Google Drive gets price cuts for yearly subscriptions

With the ever increasing internet access speeds, using the cloud for storage is becoming a lot more appealing, and Google lends a hand be offering a nice discount for those willing to pay for Google Drive one year at a time.

Get 2 extra GB of Google space by checking your security settings

Celebrating the Safer Internet Day, Google has decided to offer a small token of appreciation should you check your current security settings: 2 extra gigabytes of Google Drive space... to keep forever.

Google offers Quickoffice for free for Android and iOS (and 10GB to your Gdrive)

If it's certain you have a lot of apps promising to be "MS Office alternatives for mobile devices, it's also true that most good one also cost quite a bit (compared to the majority of 99c apps - even though they might be worth it). For quite some time people have been waiting for Microsoft to launch a mobile Office suite for iOS and Android... but when they did, they did so just for the Office 365 subscribers. Well... Google now hopes to put that to rest and are making Quickoffice available for free for iOS and Android, and they even give you an extra 10GB for you Google Drive.


We finally get to see last year's Quickoffice acquisition, and one can't say it's not an excellent move, taking advantage of MS "slow response". Now, mobile users will have one more way to keep away from their computers with MS Office - and that's not very good for MS. On the other hand, Google get regular MS Office users one step closer to using their own Google Docs, and show them that they can actually live quite well without "Office" - particularly when they're already using a system that is completely different from Windows.

The only bad thing about all this is that the 10GB extra space offer has an expiration date: just two years, till they take it back again (probably hoping by then you'll so much stuff in there you'll be willing to pay for the extra space). But to get that 10GB offer you to donwload Quickoffice and login with your Google account by September 26. So, what are you waiting for?

• Quickoffice para Android
• Quickoffice para iOS 

Google Unifies Cloud Storage and Gives you 15GB of Free Space

How would you feel if you paid for 100GB of cloud space on Google, but found your Gmail account was unable to receive any more data once it reached 25GB? You could have 100GB for Google Drive and Google+ Photos, but your Gmail account would be stuck on 25GB. Now, Google is finally cleaning up this fragmented storage system and will unify storage space among all services, giving you 15GB of total storage for free that you can use any way you like - whether you'll use it all on Gmail, or all for G+ Photos, or anything in between.

You can manage it all in the new storage management page, where you can see how you're using up your space, and you'll notice that the old 25GB option is now gone. Now you can either keep the free 15GB account... or will have to go to the 100GB option at $4.99/month. You'll also notice that while this option previously offered 100GB + 25GB for Gmail, you now get "only" 100GB... meaning you'll lose 25% of space for the same amount of money (though I do prefer that these 100GB can be used freely).

If you're a Google Apps user, you get 30GB of free space.

This change is being deployed right now, and might take a few weeks to reach you - but sooner or later you'll see your Gmail account stating you have 15GB of space to use. (And I imagine that this also marks the end of the ever growing space limit we had on Gmail).

How to Backup Twitter to Google Drive

Ever wished to keep a web browsable copy of your tweets, that would still be available even if Twitter decided to shutdown its service without any warning? Well, you're probably aware that you can request an archive with all your Twitter history... but that takes time, and the provided data isn't that useful unless you know what to do with it. Wouldn't it be better if we had our own "Twitter" backup on the web?

Well... you can, thanks to Google Drive and its powerful script capabilities.

You can use those scripts to automate the task of maiking daily Twitter backups on Google Drive, that will be available on the web (and also synced to your own computer - should you have the Google Drive Sync enabled). It might look like it's too complicated, but it actually isn't. Just follow the steps carefully, one by one, and you'll end up with your own twitter backup ready to rock the web.

Chrome Extension Save to Google Drive

If you're starting to use your Google Drive frequentely (or already do so for a while), you'll like to know there's a new extension that might help you speed up your tasks. The new Save to Drive Chrome extension allows you to quickly save content from the web to your Google Drive.

You can right click on images and links to save them directly to Google Drive, or press the extension icon to save the entire page (in either image format, html source code, ou mht web archive)


There's also some new things you can do to your images in your Google Drive. Most appreciated is the fact that we can now select regions of an image and add comments. But other than that you can also zoom be scrolling, or use the fit to page or 100% size buttons.

[via Google Drive]

Google Drive goes live

We knew it was due any minute now, and here it is at last: Google Drive is finally live and available to all.

As expected, you get 5GB free, and the web interface is grafted in place of the old(er) Google Docs. There's some slight changes to the way folders/labels used to work... as it now translates into file folders directly (which is actually simpler than it was, to be honest.)

You can use the web viewer to view 30 kinds of different file types, such as photoshop and illustrator files (that's handy!), and as expected, you can expand your available space up to 16TB (if you're willing to pay a monthly fee of $799.99!)

More affordable are the 25GB ($2.49/month) and 100GB ($4.99/month) options, which should suffice for most users.

The Windows and Mac app are already available, as is the Google Drive App for Android. iPhone and iPad users will have to wait a while longer.






[via engadget]