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Cloud Storage Faceoff: Windows Live SkyDrive Vs Dropbox

With Amazon’s recent entry into consumer cloud storage, we’ve got quite a few competitors offering great and varying options — but which one is the best? Here’s a look at Windows Live SkyDrive and Dropbox, and our top pick for storing your files in the cloud.

March 3, 2011
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Google Apps Now Offering Extra User-Controlled Storage Space

Google Apps users, whether running a domain or helping out on one, can now purchase individual storage plans from Google, allowing for certain users to have extras space for Docs, pictures, and other organisational data. [Google Enterprise Blog]

February 24, 2011
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Sorami Opens Up SkyDrive’s 25GB Cloud Storage To Your Android

Android only: Naming weirdness aside, Microsoft’s SkyDrive service is a nice chunk of cloud storage — 25 GB, to be exact. Now you can view, download and send your files in SkyDrive from your Android phone with Sorami.

February 9, 2011
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Gladinet 3.0 Creates Dropbox-Like Folder Sync Through Google Storage

Windows only: Gladinet provides desktop-style access to storage on Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, Microsoft’s SkyDrive and other cloud services. Its newest release improves its interface greatly, but also adds a key convenience: backing up a local folder through cloud services.

January 18, 2011
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Dropquest Awards Up To 1GB Of Dropbox Space Through Online Scavenger Hunt

We love getting extra space in our Dropboxes here at Lifehacker, and the Dropbox team has given you a fun way to snag up to a whole gig of extra space: an online scavenger hunt.

December 22, 2010
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Give The Gift Of No-Fuss Backup And Synchronicity To The Less Tech-Savvy

Looking for a great last-minute gift? This Christmas, set up your less tech-inclined acquaintances with the gift of synchronised and backed-up data — including their most important files, bookmarks and passwords (which we’ll also help them improve).

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Drop.io Online File Storage Officially Offline

We knew it was coming, but file sharing service drop.io has officially stopped all file services, following a buyout by Facebook.

December 15, 2010
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mSpot Stores 2GB Of Music Online, Streams It To Smartphones

Windows/Mac and iOS/Android: mSpot takes your iTunes playlists and other music and stores it on 2GB of free server space. It then beams and syncs that music to a browser, an Android device, and, new today, iPhones and other iOS devices.

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Easily Upload Your Desktop Folders To Google Docs

Google Docs offers up to 1GB of free space, but only file-by-file uploading. Amit Agarwal shows us how to use a free tool to upload entire folders of documents or images to your Docs space.

November 18, 2010
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Mozy 2.0 For Mac Speeds Up Backups And Offers Native Looks

Mac only: Cloud-based backup service Mozy is out with their 2.0 release. While the majority of changes are quiet, background algorithm and efficiency improvements, the app now has a more native, Mac-like look, and queries to choose files are more advanced.

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