Set up sharing for specific files and folders in Win 7 and Win 8

I generally don't use Windows' default data folders; I find it more convenient to create my own hierarchy of folders. (Keep in mind that custom folders should be included in a library, if you want them automatically backed up by Win8's File History.) Fortunately, it's relatively easy to designate individual folders, subfolders, and files for sharing with yourself, a homegroup, or other specific users.

If you're using Win8, just highlight the folder in File Explorer and select the Share tab. Win7's Windows Explorer doesn't have tabs, but you can access most of the same functions by clicking on the Share with option in Explorer's menu bar. (With either operating system, right-clicking the folder gives you most of the same options.)

In Win8, the Share tab will list other user accounts on the local system. Select a specific user or scroll down to Specific people, which opens the File Sharing dialog box. You can also select the homegroup if one is enabled. In the homegroup entry, choosing either the view or view and edit option (see Figure 5) lets you allow or prevent others from making changes to the file or folder.

Figure 5. Windows 8's new Share tab in File Explorer makes it easier to select folders and files for sharing.

In Win7, click Share with and then Specific people; that opens a File Sharing dialog box similar to Win8's.

Curiously, if you want to make a specific folder (other than the Public folder) available to everyone on your network, you must jump through a few extra hoops. You must open the file/folder's properties, select the Sharing tab, and click Share.

Win8 gives other sharing options. Under the Share tab, you'll find options for emailing, printing, faxing, or zipping a file or folder plus burning it to disc. (See Figure 5).

In Win8, if you want to refine control over who can do what with the contents of a shared file/folder, select the Advanced security option from the Share tab. The Advanced Security Settings utility will open, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6. Win8's Advanced Security Settings tool lets you set file- and folder-sharing privileges for individual users.

Double-click a specific user, and the Permission Entry dialog box opens (see Figure 7.) You can also specify, among other things, whether those permissions also extend to subfolders and files in those subfolders.

Figure 7. The advanced permissions dialog box lets you specify what a specific user can do with selected folders and files.

Win7 also lets you set specific user permissions for files and folders, but you'll find them in a different place. Right-click the folder and select Properties, then click either the Sharing or Security tabs. Under Sharing, select Advanced Sharing and then Permissions. In the Security tab, highlight the user and then click Edit. (This also works in Windows 8.)

Setting up shared files and folders manually takes some work, but it obviously lets you finely control who can access — and to what level — the data on a PC. When you want to access something shared on another computer, you simply go to the Network section of Windows/File Explorer's navigation panel, click the Expand button for a specific system, and open the file/folder you're looking for.

 

Amazon Fire Features : Firefly and Dynamic Perspective

In announcing Fire, its first-ever smartphone, Amazon showed off some sparks of innovation. There are two standout features in particular: a service called Firefly that can identify everything from a song to box of cereal to a Picasso painting based on how something looks or sounds; and a technology Amazon calls Dynamic Perspective that adjusts what users can see as they tilt or move the phone.

As cool as those innovations are, they likely won't be enough to overcome the daunting obstacles the Fire will face, especially against Apple's iPhones and smartphones powered by Google's Android. This Fire is more likely to burn out than to become a blazing success.

At first glance, the Fire appears unremarkable, a typical black slab with a nearly 5-inch screen.
But Amazon hopes some of the phone's unique features will set it apart. The Fire runs Fire OS, Amazon's version of Android that it also uses on its Kindle Fire tablets, which puts content like movies and music on an equal footing with applications.

Amazon is also throwing in two free services - a year's subscription to its Prime streaming music and video offering and free photo storage on its servers of all the pictures users take with the Fire. And that's a reminder that Amazon likely sees this as more than a phone, but as a way to get its customers to buy more stuff from its online store.

The Fire also comes with Amazon's Mayday feature. Users needing help with their phone can push the virtual Mayday button and be connected quickly with an Amazon customer support representative. It's kind of like a virtual version of Apple's Genius bars.

But the really unique features of the Fire are Firefly and Dynamic Perspective. Users activate Firefly by pressing a button on the side of the Fire. The app can identify songs, TV shows and movies just by listening to them and can use that information to provide details about them from sources like Amazon's own IMDb. It can identify products by their packaging or by their bar codes, allowing users to instantly check their prices and order them via Amazon.

Firefly can also recognize phone numbers and email addresses printed on posters or written on scraps of paper, allowing users to call them or save them to their address book without typing them in.

Firefly has a lot of cool potential in part because Amazon is allowing outside software developers to tap into its underlying technology. At the launch event Wednesday, for example, company CEO Jeff Bezos showed how the MyFitnessPal app could use the Firefly technology to look up nutrition information for a bag of Cheetos simply from a picture of the cheese-flavored snack food.

The Dynamic Perspective feature is a touchless gesture system combined with a kind of 3D-viewing effect. With Dynamic Perspective, users can access menus, shortcuts or additional information by simply tilting the screen left or right, rather than by swiping across it. In some cases, the phone also uses those motions to change what it displays on its screen, an effect that looks a lot like one on Apple's iPhone 5S that shifts the wallpaper on that phone's home screen as you tilt it.

As cool as Firefly and Dynamic Perspective may be, I don't think they'll be enough to make it a hit product. It just has too much going against it.

The smartphone market is dominated to such an extent by Samsung and Apple that it's been extraordinarily difficult for other companies - even those with a long history in making phones - to gain any traction, despite whatever cool innovations they may offer.

Meanwhile, the Fire is going to be hobbled by several factors. One is its price. At $200 for the base model with a two-year contract, the Fire costs the same as an iPhone 5S or a Samsung Galaxy S5, two of the leading phones on the market. And pre-announcement rumors aside, Amazon isn't offering any kind of deal on your cellphone subscription. So there's no financial incentive for the legions of iPhone or Samsung fans to switch to the Fire.

The Fire is also likely to be hobbled by the fact that it can't access the Google Play store, which has far more apps than Amazon's own app store. More importantly, Amazon does not offer Google's own apps, including Google Maps and the official version of Gmail. So, if you use Google services - and who doesn't? - the Fire may not be for you.

 

Share files over the network via Public folders

Whether a system is joined to a homegroup or is simply part of a workgroup, you can use the Public folder to share files with anyone who has access to your computer, either over the network or locally. If you created a homegroup, the Public folder is enabled automatically. If not, you need to turn the Public folder on.

To do so, open Windows/File Explorer and navigate to C:\Users\Public. In Win7, click Share with in the Windows Explorer menu bar; in Win8, select the Share tab in File Explorer. Select Advanced sharing settings. In Win7, locate the Public folder sharing section and turn on sharing. In Win8, expand the All Networks section and go to the Public folder sharing section to turn on the Public folder option.

Again, once you've enabled the Public folder, any files saved to that folder or subfolders will be available to all users with access to that computer. Keep in mind, however, that each system's Public folder is separate from the Public folders on all other systems. It's not a single folder that's shared across the network.

Once you've enabled the Public folder, I recommend making it a new Library. Right-click its name and select Include in library.

 

Using Homegroups for Local folder/File sharing in Win 7 and Win 8

Microsoft wants you to use Windows' built-in homegroups to share files. They're essentially preconfigured groupings of shared files and printers. Typically, homegroups are easy to set up, but they also have a few limitations and potential performance issues. For example, XP systems cannot join a homegroup. File transfers might be noticeably slower over a homegroup than via a standard workgroup connection.

Homegroups are available in Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1 and Windows 7, with a few important caveats. With Win7 Starter, Win7 Home Basic, and Windows RT 8.1, you can join a homegroup but not create one. With RT, you also can't share local content with others. Systems set up as domain members can also join (but not create) homegroups.

Typically, Windows 7 prompts users to create or join a homegroup when a PC is first connected to a network. Windows 8 doesn't — when you set up a Win8.1 PC, a homegroup is created automatically if there are no other homegroups on the network. If there's another computer on the network with a homegroup, the utility will notify you and display a Join now button (see Figure 2). If you click the button, you'll be prompted to enter the homegroup password.

Figure 2. If your network already has a homegroup, Windows should automatically ask whether you want to join it.

Before joining a homegroup, however, I recommend clicking the Change advanced sharing settings link. The Advanced sharing settings dialog box lets you configure resources for the network. The tool offers three sections: Private (the current network profile), Guest or Public, and All Networks. This utility's organizational scheme can be confusing; here's what it covers:

• In the Private and Guest or Public sections, you can specify whether network discovery is enabled plus whether file and printer sharing is on or off. You'll want to leave these options on because, after all, you want your computers to see each other and to share files.
• The All Networks section is more interesting. Here you can specify whether users on other computers can access Public Folders (we'll get to these shortly) and designate which devices on the network can stream media across the network.

  To accommodate older devices, you can also opt to lower the encryption standard used by the network. Finally, you can determine whether password-protected sharing is implemented on the current computer. If you activate this, users will need to have an account on the computer in order to share files.

  

  Figure 3. The All Networks section of Advanced sharing settings allows you to password-protect shared files.

When you've finished with Advanced sharing settings, you can click on the Save button and be returned to the previous screen. Click the Join now button, and you'll then be prompted to select which folders you want to share.

The Share with other homegroup members dialog box can be a bit confusing at first. Keep in mind that you're not designating file types; you're designating folders stored under your user profile. Selecting Shared in the Video category, for example, means that only those files in your Video library or folder can be accessed by others. Videos stored in other directories won't be shared.

Figure 4. Windows lets you control what to share in Windows' default file folders and libraries; your two options are Shared or Not shared.

Click the Next button to actually join the homegroup. You'll then be able to navigate the shared resources of other computers by going to the Homegroup section in Windows/File Explorer.

For more details on Windows homegroups, see Microsoft's Windows features page, "HomeGroup."

 

The Basics of Local-Network File Sharing for Windows 7 and 8

These days, it's possible to have XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 all running in the same household or small business.

And though Windows 7 and 8 have similar tools for sharing files over a network, there are differences that might leave you puzzled.

When setting up or troubleshooting file sharing over a home or small-business network, the first step is to make sure all computers on the network are members of the same workgroup. The exception: if you have a laptop that's usually connected to a corporate domain and is set up as a domain member, you're going to want to leave it that way.

The default workgroup name for Windows systems is WORKGROUP. But you can use a different name. Simply put, a PC should see all systems on the local network that have the same workgroup name. If you're attaching a machine to a workgroup, Windows' System Properties offers a wizard.

To manually change a system's workgroup name, call up the System Properties dialog box (Figure 1). Click Control Panel/System. In Windows 7 and 8, click the Advanced system settings link. Select the Computer Name tab and click the Change button to enter a new workgroup name (or a new domain or computer name).

Figure 1. System Properties offers both a wizard and a manual method for joining domains and workgroups.

Once you've got your computers recognizing each other in Windows/File Explorer, you're ready to start sharing files by designating shared files and folders. But We'll get to that in a moment.

 

 

Encrypting data with 7-Zip

If you don't have 7-Zip already installed, head over to 7-zip.org and download the version with the correct bittedness for your PC — the 64-bit 7-Zip for 64-bit systems, and the 32-bit 7-Zip for 32-bit systems.

• Select the files/folders you want to include, such as those in your Documents folder. Right-click on the group of selected files/folders; you'll see 7-Zip on the context menu, as shown in Figure 1.
  

  Figure 1. Once installed, 7-Zip is easily accessed by right-clicking selected files and folders.

• Click 7-Zip in the menu, and then select Add to archive as shown in Figure 2.
  

  Figure 2. Clicking Add to archive opens 7-Zip's archive settings.

• When the Add to Archive dialog box opens (see Figure 3), enter a secure — long, complex, and hard-to-guess — password where indicated.

  The rest of the Add to Archive default choices are usually fine. 7-Zip will automatically generate an archive name based on the selected folder(s), a file's name, or the selected files' containing folder. The default archive format will be .7z, which typically offers 2–10 percent better compression than the classic .zip format. I recommend leaving the defaults alone — at least until you're familiar with 7-Zip.

  Click OK when you're ready.

  

  Figure 3. At least to start, use the default archive settings for encrypting your data.

  Note: I recommend using a good password manager to help generate and remember your passwords. For more information, see the Jan. 9 Best Software story, "Why and how to use an open-source password manager," and "Stepping up to a standalone password manager" in the Oct. 17, 2013, Top Story, "Protect yourself from the next big data breach."

• Enter your password and click OK; 7-Zip will then compress and encrypt the selected files. As a safety feature, 7-Zip creates archived copies of your files, leaving the originals intact. In Figure 4, the files are placed in an archive called Documents.7z.
  

  Figure 4. A new 7-Zip archive (in this example, Documents.7z) contains compressed, encrypted copies of the selected files and folders.

Your archive is now complete!

Your next step is to test the archive to make sure that encryption and compression worked properly. If it did — and that's almost always the case — you can then delete the original files, so that only the encrypted archive remains.

• To open an archive, simply double-click it (Documents.7z, in this example). When the password dialog box opens (Figure 5), enter the password you gave that particular archive. You might use different passwords for different archives. (Keep those passwords safe! Obviously, if you lose a password, you've effectively lost the encrypted files and/or folders.)
  

  Figure 5. Entering the correct password opens archived files and folders.

• With the proper password entered, 7-Zip File Manager opens and displays the contents of the archive (Figure 6). Click on any listed file or folder; it should open normally and work just like any nonencrypted file. When you save and close an archived file, it's automatically compressed and encrypted with the archive's original password.
  

  Figure 6. 7-Zip's file manager lets you view, open, edit, and save files.

• Check that the archived files are accessible and saved correctly, then delete the originals so that only the encrypted archive remains, as shown in Figure 7. (For complete security, be sure to empty the Windows trash.)
  

  Figure 7. With the originals deleted, your files and folders are securely encrypted.

The 7-Zip File Manager is the key to easily using your archives. Leave it open as you typically might the standard Windows/File Explorer — then view, access, or edit any files in the archives just as you do nonarchived files. 7-Zip's File Manager also lets you quickly add files to an archive.

That covers the bare-bones basics of using 7-Zip, but there's a lot more to the software, including ways to extract files and folders from the archive and to add files and folders without using the 7-Zip File Manager. For complete information on using 7-Zip, check out its built-in Help file or see these online resources:

• 7-Zip support site
• Video tutorials at ShowMeDo
• Video tutorial at Top Windows Tutorials.com
• Tutorial by expert user Gürdal Ertek (autoloading video)

 

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Ultrapak GO, charges in 30 minutes more than doubles your phone's power,  ultra portable.

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Set Up iCloud : Create Apple ID

A few notes before we begin: While it’s free to sign up for iCloud, you can’t do so just anywhere; you must create an account on either an iOS device running iOS 5 or later or a Mac running OS X 10.7.5 or later. Unfortunately, Windows users have to first create an account on one of these platforms before they can log in on their PC.

You’re also limited to creating ten iCloud accounts per device. You should only need one or two, so you’ll probably never run up against this limit. However, because this limit persists after full device wipes, there’s a possibility you may encounter it if you have an older iOS device or Mac. If you do get an alert that prevents you from creating a new iCloud account, we suggest going to your nearest Apple Store for help.

If you’ve ever purchased anything from the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBookstore, you have an Apple ID. (Your username is probably the email address you used to sign up for iTunes.) If you’ve logged into the iTunes or App Store apps with this Apple ID, you should see the email address already filled out in the Apple ID section of the iCloud screen.

All iCloud accounts stem from Apple IDs, so it’s very easy to convert your current Apple ID into an iCloud account. You’ll still be able to use your Apple ID for everything you currently use it for, but you’ll also get all of iCloud’s features. And if other members of your family use this Apple ID, they’ll still be able to use it for purchases without having access to all of your iCloud information.

To convert your Apple ID into an iCloud account, open the iCloud preference screen on your iOS device or Mac, then sign into iCloud with your current Apple ID and password. The screen will prompt you to agree to the iCloud terms and conditions; once you do, you’re ready to begin using the service.

Note: If you do convert an Apple ID into an iCloud account, you won’t get an iCloud email address (@icloud.com) by default. If you want one, all you have to do is go to Settings > iCloud and toggle the Mail switch on (or, on a Mac or PC, click the checkbox). You’ll then be prompt ed to create an iCloud email address to go along with your account.

Amazon Fire Phone

Fire, the first smartphone designed by Amazon.

Fire is the only smartphone with Dynamic Perspective and Firefly, two new technologies that allow you to see and interact with your world through a whole new lens.

Dynamic Perspective uses a custom-designed sensor system that responds to the way you hold, view, and move your phone. It opens up a new class of immersive apps and games not possible on other smartphones, as well as one-handed navigation and gestures like auto-scroll—read long web pages and books without ever touching the screen.

Firefly is a new technology that quickly recognizes printed web and email addresses, phone numbers, QR and bar codes, artwork, movies, music, and millions of products, making it easy to discover information, share items with friends, and more. It works in seconds—simply press and hold the Firefly button.

Fire is the only smartphone to put everything you love about Amazon in the palm of your hand—instant access to over 33 million songs, apps, games, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, magazines, and books, plus exclusive features like Mayday, ASAP, Second Screen, X-Ray, free unlimited photo storage in the cloud, and more.

It's also packed with powerful hardware—a 13MP camera with optical image stabilization for stunning photos and 1080p HD video, a 2.2 GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM for fast, fluid performance, a beautiful 4.7" HD display, dual stereo speakers, and Dolby Digital audio.

Fire is available exclusively on AT&T. You can pre-order yours today,Amazon Fire Phone, 64GB (AT&T)
. For a limited time, Fire also includes a full year of Amazon Prime—FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of items, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Instant Video, unlimited, ad-free streaming and downloading of over a million songs and hundreds of playlists, and over 500,000 books to borrow from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library. If you're already a Prime member, we'll add 12 months to your existing account.

Android Weekly #107

Articles & Tutorials

		How to create simple view separators (envyandroid.com) This short post will show you how to easily create nice looking view separators, to use between a row of buttons for example.

Primer on Threading and Handlers in Android (nerds.weddingpartyapp.com) This article introduces you to the concept of threads, talk about how Java uses threads and explain how “Handlers” in Android help with threading.

Dagger: Scoped object graphs (Part 3) (antonioleiva.com) Antonio Leiva's last part of three articles about Dagger and dependency injection in Android is focused on scoped object graphs.

App UI / UX – Part 5 (blog.stylingandroid.com) In this article Mark Allison adds a simple animation to the refresh ActionBar item to provide this visual indication that a bluetooth device discovery scan is occurring.

The ART of Garbage Collection (commonsware.com) Mark Murphy takes a quick look at how the ART runtime may introduce a compacting garbage collector, and what that means.

Swipe, not Pull, to Refresh (droidista.blogspot.com) Zarah Dominguez recently came across SwipeRefreshLayout in the support library package that allows your app to have built-in support for swipe to refresh, and shows how to use it.

Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator (jakewharton.com) Jake Wharton shares his thoughts on why development could be improved with a better emulator, or instead, a simulator.

New ways to connect your app to the Cloud (android-developers.blogspot.com) To quickly add a Google Cloud Platform backend to your Android app, you can now use a number of built-in features in Android Studio 0.6.1+.

Sponsored

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Design

		How I would further improve TuneIn Radio app (androiduiux.com) Taylor Ling redesigns the TuneIn Radio app, focusing on embracing the consistency of visual design for better aesthetic integrity of a product regardless of the visual styling you opt for.

Jobs

Sr. Software Engineer (Android/ 74-030414A) (Salt Lake City, Utah) Control4 Corporation, a worldwide leader in home automation, has an immediate need for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Android to work to produce quality consumer mobile and tablet applications, design and develop new functionality and robust foundation code to be used by multiple teams.

Android Engineer @ Pinterest (San Francisco, CA) We’re looking for Android Engineer's to help us build one of the best Android apps on the market. You should have experience delivering great apps and get excited by writing performant code for mobile devices. This is a full-time position based in San Francisco, CA.

Libraries & Code

DesarrolloAntonio/FragmentTransactionExtended (github.com) FragmentTransactionExtended is a library which provide us a set of custom animations between fragments.

Philm is now open source (chris.banes.me) If you haven't seen Philm yet, it is a movie collection and information app that I created for Android. It uses the Trakt and TMDB APIs. This morning Chris Banes pushed the source of Philm to GitHub under the Apache v2.0 licence.

MoshDev/ILog (github.com) Simple Logging Tool for Android and Java Platforms

News

		The history of Android (arstechnica.com) A 40000 word history of Android by Ron Amodeo

Tools

Shell script for adb (gist.github.com) A useful shell script that wraps Android adb commands when multiple devices or emulators are connected. The script will prompt for a device or emulator to run the command against, if it detects multiple devices / emulators.

Vektah/CodeGlance · GitHub (github.com) Intelij IDEA plugin for displaying a code mini-map similar to the one found in Sublime

Videos

		An Introduction to Android Wear (www.youtube.com) Timothy Jordan gives an introduction of the current Android Wear developer preview.

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File and Folder Encryption

The first step in implementing file and folder encryption is to figure out what really needs to be encrypted.

There are many, many files on our hard drives that simply aren't all that special, unique, or sensitive. They just don't need to be encrypted!

For example, it's sort of silly to encrypt your copy of Notepad, Paint, Calculator, Solitaire, or any of the other system files (.exe, .msc, .dll, and so forth) that came with your original Windows setup. Most of Windows' core operating system files are similar from system to system, varying only by Windows version and local hardware. They typically don't contain any sensitive information. So it's wasted effort to encrypt them (as they would be with whole-disk encryption).

Most add-on software doesn't need encryption, either. Your copy of Word, Excel, Skype, Photoshop, or whatever is, for the most part, like any other.

That also holds true for files you acquire through public sources. Your "Dead Skunk" MP3 and that downloaded "National Lampoon's Vacation" video are likely identical to everyone else's. What's to be gained by encryption? Even your digital photographs probably don't contain anything truly sensitive.

On the other hand, many of the files you create — within Word, Excel, or other applications — could contain sensitive information. Those are the files that need protection and should be encrypted!

In most cases, securing potentially sensitive information means selecting specific files and folders. For example, you probably don't need to encrypt your Music folder, but you almost surely want to protect Documents and its subfolders — plus any other locations that might have information you want to keep private. Consider reorganizing your documents into sensitive and nonsensitive folders. You most likely don't need to encrypt your collection of old family recipes.

Once you've decided what you need to encrypt, make a full system image or backup. Or at least make separate backup copies of the files you intend to encrypt. Although file-and-folder encryption tools are usually extremely reliable, accidents and user errors can happen. So it's best to play it safe — make backups!

Next, download and install the file/folder encryption tool of your choice. A quick Web search will produce numerous options. I use 7-Zip for this article because — again — it's reliable, well regarded, open-source, and free for both personal and business use. More info

Read Your ePub

On Your Mac Download Calibre (calibre-ebook.com/download), a free open-source ePub reader. After downloading, open the program and drag the ePub file to the Calibre icon in your Dock to read it.
On Your PC Download Calibre (calibre-ebook.com/download), a free open-source ePub reader. Open the ePub file in Calibre to read it.
On Your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
1. On your Mac, drag the ePub file to the iTunes icon in your Dock. It should show up under the Books tab in the iTunes Source list.
2. Connect your iOS device to your computer (via USB or, if you’re using iOS 5, Wi-Fi Sync). Click the device name in the iTunes Source list.
3. Click the Books tab. Make sure the Sync Books checkbox is checked. Click the All Books radio button to sync all the books in your iTunes library—including the Superguide—to your device.
4. Click Sync.
5. On your iOS device, open iBooks and tap the Collections button in the top center of the toolbar. Switch to Books, and you should see your Superguide.
On Your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Using Email
1. On your Mac, open your email client and create a new message addressed to yourself.
2. Attach the ePub and send the message.
3. Check your email on your iOS device. Tap the attachment to open it.
4. Tap the Share button in the upper right corner to open the ePub in iBooks or another app.

About iCloud

What Is iCloud?
iCloud is a catchall phrase that covers Apple’s suite of sync and backup services, which aim to keep your devices—iOS devices running iOS 5 or later and desktop computers running OS X Lion or later, or Windows Vista or later—on the same page, no matter which one you’re using at any given moment. You can create an iCloud account for free on any device the service is compatible with.
These services cover four general areas: document and data sync, mobile backup, location awareness, and purchase management.
A free iCloud account provides 5GB of storage for data sync and mobile backup; you can purchase additional space for a yearly fee. Many things that your iCloud account syncs—your purchased content and your Photo Stream images, for example—do not count toward this limit.
Unlike some third-party services, iCloud doesn’t focus on preserving individual files or providing a central folder where you can upload documents to access across platforms. With iCloud, Apple wants you to stop worrying about where you’ve saved specific files, and instead focus on the information itself.

 

The operating system of Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle is a production of Amazon.com and it is series of e-book readers which enables users to browse, shop, download magazines, newspapers, e-books, blogs as well as other digital media through wireless networking. The hardware platform is a development of Amazon subsidiary Lab126 which comprises of a range of devices. The operating system of Kindle is Linux 2.6.26

A Kindle is a basic e-reader from the company Amazon. Kindle is the first e-book reader to allow users to download new books directly to the Amzon.com

 

Reliable Data and System-boot Security for All Windows Versions

Fundamental changes in PCs, including UEFI and Secure Boot, can interfere with classic security techniques such as whole-disk encryption.

But a simple, free, two-step process provides extremely reliable data and system-boot security for all Windows versions, on virtually all PC hardware.

The gold standard for local PC data and system security for years, whole-disk encryption offers two main benefits. First, it can provide robust, virtually uncrackable security for all the files on your hard drive. Without the correct password, anyone snooping through your files sees only gibberish.

Second, some whole-disk encryption tools can password-protect the entire system. Without the correct password, an unauthorized user can't boot the PC from its hard disk.

There are, however, limitations and drawbacks to encrypting an entire hard drive.

Many Vista, Win7, and Win8 PCs sold within the past decade — and virtually all sold within the past few years — include some form of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. UEFI is essentially an enhanced replacement of the venerable BIOS. 

On newer systems, UEFI can provide boot-time security to prevent malware (rootkits, bootkits, and so forth) and other unauthorized software from meddling with the way a PC starts up. In fact, UEFI is the foundation for Win8's Secure Boot feature, which is enabled by default when Win8 is installed on a UEFI-equipped PC.

Some whole-disk encryption tools require low-level access to the PC early in the boot process. These tools can fail on PCs that make use of UEFI's advanced security features.

TrueCrypt, for example — which might well be the world's most popular open-source, whole-disk encryption tool — currently doesn't work on Win8 systems using Secure Boot. This situation will most likely change in the future; but today, some TrueCrypt users who upgraded from Win7 to Win8 have run into severe trouble, such as losing access to the entire contents of their hard drives.

Another popular encryption tool, DiskCryptor, doesn't officially support Win8. But some users have made it work — in a limited fashion on individual partitions. They installed the application as a service on the desktop side of Win8. On the other hand, other DiskCryptor users have lost access to all their encrypted files.

Even if these tools are eventually patched to work with UEFI and Secure Boot, they're still working at some level against UEFI's low-level security features. Today's systems simply aren't meant to allow third-party tools to insert themselves deeply into the boot process.

Fortunately, you can choose better and safer ways to provide reliable data protection and boot security on just about any PC. The tools and methods are free, and they work without interfering with UEFI, Secure Boot, or any other existing security features or functions.