Like the old saying, what one hand giveth the other taketh away. Today, Microsoft upgraded its SkyDrive service with some improved functionality including the ability to access it as a drive in Windows Explorer or on your Mac but in doing so it is downsizing the generous 25GB of storage to 7GB. It’s a bit …
Category Archive: Cloud
Jan 23 2012
Get Your Bitcasa Invite Here!
Here’s something that might interest those cloud storage enthusiasts out there or people wanting to check things out before migrating their data. If you want to try out Bitcasa which touts as being able to provide “infinite storage on your desktop” then here’s you chance to get an account. Just click here to signup and check …
Nov 22 2010
OnLive – Cloud Gaming for the Masses
As services in the cloud continue to proliferate it was only a matter of time before ground was broken with respect to gaming. OnLive has released its MicroConsole TV Adapter (a little box around the size of a thick smartphone) which provides wireless connectivity for up to four controllers as well as Bluetooth headsets, two …
Sep 29 2010
Xmarks Shutting Down in Early 2011
Back in June, I blogged about a great piece of software called Xmarks (previously known as Foxmarks when it was originally written as a plug-in for Firefox). In a nutshell, it allowed you to sync your bookmarks and your website credentials up to the cloud (over a secureand encrypted connection) and then sync them down …
Jul 05 2010
Backup Your Facebook, Twitter and Blog with Backupify
Are there some things that you have uploaded to a social medium that you don’t have stored anywhere else? Perhaps you are implicitly relying on Facebook and Twitter remaining operational so that all those funny comments, memorable photos, shared links and event calendars are not lost? If you have been following this blog for a …
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