archaeologist, tech geek, cornishman
Google Storage
Dec 2nd
A few weeks ago, Google announced that they had dropped their prices for extra Gmail and Picasa storage. You can now buy 20GB for $5USD/year (about £3 at today’s exchange rate), which is very cheap indeed.
Their full price list (which goes up to 16TB) is as follows:
20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)
80 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)
400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)
1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)
2 TB ($512.00 USD per year)
4 TB ($1,024.00 USD per year)
8 TB ($2,048.00 USD per year)
16 TB ($4,096.00 USD per year)
Now Google, when are you going to release a proper Google Drive application, hmm? In the meantime, there are several apps that can use Gmail as a drive (and there’s GmailFS and others) but wouldn’t it be nice to use a supported, official method of using all that storage beyond email, attachments and photos?
Embedding Google Maps Just Became Easier
Aug 21st
Embedding a Google Map into your website just became much, much easier. Gone are the days of signing up for an API key and fumbling through the “Hello World” example, just so that you can show directions to your house. It’s now as easy as embedding a YouTube video – all done with a snippet of code.
Here’s a nice aerial view of Stonehenge:
Read the full scoop over at Google LatLong.
Expect Google Maps to become rather ubiquitous from now on…
