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Online Storage | Share Files with Shared Folders | Windows Live SkyDrive
Free 25 GB online storage means you can Store, access, and share your files online with friends or co-workers, from anywhere.
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Screen capture demonstrating Hefty storage
Hefty storage
With 25 GB of free, password-protected online storage, you’ve got the freedom to share large photos, files, and documents. You set the passwords and you decide who sees what, so you have confidence that your data is in your control.
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Screen capture demonstrating Personal folders
Personal folders
Store your files online and access them with virtually any Web-enabled computer or mobile device—whether it’s yours, a friend’s, or a public computer.
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Screen capture demonstrating Drag and drop
Drag and drop
Uploading content is as easy as dragging and dropping the files from your computer onto the Web.
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Screen capture demonstrating Shared folders
Shared folders
Working on a project with classmates, co-workers, or family? With shared folders, the whole crew can upload, download, and collaborate with you on documents and other files.
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Screen capture demonstrating Direct links
Direct links
Each folder on SkyDrive has a unique Web address, so you can save the link as a favorite or copy-and-paste it into e-mail or other documents for direct access.
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Windows Live Spaces
With SkyDrive, you can embed public or shared folders on Windows Live Spaces. Everyone can see what’s public, but only people you’ve granted permission can see your shared folders.
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Google Docs Gets Free File Storage
1/13/2010 6:09:00 AM, mynetx
The web office Google Docs will soon allow you to store any kind of files. Each file can take up to 250MB, and the total available space is 1GB. Up to now, you could only store Google Docs, PDFs and Picasa photos in Google’s cloud. Anil Sabharwal, ...
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Uploading folders to SkyDrive
2/20/2010 10:02:00 AM, Ludwig J.
There are times when I want to upload not just a few pictures but a whole collection to my SkyDrive. Turns out that this is not as simple as I first imagined. Here is the procedure I attempted. You may have run into this yourself. I logged in to my Live ...
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Fun with Windows Live Writer and Photo Gallery
1/5/2010 8:10:50 PM, Ludwig J.
Windows Live Writer offers some fun options and so does Windows Live Photo Gallery. Here I will start in Photo Gallery and select some photos. Clicking the Make command offers several options. What I want to demonstrate is Make a blog post. Now if you ...
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How-to: Connect Your SkyDrive In Windows Explorer
1/20/2010 11:34:20 AM, mynetx
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 ...
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Spaces – Your “mansion in the sky”
2/16/2010 1:47:58 PM, Ludwig J.
With your Hotmail or Windows Live e-mail account you get more than just a mail box. You get a cornucopia of services – a veritable “mansion in the sky”. This mansion can be a very private place or you can have elaborate public spaces, with rooms for just ...
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Take a picture
1/26/2010 2:34:54 PM, Greg
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but that’s assuming other people can see it. While well-placed pictures are often the best way to provide a quick demonstration or example to someone in a discussion, the Windows Live Groups discussion editor ...
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