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Another day, another leak from Google. As The Next Web reports, a note-collecting service called Keep was accessible on Google Drive for a short period of time last night — and if your short-term memory is a bit cloudy, Drive itself got leaked in a similarly bizarre fashion before getting official last year. 1E100 had initially found source code, images and various links that seemed to point to Keep, which apparently went live soon after. Interestingly, while all of the links point to error pages, one redirects to a specific, unresolveable app url on Google Play. Android Police was able to snag some screenshots of the web app in action — albeit disconnected from Drive at the time — noting that it’s reminiscent of Mountain View’s late Notebook service that was killed in ’09. Whether the likes of Evernote will have to worry remains to be seen, but the added functionality to Drive will certainly be appreciated — now, how about letting us get at that Now app for iOS?

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Via: Android Police, The Next Web, Google System

Source: IE100 (Google+)

Mountain View has just made it easier to peek the contents of Google Drive files on the web with a brand-new preview feature. Now, users will be able to quickly view up to 30 file types (photos, videos, PDFs and more) in a lightbox overlay, and thumb through by clicking right and left arrows within the window. When it comes to documents, folks can zoom in and out, scroll through pages, and even select and copy text. If the update hasn’t made it to your account already, Page and Co. say you can expect it to roll out over the next few days. As for the Drive’s Android app, it’s been updated to let devices wielding Honeycomb or higher stream video saved on the service. According to the changelogs, the application has also been upgraded with performance enhancements, pinch-to-zoom in the presentation viewer and a grab bag of bug fixes and assorted tweaks.

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Via: Phone Arena

Source: Google Drive (Google+), Google Drive Blog, Google Play

Mountain View’s just doled out an update to Google Drive on iOS, giving it the ever so slight bump to version 1.2.2 and a handful of new features. Font fanatics could see the addition of Helvetica Neue to Docs as the big ticket item in the new release, but the ability to upload multiple photos and videos otherwise headlines the batch of improvements. With the latest version, pinch to zoom now works with slides and QuickOffice users can open files and save them to Drive. In addition, spreadsheets have been freshly endowed with improvements to animations, diagonal scrolling and cell formatting for dates, decimals, currency and the like. Google Wallet on Android also received an update, but it focused on delivering a revamped UI and sundry improvements to stability and battery use. Now, the app packs navigation tabs and houses cards under the “My Wallet” section. Hit the neighboring source links to give either application a spin.

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Via: 9to5Google, Android Central

Source: Google Play, iTunes

Google made Docs available for offline editing this past summer and now it’s extending the capability to Slides. In a rollout slated to begin today, users of the web-based app (formerly known as presentations for Docs) will be able to edit, comment and control r/w privileges on Drive-hosted slides without being tethered to the internet — those tweaks will simply auto-upload the next time a connection is established. You’ll need to be currently enrolled in offline editing for Docs to take advantage of this new feature, as it’s not enabled by default. But if not, don’t stress, Google’s included detailed instructions in the source below. So, what’s next in line for offline editing? Oh, that’d be Google Sheets.

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Source: Google Drive Blog

Google has introduced some minor updates on Google Drive, allowing you to have an easier time finding, organizing, and viewing stuff on Google Drive itself. You can search by person, which comes in handy should you be unable to remember the name of a file, although you know who was the person who shared it with you. Drive search will now auto-complete people’s names, so that it is easier to look up the kind of stuff that you’re searching for.

Apart from that, you can also view Google Earth map files, where you open them, preview and interact with Google Earth files (.kml and .kmz) right within Google Drive on the web. Not only that, you can create new folders while organizing files, and whenever you select files in your Drive list, apart from adding them to an existing folder, you are able to add them directly to a new folder.

Folks using Chrome can also drag and drop folders there, meaning entire folders can be sent from your desktop to Drive on the web in a jiffy. Misplaced something by accident in the trash? Not to worry, you can also search results from there, too. Are you enjoying the latest Google Drive and all it offers?

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