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SkyDrive Explorer - Lets User's Add 25 GB Of Secure Online Storage To Windows Explorer

SkyDrive StorageMicrosoft SkyDrive offers a generous 25 GB of free online-storage but lacks the simplicity of having the online-storage mounted as an local disk-drive for easier access like the one offered by ZumoDrive and LiveDrive, however, the same can now be achieved by using free Windows utility - SkyDrive Explorer.

SkyDrive Explorer Extension

SkyDrive Explorer enables users to use SkyDrive online-storage like a local disk-drive attached to the computer, user's can perform all the actions as they are working on a local disk-drive including full drag-n-drop support and multi-operations like renaming objects or deleting a group of files/folders.

Downloading Windows 7 Update Files For Computer's Without Internet Connection

Windows UpdateIt is advisable to keep your operating-system and software's updated for optimal computer performance and security and Windows allows automatic update functionality to ensure this; however if your computer does not have a functional internet connection getting updates can be a bit tricky and you need to get offline-update files via an internet connected PC and install them on your computer.

Windows 7 Offline Updates

Microsoft Windows 7 operating-system supports Windows Update Stand-alone Installer (.msu) which is used for distributing standalone update files for computer's without internet connection, follow the simple trick described ahead to download all updates in a single go.

Long Reply Allows You To Tweet Longer Messages

Twitter is a micro-blogging service and hence allows users to post short 140 character limited messages, however if you wish to post longer messages new service Long Reply allows you to create really long messages which can be read from the unique URL for the message - so all you need to do is to tweet the unique web-address which users can click to read the full text.

Longer Tweet

Mozilla Labs Raindrop - Messaging Aggregator Lets Users Cut Noise And Pull Communication Of Interest

RainDrop LogoMozilla Labs unveiled their RainDrop messaging aggregator project allowing users to get information of interest prioritized from all the clutter from various sources like Email accounts, blogs, twitter and social-networking sites all at one place.

Mozilla Labs describes Raindrop as a open-Web technology for creating useful and compelling messaging experience.

Mozilla RainDrop user Interface

The platform will allow users to categorize and prioritize messages so communication or information of higher importance gets visible before everything else, the open-platform will encourage front-end widgets and code from 3rd party developers for greater extensibility and customization - you can preview the prototype in action in the video posted next.

Now Track India Speed Post And Money-Orders via SMS

Postage TrackingFew months ago Indian Railways started offering railway inquiry and PNR status updates via SMS, now India Post has also jumped onto the tech-bandwagon offering Speed Post and eMoneyOrder status tracking from mobile phones using SMS.

To track the current status of your speed-post or eMoneyOrder all you need to do is to use the following short-codes and send them to 55352.

For Speed Post:

SP[space]Speed Post Tracking Number
OR
EMS[space]Speed Post Tracking Number

For eMO:

MO[space]eMO PNR No
OR
EMO[space]eMO PNR No

Check My Torrent IP - Free Online Service To Check Effectiveness Of Your Anonymity Service

There is an online service for almost everything these days, and new one of it's kind service Check My Torrent IP plugs a gap which nobody else addressed which is to let users check there publicly exposed IP information while downloading torrents - this can come handy if you are using online anonymity service like TorrentPrivacy or VPN and wants to check whether it is working as expected or not.

Tracing Torrent IP

Twitter SMS Comes To India, Supports Airtel For Now

Twitter SMSPosting and receiving updates via SMS is one of the most important feature every Twitter users wants, sadly, free SMS notifications from twitter are not sent to all countries citing texting costs - the good news is that Airtel users in India can now enjoy receiving free SMS notifications from Twitter and posting updates to twitter @ Re.1/SMS using the newly introduced 53000 short-code for Airtel India users.

Twitter SMS

To get started simply SMS START to 53000 and follow instructions to complete linking your device to twitter, if you are new to twitter SMS Signup to 53000 (all SMS's to short-code 53000 costs Re 1), somehow sending the above commands did not worked for me so I used another approach as instructed next.

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