Just a few days ago Microsoft released a desktop app of Windows Live Skydrive for Windows and Mac OS. Now user can download this app and mount their 7GB ( for some user 25GB) of free cloud based storage as a folder in their PC.

So now you have a ton of free storage on cloud. You can use this storage for various purpose. But still there may be question in your mind, How to get most out of the SkyDrive ? So in this post we are going to discuss a few techniques and tricks which can be  useful in getting most out of the SkyDrive.

1. Use it as a Storage

That’s the basic thing. You can download the SkyDrive App on your PC and then this huge cloud storage will get mounted as a folder in your PC. Now you do anything with it. You can store files, documents, sheets, presentations photos, mp3s etc whatever you want.

2.Move your My Document to SkyDrive

If you want to be a smart user then you can use this trick. Rather than mounting Skydrive as a folder in your PC you can move your My Document folder to SkyDrive. SkyDrive is come with enough space, so hardly you need to find other solution for extra storage. Once you have moved My Document to SkyDrive, now no need to copy each file manually or no need to save each document manually to SkyDrive. Your all documents will automatically get uploaded over the cloud and you can access them from where ever you want. That’s now documents are in your pocket!

Watch the following video to change the default My Document folder in your PC. This video is capture on Windows 7. If you are using other operating system then you can google for this topic.

3. Use to sync files between two or more PC

If you are having two or more PC (like me) then you can use SkyDrive for synchronizing files between them. What you have to do is, simply install SkyDrive on both of your PC and then copy the required files to it. Since SkyDrive comes with a great 25 GB of storage space this can be a good alternative to all other sync apps. But still some functionality like LAN Sync (comes with Dropbox) is still unknown with SkyDrive app. The app setting do not contains any option for LAN Sync. But still SkyDrive can be a good alternative.

4.Use as backup

Backup are most important things as that of your data. But still many user avoids it due to storage problem. Since SkyDrive come with a huge storage you can use SkyDrive to backup your data. You can download any free backup software from the web and can configure skydrive folder as backup location.

That’s not end here. Still thousands of more ways, but I will keep it to you.