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Skydrive Video streaming directly from the Pictures Hub

Skydrive Video streaming directly from the Pictures Hub

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Here’s another neat little trick that will allow you to stream videos hosted on your Skydrive directly from within the phones Pictures hub in Mango 7712. As I showed you in my previous video it was now possible to stream music and video via the browser when accessing the Skydrive from the Office Hub. But this isn’t the best UX ever so the trick here is to go to your Skydrive (on your PC) then the change the folder type to “Photos”.


Voila! The folder containing your uploaded videos will now show up in your Pictures hub and you will be able to easily stream everything from there. Check out my video after the break:

How cool is that ?

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