Microsoft kills off one of their most useful and innovative products. Today, Microsoft announced yet another reshuffle of their online services. ‘Windows Live’ is dead, now to be known by the names for individual services. According to Microsoft, and duly parroted elsewhere, Live Mesh is being ‘replaced’ by Skydrive. But that’s total bollocks. Skydrive is […]
Online storage services are everywhere but now the big players have joined the game in earnest. Online storage services are everywhere but now the big players have joined the game in earnest. Both Skydrive and Google Drive are interesting to us because, unlike other cloud storage services, they include online editing of word-processing, spreadsheets and […]
How to use the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s Skydrive. Skydrive from Microsoft has been around for some time, but now they’ve finally released software to synchronize the cloud storage with your PC and some other devices. It’s the Microsoft version of Google’s new Drive service. Both offer browser based editing as well as online storage […]
How to get the bonus Skydrive storage Microsoft is offering 7GB of Skydrive storage for all comers but past Skydrive users get a boost to 25GB. Here’s how to get it. Login to skydrive.live.com In the left column, at the bottom there’s a ‘Manage Storage’ link. This is where you go to buy extra storage […]
The Kindle is getting a new file format to replace MOBI called KF8 Amazon is rolling out a new ebook file format to replace the limited MOBI format it has used since the very first Kindle. Amazon uses the AZW extension for ebooks ‘locked’ with digital rights management. It’s called Kindle Format v8 using the […]