Laboratory work 12
Google Drive, Dropbox and others
Task 1
1. Create a textual document, spreadsheet, presentation, form and drawing in Google Drive.
At first enter your google account, then click the hyperlink “Disk” at the top of the web-page,
and create all documents using the button “CREATE”.
2. Share all these files to everybody in the Internet with the full access. Ask your neighbors
to edit your documents, for example, add his/her surname.
3. Create a folder “MIS” at your Google Drive and move there all created files.
Task 2
1. Enter the web-page Dropbox.com
2. Click on “Sign in” and choose “Create an account”
3. Fill in the registration form, write there your name, surname, e-mail and password, then
click “Create account”.
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4. Now you can download the application for the installation.
If you want to install Dropbox on several computers, then the hyperlink the downloading is
available after entering into account.
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You can upload files using this application or the web-interface.
Task 3
Fill in the following table.
Yandex.Disk
Microsoft
SkyDrive
Available space
Available space after some
simple actions
Increase of the available
space at the expense of
invitations
Maximum file size
Windows
Linux
Mac OS X
Android
iOS
Web access
Public links to files
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Google Drive
Dropbox
Yandex.Disk
Microsoft
SkyDrive
Google Drive
Dropbox
disk.yandex.ru
skydrive.live.com
drive.google.com
dropbox.com
Restore previous versions of
files
Hyperlink
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