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As expected Google Drive arrives in the form of Google Docs

lacisoft — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:51:39 +0000

We waited quite a long time for this one. But after all that time it became a reality. Google Docs slowly morphs into Google Drive. Google today announced that any type of file can be uploaded to Google Docs. The feature is being rolled out right now and will be available anytime from a couple of hours to a few weeks for every Google user. So everyone will be able to upload files up to 250 megabytes. That is more then the permitted attachment size on all major email providers. Using the built in collaboration and sharing functionalities sending and receiving files will be much easier and files will be available from anywhere.

Google wants every digital piece of our life … should we give all that to them? Should we depend so much on a company ?

I will be answering these questions in a separate post these days.

Google upgrades paid storage plans

lacisoft — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:23:51 +0000

I have a paid storage plan at Google which until now featured 10 GB extra storage for 20$ a year. I use it mostly for private (protected) Picasa Photos but its nice to know that my Gmail account has an overflow capacity too.

Google announced today that they will upgrade the paid storage plans because in time the cost of hard drive storage has continued to drop. So my 10 GB’s have been transformed to 80 GB of online storage. That’s for only 20$ a year. Isn’t that cool ? For now i only use like half a gigabyte but i will start uploading tons of photos. Its very convenient to have all the photos online because its less likely to loose them and you can view them them from any computer wherever you are.

And if we speak about this storage upgrade, i must say i think that Google prepares for the much anticipated GDrive with this move. Its only a matter of time before the storage space will be implemented on all Google services, including the ones that have a potential for this service, like Google Docs. So most people will need to sign-up for a storage plan if they intend to store large amount of data at Google.

New storage plans:

My Picasa storage:

My Gmail storage:

Google Drive is coming

lacisoft — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:29:42 +0000

The much anticipated Gdrive or Google Drive, an online shared storage service is coming soon. Many reports point out evidence of this service in Google’s localization files. And rumors circulated long before this evidence.

In recent history almost all rumors about upcoming Google services were true as it was with Google Chrome (anticipated as Gbrowser for a while but with not too much evidence), Google Android (anticipated as Google Phone without too much evidence). The only question about GDrive is how much it will cost. Because i have a strong feeling that there will be a basic free version and some larger packages at a certain subscription fee. But we will see … hopefully soon.