What is “Google Drive” ?

What is “Google Drive” ?  

Continued on from Thursday May 10th & Monday May 14th..

Like, Dropbox, Google Drive is “a cloud computing service” from Google, to compete with DropBox, Microsoft's SkyDrive, Apple's iCloud and Evernote – some of the largest..

During many classes we’ve talked about “Google Docs” - Basically “Google Drive” is a super version of this, allowing us to store documents, photos, music, videos, etc. all in one place. And a great feature, is that it syncs with your mobile devices and your computer, so if you make a change from one gadget, it will automatically show up if you were to access it elsewhere.  Just like those of use who are now syncing your “gmail emails, contacts & calendars” with your computer and mobile devices…

What’s nice, is that Google Drive can also track changes and edits we make to documents – so when we hit save, we can look back at all revisions from the past 30 days.

Like DropBox and the others there are various levels of services, currently they offer up to 5GB of space for free – but if that’s not enough you can upgrade to other plans, such as $2.49/month for 25GB, $4.99/month for 100GB, and $49.99 a month for a whopping 1TB. If you move to a premium account it also automatically expands your Gmail storage to 25G

For those of you with iPads, iPhones etc remember that the Apple's iCloud can only be used by Mac users using the “i” operating System; but Google drive is now open to all Operating Systems – Windows, Mac, Androids, etc so it can be used on computers, tablets, iPad and the iPhone (though only through a web browser at the moment).. So anyone can download this drive for your Mac or PC