Skip to Content

Submit your nominations for the Luxist Awards' Best in Decor
AOL Tech

LiveDrive posts

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Social Software, Web

Livedrive goes live (online storage and backup)

LiveDrive
Online storage and file backup service Livedrive has dropped its beta label and it's now charging for service. We first looked at the service back in December, when Livedrive was offering unlimited file storage for free while in beta. Now that the service has officially launched, the company is charging £39.95 per year for 100GB of space or £89.95 for unlimited storage. That's about $57 US and $128 US respectively.

You can certainly find cheaper online backup solutions (Mozy and Carbonite come to mind). But Livedrive offers a few features that you won't find from other services, including integration with Windows Explorer and social features like Facebook integration. And once your files are uploaded to Livedrive's servers, you can access them from any computer with a web browser.

If you signed up during the beta, Livedrive is offering a 20% discount to the first 10,000 beta testers who sign up for paid accounts.

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Beta, Web

Livedrive web storage service adds Facebook, video playback support

LiveDrive
Livedrive has added a bunch of new features to its web based file storage and sharing service. The company, which claims to offer unlimited file storage, now allows you to:
  • Use a Java based tool for drag and drop uploading using the web interface
  • Watch videos from the web portal after they've been re-encoded
  • Drag and drop images from Livedrive to Facebook and vice-versa through a Facebook app
Livedrive also offers a Windows utility that adds a virtual hard drive to your system allowing you to copy files to and from your Livedrive account using Windows Explorer.

The service is free while in beta.

Filed under: Internet, Security, Windows, Beta

Livedrive provides unlimited online storage

Livedrive
Livedrive is an online storage service that offers two advantages over most services in this space:
  1. Unlimited file storage
  2. Integration with Windows Explorer
When you install Livedrive (and reboot your computer), you'll notice an L drive show up in Windows Explorer. To copy files to the service, just drag and drop them to the L drive. You can also upload and download files through a web-based interface. And once your files are online you'll be able to access them from any computer using the web client.

Thanks to the Windows Explorer integration, you could easily use LiveDrive as an offsite backup tool like Carbonite or Mozy. Just install your favorite file backup utility and point it to the L drive.

Livedrive is free while in beta, but I have a feeling the company will probably start charging a fee when the beta ends.

[via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Utilities, Web services, Microsoft

Microsoft introduces Live Folders and Live Photo Gallery


Microsoft has been steadily rolling out new "Live" items since its introduction, there were two that got released late last night, with more planned to come out this summer.

Live Folders has been showing its face since around May, and are finally ready for some outside testing. The "storage on a cloud" Live Drive service, as it was coined earlier, will provide users with a free 500mb of online storage. (cough, cough...um... is that enough for the average user nowadays?) The storage was built for document storage only, so Microsoft isn't betting on the fact that people will be stuffing their spaces with multimedia materials like videos and music.

The Live Photo Gallery replaces the standard Vista Photo Gallery when installed. This allows users to control, manage, burn a picture or movie or create photo stitches, where photos are seamlessly stitched together to make a panoramic photo, relatively easy. It's an upgrade to the Windows Photo Gallery that comes standard with any Vista install. The main benefit to this application seems to be the ease of use for uploading images to Live Spaces, and videos to Soapbox.

More Windows Live services are said to roll out throughout the summer, as well as a Windows Live Suite that will include all of the Live services in one clean install.

Limited managed betas of the service will begin rolling out as of today with 5000 to 10000 testers, so look out for them if you're interested.

More coverage on this new release can be found here, here and here.

Take a look at some screenshots of the Live Folders interface:

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, Yahoo!

All this talk about online storage, but where's Yahoo??

Yahoo Briefcase imageWith yesterday's announcement from AOL about 5GBs of online storage, the to-be released Windows Live Drive and rumored Google GDrive, all the major players are making strides into providing large amounts of persistent and easily accessible storage to their users.

Except Yahoo! - they've had a storage service forever - Y! Briefcase, but it is dwarfed by these recent developments - 30MB free, upgradable to just 100MB for $35, and a very Web 1.0 interface - no AJAX in sight.

It's not like they are not running large disk services for the backends of several properties - Y! Photos and Flickr offer unlimited storage for image files, so it's not a stretch to imagine them having the capacity to compete if they want to.

So Yahoo!... where's your offering? Is this a game of catch-up like when GMail opened the floodgates on 1GB+ mailboxes, or a case of Yahoo! forgetting an older service and letting it wither away??

Featured Time Waster

The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

View more Time Wasters

Featured Galleries

Defective by Design, London: Protest Pictures
Microsoft Security Essentials
Chromium Pre-Alpha on CrunchBang Linux
Safari 4 Beta
10 Firefox themes that don't suck
IE8 RC1
Download Squad at the Crunchies After-Party
Download Squad at the Crunchies
WordPress 2.7
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals
Windows 7 Hands On
Comodo Internet Security
Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store
Android First-look: Twitroid
Google Reader Android
Android Hands-On
Twine 1.0
Photoshop Express Beta
Mozilla Birthday Cake
Palm stuff
Adobe Lightroom 1.1

 


Follow us on Twitter!

Flickr Pool

www.flickr.com

More Tech Coverage

AOL Radio