Tag Archives: photos

OneDrive Mail

Posted on September 7, 2015 by

Now What? Mail from my OneDrive? Going through the morning mail I found this: “You uploaded some weekend photos to your OneDrive and we automatically selected a few to show you.” The email contained a half dozen of the images … Continue reading →

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Tags in OneDrive

Posted on February 2, 2015 by

Tags are now supported in OneDrive OneDrive extracts text from photos For a long time photos uploaded to the former SkyDrive, what is now OneDrive, retained any tags associated with them, but they did not show and were of no … Continue reading →

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We are living in interesting times, Yahoo!

Posted on May 26, 2013 by

For some time there was jockeying for bragging rights, Google offered 5 GB of “cloud” storage, Microsoft set their SkyDrive offering to 7 GB with 25 GB for legacy users. Google now counts Google Drive, Google+ Photos, and Gmail together … Continue reading →

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Importing Photos in Windows 8

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying, “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Microsoft in developing Windows 8 has not heeded this advise and attempted to make it simpler still. As least concerning importing photos from a … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Photos, Photo Gallery, Photography, Photos, Windows 8 | Tagged , , , , , , | 19 Comments

Getting the real URL of a Photo on SkyDrive

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

UPDATE: January 2012 – The update to SkyDrive in November 2011 now again provides an easy way to obtain the actual URL of a SkyDrive photo, please see: Getting the URL of a SkyDrive photo is easy again. The current … Continue reading →

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The new SkyDrive hobbles making Zoom.it images

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

The newly released version of SkyDrive (“Pretty Face”) has made it almost impossible to get the URL, web address, of an image file for use elsewhere like Microsoft Zoom.it. SkyDrive offers “Embed” code but that only gets back to the … Continue reading →

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