Google Drive: discover the service, the web interface and the application for PC / Mac

And finally Google Drive has arrived, a few minutes early from Android version, also the web version unvarnished has revealed to our eyes. As was widely anticipated release is a "magazine" Google Documents, but let us see what we have at hand.
The updated Google Drive, with the first 5 GB free, is available to all who will access the site drive.google.com from now. The update does not imply any loss of your Documents. Indeed, the reasons to go are so many.

The web version of Google Drive not far from Google Documents, maintaining also the interface that does not undergo significant changes (which, however, admit that we expect in the coming months). You can load our Office documents, and not only through the usual interface to which we were accustomed. The real novelty, surely you've missed is the ability to upload any file you want, images, video, compressed files, graphics files of any kind. Do not you dimension to your music, probably to distinguish the service from Google Music . However, nothing will prohibit loading on your space.

Will likely be convenient to many the possibility of files with other users of the service and above all they can be sent as attachments in GMail, without unnerving expectations and simply as links.

The new reality that today's first few expected, is the complete integration with the applications of the Chrome Web Store. This means that if you uploaded a file in Photoshop and you have installed an application for Chrome will be able to open it, the integration is immediate. As you can imagine the service cuts out the other browser and winks so slightly veiled in Chrome OS , which can be expected that even before his birth.

The application for PC / Mac
 
Even then the application is available for your home computer, either PC or Mac (no Linux ...). Once you start you will be asked to login with Google data and then the icon will go to fare in your system tray. Yes, right next to that of Dropbox. The operation is completely identical to that of the blue box . This will create a personal folder where documents will be loaded into them instantly synchronized with Google Drive. The main novelty is found in Google Documents synchronization of documents: the files have the extension. And gsheet. Gdoc and will open your website editing with Google (using your default browser, not even Chrome).

The application for Android
Please refer to our full article .
More and more space
As well announced , the space is initially 5 GB, which can be increased to pay rates competitive enough. There is talk of $ 2.49 / month (1.88 € at current exchange rates) to 25 GB per month (another 25 GB for GMail), or $ 4.99 / month for 100 GB (3.77 € at current exchange rates, again with the 25 GB for Gmail for free).

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