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"Hands On With Google Drive\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting Access\nSign in here to see if you have access to Drive. If you do, you'll need to download the desktop component for Mac or PC before getting started.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOffline Access\nAfter you download Google Drive, you'll see a new folder on your computer. The folder will automatically sync with your online Google docs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFolders\nWhat used to be called \"collections\" are now folders.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreating a folder\nCreating a new folder works the same as creating a collection within Google Docs did.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSyncs to desktop\nNew folders and content added online automatically show up in the Google Drive desktop folder. Likewise, new folders or content added to the offline folder automatically show up in the online version. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOptical Character Recognition (OCR)\n\nGoogle uses image recognition technology to search words in PDFs or scanned articles. Even though this PDF is not labeled with my search term, it contains the term within its text. Google Drive recognizes this and puts it in my search results.\nWhile the technology worked well in this example, it did not work for screenshots of text and had trouble with a scanned image as well.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTagging\nGoogle Drive allows you to tag photos to make them easy to search later. I tagged this photo \"thumbnail.\" When I search online for \"thumbnail,\" it will show up along with any documents that include that word.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoogle+ Integration\nYou can now add photos from Google Drive to your Google+ posts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoogle+ Integration\nThe Google Drive features in Google+ make it easy to pull photos into updates. Soon you'll also be able to attach files from Drive directly to emails in Gmail.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUpgrading\nGoogle will let you store 5GB of storage on Google Drive for free. If you need more storage, you'll need to sign up for a monthly subscription.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter weeks of rumors, Google has finally launched its cloud-storage service, Drive.\nLike Microsoft SkyDrive, Dropbox and Amazon Cloud Drive, the service syncs users' offline files with an online storage space that can be accessed from anywhere. \nUnlike these other services, however, it has Google Docs built right into it.\nJust like before, users can collaborate and comment on docs. But now those files will also automatically be backed up offline, and content added to the offline Google Drive folder will automatically show up in the online Google Drive tab among their Google Docs (up to 5GB of free storage). All files can also be accessed through a Google Drive Android app.\nGoogle also brought some bells and whistles to the game, such as technology that makes PDFs and scanned books searchable. Stuff on your Drive is easy to access from Google+; the company says it will soon make it just as easy to attach that content to Gmail messages. \nMeanwhile, the company is working with third-party companies such as fax machine replacement HelloFax and video editor WeVideo that will incorporate Drive into their products.\nBottom line? Google Drive is Dropbox with double the free space (Dropbox offers 2.5GB) and added Google Docs functionality. \nIts 5GB of storage space isn't the largest the industry has to offer \u2014 for that, you'll have to turn to Microsoft's SkyDrive. But it will probably end up being the most widely integrated, and thus most useful, cloud service out there.\nFor our full walk-through of the new product, click through the gallery above. \nGoogle wrote in its announcement for Drive that \"there\u2019s a lot more to come.\" What features would you like them to add? Let us know in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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