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“Simple Google Docs Viewer” is a plugin for WordPress that allows editors to embed office documents on their site via the Google Docs Viewer widget.
Available via a shortcode and template tag, this plugin adapts the standard Google Docs Viewer widget so it can easily be used with any document on any self-hosted Word... |
23 May 2013
12:01 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Google Drive application is now available for download for the owners of Android-based devices, namely version 1.2.182.25, set to deliver a smoother experience to all users.
The updated app iteration is meant to make it easier for users to find the content they are looking for, with files now be... |
23 May 2013
04:48 GMT |
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It's not just regular Google users that get unified storage, as Google Apps users now get 30 GB shared between Google Drive and Gmail. For Apps users, the change isn't that big, they already had 25 GB of storage for Gmail.
What's more, this isn't technically free storage, since Apps users pay fo... |
13 May 2013
17:51 GMT |
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Google has announced that it is finally merging storage space for its main products. Google users will get 15 GB of free storage shared across Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. Previously, all three offered various and limited amounts of space for free. The change won't be going live at once, but over the next ... |
13 May 2013
15:38 GMT |
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Google is introducing a new way of saving content to Drive, a button for websites, similar to the Like or share buttons that you'll find on almost any site now.
The Save to Drive button makes it easy to send anything from a bill to a great wallpaper without downloading it or even visiting the Drive website.
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9 May 2013
14:50 GMT |
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Google has announced that its Drive desktop app now lets you share items straight from the right-click menu.
Thanks to the new update Google is rolling out now, it’s possible to share files straight from the context menu of the app.
Thus, all you must do is right-click on any file, go to Google Drive and cl... |
7 May 2013
03:01 GMT |
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The Google Drive Realtime API is relatively new, so it's no surprise that it's getting updates and new features already. The API was designed to make it possible for apps to add real time collaboration, like the one in Docs, or Sheets, with the help of Google technology. Realtime collaboration features are... |
1 May 2013
09:01 GMT |
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Google Drive received an update recently, to version 1.9, and packs two new features and a couple of fixes. One of the fresh features touches on the web part of the application and refers to offline access to your most recent Google documents, as long as you’re using Chrome browser. The second feature relates... |
29 April 2013
11:00 GMT |
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Offline support for Google Drive has been a touchy subject for a few years, specifically because it was missing. But Google finally brought it back and is working on making it more worthwhile since.
It's still far from perfect, but things are getting better. For example, in the latest update, Drive now stores ... |
26 April 2013
16:11 GMT |
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Google is continuing its Google+ expansion, but while adding Google+ features to some of its products seems forced, in others, it makes sense.
This is part of the latter category, Google Drive now users profile pictures, from Google+, for collaborators, making it easier to see who's working on a document.
"Wh... |
26 April 2013
04:33 GMT |
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According to reports online several services from Google are experiencing disruptions in some parts of the world.
The App Status Dashboard page from Google confirms the problems and lists Mail, Drive, Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations as suffering disruptions, while the Admin control panel/API is suspended f... |
17 April 2013
09:51 GMT |
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Google Drive users reaping the benefits of those 5 free gigabytes on their iPhone editing documents and spreadsheets should listen up. There’s a new version available that allows landscape viewing and editing. Google Drive 1.3.0 finally includes landscape editing of documents and spreadsheets on small-screen d... |
8 April 2013
10:55 GMT |
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Google has made a small but important addition to Drive to make it a more suitable storage location for apps. It's now possible to set aside an app folder that can only be accessed directly by the app. This prevents users from accidentally deleting the folder and helps keep Drive uncluttered.
"The app folder&rs... |
5 April 2013
13:31 GMT |
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One of the things Google is focusing on with Drive, is file previews and management. If it's going to take on Dropbox, this is the area that is going to need improvement. The latest such improvement is a relatively small change to shared folders.
"Viewing shared folders in Google Drive just got a whole lot pret... |
3 April 2013
09:12 GMT |
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Google has just introduced Keep, a note-taking tool built into Drive. At first glance, it looks like a solid product, it works fine on mobile, has all the basic features you'd need and so on.
But perhaps the timing of the release wasn't so great since the discussion quickly turned to Reader and its demise.... |
21 March 2013
08:56 GMT |
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It first surfaced a few days ago, but Google is already launching it, the note-taking app Keep is here. It's tied into Google Drive, but it is its own app, both online and on Android. As expected, it's a relatively simple app, you can take simple notes, make lists, but there are a couple of more advanced ... |
21 March 2013
03:41 GMT |
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Google has just released its own note-taking application for Android devices. Dubbed Google Keep, it allows users to create notes, lists and audio notes, or even add photos to these notes. The application can also automatically transcribe any voice note previously created by users. More importantly, all notes are st... |
21 March 2013
02:45 GMT |
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One of the most interesting features of Google Docs is the real-time collaboration. The ability to work on a document in parallel and see everyone’s changes and updates almost instantly changes the way you work together. Now, Google is opening up the tech via the real-time collaboration features via an API mak... |
20 March 2013
07:01 GMT |
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Google Drive is currently experiencing some issues which make it intermittently available. Users around the world report connectivity issues. The site sometimes returns a 502 error, though it occasionally works.
Even when it does load, there are issues with listing items, search and so on. Google has acknowledged t... |
18 March 2013
11:58 GMT |
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Google seems to be working on a note-taking app akin to Evernote and, indeed, its old and retired Google Notebook service.
The app is dubbed Keep and it's part of Google Drive. Some hints of the app were spotted last summer, but it's now been temporarily enabled, perhaps in error or as a test, for some us... |
18 March 2013
06:36 GMT |
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Dropbox may be a cloud storage company and its success is largely due to the focus of its approach. But the company is expanding, it has now acquired the maker of Mailbox, a popular and recently launched iOS email app.
"Like many of you, when we discovered Mailbox we fell in love—it was simple, delightful, an... |
16 March 2013
06:53 GMT |
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Google may be slowly abandoning Picasa, but it's not giving up on photography, in fact, it's a big focus for both Google+ and Google Drive. Granted, the fact that Google+ and Google Drive still aren't unified is curious to say the least.
But if you're using Drive to store your photos, via a third... |
13 March 2013
14:21 GMT |
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Cloud-based storage devices are becoming pretty popular these days, so a powerful app that would allow you to manage the files stored in the cloud is a must-have.
RainbowDrive does even more than that. It integrates support for the commonly used storage systems on the market and lets you manage all of them from the ... |
6 March 2013
21:31 GMT |
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Google has been adding new features to Drive and has been pushing the service towards something that warrants its name, the Google Drive, but it may be getting ready to make one of the biggest moves yet by making Gmail attachments a part of Drive.
There's no official word yet, as has been the case before, Googl... |
27 February 2013
18:41 GMT |
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There are plenty of Dropbox competitors out there, more are coming out all the time, and some people are even claiming that this alone is proof enough that Dropbox is done. After all, if storage is a commodity, what's to keep people from switching from one provider to another, one with cheaper storage, of whic... |
27 February 2013
13:31 GMT |
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The Chromebook Pixel is expensive, there's no denying; it's expensive compared to most ultrabooks and it's incredibly expensive compared to other Chromebooks. In fact, you can get six Acer C7 Chromebooks for the price of one Pixel and still have money left to spend.
But the Pixel may actually be good ... |
27 February 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Google Drive is now introducing preview support for 30 file types, meaning you'll be able to at least view any of these files without having to download them or open them in an external app or service.
Drive has been offering preview support for plenty of document formats, images, audio and video, but the late... |
21 February 2013
05:03 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Google Drive application is now available for download for Android users, namely version 1.1.592.10, with various enhancements packed inside. One of them includes the support for streaming video files, which should prove handy for all devices running under Honeycomb or newer platform releases. ... |
21 February 2013
03:41 GMT |
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Mega launched a month ago and, in that time, it gathered three million users, Kim Dotcom revealed. The site now hosts 125 million files he said in a tweet. He also reiterated that Mega is working on mobile and desktop clients for the service.
Three million users is not bad for a month-old site, but Mega has benefite... |
20 February 2013
04:45 GMT |
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Google Drive has always had a solid platform component, any cloud storage service needs one, but somehow it seems that Dropbox or even Box are doing better than Google, which is surprising considering just how popular most Google APIs are.
Perhaps it's a problem of discovery, that seems to be the idea behind t... |
8 February 2013
11:21 GMT |
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Google is making it a bit more official and has now published a small guide on how to host simple websites with Google Drive. This has been possible for a while, we showed you a guide on how to do it a couple of months back.
But Google is now acknowledging the capability and has added a Preview button to HTML files... |
6 February 2013
14:41 GMT |
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The Forms tool in Google Drive is getting a revamp, a needed one since there hasn't been much happening on that front for a long time. The entire tool has been rebuilt based on Drive's new technology, so it finally gets a couple of features that Docs users have been taking for granted. First and foremost... |
31 January 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Google’s online storage tool Google Drive has received an important update on iOS platforms. QuickOffice users can now open and save back to Drive, and they can perform diagonal scrolling. Google Drive version 1.2.2 enables multiple photo/video uploading and the ability to open and save QuickOffice files back ... |
29 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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After a long, long wait, Google Docs/Drive added offline support only a few months ago. But it only worked for documents. Now, Google is adding support for presentations as well. Slides now works in offline mode, meaning you can create, edit and present without an internet connection.
You do need to enable the featu... |
24 January 2013
04:41 GMT |
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Today, Google made available for download a new flavor of the Google Currents app for Android-based handsets, but it seems that this was only one of the applications that it has updated.
In addition to this software, the company pushed out new versions of the Google Drive application, which was packed with a series... |
13 December 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Google is making it easier to add files to your Google Drive and is sidestepping the desktop even more. You can now save images you find on the web and even entire web pages directly to Drive via the new Save to Drive Chrome extension. Normally, something like this would require you to save an image to your local d... |
12 December 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Google Drive is getting a big helping of new stock photos. 5,000 more photos are now available for anyone looking for something to include in their documents, presentations or even spreadsheets.
The stock photo option was introduced earlier this year and it proved popular with some people. Users wanted more to choo... |
7 December 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Google Drive, the online storage and file syncing service from Google, has been updated iOS-wise to add some spreadsheet editing functions for people who don’t have time to meet up.
In addition to offering collaborative spreadsheet editing functions, Google Drive 1.2.0 for iPhone and iPad lets you upload files... |
29 November 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Google is making it possible to host simple websites by using your Google Drive account. The idea is to enable developers to create apps that make editing and publishing simple web pages accessible to everyone. But you don't need to use the Drive API to make use of the new features. All you need to do is create... |
29 November 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Google has just released a new version of Drive for Android devices on Play Store. With the latest iteration of Google Drive, users will be able to edit Google spreadsheets in a new, native editor, among other things. Aside from that, Google Drive users will be able to edit contents of tables in Google Docs editor. ... |
29 November 2012
04:34 GMT |
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The integration between Gmail and Google Drive is getting deeper as it is now possible to attach Drive files to messages without leaving the email app. Along with the regular attachment, photo or link, there's now a Google Drive icon in the Gmail compose window that, you guessed it, enables you to add a file fro... |
27 November 2012
12:50 GMT |
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Google has announced that Acer is adding a new device to the Chromebook family (Acer C7), one that is eligible for 100 GB of free storage space on Google Drive. The validity of the cloud storage is limited to two years, starting the date you redeem your offer. This is more than plenty for most users, especially when... |
13 November 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Google is making it a bit easier to share stuff from Google Drive with friends, fans and colleagues by adding a "share on Google+" option. If you use Google+ and if the people you're trying to share with also use Google+, a couple of big "ifs," the new method could come in handy, compared to the alternative, s... |
1 November 2012
04:44 GMT |
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The research pane in Google Docs, now Drive, is a relatively recent addition that's still trying to find its groove. It could be a useful companion, but it needs some polish and more functionality, as its use cases are limited.
But Google is expanding its use; it is now available in Slides and Drawings, the spr... |
31 October 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Google's push to rename Docs to Drive makes some sense, but not entirely. While having the cloud storage device named Docs is confusing, so is a web-based document editor named Drive.
So Google is adding a bit more clarity to its Drive/Docs products and is renaming the editors.
Technically, it's naming ... |
23 October 2012
16:10 GMT |
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Google Drive wants to be your universal cloud drive, meaning it wants to house all of your files. Just keeping them in the cloud is not enough, making it possible to use the in the cloud is more important. Which is why Google already has a number of editors or at least viewers for quite a few file types.But it can�... |
19 October 2012
16:31 GMT |
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If you're a Chromebook owner or you're planning to become one, Google has one gift for you to sweeten the deal, 100 GB of free storage in Google Drive. The new offer is available to existing Chromebook owners and to new purchases as well.
All you have to do is redeem the free space by visiting the special ... |
19 October 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Google may be working on bringing all of its products together, and not just binding them together with Google+.
It recently started experimenting with a form of universal search which enables you to find your documents, emails or appointments no matter where on Google you use the search box.
But integration betwe... |
17 October 2012
12:21 GMT |
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If you're an avid Google Docs (Drive) user, you may have noticed already: the document editor has gotten a few tweaks for the "Compact Mode," maximizing the space used by the editor and minimizing UI elements. The Compact Mode view has been available for a long time, but Google is now making it more obvious an... |
16 October 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Google is further expanding its search options and further integrating more of its services into the main search page. A few months back, Google started adding Gmail results to Google search, for those that wanted them. Now it's making the next logical step and is adding Google Drive files to the results as we... |
16 October 2012
04:30 GMT |
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