Well, I finally did it: I went and created an outlook.com email for Son’s online stuff. What brought this on? Minecraft. I’ve got Pocket Minecraft on my Kindle for him to mess with, but he wants the full version on his PC. He’s positively OBSESSED with Minecraft. So I finally went looking. I went ahead … Read more
All My Storage brings all of your local and Cloud storage together in one easy to navigate app. It currently supports; Dropbox, SkyDrive, Facebook, Box, Google Drive and IDrive EVS. Oh, and SugarSync is coming soon. If you own a Win 8 RT device, which can’t install Cloud storage clients, this app is a must. … Read more
If you’re a fan of SkyDrive but unsatisfied with your iOS version of the app hopefully this will make you happy. Version 3.0 has passed certification and is available in the App Store. This update includes: Support for iPhone 5 and iPad Mini Updated app icons and user experience Works better with your photos: Download … Read more
March 27, 2013 K–12 schools, higher-education institutions cite post-graduation preparedness, manageability and cost-saving benefits as they deploy the new Windows. REDMOND, Wash. — March 27, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that 10 K–12 school districts and higher-education institutions have signed on to use Windows 8 for more than 540,000 students and faculty to prepare … Read more
Was reading an MIT article (I’m super smart), found an impressive spreadsheet detailing all the alternatives to Google Reader should they indeed pull the plug. People around the world are currently collaborating on it but it’s already helpful, you might want to take a gander here, http://goo.gl/CvcBo, or if you’re super smart too (not likely), … Read more
Remember the Mailbox app, which recently made news that they would provide Mailbox app by invitation, has been acquired by Dropbox. The Dropbox blog says they fell in love with Mailbox app and bought it, https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/03/welcome-mailbox/. Is Dropbox planning to start its own email service as part of its cloud strategy in addition to Cloud … Read more
If you share the same information on Facebook, you get another 3 months of free time on Office 365 University. The only thing is you have to be a student of a college or university of fulltime or part time and faculty of the college or university. Microsoft says “Office 365 University is a four-year … Read more
Decided to pull the trigger on Office 365 today. I knew I would eventually fold to the pressure of upgrading Office, and my copy of Publisher 2003 was really getting old. While I wasn’t instructed to do so, the first thing I did was uninstall my copies of; Publisher 2003, Office Home & Student 2010 … Read more
So Microsoft has announced Office 365 for 2013. Note that they ARE NOT getting rid off Office 2013 – more on that in a bit. Office 365 comes in three flavors: Home Premium, Small Business Premium, and University (or Academic). I’m going to skip over Small Business Premium, because it has tiers within it, and … Read more
Great day for SkyDrive. If you use it often you likely have gigs of files. But then you have an laptop with a tiny drive and you have a problem. Not any more: With today’s release, you can now select which folders from SkyDrive are synced – making it easier to use SkyDrive with laptops … Read more