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Free 5GB online storage from Gmail

Posted on the November 3rd, 2007 under Application, Internet by dicky

Gmail had increased its storage to around 5GB(~4.5GB). This was probably caused by other competitor( Yahoo and Hotmail) which offer unlimited and 5GB space respectively.

Gmail Drive is an application which con convert our Gmail account into online storage. Manage your ‘GDrive’ is similar as manage your folder on your desktop PC. Between the email providers, Gmail is the only one which can be used as online storage.

After install the Gmail Drive shell extension, under My Computer, you will see ‘Gmail Drive’ which can connect to your Gmail account. File upload to GDrive will be convert into an email attachment. So when you open your Gmail, you can see a lot of email message with your filename. You can even email the file to your friends and they can actually download your file using Gmail Drive. Cool!

Beside Gmail Drive, there are a few software which can turn your Gmail storage into online storage. Among those utilities are:

1. GSpace
2. GmailFS
3. G-Share
4. Gmail PGD

For details on how to use these utilities, you can check out this post at sizlopedia.

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