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A couple weeks ago, Facebook began rolling out a new feature on iOS called Photo Sync for a select number of users. It essentially is a service that automatically uploads photos that you take on your phone to a private web album. From there, you can select what photos you want to share with friends and family quickly and easily. Facebook is announcing that the feature will be rolling out to everyone.

The feature will begin rolling out today, so you may not see it right away, but possibly within the next few days. The new service is essentially like Apple’s Photo Stream, where it automatically sends images from your smartphone to a private album in the cloud. Then, you can simply tick a box on each image to make it public and share with friends and family.

The feature will be compatible with both iOS and Android, so most smartphone owners will have access to the new service. However, we’re interested in seeing how popular it’ll get. For those who use Facebook often and enjoy sharing photos on the social network, the new feature will no doubt be of good use.

However, for those who just want a service that automatically uploads photos from your smartphone to the cloud will most likely look elsewhere. Most iOS users will no doubt lean towards iCloud‘s Photo Stream while avid Dropbox users will spring for the could service’s own automatic uploading feature.

Facebook rolls out Photo Sync to easily share photos over the web is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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There have long been methods to publish web content via Dropbox, and it’s actually really easy to do, but Google Drive users haven’t had the same luck. However, Google today announced that Google Drive is getting support for website publishing. All you have to do is upload your HTML files and assets, and simply change the permissions to make them public.

While it’s an easy process overall, there’s still one more thing that you have to do in order to get the website up and running. Once you put all of your HTML files and assets into a public folder, you have to link to the files contained in the folder using the “webViewLink” code. The Google Developers site has more info about that if you’re confused about the code part.

The webViewLink code simplifies how each of your HTML files shows up in a URL. Without the code, individual files would have unique ID strings with a combination of numbers and letters, but with the code, files get recognizable paths such as “images/kittens.jpg.” Google also mentions that if you don’t have an index.html file, Google Drive will automatically just display a list of the folder’s contents.

This feature could come in handy quite a bit, especially if you’re not willing to pay for web hosting. With the Google Drive site publishing feature, you could make small websites like an online resume, a personal start page, or even a professional landing page. However, there’s no word on bandwidth limitations, but we’re pretty sure that most websites that would get a lot of hits would have their own dedicated web hosting.

Google Drive launches website publishing is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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As a video conferencing solution, Biscotti’s TV phone scores high marks for form, function and charm. But apart from the cutesy name and appealing build, it’s more or less a $199 one trick pony — or it was, anyway. Which is why the company’s now tethering the peripheral to the internet-at-large and bolstering its functionality with the newly announced MyBiscotti Cloud Services. The version 2.0 software (available via an OTA update) pushes beyond simple two-way TV video chat with the addition of home monitoring features like the self-explanatory Time Lapse mode, as well as Live Image viewing, which culls streams from all networked Biscotti cams. Further, users that find themselves away from the roost will also be able to swap out settings on the fly simply by visiting the outfit’s dedicated site. As of now, there’s no extra cost for the expanded suite of services, but you will have to plunk down for the coffee biscuit-shaped peripheral. Official PR after the break.

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Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud storage service is picking up a lot of speed, and it’s becoming one the company’s more popular products. Microsoft has announced that SkyDrive usage has doubled in the last six months, meaning that the storage needed to store users’ files doubled in just six months. To celebrate, Microsoft released updates to the Windows Phone 8 and Android SkyDrive apps, as well as added some new features across all platforms.

Microsoft has added selective sync to SkyDrive, which lets you select only certain folders to sync to SkyDrive — a feature that Dropbox users have been enjoying for awhile now. They also integrated SkyDrive with right-click contextual menus for much faster and easier file sharing from the desktop — another feature that Dropbox has had too.

In addition, the company launched updates to their Windows Phone 8 and Android apps for SkyDrive. The new apps come with file search capabilities, as well as the option to shrink photos when they go online. The WP8 app, specifically, will receive a minor facelift that not only makes the UI look better, but also perform better.

Android users will now get the ability to upload all file types from an SD card, as well as the ability to rename SkyDrive files and folders, and to create custom sort orders for every view. All of these updates will automatically be applied within the couple of days. Or if you can’t wait, you can get the updated apps now from the SkyDrive webpage.

Microsoft SkyDrive usage doubled in 6 months, new features incoming is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Storing your data on the cloud sounds like a novel idea, and many of us do already work from the cloud itself – but the thing is, just how secure is our data there? Perhaps the introduction of the FileLocker encrypted cloud storage would help strengthen your faith in the security of cloud storage, no? Just to get off on the right footing, FileLocker is a folder sync and collaboration service, where it touts to deliver end-to-end military-level encryption of files which are stored on its servers. In layman’s terms, all data will be encrypted on your desktop, during transit with 256-bit SSL, as well as in the cloud. Normally, web storage services tend to leave out all three stages in terms of data encryption.

Having said that, FileLocker will primarily have its crosshairs firmly entrenched on small and home businesses, and you will be able to enjoy 25GB of free online storage for up to five users, making it quite the decent deal for consumers as well. You can open a paid account from as low as $5-per-user a month, now how about that?

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