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Some new ways to get stuff done in Google Drive
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
In case you haven’t noticed them already, here are a handful of small updates that will make it easier to find, organize, and view stuff on Drive.
Search by person
: Can't remember the name of a file but know who shared it with you? Now Drive search auto-completes people’s names making it easier to find the stuff you’re looking for.
View Google Earth map files
: You can now open, preview, and interact with Google Earth files (.kml and .kmz) right inside Google Drive on the web.
Create new folders while organizing files
: Now when you select files in your Drive list, in addition to adding them to an existing folder, you can add them directly to a new folder.
Drag and drop folders in Chrome
: If you’re using
Chrome
, you can drag and drop entire folders from your desktop to Drive on the web.
Search includes your trash
: Sometimes files you are looking for accidentally ended up in your trash, so now search results include files there too.
Posted by Josh Hudgins, Product Manager
One click to Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Google Drive is a place where you can create, share, collaborate and keep all your stuff. Of course, there are times you want to start a new document right away–say, to take notes in class or prepare a last-minute presentation for your boss.
To make it even easier for you to create stuff quickly, Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations–now called
Docs
,
Sheets
, and
Slides
–are available as apps in the
Chrome Web Store
. Once installed, shortcuts to these apps will appear when you open a new tab in Chrome.
If you use a
Chromebook
, you’ll see Docs, Sheets, and Slides in your apps list by default following the next update to Chrome OS in a few weeks.
Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management
Announcing your two most requested features: offline document editing and Drive for iOS
Thursday, June 28, 2012
In April, we
introduced
Google Drive, a place where you can create, share, and keep all your stuff. Today at the Google I/O conference
we announced
two new ways to
get things done
in the cloud: offline editing for Google documents and a Drive app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Offline document editing
No internet connection? No big deal. With
offline editing
, you can create and edit Google documents and leave comments. Any changes you make will be automatically synced when you get back online.
You can enable offline editing from the gear icon in
Google Drive
and find more detailed instructions for getting set up in the
Help Center
. Note that you’ll need the latest versions of
Chrome
or
ChromeOS
to edit offline. We’re also working hard to make offline editing for spreadsheets and presentations available in the future.
Google Drive for iOS
We launched the
Drive app for Android
phones and tablets a few weeks ago, and starting today, Google Drive is
available for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
.
With the Drive app, you can open PDFs, photos, videos, documents and anything else stored in your Drive while you're on the go. You can also search all your files, add collaborators to documents, and make files
available offline
to view them even without an internet connection. For blind and low-vision users, the app also works great in
VoiceOver mode
. Learn more about what you can do with the app in our
Help Center
.
Get Drive in the
App Store
for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5.0+ and visit the
Play Store
to get the latest on your Android phone or tablet.
To learn more about Google Drive, visit
drive.google.com/start
.
Posted by Clay Bavor, Product Management Director
Our plans to support modern browsers across Google Apps
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
(Cross-posted to the
Google Enterprise Blog
and the
Gmail Blog
)
For web applications to spring even farther ahead of traditional software, our teams need to make use of new capabilities available in modern browsers. For example,
desktop notifications for Gmail
and
drag-and-drop file upload in Google Docs
require advanced browsers that support
HTML5
. Older browsers just don’t have the chops to provide you with the same high-quality experience.
For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version is released, we’ll begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version.
As of August 1st, we will
discontinue support
for the following browsers and their predecessors: Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3. In these older browsers you may have trouble using certain features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites, and eventually these apps may stop working entirely.
So if it’s been a a while since your last update, we encourage you to get the latest version of your favorite browser. There are many to choose from:
Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
As the world moves more to the web, these new browsers are more than just a modern convenience, they are a necessity for what the future holds.
Posted by Venkat Panchapakesan, Vice President of Engineering
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