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Saturday, June 30, 2012

ADD CHROME APPS TO GOOGLE DRIVE

To add garnish to the Google Drive dish, it has launched with support as many as 18 useful third party apps. These range from photo editing to graphical calculations to mind mapping to floor planning to faxing and more. This in effect means that you are not constrained to using Google’s word processor, spreadsheet editor, and presentation app and can deploy web apps developed by other companies within Drive as well. Apart from Chrome, you can also install them on Opera and Firefox.

To get a handle on these free apps, go to: 
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/drive_apps

If you want, you can make an the default for its is compatible file type. So, for example, you can have the Chrome app, Pixlr Editor to open all JPEG files in Google Drive. For this, go the Settings menu and select Manage apps. Here, tick the check box next to “Make [App Name] the default for files it can open” and hit Done.

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