Windows Live Skydrive Rocks!
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Been using and recommending this for ages: bloody good service and not been let down by it (so far!). Here's the url: SkyDrive[^]
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I have 2 main problems with it. 1) There is no easy way to sync files. 2) At work, the public folder and some of the options pages are blocked as "social networking" sites. As such I use dropbox[^]. Ok, it's only 2gb, but syncing is so easy. You have a client app that silently syncs up your Dropbox folder with the server, so you can treat it just like working on your PC, and you know everything you do is getting backed up in the cloud. If such a thing existed for Skydrive I'd be more inclined to try it out. (Oh, and the Dropbox sync client supports Linux & Mac too)
Simon
Simon P Stevens wrote:
As such I use dropbox[^]
Which is blocked by the corporate firewall as a "Personal Network Storage" site :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Simon P Stevens wrote:
As such I use dropbox[^]
Which is blocked by the corporate firewall as a "Personal Network Storage" site :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel):laugh: In which case you're stuck then.
Simon
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Even better - it integrates very nicely with the desktop version of MS Office. For MS Office 2007 you need to download an add-on to enable this feature, and in Offce 2010 it is built in.
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I have 2 main problems with it. 1) There is no easy way to sync files. 2) At work, the public folder and some of the options pages are blocked as "social networking" sites. As such I use dropbox[^]. Ok, it's only 2gb, but syncing is so easy. You have a client app that silently syncs up your Dropbox folder with the server, so you can treat it just like working on your PC, and you know everything you do is getting backed up in the cloud. If such a thing existed for Skydrive I'd be more inclined to try it out. (Oh, and the Dropbox sync client supports Linux & Mac too)
Simon
Simon P Stevens wrote:
As such I use dropbox[^]
Superb app. Well-engineered. Could do with some improvements but what it does do it does superbly. I also use Skydrive but less so at the moment. Not looked at it for a while, may do so now.
Simon P Stevens wrote:
it's [Dropbox] only 2gb
But you get more space for each recommendation don't you? I'm at 3.5GB at the moment.
Kevin
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Wow! This, I didn't know. :)
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Simon P Stevens wrote:
As such I use dropbox[^]
Superb app. Well-engineered. Could do with some improvements but what it does do it does superbly. I also use Skydrive but less so at the moment. Not looked at it for a while, may do so now.
Simon P Stevens wrote:
it's [Dropbox] only 2gb
But you get more space for each recommendation don't you? I'm at 3.5GB at the moment.
Kevin
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Superb app. Well-engineered.
It's the complete seemlessness that I love. I just tried out windows live mesh[^] (ok, still in beta), which has similar claims to dropbox. But the sync app just isn't as seemless, it just seems to get in your way more. What makes dropbox so good is that if you didn't know it was running, you would almost never notice, it provides just enough info so you know when files are synced. Mesh, has popups and windows and info all over the place, but for some reason makes it impossible to find out if a file has finished syncing or not without logging into the web app and checking if it's there. Oh, and the killer feature dropbox has that will prevent me from using mesh seriously - Linux support.
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
But you get more space for each recommendation don't you?
Only if you have friends. :laugh: I have just 1 so I'm on just 2.25gb.
Simon
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Yes, it is wonderful, the only pity here is the fact that files must not be bigger than 50MB... X|
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
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I love it. They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows. Apps could save data to the cloud, rather than the disk, and voila, your data is accessible from work, home, mobile, etc.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoJudah Himango wrote:
Apps could save data to the cloud
Yeah, no security risk there! I'd love to export my most sensitive files to the world.
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I love it. They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows. Apps could save data to the cloud, rather than the disk, and voila, your data is accessible from work, home, mobile, etc.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoJudah Himango wrote:
They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows.
The EU would probably sue them...
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Judah Himango wrote:
Apps could save data to the cloud
Yeah, no security risk there! I'd love to export my most sensitive files to the world.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Yeah, no security risk there! I'd love to export my most sensitive files to the world.
Haha, I bet their data centers have armed gaurds, or at the very least some sort of security people. I can't say the same for my house.
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Absolutely. I've been using it since it was first announced. In fact, I used it exclusively to store the content for my book so that I (and my tech editor) could access it from anywhere. I have had very few problems with it, most which were of my own doing. The only issue of significance is that if you use a removable (USB drive, flash, etc.) drive as the storage folder on your local machine it sometimes gets confused if you remove that drive and attach it to another machine. (Doing this, by the way, probably isn't the best idea when it comes to synchronizing with SkyDrive anyway since it does contradict with how SkyDrive is supposed to work.)
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Even better - it integrates very nicely with the desktop version of MS Office. For MS Office 2007 you need to download an add-on to enable this feature, and in Offce 2010 it is built in.
With Office 2010 it also has built in synchronization, etc. so multiple people can edit at the same time.
Scott Dorman
Microsoft® MVP - Visual C# | MCPD President - Tampa Bay IASA [Blog][Articles][Forum Guidelines]
Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
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I have 2 main problems with it. 1) There is no easy way to sync files. 2) At work, the public folder and some of the options pages are blocked as "social networking" sites. As such I use dropbox[^]. Ok, it's only 2gb, but syncing is so easy. You have a client app that silently syncs up your Dropbox folder with the server, so you can treat it just like working on your PC, and you know everything you do is getting backed up in the cloud. If such a thing existed for Skydrive I'd be more inclined to try it out. (Oh, and the Dropbox sync client supports Linux & Mac too)
Simon
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Judah Himango wrote:
Apps could save data to the cloud
Yeah, no security risk there! I'd love to export my most sensitive files to the world.
That's what people said about email.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango -
It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
I think Live Mesh[^] rockes even more - like skydrive but with synchronisation
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Superb app. Well-engineered.
It's the complete seemlessness that I love. I just tried out windows live mesh[^] (ok, still in beta), which has similar claims to dropbox. But the sync app just isn't as seemless, it just seems to get in your way more. What makes dropbox so good is that if you didn't know it was running, you would almost never notice, it provides just enough info so you know when files are synced. Mesh, has popups and windows and info all over the place, but for some reason makes it impossible to find out if a file has finished syncing or not without logging into the web app and checking if it's there. Oh, and the killer feature dropbox has that will prevent me from using mesh seriously - Linux support.
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
But you get more space for each recommendation don't you?
Only if you have friends. :laugh: I have just 1 so I'm on just 2.25gb.
Simon
Live Mesh i haven't quite found a good use for. However Live Sync I have been using since shortly after it was originally released as "FolderShare" - love it. I'm going to have to see about SkyDrive now. The one thing that I have found trips up every online-offering of Office-based document creation/editing, is a password-protected Excel file. I have one i use daily, and sync it w/ Live Sync, but so far haven't found an online service that plays nice w/ it so i can just edit it online in one place. If anybody knows of such a service let me know.
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Judah Himango wrote:
They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows
Yes! That will be cool. I thought it had an API, but I can't find it.
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
