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It's becoming apparent that cloud storage is the new standard these days, and Google recently recognized a need to help users keep their files in a unified space. with that in mind, Google announced on Monday that it is now offering 15GB of free storage across three of its most-used services: Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. Google Apps users will receive 30GB across the three services.
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Google Drive is similar to the popularly used cloud storage service, Dropbox, but Drive includes built-in document creation features that are missing in Dropbox. And though Dropbox integrates with dozens of third-party applications, Google Drive contains convenient document sharing and collaboration features that Google and iPad users should be taking advantage of. Chris Hoffman has already reviewed Google Drive for Android, and in this review I will cover the iPad version.
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The agility, flexibility, and low-cost scale ups turn cloud storage options into more than an online vault to back up your documents and files. But cloud storage is more than these important but mundane uses. As users across the world prove, cloud storage gives us so many creative uses to try out. What’s also attractive is cloud services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Sugar Sync etc. come with free options.
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Cloud storage services offer a minimum amount of free space to everyone who signs up, but you can often get more. You can upgrade your cloud drive with gigabytes and gigabytes of free space in a few easy steps, often just by referring friends to your service of choice. The free space you can get using these methods doesn’t expire. You’ll have the space forever.
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Google Drive can be used to sync files between your computers, but that’s just one of its many features. Google wants Google Drive to be your new cloud hard drive, accessible from any device. To help make this happen, Google allows third-party apps to integrate with Drive. A Google Drive app works like a regular web app, except that it doesn’t store its files on its own web servers – it stores them in your Google Drive account.
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Attaching big files to Gmail just got a whole lot easier with a new Google Drive feature that integrates right into Gmail. If you’re already using Google Drive, and you probably are now that Google Docs has become Google Drive, you will now be able to attach files stored on your Google Drive to any email with just one click and without leaving Gmail.
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If you’re using Google Docs in any capacity, you might have gotten a notice about a switch to Google Drive. If you were wondering what that means, or if you haven’t heard of the switch, it’s all pretty simple. Following the launch of Google Drive several months ago, Google has now decided to turn Drive into its sole cloud storage service, and is therefore eliminating what we came to know as Google Docs. But what does that mean for your files?
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It seems the cloud is hard to escape these days - both in your daily tech life, and on websites such as ours. Only last week I wrote an article about cloud-based PowerPoint alternatives, the week before an article about DOS games in the cloud and before that you might have caught me harping on about online backup solutions. There’s good reason for the buzz - it’s both handy and a growing necessity.
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If you’re using Google Drive on your computer and you own an Android smartphone or tablet, you should install Google Drive for Android. With the app, you can access the files in your Google Drive from anywhere – just drop a file into the Google Drive folder on your computer and it will be available in the app. Google Drive for Android also incorporates Google Docs, so you can edit your documents and spreadsheets on the go.
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A little over two months after Google released its Google Drive apps for iOS devices, it has received an update which now allows users to edit Google documents within the cloud-based apps. Google Drive is a cloud-based storage service similar to Dropbox, Box.com, and iCloud. It provides users up to 2GB of free storage space, and up to 18GB of additional space for registered referrals.
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Did you know people still actually use presentation software for work purposes? It’s true! In this age of always-on cloud connectivity, more and more browser-based solutions exist. You don’t even need PowerPoint installed on your PC any more to create your next presentation - and you don’t need to purchase software either. Here are MakeUseOf’s current picks when it comes to creating PowerPoint-style presentations via your web browser, for free.
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The popular automation service IFTTT has added support for Google's cloud storage solution, Google Drive. The platform, which stands for "if this then that", uses "recipes" in order to automate tasks, and monitors a range of web services in order to action changes on others.
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Microsoft Office has dominated the market of text documents, spreadsheets and slide shows for years, and for good reason – it’s one of the very best. However, there’s one drawback and that is the price. Sure, it's a relatively good investment, but for one reason or another you choose to not pay for it. What do you do? Thankfully, there are other options – and good ones.
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Dropbox has long been considered the main player in cloud data synchronization, but services like Google Drive and Microsoft's SkyDrive are busy making a comeback. With a big and familiar user base, and more competitive pricing, it'll be hard on Dropbox to maintain its current position in the market. Personally, I've always been a Google fanboy, so when Google Docs changed into Google Drive, I was naturally very excited.
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If you're a regular Internet user, you've probably got at least one webmail account and some sort of cloud data hosting somewhere, like Dropbox or Box. If you're a big user of cloud services, you may in fact use several of these services and have multiple accounts for each service. Why not link them all together and search them at once from your Mac? You can now do this using Found.
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