Google Drive (cloud storage service) has gone live with 5 GB free storage - Polidicks

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bp10U.jpg[/IMG] [quote="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/"] Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist. Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond. With Google Drive, you can: Create and collaborate. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive, so you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Once you choose to share content with others, you can add and reply to comments on anything (PDF, image, video file, etc.) and receive notifications when other people comment on shared items. Store everything safely and access it anywhere (especially while on the go). All your stuff is just... there. You can access your stuff from anywhere—on the web, in your home, at the office, while running errands and from all of your devices. You can install Drive on your Mac or PC and can download the Drive app to your Android phone or tablet. We’re also working hard on a Drive app for your iOS devices. And regardless of platform, blind users can access Drive with a screen reader. Search everything. Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Let’s say you upload a scanned image of an old newspaper clipping. You can search for a word from the text of the actual article. We also use image recognition so that if you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip into Drive, you can later search for [grand canyon] and photos of its gorges should pop up. This technology is still in its early stages, and we expect it to get better over time. You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s enough to store the high-res photos of your trip to the Mt. Everest, scanned copies of your grandparents’ love letters or a career’s worth of business proposals, and still have space for the novel you’re working on. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB. Drive is built to work seamlessly with your overall Google experience. You can attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+, and soon you’ll be able to attach stuff from Drive directly to emails in Gmail. Drive is also an open platform, so we’re working with many third-party developers so you can do things like send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups directly from Drive. To install these apps, visit the Chrome Web Store—and look out for even more useful apps in the future. This is just the beginning for Google Drive; there’s a lot more to come. Get started with Drive today at drive.google.com/start—and keep looking for Nessie... [/quote] [url]https://drive.google.com[/url] Mine still says "Your Google Drive is not ready yet" though, as of this moment.

Same, mine's not on either. [quote]Drive is built to work seamlessly with your overall Google experience. You can attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+, and soon you’ll be able to attach stuff from Drive directly to emails in Gmail. Drive is also an open platform, so we’re working with many third-party developers so you can do things like send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups directly from Drive. To install these apps, visit the Chrome Web Store—and look out for even more useful apps in the future.[/quote] So a good desktop app will be done?

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35699612]Same, mine's not on either. So a good desktop app will be done?[/QUOTE] From looking at the image, there's definitely a desktop app that seems very similar to Dropbox.

I just installed it, it works just about as fast as dropbox does, if not faster.

Just installed it too, looks great. I will try using it for some days to see if something annoys me. Also, the upgrade prices for Google Drive seems to be [url=https://www.google.com/settings/storage/?hl=en]really cheap[/url] compared to [url=https://www.dropbox.com/plans]Dropbox' prices[/url]. Also, if you upload a video on Google Drive you can stream it off the website, that's something I'll definitely use.

god damn 25 gb for just 2.50 a month that's a steal

[QUOTE=Egonny;35700352]Just installed it too, looks great. I will try using it for some days to see if something annoys me. Also, the upgrade prices for Google Drive seems to be [url=https://www.google.com/settings/storage/?hl=en]really cheap[/url] compared to [url=https://www.dropbox.com/plans]Dropbox' prices[/url]. Also, if you upload a video on Google Drive you can stream it off the website, that's something I'll definitely use.[/QUOTE] This probably has been answered but can I share images publicly like dropbox does?