Right now, google offering so a lot fun stuff to us, one of them called ‘GMail Drive’, with GMail drive we will have a ‘online hard drive’. You can start by create a new google account / Gmail account, share the account ( with the password off course ) among your friend or your community and start file sharing with GMail drive :)

So what it’s look like ? After we install additional software, the GMail drive will look like physical drive in our computer. Here the step to own GMail drive in our computer (Sorry I just try it on Microsoft Windows, didn’t test in other operating system)

1. If you didn’t have Gmail account, you can get Gmail account by register in this address http://mail.google.com/mail/signup

2. If you have gmail account already, download the additional software, it call ‘GMail Drive shell extension ‘, it will make a ‘GMail Drive’
in our compter, you can get it here or you can get newest version on http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

3. After get download the software, unpack/un-zip the file, and do installation by execute setup.exe

4. After installation, you will get ‘A GMail drive’ in your computer, check it on “my computer”

Gmail Drive on My Computer

5. Login in to ‘GMail Drive’ by access the Gmail Drive in your computer, it will ask username and password, enter the gmail account
that you already have.

GMail Drive Login

GMail Drive Logging

6. After successfully login, you can use ‘Gmail Drive’ as your reguler drive, try copy some file in to it

GMail Drive

Uploading Process

File Uploaded

7. When you have finish upload some file, the file that you have upload will be like a email sent to you.

GMail email look

8. Finish, :) just like this