Called “Skydrive” a part of Microsoft’s “Windows Live” it allows you to store and share up to 25GB of data (documents, photos and other media files). “Windows Live Photo Gallery” syncs automatically to Skydrive which is terrific. What I am a very disappointed by; there is no method to transfer other files by a desktop application like it does with “Photo Gallery”. In my opinion this decreases the usefulness of “Skydrive” a lot. Right now you have to go to the website. Click “Upload Files”, click on “Browse”, click “Open” and then click “Upload”. This is so old-school! Not Web 2.0 at all. What it is really good for is sharing very big files with others. Files up to 50MB can be uploaded and shared.
Over all I think it’s a good start. The photo sharing function and it synchronization with “Photo Gallery” works great! I think Microsoft may someday do something with desktop synchronization. At lease I hope so!

February 17th, 2009 by Mark
My rule number 1 is: “If you don’t have two copies of a file on different devices you don’t have that file!” Here are some programs to help you to that end.
Carbonite
PC only
Unlimited storage for one computer.
Easy install! My Documents and Desktop set to backup automatically. Right-click to select other items to backup.
$49.95 per year for the first computer.
Jungle Disk
Puts a virtual harddrive on your computer using Amazon’s S3 service.
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB of data uploaded
$0.17 per GB of data downloaded
Much harder to configure than Carbonite.
GMail Drive
Puts a virtual harddrive on your computer that save your backed-up data to a GMail account.
The downside of GMail Drive is that it is only 7GB. The upside is it’s free!

October 30th, 2008 by Mark
Yes you can host your podcast (or any audio content) for the web) for free with Podserve (one of the Big In Japan. The other great thing about Podserve is that it create an RSS feed for you so you don’t have to figure out how to do that. I guess if your podcast got real popular they would ask you for money or something.

September 18th, 2008 by Mark