Google Drive to be available shortly?
After reading the rumors on TechCrunch, I was really happy to see that Google finally decided to start the competition with Dropbox. It’s not that I don’t like dropbox, in-fact I really love it, but I have all my current services (Google Apps) at Google and some documents at Dropbox while I actually prefer to have everything stored on one place.
Anyway, it just seems a matter of time until Google will change Google Docs to Google Drive, because that’s what they appear to be doing. They already seem to have implemented some of the Google Drive stuff into the current Google Docs page which you can make visible if you want and you know your way around in the Web Developer tools in Chrome. Which will look like this:
The only problem is the method described on the Gemind.com.br-blog doesn’t work anymore because Google appeared to have changed the way they store the configuration. It’s now stored in an Array.
So, in short, to make the Google Drive options visible you have to use the following code:
config['ed'] = true; config['ddu'] = true;
Instead of:
config.ed = true; config.ddu = '.';
That’s all! The method hasn’t changed, except for the code to use. Now it’s just a matter of time before Google will officially announce the Google Drive feature. I’m curious if they will also provide client-side sync software like Dropbox does.
