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December 9, 2010 By admin

Everyone loves to share. As of the end of 2010, Facebook is the predominant vehicle for sharing photos and video. MySpace has similar capabilities; Twitter does not. And then there is Windows Live SkyDive that takes file sharing one step further.

What it does

SkyDive has been around for a few years, though it is not well advertised. It is a website that can be accessed from a Mac or PC computer or cell phone. Provided by Microsoft, you get 25 GB of free storage. There you can store just about anything you want, from photographs and videos to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. And, that is not all. You can also produce documents for all the Microsoft Office programs without having them on your computer.

You can share everything by providing links on social websites as well as through email and groups. By setting up permissions, you can allow others to collaborate on your documents directly on SkyDive.

Photographs and Video

Just like Facebook and other social networks, you can store photographs and video, SkyDive works like a virtual hard drive. You can upload your photos and video to SkyDive then link them to your social networks. For your photographs you can make slide shows. With the advent of YouTube, everyone loves to upload fun videos. You can download Windows Live Movie Maker from the Windows Live website free, and then you can edit your videos and audio and even make videos with your photos.

Other Documents

Unlike social networks, on SkyDive you can upload all types of documents from the Microsoft Office Suite and allow others to work them by giving them permissions. This is great for businesses as well as students working on group projects. Since students are often on a tight budget, they can log on to SkyDive and produce their school work with ease.

Sharing Files With Friends And Family

December 5, 2010 By admin

If you have important documents, or pictures, or just things that you would like to share with your family, there are a few ways you can do that with today’s technology. It is always important that you protect the information that you are sharing, so unless it is safe to post publicly, it would be wise to avoid posting things online on such sites like YouTube, Facebook, or MySpace. These sites can be hacked very easily and your information can be stolen.
The other options that you have are to email the information. This can be done with a password protected email, then the password is sent as a separate email. This allows for full security of the information that you are sending. The second option that you have is to save your information on a network. Networks are IP and email and password protected. This will allow whoever is on the network to view the information, and you can also change and update whenever you want, without compromising the material. The options are for internet type of sharing.
There are other types of sharing, and they include using a portable zip drive, and a flash drive. A portable zip drive allows you to save a large amount of information onto one small drive, and take it with you. It essentially compacting the information that will be read by other computer systems. A flash drive is a hand held USB port capsule, that saves information in its full size, and can be used to save, download, and change regardless of the computer that is it working on. This is a very convenient device, but can be easily compromised if stolen as there are no security passwords protecting the information that it holds. All of these options are perfect for sharing information with friends and family.

File Sharing with SkyDive

Sharing Files With Friends And Family

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