Why i use gmail - part 2 (Google-drive)

Part 2: Is about google drive and other google products

Part 1: Why i use www.gmail.com - click link below
https://faroemedia.blogspot.com/2018/03/why-do-i-use-gmailcom.html


One very good reason to use Gmail is that you can use your account with Google-Drive , YouTube , Google Calendar and you can even use it to start your own Blog

You might have an hard disk for backing up your photos, documents etc. - It is a very good idea to save your files on google drive as well.

Online storage:
Google Drive is an online storage, so if your hard disks stop working, you can access your files on the Internet on Google Drive. - Google Drive is a "Cloud", so you can access your files from any computer in the world with internet connection.

Web based "Office":
Also if you have Google Drive you don't really need office programs like MS Office or LibreOffice because in Google drive you can create documents, spreadsheets, presentation etc.

If you create a document it will look something like this image below:

You can even share a document so several people can work on a document at the same time - just right click on a file and click share and then you can set share options:

Many formats for download:
You can download documents in many formats.
The most popular is probably PDF and Microsoft Word

See the video below to get more info about Google Drive:

Why do i use Gmail.com ?

Part one:

My first e-mail address was with www.hotmail.com It must have been around 1998... Back then spam-filters were non-existing or just useless.

I did not have Internet at home, so i checked my mail at school. Just over a weekend i got like 100 e-mails/spam, and if i did not delete spam for a week there would be thousands of mails, and it took a lot of my time to sort out what to delete and what to keep.

After a couple of years using Hotmail i switched to Yahoo Mail... I liked this mail better and there was far from as much spam, and i also liked Yahoo Messenger that had allot of chat-rooms where you could talk to people about just about anything.

There was this time that i wanted to see a log of log-ins to my e-mail... There was no way to see a log.... So I changed email service once again - I picked www.gmail.com

Gmail.com provides a log that shows which IP-address has logged in and at what time.

To see the log, just log in to your Gmail and scroll all the way down. On the right side you see the word "Details" - Click it and you will open the log.

The log looks like this:

Another clever thing about Gmail is that you get a warning if someone has logged into you e-mail on a different location/IP than usual.
Also there is 2-step verification, so you have to type in your password AND a code that is sent to your phone as SMS - This makes it very VERY difficult for anyone other than you to access your e-mail.


Conclusion:
I've used Gmail for many years now, and it is by far the best mail-service iv had. I don't know if I've got a single spam-mail in my inbox ever !
There is one thing i think could be better about the login log, and that is that it would not only show like the 10 last logins, but that you could select a date in a calendar to show logins at that day.
I will later blog about more benefits of using gmail/google products