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I was going to write this post using Google Docs, but all I got was a “Trying to connect” alert. I wasn’t alone in being shut out. Twitter lit up Wednesday afternoon with tweets from various frustrated word slingers pulling their hair out over the outage. OF COURSE GOOGLE DOCS DECIDES TO GLITCH AFTER I …

Google Docs dished out more tricks than treats for some users hit by locked-out accounts Tuesday.  A slew of Google Docs users reached out to the service’s Twitter account Tuesday morning to say they’re being wrongfully locked out of their files with a warning about violating terms of service. Users complained they’ve lost access to their files that contain harmless material, …

Over the past couple of episodes, we’ve talked about how photos affect our lives and issues around publishing them to the web. But the biggest problem I keep hearing about is where to safely store all these memories we create. Do we keep them on our computers? Do we back them up to the cloud? Should we pay someone to …

For fans of Google Drive, the headlines last week seemed alarming: “Google Drive shutting down in March!” “Google Drive is dead!” Um, no. Although Google does plan to make a change early next year, the Drive service itself isn’t going anywhere. Rather, it’s the Google Drive app that’s being terminated, and that’s only because it’s being replaced. Here’s what you …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Drive is dying — time to update 1:05 The Google Drive app for personal computers will stop working March 12, 2018. Its fuller-featured replacement, Backup and Sync, is available now. Stephen Shankland/CNET If you’re among the hundreds of millions of people using Google Drive to synchronize files across your PCs and phones, be warned: you’ve …

Now playing: Watch this: How to get started with Google’s Backup and Sync app 1:28 Google’s new Backup and Sync app replaces both the company’s Drive and Photos desktop apps for Windows PCs and Macs. You can use the app to back up the contents of your entire computer — or just selected folders. Set up Backup and Sync First, …

Now playing: Watch this: New version of Google Drive goes live 1:18 iCloud, who? After a couple weeks of delay, Google launched its new Backup & Sync app, which can store your entire computer system to Google Drive. The original debut was scheduled on June 28, but was pushed back a few weeks for fine tweaking. Backup & Sync allows …

We probably won’t see the next Google Pixel phone for several months, but that hasn’t stopped CNET from offering up a wish list for the upcoming device. Two big improvements we like to see for the Pixel 2, or whatever it gets called, are a better design with less bezel and waterproofing. Those two changes would go a long way …

Buying a Chromebook doesn’t necessarily mean you need to make Google Drive your cloud-storage boo. There is no reason to severe a long and meaningful relationship with Dropbox just because Google Drive is baked into Google‘s Chrome OS. You can always access Dropbox via the Web on a Chromebook, but a better way is to use a Chrome extension that …

Though it’s Tuesday, Google Drive is making people feel like it’s a Monday. A number of Google Drive users are experiencing slow load times while others can’t even access their documents. The slow down seems to be largely isolated to US users. The issues seem to have started around 8:41 a.m. PT, with problems affecting less than 10.3 percent of …