Good work guys, i tried it but...I don't really understand why do we need a desktop client. With google drive all the documents/colelction are available offline and accessible with one click from spotlight "cmd+space -> name of the document - et voilà"
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#92Awesome! Now I don't have to switch accounts! Sparrow for Google Docs. Now make an app for iphone! It's annoying to open webpage to access google docs on iphone :/
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#93Oh and Thank You!
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! There certainly are, but not for a little while. Which would you prefer we support first?
Personally, I would love a native Linux version. Especially since there's no official Google Drive client currently available for Linux.
You might want to try out GWOffice. Does nearly the same, I guess.
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#95One of my favorite things about this is its presentation. You've placed your app in something that people lust after (a macbookair) and then something 'cool' inside of that (x-men).
Probably more compelling than a screen shot of a spreadsheet or a table, I bet it triggered an "I WANT THIS" reflex that I wasn't consciously aware of.
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#96Last semester I did a big group project using Google Docs but we kept running into an issue where the spacing was different on everyone's computers. The title page would look perfect on one computer and overflow to the next page on another. This was in Chrome on OS X and Ubuntu. It really made me pine for native apps.
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#97Last semester I did a big group project using Google Docs but we kept running into an issue where the spacing was different on everyone's computers. The title page would look perfect on one computer and overflow to the next page on another. This was in Chrome on OS X and Ubuntu. It really made me pine for native apps.
I recently did a small group project in which we shared a .doc on dropbox between users on Windows and Ubuntu. We had the same issue, as well as disappearing page numbers and other spooky trivia. Multi-user document editing is hand-wavy art at best.
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#98love it!
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#99Curious, why did you use a bit.ly url for the app?
Shortened urlsm have their places, but I'm a little leery of them,.
(http://bit.ly/MlUfJm)
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess I don't understand why they even need to store anything on their servers?
Hi bdittmer, we don't store any of your content, nor any of your passwords. We only store meta data that describes the organization of your documents and do so server-side so that we can add features in an upcoming release that we otherwise wouldn't be unable to add.
Storing stuff? Isn't that what my hard disk is for? If I wanted a cloud solution, I'd just log into Google Docs directly.
I would have thought the whole point of an app like this is to take advantage of the benefits of native UI, not to add yet another point of failure.