time - it's a great way to utilize the copious amounts of free storage Google provides that I'd never fill with emails.When I read about Convivia's GMail Drive Config - a free tool that allows you to (theoretically) mount multiple GMail Drives - I was very intrigued. After installing it, however, I'm reminded that trying to get too much of a good thing sometimes turns out badly.Set up is easy enough: download the 60kb standalone executable and enter your accounts. I'm assuming the...
LaCie, designers of some of the best looking hard drives around, are offering one full year of unlimited online data backup free of charge when you purchase any one of their external drives. Each drive will be bundled with Carbonite's storage technology that promises to automatically back up the LaCie drive (when the computer is idle) "by finding new and modified files, encrypting them twice before leaving the original workstation, then transmitting them by HTTPS (SSL) to a secure data center, where the information remains encrypted." All-in-all, the package represents a $50 value. The promotion is applicable to all drives...
Windows/Mac only: With two gigabytes of free online storage, IDrive offers a cheap option for remote backup of critical files for your computer. Download the client for Windows or Mac, select the files you want to keep backed up, and IDrive will automatically begin uploading them to the company's servers over an SSL-encrypted connection. Then it will monitor your computer for changes to files and folders and connect every ten minutes to update your backup. You can also set a bandwidth throttle to make sure you aren't choking your internet connection during the workday. Looking for more remote backup options?...
A couple of months ago, I ran into one of my friends sobbing her eyes out. Her computer hard drive had died and she’d lost three years of graphic design work. Of course, it wasn’t backed up — she’d thought about it but hadn’t gotten around to picking up an external hard drive. I’ve heard this type of story hundreds of times. Every time I hear a new one, I think about how I’m going to do better at backing up my own work. I still don’t do a great job, but I do have all of my files backed...
Over the past few years, I’ve been working with video files more and more. The problem with collaborating with others on video files is that if you’re not in the same location, the sheer size of some of the files creates annoyances, and makes sharing files difficult. FTP applications are a standard solution for this, and I’ve used them, but for very small fees, there are a couple of other very convenient solutions. Two ways to solve the problem of sharing large files online without headaches are WhaleMail and ADrive. WhaleMail has come under Symantec’s wing, as a result of...
You comment, we listen. We've updated our feature-by-feature comparison chart of the (partially) free online storage services, including reader-suggested additions like ADrive and Syncplicity and a few fixes. Got a uniquely cool online backup/storage/syncing solution we missed? Tell us in the comments or email us....
I’ve written about ADrive before here. For some time now, it’s been trouncing the other free online file storage services in terms of sheer capacity offered at no cost. It continues to offer 50GB of storage for free, while many other free services max out at 1GB to 5GB (even GMail gives you more than that). Now, ADrive is offering a low-cost paid service that adds features to the free service, with new features being slipstreamed in. For a few reasons, many web workers may want to check the fee-based service out. ADrive is offering a service for $6.95 a...
Filed under: Internet, Web services Looking for another online file hosting option? Orbitfiles offers 6gb of free storage. For a measly $5 a month, you can upgrade to the "Zeus package" with unlimited storage.The maximum upload size is 50mb, which is more than enough for what I'm doing with an online file store - namely stashing encrypted backups of my files and my wife's fonts folder (for obvious reasons). Their Hercules Uploader does a good job of taking care of my archiving tasks with minimal effort from me.You can tag and describe your files, and share only what you want....
It's been a while since an Asus product has rocked our world—we think the last time must have been the Eee—but the Atom-powered SSD-based Asus S101 looks amazing for its price—even better than we thought before. Just 2.2lbs and a tapering .7 inches thin (a bit thicker than the Air), its 10.2" LED screen runs at WSVGA (1024x600) resolution. And with 802.11n, ethernet port, Bluetooth, multitouch trackpad, 4-in-1 card reader, 20GB of free online storage and hi quality speakers, the S101 packs plenty of useful features—though it only has 1GB of RAM and appears to have the same fatal flaw...
