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SKYDRIVE - A HANDY TOOL TO BACKUP/TRANSFER FILES
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CloseSo, are you tired of hosting files on sites like MegaUpload and Rapidshare? I'm tired of downloading things from there, anyway.
Enter SkyDrive - 25 GB of space free from Microsoft. All you need is a Live account (like, say, Hotmail).
http://skydrive.live.com
You can create private or public folders and upload files to your personal locker space. It's very handy, especially if you don't have your thumbdrive nearby! Plus, how many stories do we need to hear about people "losing" their thumbdrives mid-project and having no backups and blah blah blah this game is canceled?
Sure, you upload your finished or demo-ready games on to RMN, but what about your work-in-progress games? Or your resources and notes and Excel documents? Not everyone can be epically awesome like me and have 150MBs of lockerspace. What to do?
Anywho, I must have been living under a rock because I just found this service today.
Some might find the interface clunky, but someone made a new UI for SkyDrive called SDExplorer:
http://www.cloudstorageexplorer.com/
I haven't tried it yet, but what it does it make your SkyDrive account look like an external device in your Windows environment (just as if you plugged in a thumbdrive). Pretty cool.
An example of a public file I uploaded into my Skydrive:
http://cid-719e6cf65798334b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/puns.txt
EDIT:
Dropbox also looks slick:
https://www.dropbox.com/tour
Automatic backups, file history, sync, 2 GB, sharing - seems kinda like a blend of a CVS and an online storage site. Tres neat.
Enter SkyDrive - 25 GB of space free from Microsoft. All you need is a Live account (like, say, Hotmail).
http://skydrive.live.com
You can create private or public folders and upload files to your personal locker space. It's very handy, especially if you don't have your thumbdrive nearby! Plus, how many stories do we need to hear about people "losing" their thumbdrives mid-project and having no backups and blah blah blah this game is canceled?
Sure, you upload your finished or demo-ready games on to RMN, but what about your work-in-progress games? Or your resources and notes and Excel documents? Not everyone can be epically awesome like me and have 150MBs of lockerspace. What to do?
Anywho, I must have been living under a rock because I just found this service today.
Some might find the interface clunky, but someone made a new UI for SkyDrive called SDExplorer:
http://www.cloudstorageexplorer.com/
I haven't tried it yet, but what it does it make your SkyDrive account look like an external device in your Windows environment (just as if you plugged in a thumbdrive). Pretty cool.
An example of a public file I uploaded into my Skydrive:
http://cid-719e6cf65798334b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/puns.txt
EDIT:
Dropbox also looks slick:
https://www.dropbox.com/tour
Automatic backups, file history, sync, 2 GB, sharing - seems kinda like a blend of a CVS and an online storage site. Tres neat.
Lost thumbdrives? I thought it was all about hard drives shitting bricks. I'm so far behind the times I don't know what to do 
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i used to use skydrive until someone tipped me off to Dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/tour
i prefer it, you might too :p
https://www.dropbox.com/tour
i prefer it, you might too :p
Neok
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I usually use and can recommend skydrive as well. The only thing is that there's a 50 mb filesize limit (at least for me), so you need to do a .rar split into 2+ files if it's over.
I didn't test the filesize limits for either. 50mb is pretty good, I guess. More than I need for my work.
I wonder if Dropbox has filesize limits?
I wonder if Dropbox has filesize limits?
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it's 2GB total for free like SkyDrive, but with no limit on the size of individual files. If you pay for the service (I don't) you get up to 100GB
I really can't recommend it enough for people here, especially those who occasionally work on group projects. Here is a picture detailing how Dropbox can change your life.
edit: i was so excited i misspelled "permissions" :(
I really can't recommend it enough for people here, especially those who occasionally work on group projects. Here is a picture detailing how Dropbox can change your life.
edit: i was so excited i misspelled "permissions" :(
Upon discovering that Miles Black, the famous phrenologist from Yorkshire was going to take up yodeling to lonely goats in Bali, James White decided to balance four planks of wood on a beer keg and call it an abstract work of art in the style of a famous fourteenth-century architect, just going to prove that people will read any old garbage if they think there will be a good pun at the end of it.
nothing is safe kenton
nothing is safe kenton
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