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Well, it looks as if the Drive news just keep pouring in. Shortly after outing a couple of new features that make the service a little more friendly with collaborators, Google’s rather quietly taken to its own social network to announce some offline tidbits. Starting today, users of Mountain View’s cloud-based storage goods can easily create and edit any drawings without the need for an internet connection. What’s more, Docs, Sheets and Slides will now be automatically available offline — something that should come in very handy while you’re, say, 20,000 feet up in the air with no Gogo in sight. Fret not if you don’t see these changes the next time you log in, as Google says “it may take a few days” before the rollout is carried out.

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Source: Google Drive (Google+)

Vital Google services down for you? Well, you’re not alone. Tips have been pouring in this AM that many of Mountain View’s apps are down, including Gmail and Drive. We were able to independently confirm the partial outage and Google’s App Status Dashboard has been updated to reflect the “service disruption.” The down time isn’t affecting everyone, however. Most of those hanging around the Engadget compound are still able to check their hate mail and Caskers notifications. Are you having trouble getting through to Google’s servers? Let us know in the comments.

Update: According to the App Status Dashboard, everything should be a-okay now.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Source: Google Apps Status Dashboard

As much as we love Google Drive, its neither the prettiest nor simplest cloud storage interface. New UI tweaks rolling out to users starting today aren’t suddenly going to change that hierarchy too much, but they should add some much needed polish. When you view shared folders now, you’ll get a much more visually appealing layout and access to the new preview function that lets you quickly flip between files. And, perhaps the most welcome change, is the new “Add to Drive” button that will conspicuously live in the upper right-hand corner. Now adding shared material to your own Drive account is just a single click away. Normally, this is where we’d say hit up the source for more details, but that’s really it. Enjoy!

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: Google Drive (Google+)

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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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+)