
Windows: If you're looking for tighter integration between SkyDrive and your regular file storage, SkyDrive Explorer, as its name would imply, integrates Microsoft SkyDrive into Windows.
Once installed you won't find much flash to SkyDrive Explorer, it simply does what it promises. Provide your login credentials for your SkyDrive account and the drive that appears in My Computer—seen above—is linked to your online storage. You can interact with it like any other drive.
If you need to access a wider variety of online storage you'll want to check out previously reviewed Gladinet which can connect to SkyDrive along with other storage sites like Amazon S3.
Have a favorite tool for integrating your online applications and storage with your computer? Let's hear about it in the comments.
Windows: Cygwin, the utility that opens Windows up to Linux/Unix/Mac-style command line powers, has updated to support Windows 7, accept more filenames with special characters, and do a whole lot more nitty-gritty terminal stuff a whole lot better.
Photo by WikiMedia Commons.
There's a whole lot of detail to the What's New section of Cygwin's 1.7 release, but the big bullet points for users wondering if they should upgrade are support for multiple installations, new and better authentication methods, IPv6 configuration, and the aforementioned support for Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 R2).
Need a primer on getting started with Cygwin, or grasping what it can do? Gina got all kinds of geeky with it in three detailed walkthroughs, along with detailing how to set up a personal SSH server for powerful remote access to a home PC.
Cygwin is a free download for Windows systems only.

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One day after explaining the psychology of restaurant menus, the New York Times opens our minds' eyes to online retailers' manipulation of colors, price points, and time distortion to get us buying—and how we can avoid such trickery.
Online shopping may seem like the uncluttered, no-distraction way to single in on a deal and grab it, but shopping sites have long since adapted to consumer behavior, and the subconscious thinking behind it. Ludicrously over-priced Items are put up on inventory pages that the company has little to no expectation of selling, just to make the mid-range options seem more appealing than the bargain choices. And when it comes to product shots, your mind's color associations can betray you:
Looking at a couch on a furniture retailer's Web site, you probably take no conscious notice of the green-patterned wallpaper behind the couch. Yet, Deborah Mitchell, a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said one study showed that green is associated with money, and got subjects' neurons firing in a way that made them sensitive to the cost of the item.
In the same study, a blue-patterned wallpaper behind the couch was associated with comfort, and got subjects' neurons firing in a way that made them sensitive to the comfort of the item.
So your mind plays tricks on you, even when there's no salesperson around to distract you. Now what? The Times breaks down the best, if somewhat basic, advice:
- Determine what you are going to buy online, and stick to it.
- Determine the amount of time you are going to shop online, and stick to it.
- Determine your online shopping budget, and stick to it.
These resistance maneuvers, and the psychology angle, are all detailed more vividly at the link. If you have your own experiences and war stories about online retailers' mind games, we'd love to hear about them in the comments—mostly because our shopping is finally, thankfully over.
Want a better shot at getting a lost digital camera back? If your finder has any heart at all, a multi-frame photo message will give both motivation and instructions. Check out Andrew McDonald's smirk-inducing series as an example.
Children's author and blogger Andrew McDonald never deletes 25 photos on his camera's memory card—presumably kept in a separate folder from the standard image outputs. Flipped through on a camera viewfinder, they offer a pretty amazing personal story about the importance of that camera, the unique humanness of the owner, and, most importantly, an email address for coordinating a camera return.
Andrew's posted all the pics at his blog, but you can get the viewfinder-flip effect by checking out the animated GIF version, courtesy of Your Daily GIF Blog. Oh, and while you're adding permanent camera card fixtures, tossing in a helpful TXT file couldn't hurt, either.
Thanks to Zombie Ms. Skittles for leaving us that #tip, which anyone can do.


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