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The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Take It to the Cloud: Google Drive, Renting Adobe, and Living in Public

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6688 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Lifehacker podcast we’re comparing Google Drive to Dropbox, looking at the cost of renting Adobe software, and finding out what happens when you throw your privacy out the window. We’ve also got tips on learning to type better, finding free music, installing Windows on a Mac, and more. Plus a bunch of downloads and the biggest pile of Grid-Its you’ve ever seen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the Life Hacker Show.

0:25.3

This is Monday, April 30th.

0:28.3

And once again, Adam Pash is out of town.

0:30.7

So I'm Winston Gordon here with Adam Dodgers.

0:33.7

And Thoran Klosowski is joining us via Skype.

0:36.0

Hey, Thorin?

0:36.8

Hello.

0:37.6

We go basically, that's basically an order of who's the loudest.

0:40.6

Yeah.

0:41.8

Thorne, they're all quiet over there on.

0:43.5

Thorin, you're going to have to yell a lot today.

0:45.2

We have a lot of awesome news this week.

0:47.3

We do.

0:47.6

We have some cool downloads.

0:49.2

A mega show-and-tel extravaganza.

0:51.6

Oh, I left it somewhere else. I left, no, I'm just kidding. No, it's great.

0:56.0

A mega show intel extravaganza and some questions from you guys. So let's get started with the news.

1:00.0

All right.

1:05.0

All right, this week we have a lot of news stories to cover, so let's get to it. First up, Google Drive was released. Witson,

1:11.6

you pretty much took point on this week, and I actually have a lot of questions for you,

1:15.3

but maybe explain what it is first. Google Drive, in a nutshell, is what would happen if Google

1:19.8

made Dropbox. It is a file singing service, just like a lot of the other file singing services

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