At their packed Google I/O 2012 Day Two keynote, Google has finally announced offline Google Drive document editing. When you disconnect from the internet you will now, finally, be able to continue to make changes to your files that have synced. When you reconnect, changed will seamlessly, or should at least, sync up. It’s unclear how this will work if the original document changes before you open it again, however […]
At Google I/O 2012’s Day Two keynote, Clay Bavor, director product management for Google Apps, finally revealed that the promised iOS Google Drive app would finally be made available today. The app almost entirely match the Android app in terms of features lacks editing, uploading, file deleting or the ability to create new files. So it’s basically pointless unless you want to look at images, PDF’s or just read documents alone […]
The vice president of engineering at Google, Linus Upson has revealed that Google Docs will finally work offline, as the current Chrome OS commercial promises, in the coming weeks. While talking to a number of UK journalists, Upson revealed that it would be finally updating the app, saying “In the coming weeks we’re going to be launching Google Docs offline. You’ve been able to view Google Docs offline for a […]
The next big OS is the internet. Here’s what Google’s doing to make sure of it. Google’s always been known for their lack of unity, internally and externally, with their products and teams. Whether it’s ideas like Buzz and Google+, from completely different departments, mixing functionality, and both completely missing the mark, or services left to gather dust, Google has always found itself with pieces of a puzzle that just […]
The cloud is just starting to get big, with Microsoft and Google now offering to keep your data on the web and sync it to every computer you use. But the big decision is which cloud service to go with: Google Drive or SkyDrive. And while Dropbox has an ecosystem, you’d be a bit silly to not move away from that if you want cloud document editing and a web interface that […]
Google Drive has finally officially launched, after years of speculation, and is available now or, for some users, very soon. The service, which has literally been rumoured, and then reportedly killed, over 4 years ago has finally arrived with Google Docs, Google+ and Gmail integration, a better API, 5GB of free storage and native file-syncing, basically like DropBox or SkyDrive offers. The biggest difference is Google Drive’s ecosystem, which has […]
It’s a big day for the cloud, isn’t it? Microsoft, only this morning, released a preview for their Dropbox-style desktop clients for SkyDrive, while also (disappointingly) cutting out 18GB of data for new users, leaving you with only 7GB of free space. It’s still competitive, but sadly it shows that the 25GB was only for show with the previously web-only interface. Meanwhile, in camp Google, it appears that their big […]
Microsoft has today added a sync client to SkyDrive that works with Mac and Windows. Similar to DropBox, the new SkyDrive apps create a folder, called SkyDrive, which provides a native syncing functionality. But the good news, sadly, comes with bad news. Microsoft has also revealed that, while previous users will still be able to get 25GB, new users will only be getting 7GB. That’s still a lot of data […]
Just in case you were doubting the already obvious signs and reports that Google Drive exists and is coming very soon, an Android developer has accidentally shown that he has a Google Drive application installed on his Samsung Galaxy Nexus. During the “Friday App Review” Google+ Hangout by the official Android Developer’s team, one developer was showing an application that scans documents using the phone’s camera. When sharing the document […]
While many scoff at the idea of SkyDrive being an actual competitor to Dropbox because it has the word “Windows Live” on it, it’s a decent product. And now, it’s about to get some more additions with paid storage increases and native applications for Windows and Mac. The news of the clients come via the little promo on the leaked images, but Mac users will certainly rejoice. You can now […]
Rumours are getting very loud that Google Docs will soon be renamed to Google Drive and I think Google, themselves, have just proven the existance of the rebranding and change. Last week when you went to drive.google.com the domain wouldn’t resolve. This week, however, drive.google.com shows a 404 Not Found message. This means that the drive.google.com subdomain has been added by Google, making the rumours much more believeable. The Wall […]