GMail Users can Now Send Files Upto 10 GB with Google Drive Integration

Few days back, Google has announced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to send larger files easily via emails. Earlier, users were only able to send attachments up to 25 GB in an email. But users can now send files up tp 10 GB easily via emails.

This features is only available with new compose window launched few weeks back. Sending larger files can be done with the help of Google Drive. Users can easily share file stored in their Google Drive account via emails. Now they do not need to send link of the file. They can directly attach a file in email with a Google Drive icon in compose window.

“Have you ever tried to attach a file to an email only to find out it’s too large to send? Now with Drive, you can insert files up to 10GB — 400 times larger than what you can send as a traditional attachment. Also, because you’re sending a file stored in the cloud, all your recipients will have access to the same, most-up-to-date version,” Gmail said in a post.

After this, more users will use Google Drive and it will also affect Dropbox and box business. When you are about to send a file stored in Google Drive, it will ask to give other user a permission to access the file and share the file publicly.

If you want to use this new feature, switch to newer compose. If you are already on newer compose and not able to see the drive icon in compose window, you need to wait for few day. This feature is being rolling outl slowly.

How to Set Up Google Docs Offline

Now Google is making its Google Drive more than online storage service . Google has added offline feature to its Google Docs service which allow users to edit documents stored in Google Drive while they are not connected to internet. When they will go online, offile changes will be there in the documents. In this post, i will write how to setup and use Google Docs offline.
Before going to write anything, i want to tell you that this feature is only available for Google Chrome. If you ar mozilla or intrnet explorer user, download and install Google Chrome browser.


Now go to Google Drive package and click on gear icon ar the top right corner of the page. 

Here, click on Set up Google Docs offline. Now you will see a popup window for setup process. Click on Enable Offline Docs and then install Drive Web app on Google Chrome.

After installion, go to Google Drive home. It will start synchronizing your documents with offline app. To see which documents are available offline, click the gear icon and choose "view offline Docs." Bookmark this page to access all your documents offline without internet connection.


Few things to Know about this new update:

• You can not create new documents offline.
• You can only see Documents and Spreadsheets offline. Presentations, Drawings, and Forms are not available offline.

Let us know how you feel after this update. Comment below your experience.

List of Keyboard shortcuts For Google Drive

List of Keyboard shortcuts For Google Drive

Google has just announced its much awaited online cloud storage service. As Google does with all its service, it has also added may keyboard shortcuts in this service too. These keyboard shortcut allow users to navigate quickly and work faster.

List of keyboard shortcuts

j : navigate to and highlight next item

k : navigate to and highlight previous item

x : toggle selection of highlighted item

Shift + a : select all

Shift + n : select none

g then n : go to navigation panel

g then l : go to document list

g then c : go to collections

g then d : go to details pane

o or Enter : open item

s : toggle star

. : share

z : organize

Shift + t : create a new text document

Shift + s : create a new spreadsheet

Shift + p : create a new presentation

Shift + d : create a new drawing

Shift + c : create a new collection

c : display create new menu

u : display upload menu

a : display actions menu

r : display sort menu

v : display view menu

/ : go to search box

d : toggle details pane

? : display keyboard shortcuts

For a full list of Google Drive keyboard shortcuts, press "?", to launch the shortcut display.

Google finally launched Google Drive

After long rumors, Google's cloud storage service Google Drive is finally available. Every one interested in cloud storage service was waiting for this service. Google Drive is available with the integration of Google Docs. This will allow users to access their documents and files stored on the Google Drive to access from anywhere.

Now users do need to worry about hardware failure. They are independent from the device.  No matter what happens to your devices, your files are safely stored in Google Drive. 

This service is available for PC, Mac and Android devices. It will be available for iPhone and iPad soon.

Google Drive lets you do more than just store your files. Share files with exactly who you want and edit them together, from any device. Users can now work with other users and edit a document in real-time which will reflect to other user. Google Drive also allows users to tag any files at the time of uploading. This tagging will allow users to search for a file easily. Suppose you have uploaded some birthday pic. Then add this with the tag birthday. Whenever you will search for any birthday pic, this pic will be in the search results.

This service also comes with advance OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which can easily search for the text in images and scanned PDF files. So you can easily search for some text in the scanned form of the book. This is really an advantage of this cloud storage which comes with Google Docs technology. His is really much needed feature as we all need to work on scanned documents sometimes.

This service gives 5 GB free space. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage also expands to 25GB.


You can check out Google Drive now for yourself at drive.google.com/start. See the video for more details.