8 extensions that make Google Drive better than Dropbox

It's only been a little over a year as a service Google Drive was presented to the public. The term is very small, but during this time he confidently took the leading position among the cloud storage by moving Dropbox and always late to the beginning of the banquet Microsoft c its SkyDrive. The reason was as the prestige and popularity of Google, and excellent functionality of the cloud service. It is characterized by extensive integration with third-party services and extensions that allow you to pump its capacity to such an extent that not even dream of competitors. In this article you will learn about some of these developments.

Apps for Google Drive

Applications for cloud storage Google Drive - it's add-ons by third-party developers that integrate into the service interface and are used for bringing in his new functions. As a rule, it is a variety of applications to create and edit files stored in the cloud drive. Thanks to them, you are, in addition to the default existing document editing, spreadsheets and presentations, will get the opportunity to work with video, listen to music, edit images, and so on. For these applications, the Chrome Web Store is highlighted

a separate partition and pay attention, they can be added not only in Google Chrome, but in any other browser.

Drive Notepad

This app gives you the ability to read and create files in various text formats via an online notepad, about the same as it is implemented in a standard Windows application. Thus, you can quickly view and edit files txt, log, inf, html, xml and so on in plain text directly in the cloud without having to download to your computer.

WeVideo

WeVideo is well suited for simple editing video. With it, you can download the Google Drive in the original photos, videos, pieces of music and chat on the network to create one spectacular video. Add to that the ability to access their projects from anywhere, teamwork functions, fast publication of results on the Internet and you will see that this is a very handy tool for working with video.

FloorPlanner

The application is quite specific, desired not all users, but perfectly illustrates the possibility of Google Drive. C it you can create and edit visual architectural design and 3D-models of premises, furniture and so on. If you work in this area, you will appreciate the opportunity to demonstrate to the client on the spot your project, they make these changes, and save work in Google Drive, then it immediately becomes available in the central office for performance. And all this is possible with any laptop or tablet that has access to the network.

PicMonkey

We already described This wonderful web app a little bit earlier. Thanks to a special application you can edit with this powerful graphics editor any image from your cloud storage. The picture is loaded into PicMonkey directly from Google Drive with a single click of the mouse, bypassing the need to download it to your hard drive, and just saved back to the finished result.

Music Player for Google Drive

If the news of the merger of storage space for all Google products you inspired for storage your music collection in the cloud, Google Drive, be sure to pay attention to this attachment. This is an online music player that gives the ability to play files directly from cloud storage. You can open individual files or entire folders.

Extensions for Google Drive

Unlike applications that are aimed mainly at work with your files already stored in Google Drive, extensions are designed for easy loading, export and synchronize data.

Save to Google Drive

This extension allows you to easily save your cloud storage any images, links or other file to open the Web page. You simply click an item, right-click and select the shortcut menu, the corresponding item. After that, the selected content is downloaded to Google Drive bypassing your computer.

Save Text to Google Drive

In addition to the expansion of the previous note on the Save Text to Google Drive, which allows you to highlight text on any page and save it in Google Drive as a new text file.

Syncs Your Cloud Storage Accounts

If you or your colleagues for some reason, still continue to use a different cloud storage, the you may need to synchronize all data or selected folders between, for example, Dropbox and Google Drive. Due to the expansion of CloudHQ you can easily accomplish this task. Adjust the way and time to sync all your data across cloud services are always up to date.

Of course, it's not all additional options that can get Google Drive cloud. You are free to look for the functionality you need for this or this link. As you can see, the possibilities of this store is much superior to all competitors. So why are you still using Dropbox?