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	5GB Free as a network drive

rickmahn

2-28-2008 12:55 AM

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online storage, xdrive, skydrive, aol, microsoft, kevin tofel, jkontherun

rickmahn says:

I see Kevin Tofel, one of my favorite tech bloggers, has posted about AOL's XDrive online storage service. Good stuff, and yes, you can set it up as a mapped drive on Windows systems. Should work excellently with the Eee PC!

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