With the new Google Drive, the whole industry of online storage/backup and synchronization services is watching. Some of them already made some updates for their offers. Here are 2 comparison charts. But remember that Free, popular and easy-to-use does not mean the most Secure. If you want more security with encrypted data on client side, [...]
Microsoft has just taken cloud computing to a whole new level with Skydrive, a file hosting service that allows you the convenience of easy file access, simple sharing, and even mobile access. With Microsoft Skydrive, getting all your files neatly in one place is easy – and you don’t even have to bring all of [...]
While Google just launched Drive, its free sync storage service in the cloud (with 5GB of free space), they also just increased storage to 10 GB for Free (instead of 7 GB). This update will be effective for all accounts in the next coming hours. Gmail launched in 2004 and at this Google’s webmail was [...]
Google Drive finally launched today and as anticipated with the update of Google Docs to 5 GB of storage, Google Drive will fully integrate Google Docs inside. Drive will allow users to create, share, and collaborate with their documents online (photos, videos, Docs, PDF, etc..). The service will offer 5GB of free storage and will [...]
Google has just increased the storage capacity of Google Documents from 1 GB to 5 GB. No official announcement has been made and the update is done silently in some users accounts, according to CNET. This update comes at the same time when Google is going to launch Drive, an online storage & synchronization tool, just like Dropbox or Skydrive. Drive should also be [...]
Dropbox just announced on their blog that users can now share their content with friends using a single URL, even if recipients don’t have a dropbox account. So far nothing revolutionary since Box.net already provides this type of sharing via an URL. But here what is really interesting and different is that the recipient does [...]
Google Drive is coming very soon : free online storage tool from Google will be launched by early next week, probably on Tuesday. I hope this is true this time, because I hear rumors about Drive since 2007! Just an URL to remember: drive.google.com According to The Next Web, Google’s service will offer 5 GB of free storage and will be available for Windows, Mac, Android and IOS. “What’s [...]
For those who use Google Reader every day to read and find top posts among thousands news, you must know PostRank. This is an app that sort top posts with assigning a rating between 1 and 10 to each item from RSS feeds. This is very useful to sort items by selecting those whose score is greater than 2.7 +, 5.4 + or 7.6 + (see image below). Well guys, Google just [...]
It appears that Google is not done battling Facebook in the social media world. Not resigned to being a second-rate social media platform, Google now seeks to compete across the internet with their brand new commenting system. True to Google’s nature, the third party commenting system will be tied in with the user’s Google accounts [...]
Google just launched “Account Activity“, a new online service with email alerts that allows you to receive monthly reports about your full activity on signed-in use of Google services. These reports will allow you to track everything you do while signed-in in your Google account : -the number of searches on Google -the number of emails sent [...]
Android Market is now called the Play Store and will be part of the new Google Play, a platform including ebooks, movies, music and apps. A new codename which will contain both the old Android Market (mobile apps), Google Music (now Play Music), Google eBooks (now Play Books) and Google Movies (now Play Movies). A single address to access 4 Google services combined on a single platform, from the perspective of globalization but also the goal of competing with the Apple Store or Amazon. On [...]
You might have heard about Facebook’s new messenger, for some it is old news. In December, a tester of the Facebook messenger leaked a link to download the app. Facebook responded, in turn, by making the client available to the public. For those of you who did not know about the app, you should see [...]
Those who are familiar with Google products – Gmail, Docs, Calendar – will be excited to hear that Google may be finally releasing their online storage device. The storage service will be appropriately named Google Drive – or GDrive for short. The company is rumored to have had this device in the works since 2007, [...]
Bestvendor.com interviewed 500 developers to know what are the most popular tools they use everyday. Top 10 Tools : -Bug Tracking : Jira 43% -Database: MySQL 56% -Framework: Ruby on Rails 28% -IDE (Integrated Development Environment): 39% Eclipse -Project Management: Pivotal Tracker 23%, followed closely by Redmine (20%) and Basecamp (15%) -Online Storage: Dropbox 75% [...]
New Gmail has arrived : completly redesigned, auto-adjust to the size of window, adjust chat and label size with mouse, profile pictures in threads, adjust template in 1 clic (comfortable, cozy or compact), new advanced and intuitive search engine, and finally new themes with HD pictures.
Google will unveil a new design and new features for Google Reader next week. Reader will have a complete redesign (smaller logo, more space between items, so like the new gmail… personally I don’t like) and an integration with Google + social network. Users will be able to share easily their favorite RSS feeds with [...]
At Web 2.0 Summit, Google took the opportunity to unveil a new feature in Google Analytics : the Flow Visualization. It will track the paths taken by visitors onto a website since their starting page to their last viewed page. This new feature will be activated in the days to come in the user accounts. Visitor Flow This tool allows you to see the flow of visitors and scenarios chosen to navigate. It comes as a visual graph with links between the main nodes of traffic. [...]
Huge News in the Web Analytics Space today. Google Analytics is now available in REALTIME. Not once a day, once per hour, once per minute. But LIVE. Just like tracking tools like Statcounter. And it’s still FREE guys. If you are an american web influencer, then the new Analytics should be already live in your [...]
Social Bookmarking site Delicious has a new version. Beta. Tags can now have more than only 1 keyword and API Support is still here for developers. Introducing Stacks or “Playlists of the Web” :
According to Techcrunch, new online storage Google Drive aka GDrive, is coming soon. Google Drive is said to be a possible Dropbox competitor with synchronization features. Using cloud computing, GDrive has already been spotted in Google Docs when users try to delete documents (see image below) : And consultant Johannes Wigand has spotted a few [...]
