For a long time, Google’s online apps happen to be dominated by a minimalist,
text-driven interface. For Google Generate, at least, that’s no longer the
situation.
Google appears to have started rolling out a more lively,
icon-driven interface to the Google Drive Web user interface, replacing its list
of filenames with a more visaul element that shows off the documents themselves.
PCWorld senior author Brad Chacos reported viewing the new interface in his
edition of Google Drive; whether it's available to you, a pop-up observe will
implore you to "Try the new Drive" by simply clicking the Settings gear as well
as selecting "Experience the new Drive" in its options.
For the rest of
all of us, Google showed off the brand new interface in a YouTube video,
beneath.
Whilst a text-based interface functions adequately for a list of files or PDFs,
it becomes really an issue when Google Generate is used as a secondary database
for a number of photos, especially when they are stored using the default
filenames. (Google+ will store pictures that are automatically uploaded from the
smartphone-and not charge customers against their storage cap-but there’s
nothing preventing customers using Google Drive to maintain photos from a
Windows Phone, for instance. )
Google’s most significant change to Google Generate has been the integration of
the QuickOffice suite, turning files opened in Google Drive in to something more
directly competing with Microsoft Office. (Are you confused where Search engines
Drive stops and Search engines Apps begins? Here’s our own primer to walk with
the differences. ) Third-party add-ons such as HelloFax have also stepped into
add functionality, while customers can also add plugins towards the Chrome
browser to gain much more.
But as far as Generate goes, the best way for
Home windows users to use Drive would be to simply use the app. (On the left
hand navigation track, click to download the actual “Install Drive for your
computer” link. ) Once installed on your pc, Drive appears as a regular Windows
window, with the ability to listing files or view all of them as icons, much
like every other window. Even Google’s brand new icon view isn’t because useful.