Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “InSync: Dropbox for Google Docs!”.
Hey guys, mkbhd here and today i have a pretty nice tool to show you guys by the folks over at in sync, no, not the musical group. I swear uh, but when i first heard of nsync i saw this it’s okay to break up with dropbox and i was like whoa whoa like who do these guys think they are. I love dropbox, you know and if you’ve never heard of dropbox, it’s this really easy to use convenient cloud kind of storage system where you save a file on your computer and a copy of it appears on every other device. You have linked to dropbox. Insync is like dropbox with google docs, so this software links your computer to your google account. So you can throw anything in this folder and that’s game and it’ll be uploaded and synced with google docs.
So let’s check out the interface. Basically, here’s what it looks like on the web. It looks just like dropbox and you can go through all your files and folders, just like you could on your computer and just like, if you double click them. If you click them here, it’ll go ahead and open up that file and it’ll pop up in google docs. So if you have any images or things like that, they preview right by opening in google docs.
You also have a number of things that you can. Do you can hit the drop down to get a link to share the file or view other versions of it, and also you have the number of people who can view the file in the blue box on the left and more info about the file to the Right so it’s a pretty pretty basic organized structure here, so here on the desktop you get an in-sync folder that you can put all your documents in, so anything you put here will get synced with google docs really fast, but yeah. It operates just like a normal computer, a normal file manager on mac or windows. So if you change, let’s say this notepad file here it syncs – i don’t know if you saw it really really ridiculously fast.
It syncs with google and, of course, when you go to google docs on your web browser, you have the beautiful google design and the neat organization of all your precious priceless files so glorious. So here’s that text file that i changed. Unfortunately, you can’t preview txt files that will go ahead and download it here and you’ll see that it is already that updated text file. This is brilliant.
So why would you choose this over dropbox? You know both are on mac and windows. What’S the difference, uh, the short answer is storage. Both google and dropbox offer the first gigabyte free, but after that google is way cheaper, all the way, uh way cheaper than dropbox storage. I’M talking like 20 gigs for five bucks a year. It’S a no-brainer! So go ahead and give this video a like if you enjoyed, you, can try everything out below happy new year and i will talk to all you guys in the next article. Thanks for watching peace, you .