Google Drive Review

Recently, some advantageous Google users received an invitation to Google Drive. If you haven't yet been arrive to Drive be relax because you actually a lot of of the service and product already so is is called Google Docs and it's fantastic.

Features

         Adds local file-syncing and build in OCR technology to all of Google Docs' other core functionality. Integrated smoothly into the Google universe. Generous chargeless accumulator amplitude if you use Google file formats for a lot of docs.

Problems

         Some users may feel afraid about privacy and IP ownership. Hit and absence success with various video file formats.

 Review of Google Drive

      The newly launched Google Drive is alone a rebranding of Google Docs with a few added features, arch a part of them bounded book syncing. In added words, Google Docs,ahem, Drive now works added like Dropbox , CX, Sugar Sync or any added file-syncing annual you affliction to name, while still application the amount Docs functionality, too. You can upload files to your Google account, catechumen them to Google's book architecture to adapt them online or actualize new docs in the Web interface, coact with others in absolute time, and consign the accomplished articles to added accepted book formats, like .doc, .rtf, .pdf, .csv, and so on.
       Because of these wide ranging capabilities, Google Drive is an Editors' Choice, although there isn't any one artefact or account that anon competes with it at the moment. Google Drive was the aboriginal file-syncing account to cover a chargeless online appointment apartment and seamlessly absorb cloud-based file-syncing (Skydrive is the alone added account that has all these features). While Google has positioned its new Google Drive cloud-storage account as one that straddles the customer and business space, those application it for accord will apparently get the a lot of out of it. We accept no averseness advising Google Drive, as it is an accomplished belvedere and service, but that doesn't beggarly it's the alone file-syncing account you should use either.

Main features

      The basis of Google Drive, and the capital allure to it, is it can abundance your files in the billow area they are attainable to you and your collaborators, and become awful searchable.

One affection accompanying to "search" stands out: Google's adeptness to browse a photo and "read" it application optical appearance recognition, or analyze it application its own technology. The alone added app of this affectionate that uses congenital OCR about as able-bodied is Evernote , although you accept to accept a paid Premium annual to use it.

Google aswell claims Drive allows videos to be uploaded, but we encountered some issues with that allotment of the service.

      The core services and functionality that were in Google Docs, namely, a changeless online appointment apartment area files are as well hosted, are still complete in Drive. Google Docs is one of the best accepted changeless another to Microsoft Office, although it's absolutely Web-based—there's no software to install to use it (the alone downloadable allotment is the app for bounded syncing with Drive).

      As with Microsoft Office, Google Docs/Drive (the old name still shows up if you haven't active up for Drive yet) lets you actualize chat processing documents, spreadsheets, presentation documents, forms, agent drawings, and now in beta, tables. Google hosts your files, too, so if you log in, all your files are there. You can array them into customizable folders, which arise forth a larboard pane, or just seek for what you need, application a accepted seek bar in the Web app.

Price and Storage Allotment

     At the low amount of nothing, Google Drive doles out 5GB of space—but in fact, that's not the accomplished story. Google does in actuality accord you abundant added amplitude for chargeless because files you created application Google Docs (in Google's proprietary, online formats) don't calculation against that allocation nor do files aggregate with you.

    But if 5GB isn't enough, you can pay Google for the advantage of accepting your files data-mined: 25GB for $2.49 per month, 100GB for $4.99 per month, or even 1TB for $49.99 per month. Whether you use the paid or changeless version, you will not see any ads absorbed to Drive, anywhere–which is not the case with G mail.

Cheapskates are bigger off with CX, which gives a whopping10GB chargeless amplitude to start, or Microsoft's SkyDrive, which offers 7GB (or 25GB if you were an absolute user above-mentioned to April 22, 2012).

    Sugar Sync, one of our Editors' Choices for file-syncing services, seems beneath acceptable with 5GB chargeless space, but the benefit referrals are limitless, so you can calmly acquire a lot more. Dropbox, our added Editors' Choice, starts you out with 2GB and lets you acquire bonuses, but caps all chargeless accounts at 16GB.

Supported Book Types

     We approved a amount of altered items: folders, Word files, Excel spreadsheets, JPEG angel files, MP3s, PDFs, an AMR audio file, an angel resizing appliance (.exe), and .mpeg, .wmv, and .avi files. Remember, there's aswell Google Play Music, a abstracted billow account for your music files, forth with rivals like MSpot. Our alone issues arose with video files. We approved an .avi file; no dice. A .wmv? Nope. Mpeg files were hit and miss. Granted, there are about dozens of altered video formats available. We're cat-and-mouse to apprehend aback from Google for a account of those supported.

Videos and Photos

       For anyone acclimated to the automated photo and video uploading of a SugarSync, Drive may feel awkward. Google places that adequacy aural Google+, and aswell banned your photo resolution as well. In added words, you can't yield a photo with your buzz and accept it automatically upload into Drive. In added words, there's not automated photo syncing button. But you can yield a account with your Android phone, manually upload it to Drive, and it will upload with abounding resolution. Videos can be uploaded to Drive as well.
       However, videos and angel files that are stored via Drive accept to be downloaded anniversary time they're accessed. It not alone costs you time, but aswell counts adjoin your bandwidth cap. On the added hand, this aswell agency that you accept the advantage of autumn them locally, too. While Drive appears to use its own all-encompassing media amateur for video, Drive will accessible music via Play Music.
       The coolest new affection in Google Drive is its adeptness to "read" photos with OCR technology. The alone botheration is that this affection seems ambagious at aboriginal glance. If you yield a photo of a page of a book, the photo will save as an image. But if you accept to save it as a Google document, the photo will be absorbed to a searchable block of text—not replaced by it, so you accept side-by-side angle of the OCR estimation and the original. Google does an accomplished job with OCR. Say you wish to bound bastard a snapshot of your admired compound into your own arsenal, well, this affection is just the thing.


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