I came across a freebie that is worth a little effort. MicroSoft is offering 100 GigaBytes of storage on the cloud for one year for free. This would normally cost $50/year, but by doing searches while logged into Bing Rewards, you can get this for free. It takes a few days, but the operative word here is FREE.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
It's about time something is free through them!
Last edited by W0AJA; 05-14-2014 at 10:18 AM.
I get that already, for being an AT&T subscriber with a Windows Phone. Lemme tell ya, I didn't like the iCloud much, and Google Drive is just OK.
But Microsoft OneDrive, Outlook.com, and Office a 365 is pretty sweet integration.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
I'd trust Microsoft with my data about as far as I could spit a dead rat.
To be fair, though, I don't use iCloud or any of the other online data storage services either. I do use Dropbox, but only for sharing.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
For most part, same here. I did have cause to use MS OneNote collaborating on a project that worked out really well.Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
I then used it to store flight and trip information. Quite handy to collect data and have it available on an Android phone, or a windows tablet, and the person I was collaborating with was using an iphone and a mac.
But data storage.. nope.
I've accidentally swallowed some Scrabble tiles. My next crap could spell disaster.
I find OneDrive (the Cloud) useful to store eBooks that I own. It allows me to access them from a laptop or a tablet and anywhere I may be. I swore that some of the pictures I had that were destroyed by a virus were lost. Recently I found them on a site I had forgotten about. What a blast from the past to see pics I hadn't seen in a decade.
That is the main reason I find the Cloud attractive. Also being anywhere in the world and having access to my files and records. I trust MS because in this day of data breaches and viruses taking down what should be secure sites, they're probably one of the most secure I've seen. Also, Office on the cloud is free and the storage is automatic on OneDrive.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
I use OneCloud for my OneNote notebooks. Makes it nice in case my tablet goes AWOL on me.
100GB wouldn't even scratch the surface, for me. I've got about 1TB of data on my NW6.5 server.
At some point, I've got to get a 3-4GB NAS system together and retire the NW server. That will also allow me to take the MyBook Live offline, which has about 750GB of data on it.
"People Who Don't Want Their Beliefs Laughed at Shouldn't Have Such Funny Beliefs" -AD5MB
"If someone tells you he believes in and talks to an invisible bunny named Harvey, you put him on medication and a regimen of therapy. If someone tells you he believes in and talks to God, well, that's perfectly acceptable. Why that's the case is impossible for me to fathom." - WP2XX
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free for a year. if you actually use all that space then you have to keep sorting out what to do next year ...
"... and another thing about you democrats ... you all believe in science!" -- denny crane
I use google drive for rather benign stuff. For example, I have a bunch of Asymptote (*.asm) source code files stored up there. Asymptote is a vector graphics language used for producing mathematical graphical images for anything from simple two dimensional graphs to 3 dimensional surfaces, flowcharts, graphs, trees, formulas, vector fields, etc. so, if Google decides to poke their noses in there and read what I am up to all they are going to find are some source files that when run on the Asymptote interpreter will give them a bunch of pretty pictures similar to those that can be found in almost any decent textbook.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
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