Cloud storage is great and all, but sometimes you’ve just gotta download. Sometimes, you’ve just gotta download something huge. Back in the days of dial-up, a couple hundred MB would take eons to bring down, but now we can play with way bigger files. What’s the most massive one you have sitting on your hard drive right now?
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We delete files all the time to free up space, or to get rid of pesky evidence, but the whole process is a lot more complicated than it seems from the outside. When you go to "delete" something, you’re just pressing the start button on a much more involved, much more random process. So what actually happens to that data?
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Gmail users who envy Outlook’s SkyDrive integration will find that the proverbial grass is now a little greener on their side, thanks to fresh features in Attachments.me’s Chrome and Firefox browser extensions. With the plugin installed, files residing in Microsoft’s cloud service can be attached to emails from within Gmail. Also included in the update is support for user-created rules that can direct attachments to SkyDrive as they flood into inboxes. Can’t wait for Gmail to gain similar support with Google Drive, or just prefer Redmond’s storage solution? Hit the source link below to infuse Mountain View’s web mail with some of Microsoft’s storage locker mojo.
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Browser extension enables SkyDrive attachments within Gmail originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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