Wednesday, June 12, 2013

How to save Web Contents directly to Google Drive for Data Storage

save to google drive directlyOnline data storage has become a huge hit these days. If you have found something interesting while browsing on internet and want to save the link or a photo to cloud storage like Google Drive. The usual process followed is to download the image to your local machine and then upload this to photo folder in Google Drive or save all link in a file and then upload it to the online data storage. This task might be easy for 1 or 2 files but it becomes very tedious to do the same for multiple files.


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There is an easy way to do this using Google Chrome extension named - "Save to Google Drive". Download and install this app from Chrome Store and install this extension on your Chrome browser. Once installed click on the Google Drive button appearing on right-top corner of your browser. Here you will be asked to authorise Save to Google drive. This extension will not have access to your password or any of your personal information. You can always go to your My Account and revoke access.


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Once the installation is done, it is ready to use. Try browsing a webpage which has an image in it. Now right click on this image and you get 'Save to Google Drive' option. Under this you have two further options - 'Save image to Google Drive' and 'Save link to Google Drive'. The same way if you want to save a link while browsing then just right click on that link and click on 'Save link to Google Drive'. Once saved you get a message saying the link or the image has been successfully saved. All that you need to do is login to Google Drive at anytime and you will find all the images and links. Also, while saving there is an option to rename the file.


Try this Chrome extension today. It's very simple and easy to use and saves your time as it directly saves to Google Drive.

2 comments:

  1. Google Drive-apps zijn eigenlijk alleen maar een website die-bestanden laadt in de browser vanaf Google Drive. Ik zat te denken dat, aangezien het belangrijkste project bestand is slechts een XML-document, het zou kunnen worden in een pagina's DOM boom geladen en weergegeven in de pagina in een leesbaar formaat (Het is hoe de belangrijkste GUI begint dingen, niet?).
    Zoals voor het bewerken van de RTF-Files, Google Drive heeft ook de directe mogelijkheid om RTF-bestanden importeren en exporteren rechtstreeks, zonder te hoeven een apart conversie programma.
    Natuurlijk zou de uitvoer functies veel zorg nodig hebben, maar voor eenvoudige maken en bewerken van de basisstructuur moet netjes uitvoeren.

    [Converted from Dutch to English using Google Translate]
    Google Drive apps are really just a website that loads files in the browser from Google Drive. I was thinking that since the main project file is just an XML document, it could be loaded into a page's DOM tree and displayed in the page in a readable format (It's how the main GUI starts things, no?) .
    As for editing the RTF Files, Google Drive also has the direct ability to import RTF files and export directly, without having a separate conversion program.
    Of course, the output functions much in need of care, but for easy creation and editing of the basic structure should perform nicely.

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  2. The option to save a link to Google Drive would be extremely useful but doesn't actually exist. Although the option appears in the right click menu, if you use it you simply get instructions to open the link and save the page. I would love to be able to share links via Google Drive to some of my documents in SkyDrive, such that when you click the link it opens the document in SkyDrive. I cannot find any way to do this.

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