Saturday, October 9, 2004
Gmail Drive works
I read about Gmail Drive on Slashdot this morning and, being kind of a nerd, I thought that I would give it a try.
If you haven't heard about Gmail Drive, it is a little Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Gmail account. This means that you can have a "Gmail drive" in your My Computer menu that allows you to drag-and-drop files that will be stored in your Gmail account as an e-mail attachment.
To keep your Inbox free of the clutter of your uploaded files, you can create a filter in Gmail to sort them. I have one called "Storage" that sends Gmail Drive files directly to it (bypassing the Inbox altogether).
While I don't have a real practical use for Gmail Drive, I think it is cool that someone has created the app. Hopefully my tests won't violate my user agreement with Google and cost me my Gmail account.
BTW, here are some screenshots of the Gmail Drive login screen, the Gmail Drive icon in the My Computer menu and an example of a file stored in Gmail via Gmail Drive.
I read about Gmail Drive on Slashdot this morning and, being kind of a nerd, I thought that I would give it a try.
If you haven't heard about Gmail Drive, it is a little Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Gmail account. This means that you can have a "Gmail drive" in your My Computer menu that allows you to drag-and-drop files that will be stored in your Gmail account as an e-mail attachment.
To keep your Inbox free of the clutter of your uploaded files, you can create a filter in Gmail to sort them. I have one called "Storage" that sends Gmail Drive files directly to it (bypassing the Inbox altogether).
While I don't have a real practical use for Gmail Drive, I think it is cool that someone has created the app. Hopefully my tests won't violate my user agreement with Google and cost me my Gmail account.
BTW, here are some screenshots of the Gmail Drive login screen, the Gmail Drive icon in the My Computer menu and an example of a file stored in Gmail via Gmail Drive.
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