Category: Google

How to Use Google Drive as a Dirt Cheap Backup Solution
When Google Drive dropped the prices for their cloud storage it is has become an excellent option to store your online backup. Google Drive might not be as cheap as using a service such as Amazon Glacier, but it has several advantages over Amazon Glacier that makes it worth looking at. First, Google Drive storage pricing is easy to understand. No complicated formula needed to figure out…
Google Drive Gets A Big Price Drop!
Google Drive storage just got a huge price cut today from Google and it makes Google Drive one if the best deals for cloud storage. You can now get 100GB of storage for just $1.99/month. The pricing for 1TB of storage is only $9.99/month. The old prices were $4.99/month for 100GB and $49.99/month for 1TB.…
7 Ways to Backup Your Google Account
If you have made the switch to using cloud based services like Google Apps for your business or even just for personal use you probably don’t worry about backing up your data as often as you would if it was sitting on your desktop. It can be easy to think that Google will keep your…
Insync Leaves Beta
If you love Google storage but want a better (yes I did say better) desktop app to sync your data between your desktop and Google Drive, Insync is the application you want. Insync has just left beta and has announced it new pricing structure. Unlike many services out there Insync is charging a one…
A Week with Google Drive
Google Drive has been out officially for a week now and I thought I would share a video I took of me installing it on my test Windows XP machine and a few of my opinions on the service so far. First the video. Nothing to difficult here to install it. Simply go to…
Google Drive is Here!
Well it is official Google Drive has launched. You can read more about it on the official Google blog or if you just want to get started check out drive.google.com. I am still getting started testing the service but a few things I can tell you already. Google Apps users are out of luck at…
Google Drive Video on YouTube!
There is now a Google Drive video available on Youtube. I have embedded it below for you to check out. Not many details in the video but we should know more soon. Exploring Google Drive
Google Drive Blog Post Appears on Google French Blog
Looks like we are very close to having Google Drive launch, so close in fact that the Google French blog briefly had a blog post up about it. It has since been removed but Google+ user Fran?ßois Bacconnet had posted it on Google+. My French is pretty rusty but thankfully Gerwin Sturm ran it through…
Google Drive 5GB Free?
I have mostly ignored the latest rumors about Google Drive for the last little while because I wanted to get something more concrete to present. Well today I finally was able to get something more concrete that Google Drive is indeed coming. One of the rumors was that Google Drive would offer users 5GB…
Google Drive Near Launch!?
Seems to be a lot of talk on the Internet today about Google Drive (GDrive) being close to launch. Apparently it started with a story over at the Wall Street Journal (Ya I could not read it all, stupid paywall. Just for that you get a nofollow.) and has been spreading out. There was a…