Apr 6, 2009 | file_sharing, Microsoft, photos, Vista, web_services, WinXP
Windows Live Photo Gallery is Microsoft’s free program for simple photo management, a great choice for doing basic photo editing, viewing slide shows, and sharing photos online. It’s easier to use than the best-known consumer program, Adobe Photoshop Elements. (Almost...
Mar 18, 2009 | Adobe, file_sharing, Outlook, web_services
Adobe’s online service Acrobat.com has been available for almost a year as a place to store files and collaborate. I wrote some notes about it last summer. Now Adobe has introduced a plugin for Outlook that gives you a new reason to look into it. If you use Outlook...
Jan 7, 2009 | file_sharing, Microsoft, photos, remote, software, web_services
Windows Live Sync replaced Foldershare last month. It’s a good program but the upgrade experience for Foldershare users is pretty miserable. Windows Live Sync and Foldershare are services that allow folders to be synced so that multiple computers have exactly...
Dec 12, 2008 | file_sharing, Microsoft, photos, software, web_services
Microsoft has released Windows Live Sync, a free utility that syncs folders among two or more computers and makes it possible to share synced folders with others. It is the successor to Foldershare – and really not much more than a facelift for Foldershare. It...
Dec 4, 2008 | file_sharing, Microsoft, photos, web_services
Windows Live Skydrive has been updated with a new look, 25Gb of free storage space, and new options for storing and sharing photos. There is some integration with an updated version of Windows Live Photo Gallery but I haven’t yet explored how that works. If...
Nov 21, 2008 | file_sharing, Microsoft, remote, web_services
There was finally an official notice and some details about the plans to replace Foldershare with a new program named “Windows Live Sync” in December. Here’s the blog post with the announcement today. If you’re unfamiliar with Foldershare, I...
