Make Your Windows 8 Laptop as Wi-Fi Hotspot

There are lots of apps such as Connectify available on the internet with which you could turn your laptop into Wi-Fi Hotspot. However Microsoft Windows itself provides this features to create ad hoc network by setting up new network from the “Network and Sharing Center”, but those procedures are bit problematic for those who don’t have in depth knowledge regarding the computer hardware and software or networking. Thus the use of specific applications for specific task would be more wise decision for the amateur users.

Create Your Laptop as Wi-fi Hotspot

Sometimes we find at office conference room or at college library or at any other place, only one internet connection is provided, but other colleagues or friends do need the internet connection to work with. In such a situation, we need to share one internet connection via wireless connection. But for such emergency and short undesirable situation, the Wi-Fi router may not be available to share a single internet connection with others clients. But there is a possibility to safe guard such a situation by creating your Laptop’s Wi-Fi as Wi-Fi hotspot and function similarly as Wi-Fi router.
Connectify is one such application, which helps to make your Laptop as Wi-Fi Hotspot. The free version only supports internet sharing, however if you opt for the pro version, which also supports file sharing via Wi-Fi with other Wi-Fi enabled devices, such as Laptop, notebook, smart phones, tablet pcs, IPad and IPhones. The pro version also supports 3G and 4G devices. The application is very simple and easy to use.

Map the Cloud Drives as your computer’s Network Drive

To access your cloud drives every time you need to open your browser and have to access it by entering the username and password. If the cloud drive could be accessed from the list of your local drives or network drives such as My Computer window in Microsoft Windows, then it would be much easier and flexible to access the cloud drives too.
Gladinet is one such application, which has been developed to work the most popular cloud drives such as Amazon S3 US Bucket, Amazon S3 US-West (Northern California) Bucket, Amazon S3 US West (Oregon) Bucket, Amazon S3 EU (Ireland) Bucket, Amazon S3 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Bucket, Amazon S3 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Bucket, Amazon S3 South America (Sao Paulo) Bucket, Amazon S3 GovCloud (US) Bucket, Amazon S3 Compatible Storage, AT&T Synaptic Storage, Box.net, CA Stor Storage, Dunkel Storage, EMC Atoms Online, EMC Atoms Storage, FTP Server, FTP Server (Anonymous), Google Drive and Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Apps for Business (PRO), Google Picasa, Google Cloud Storage Bucket, HP Cloud, IBM SmartCloud Object Storage, Internap XIPCloud, KT ucloud storage, Local Disk, Network Resource, Nirvanix Storage, Open Stack Storage, Openstack Swift with Keystone Integration Auth v2.0, Peer1 CloudOne, Rackspace Cloud Files, Rackspace Cloud Files (UK), ServerExpress Storage, WebDav Server (Anonymous), WebDav Server (Generic), Windows Azure Blob Storage, Windows Azure Storage Emulator, Windows Live SkyDrive, as your computer’s network drive. It maps the cloud drives as your computer’s network drive. There are four editions of Gradient according to its usage plans, among which the Starter edition is free. The other three editions are Professional, Premium and Team Edition, which are chargeable and also the feature are more. The Premium and the Team editions also have iPhone or iPad clients and Mac Client. The Chargeable versions also have more other features (Please consult the Gladinet plan information page for more information of the chargeable versions).  (Also view: Share Large files up to 5GB without any signup with BayFiles )