Many rumors about Google Drive was spreading in the past weeks and finally it shows the face today.
If you’re a user of Dropbox or other similiar services,you will not be strange on this kind of cloud storage service.Eventually,as a happy Dropbox user and from my point of view,I didn’t see too many advantages from Google Drive.
The biggest advantage of Google Drive compared to others is users could create and collaborate jobs together and see the changes instantly.If I’m not mistaken,it’s sort of mixtures with Google Docs and Google Wave.
Google pushes its brand new service Google+ so hard.They quietly gives out some benefit to the existing testers to let them stay there.One of the benefits is more free storage for pictures and videos.
In the latest FAQ of Picasa web album,Google adds the new lines for Google+ users.Here they are:
If you’ve signed up for Google+
Free storage limits
Photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage.
Automatic resizing
All photos uploaded in Google+ will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge) and won’t count towards your free storage quota.
All photos uploaded to Picasa Web Albums over the free size limit will count towards your 1 GB of free storage. When you reach your storage limit, any new photos you upload to Picasa Web larger than the free size limit will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge).
If you haven’t signed up for Google+
Free storage limits
Photos up to 800 x 800 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage.
Automatic resizing
All photos uploaded over the free size limit will count towards your 1 GB of free storage. When you reach your storage limit, any new photos you upload to Picasa Web larger than the free size limit will be automatically resized to 800 pixels (on their longest edge).
2048*2048 pixels is quite good for normal printings and web sharing.So in this case,Google seems to be very gentle to Google+ users.If you’ve already a Google+ user,why not uploading your pictures and videos to Picasa web album to utilize this free storage?I’ve done that.
