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How-to: Connect Your SkyDrive In Windows Explorer

Klaus Neumann — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:34:20 +0000

Your web drive SkyDrive offers 25 GB of free storage that you can use from everywhere. However, uploading and accessing its contents from your web browser can get tiring. Unless you connect Windows Live SkyDrive to Windows Explorer.

After going through the following how-to, you will be able to access your SkyDrive folders from a mapped network drive, e.g. drive “S:\”. You do not need any extra software to do this.

Open your browser, and navigate to http://skydrive.live.com/.
Sign in with your Windows Live ID.
Copy the UID part of the displayed URL, like: https://cid-1234567890abcdef.skydrive.live.com/ .
Leave SkyDrive open, and take note of one of your folder names.
Open Windows Explorer.
On the left sidebar, right-click on Network. Choose Map network drive.
Enter the following URL: \\docs.live.net@SSL\1234567890abcdef\XYZ
Replace “XYZ” with the folder name you noted and that you want to map.
Note: Replace “Documents” with “^2Documents”, and “Public” with “^2Public”.
Choose a drive letter, and submit the dialog.
You will be prompted for your Windows Live ID. Sign in.
Then, you can access all the files and subfolders within your SkyDrive folder, including copying and pasting. You can even open and edit files directly!

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This Week’s Thoughts: Computers In the Cloud

Klaus Neumann — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:17:55 +0000

Cloud Computing is everywhere these days. Microsoft has launched Windows Azure, Chrome OS also focuses on your data in the web. But what is it all about? What possibilities and disadvantages does cloud computing have? Finally: Who can or should use it?

Cloud computing is currently a hyped phrase on the web. Everybody plays with it and promises the moon. In the end, it is about never having to install software anymore. No problems with system crashes. And your personal data aren’t stored on hard disks or USB sticks, but in the cloud.

Get more done on the Web

In the end, the ‘cloud’ is just the Internet. There are tens of thousands of servers, and your data are stored somewhere on them. In the cloud. The idea by itself is great: Most of us are connected to the Web permanently anyways, so why not get everything working in the Internet, save your data there and launch programs from there? That is the basic concept of cloud computing. Get more done on the Web, less on your own computer. That could make your home PC cheaper, as the real work is done by the Web instead.

Google Chrome OS

Google has just launched their own operating system for small computers, “netbooks”. Chrome OS is free and is more or less just the browser, Google Chrome. You can use it to go online—and that’s it. You launch programs that are stored on the Web, and just do your whole work on the web. Everything happens online. Yet, Chrome OS cannot do everything that Windows can, but if you only want to accomplish certain tasks, such as writing letters, sending and receiving mail, surfing the Net or editing photos, you don’t need anything more—thus you can save money on hardware and software.

Writing letters on the Net

However, you don’t need a new operating system to participate at cloud computing. Best example: Google docs & spreadsheets. A free online text processor that cannot do everything that Microsoft Word can, but that is free. Just enough for many things like writing letters or designing invitation cards. You don’t have to install any software and you save your texts directly on the Net. That’s cloud computing.

Editing photos on the Web

Even photo editing or graphics creation doesn’t require setting up software locally. There are several web sites that can do the job nearly as good. You can edit photos, optimize them, print them. That’s also cloud computing. There are many more examples. If you are storing your photos at flickr or sharing your videos at YouTube, you are in fact using cloud computing.

Lots of advantages

Cloud computing is not necessarily completely new, only its name is relatively new—and most of us are already a part of it somehow. There are many advantages. You can access documents stored on the Web from anywhere, so you don’t have to take them with you. And you can share them with work mates or friends easily—for example with Windows Live SkyDrive. Collaboration is easy, even working on projects simultaneously. And: you don’t have to install any software.

Concerned about your privacy?

What about your privacy? Many people feel uncomfortable with storing everything on the Web—and that has its reasons. Surely you can set up permissions and access rules, like who may view your photos or edit your texts. But you cannot control it. You should rather not store very private or sensitive data on the Web. What might happen as well: You’re offline, there is no web connection. You won’t be able to access your data.

Summarized: Cloud computing has its good and bad sides. The solution: think about the advantages and disadvantages of storing specific data on your local disk—or, if they are not too private, easily on the Web.

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Windows Live adds 19 Web Activities, including YouTube

Klaus Neumann — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:09:16 +0000

Do you love creating videos and sharing them with your friends? This has just got easier. Starting from today, you can add YouTube to your Windows Live Profile as Web Activity. The Windows Live team announced:

Windows Live is rolling out 19 new web activity partnerships with leading global and regional web companies – including YouTube and Break.com. […] With today’s update, we now have partnerships with 74 sites from around the world – localized into 35 languages, with broad coverage of leading sites worldwide in social networking, video sharing, photo sharing, blogging, reviews and ratings, and more.

How-to: Add YouTube to your Windows Live Profile

Here are the single steps that you should do to have your YouTube activities, such as posting a video or marking your video favorites, appear in your What’s new feed in Messenger, Hotmail, Windows Live Home, etc:

1. Open your Windows Live Profile.

2. At Web Activities, click the Add link.

3. Scroll way down (the list is alphabetically sorted), and find YouTube. Then click it.

4. Enter your YouTube screen name.

5. Click the Add button.

6. Click the Go to your profile link.

Done! Your activities on YouTube will now appear in your What’s new feed.

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Ten reasons for Windows 7

Klaus Neumann — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:02:14 +0000

Get quicker access to all of your stuff—use Pin and Jump Lists to keep the programs and files you use the most right at your fingertips.
Manage open windows easier—resize and arrange windows simply by dragging their borders to the edge of your screen.
Quickly find what you’re looking for—use Windows Search to find a specific file, program, or e-mail in a few seconds.
Share files and printers among multiple PCs—from one Windows 7-based PC to another, you can share files, music, photos, and even printers across your home network.
Stay entertained effortlessly—with Windows Media Center you get one place to enjoy your photos and music, watch and record live TV, and watch free Internet TV.
Easily create and share movies—create great looking movies and slideshows and share them on YouTube in minutes.
Connect to networks easily—view and connect to any available wireless network in as few as three clicks.
Do more and wait less—improvements that can accelerate sleep and resume and make your PC more responsive help you get more done.
Touch and tap rather than point and click—Windows 7 makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use.
Manage devices more easily—manage printers, cameras, music players, and other devices from a single, consistent, place.

Source: www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/top-ten-reasons.aspx

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