Posts Tagged ‘Google Drive’
Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
It’s not really that surprising that Google Drive has opted to end support for these operating systems, but it is a bit surprising that both programs will still work with Google Drive, regardless of the end of support.
Google announced yesterday that its Google Drive software won’t support Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 anymore starting January 1, 2017. Google Drive is the company’s official desktop program that enables Google users to manage and sync files between their devices and the Google cloud.
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Tags: end of support, Google Drive, Server 2003, Vista, Windows XP
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
It sounds like Google has temporarily addressed this issue, but it might be a good idea to keep an eye out for this type of scam until a more permanent solution is in place.
Most phishing and data grabbing attacks have a major problem: they cannot use the domain of the official service, but need to use another one. Some use similar looking domains, or very long domain names that start right but are only sub-domains and end with an unrelated domain name. The latest phishing scam that Symantec noticed recently takes the idea to a whole new level. Instead of hosting the fake website on a different domain, the attackers use Google’s own Drive and Docs service to host the files.
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Tags: google, Google Drive, phishing, sign in, ssl, url
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Monday, March 18th, 2013
It sounds like there are more than a few people out there who are pretty unhappy about the death of Google Notebook … fortunately for me, plain old paper notebooks still work just fine.
Indicators of a new note taking service by Google came to light after Carlos Jeurissen did some heavy code snooping on various Google properties. From the looks of it, Google Keep will be a note taking add-on integrated into Google Drive. It has not been officially announced yet, but first screenshots appeared on Android Police that show how this service may look like.
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Tags: google, Google Drive, Google Notebook, google reader, Keep
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Friday, February 8th, 2013
Wow! Good old-fashioned, plain HTML … how nostalgic.
You probably know that you can host basic HTML websites on Dropbox using third party services like site44. Google recently announced that it has added similar capabilities to its cloud storage service Google Drive. The core difference between the implementations is that you do not need a third party tool to host a plain HTML website on Google Drive, while you do if you want to host your website on Dropbox.
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Tags: dropbox, google, Google Drive, plain HTML, site44, web host
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Monday, December 17th, 2012
Whoops, it looks like somebody has uncovered another potential security problem for Outlook.com and Hotmail.com users …
Users of outlook.com or hotmail.com, Microsoft’s two email services, should take note now. Information are stored in cookies when you use the site including whether you have successfully authorized your account or not. If the information is available, you can open and close both services without having to log in again to one of them. That’s great as it is comfortable, but also problematic as it means that someone else can copy that cookie from your system to access your email account online without re-authorization.
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Tags: cookie, Google Drive, Hotmail.com, Outlook.com, security
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Here’s a nice side-by-side price comparison of some of the most popular cloud drive services …
Price can be an important factor when selecting the right cloud hosting service. With that many services in the field, it is important to compare prices, as much as it is important to look at the feature sets individual services offer. Like pricing, features differ a lot between services.
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Tags: amazon cloud drive, apple icloud, Box.net, cloud drive, dropbox, Google Drive, skydrive, SugarSync
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Although the convenience of an online storage solution is kind of tempting, you could buy a pretty decent external hard drive for about the same price as a one year subscription to Google’s 400 GB storage option.
Rumors of Google Drive, or GDrive as it was named in the beginning, started to emerge at around the same time that the popular file synchronization and hosting service Dropbox opened its doors to the public (that was 2007). All went quiet shortly thereafter and it appeared as if the project had been canceled by Google.
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Tags: android, dropbox, google, Google Drive, windows
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