File Sharing Options

James Martin's presentation give the highlights (and problems with) ten file sharing options .

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Chrome Extensions for Business

Howard Wen writes about eight Chrome extensions that have a business case.

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Life Without Google

Samuel Axon describes his five months eschewing Google services .

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Google Sheets "Explore" Tool

Sharon Machlis tried the Explore feature in Google Sheets, and found significant limitations in its ability to understand natural language queries.

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Creating Web Resources With Google Docs

Chris Aviles instructs how to create a podcast using Google Drive.

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Review of Google Drive

According to Woody Leonhard, "Google Drive Leads in Features, but Lags in Ease-of-Use ." Leonard provides links to companion reviews to competitor online products such as Microsoft Office and Apple's iWork

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Convert Typed Text to Editable Documents with Google Drive

Nathan Hall reveals how simple it is to convert typed text to an editable document with Google Drive .

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Google Drive Tutorial

Daniel Edwards shares a tutorial on using Google Drive .

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Google Drive Allows Mobile Character Recognition

Lucas Mearian reports that updates to Google Drive allow smartphone users to convert photos of documents into text . The conversion is actually done in Google Drive, eliminating the burden on the phone's processor. This functionality will allow text search of documents and receipts that have been decoded by optical character recognition.

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Cloud Uptime

Juan Carlos Perez reports that Google Drive was inaccessible by a third of its users for about three hours. Perez mentioned that Microsoft had a similar problem in recent weeks. Such reports may slow the rush to move applications from the local disc to the cloud.

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