Cloud Storage: How To Send Your Files Easily and Quickly

Cloud Storage: How To Send Your Files Easily and Quickly

Cloud Storage is a file hosting service that enables the user to upload and sync files and then access them from a Web browser or through any local device. This is a range of online service, which allows the users to keep the files private, share them with contacts, or make the files publicly. 

These cloud storage services are provided by some web platforms, such as 

•  Microsoft Sky Drive's   skydrive.com 
•  Google's  drive.google.com
•  Cloud Me's  cloudme.com
•  i Cloud's  icloud.com
• Drop box's  dropbox.com 

Through this article, we're going to discuss 'how easily and quickly sending files over Cloud Storage - i.e., using Google Drive?' 

First, you should know - "where the 'Send To' shortcuts are stored in the system". 

To know this - open a Run box by pressing Windows+R, a combination key, then type shell:sendto and press OK.
 

 

If you're using Windows 7, the 'Send To' window will be opened, as pictured below, with all of the items appeared in your system's 'Send To' folder.

To create a Shortcut, right click over on SendTo window, then choose New>Shortcut.

For the location of the item, type: %userprofile%\Google Drive, then click Next.

Or use Browse... button to search then choose %userprofile%\Google Drive from the drop down menu, if you already have (i.e., subscribed) Google Drive on your system. 

Now give a name to the shortcut as you wish (i.e., Google Drive) then click Finish.

Now, you can send any stuffs, quickly and easily, to the Google Drive, which is your Cloud Storage.

 

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What happens in an Internet minute?

What happens in an Internet minute? 

204 million emails are sent, 6 million Facebook pages are viewed and 1.3 million YouTube clips are downloaded.

• Figures also reveal 47,000 apps are downloaded, and 20 people have their identities stolen.
• Study predicts that by 2015 the number of networked devices on the Earth will be double the number of people.

Astonishing figures that show the true scale of our online activity have been revealed. The new study, by chipmaker Intel, found that more than 204 million emails are sent every minute, while 47,000 apps are downloaded and retail giant Amazon rings up around £55,000 ($83,000) in sales.

Around 20 million photos and 6 million Facebook pages are viewed, while we also watch 1.3 million video clips on YouTube.

Intel's internet minute infographic reveals exactly what we do online - with 639,800GB of data transferred.

The researchers found, ONLINE IN 60 SECONDS:

• More than 204 million emails are sent

• Amazon rings up about £55,00 ($83,000) in sales

• Around 20 million photos are viewed and 3,000 uploaded on Flickr

• At least 6 million Facebook pages are viewed around the world 

• More than 61,000 hours of music are played on Pandora

• More than 1.3 million video clips are watched on YouTube

• Nearly 640,00 GB of global IP data is transferred in just one Internet minute. 

'Computing is transforming and touching more people in a wider range of devices,' said Intel's Krystal Temple.

'But while it’s hard to miss the proliferation of portable devices, it’s what we don’t see that’s the bigger issue. 
 

'What many don’t see is that the increase in mobile devices has had a tremendous impact on the amount of data traffic crossing the network.

'It’s a little easier to comprehend once we think about all that’s done on a connected device like a smartphone.

'Listening to music, watching videos, downloading photos, playing online games, refreshing Twitter feeds and status updates – all of those activities generate network traffic.'

The study also looked at how the data could expand dramatically in the future.

It predicted that by 2015, the number of networked devices is expected to be double the world’s population.

It would take five years to view all the video content crossing IP networks each second by then.

One of Google's brightly colored data centers in Douglas Country: New figures reveal exactly what happens on the internet every minute.

The chip giant also revealed it is developing new networking equipment to deal with the increase in traffic.

Codenamed 'Crystal Forest,' that will boost performance and beef up network security to handle the increasing network traffic.

'By enabling equipment manufacturers and services providers to deliver platforms that grow along with the network, Intel is also enabling consumers to stay connected on intelligent devices every Internet minute of the day,' Intel said.

Source:    What Happens in an Internet Minute?

The Last Letter - A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran

The Last Letter

A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran

To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

From: Tomas Young

I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.

You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.

I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

To read Chris Hedges’ recent interview with Tomas Young, click here.

I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.

I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.

My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.

Source: http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/
 

RSS service will be shut down by Google & what's the other alternatives!

RSS service will be shut down by Google & what's the other alternatives!

Google announcing that it will shut down the RSS service on July 1. The justification is that Google wants to continue its path to put more resources into fewer products — or, as Larry Page put it in 2011 “more wood behind fewer arrows.”

The company regularly kills off some of its projects, but its decision to end Reader has really struck a chord. While it may have been popular to declare RSS is “dead” for the past few years, the outcry around the Reader decision shows that there are still plenty of people who use it.

There are some alternatives for Google Reader fans, who should start their process by heading to their Google Reader preferences and finding the “Import/Export” tab. All your data on Reader can be exported through Google’s “Takeout” feature.

Feedly: Feedly offers a more visual version of the RSS reader, in a more magazine-like layout. Users can sync Feedly with Google Reader in one click — if you need an intermediate step — or to add feeds directly to the site.

Feedly’s magazine-like layout means that it’s harder to take in quite so many headlines at a glance, but it’s a good and attractive alternative.

The Old Reader: Started by Google Reader exiles who were upset when Google changed Reader’s social and sharing features last year. The Old Reader is a comforting peek back into the past of Google Reader. For those who want almost exactly the same experience they had in Google Reader’s heyday, The Old Reader is probably your best alternative.

The Old Reader’s major drawback, however, is that it doesn’t have a mobile version. Its Web site also appears to be having some trouble handling the flood of interest it’s getting today from Reader fans looking for a backup, so you may have to be patient if you want to make a new account.

Flipboard: Flipboard was quick to jump on the news of Reader’s demise, saying that it has RSS “covered,” and that users can import their feeds from Google Reader straight into their service. Flipboard, too, doesn’t let you scan through headlines quite as quickly as the text-focused layout of Google Reader, but it’s good way to get a glance at content that you follow on a regular basis.

Twitter: Yes, Twitter. Smart use of Twitter’s list function gives you a fairly good RSS-like experience, if you subscribe to reporters or news sites you already follow on RSS. Of course, this method comes with the downside that your sources are a bit more limited — namely to people or businesses with Twitter accounts, or the content people you follow post from elsewhere on the Web.

Digg (maybe?): In a moment of very fortuitous timing, rumors are circulating that Digg is ready to release its own version of a reader.

Digg’s been due for a major makeover for months. In May, SocialCode, a social media advertising firm and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co., hired a several engineering employees from Digg. What remained of the company was purchased by Betaworks in July. Betaworks, which also owns the social news service news.me, said that it would making Digg back into a startup.

The source of the chatter is Reuters reporter Anthony De Rosa who posted on this Facebook page that Digg will be releasing a new reader with “all the features of Google Reader plus some additional ones.”

Source: http://goo.gl/zQnxt

Is Windows Page File Slowing Down System's Performances?

Is Windows Page File Slowing Down System's Performances?

Many peoples are misunderstood that Windows Page File is also one of the cause for slowing down the system. Windows just uses Page File to store data, when system's Random Access Memory (RAM) is filled up. 

Making minor adjustments in the settings of Page File, Windows could manage the Page File to better. The Page File is also called as the swap file / paging file, which is located in C drive. 

As said before, when system's RAM becomes full, Windows moves some data from RAM to Hard Drive, i.e., to the Page File in the form of Virtual Memory. Windows will also move the data, which were not in use, to the Page File. For instance, an application or a program is minimized, which means that's not in use for a long time, then its data might be moved to Page File. And the same will be maximized later, then it takes a while to retrieve - because the data being swapped back from Page File and at this moment you may noticed that the system's hard disk light will be blinking.

The modern computers has come with excellent capacity of RAM, so the usage of Page File will be in normal. However, if the hard drive went slow, when opening applications / programs, is an indication that the system is using the Page File; and it could be rectified by freeing up the memory such as the unwanted programs, which were running at the back ground, to be get rid off! or adding more RAM. 

As indicated in the opening line of this article 'misunderstood people' may also said: 'disabling Page File could speed up the system'.  No! it's not correct!! Disabling Page File will cause some bad results in running software or some programs may even refuse to open. 

However, if anyone want to adjust the settings of Page File do the following: Click START then type Advanced System Settings and press enter. A window will be opened as pictured below. 

Now, click on the box: 'View advanced system settings', to open System Properties window.

From System Properties, open Advanced tab, then click Settings button under Performance section.

 A window named Performance Options will be opened as pictured below.  

Now click over on Advanced tab and click Change button from  Virtual Memory section.  Now Virtual Memory window will be opened.  

Through Virtual Memory window, you may change the settings of Page File. Before changing the settings, please aware that Windows automatically manages the Page File settings by Default and it's better to leave these settings as to the default unless you may face some bad results in running software or some programs / applications may even refuse to work. 

Even the Page File is rarely used, it's an essential one to the system as for the situations where programs / applications were using a large amount in memory to be moved the Page File. 

Page File would not slowing the system, if the computer is using the Page File a lot, then remember to add more RAM in your system.

IE 10 is available for Windows 7

IE 10 is available for Windows 7

Internet Explorer 10, which comes with Windows Version 8, is available for Windows 7. IE 10 is more friendly, much faster and having more standard-compliant.  In addition this version, has more security features, and better than the previous. 

If you're not an IE user, its time to reconsider about getting IE to its latest version for security reasons. And upgrade whether you're using it or not ... 'why have you old software on your systems??!!' ... or just wait, like everybody using IE 9, for an upgrading through Windows Update, at later times!    

Download Internet Explorer 10 [Microsoft]
Internet Explorer 10 now available for more than 700M Windows customers [IE Blog]