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Grive was an unofficial, open source command line Linux client for Google Drive. I say "was" because the tool no longer works due to Google changing its API recently and Grive not being maintained any more (there are no commits on its GitHub page since May, 2013).

To get Grive up and running again, Vitaliy Filippov forked it and named his fork "Grive2". The fork supports the new Google Drive REST API and it also includes a new feature: partial (directory) sync, along with bug fixes.

Since there are quite a tools that rely on Grive, the Grive2 binary and package continue to be called "grive", so installing Grive2 from the main WebUpd8 PPA will overwrite any old Grive versions it may find on the system (just as if it was a newer Grive1 version).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grive

1. Grive2 will download / upload new or changed files from the directory you run it. So firstly, lets create a new folder - well call it "grive" -, in your home directory:

mkdir -p ~/grive

cd ~/grive

3. The first time you run Grive2, you must use the "-a" argument to grant it permission to access your Google Drive:

grive -a

After running the command above, an URL should be displayed in the terminal - copy this URL and paste it in a web browser. In the newly loaded page, youll be asked to give Grive permission to access your Google Drive and after clicking "Allow access", an authentication code will be displayed - copy this code and paste it in the terminal where you ran Grive2.

Thats it. Now each time you want to sync Google Drive with your local "grive" folder, navigate to the "grive" folder (step 2) and run "grive" (this time without "-a" since youve already authenticated Grive with Google Drive).

Grive2 comes with some advanced features as well. For instance, compared to the original Grive, the new Grive2 fork supports partial sync. To only synchronize one subfolder (a folder from your ~/grive directory) with Google Drive, use:

grive -s SUBFOLDER

grive --help

As all we know Google Drive is one of the successful cloud storage service which gives 5 GB storage for free. Most users uses it to create documents and share files. Apart from that you can also host a webpage in Google Drive. Now it only support for static pages ie combination of HTML,CSS and Javascript. Previously this feature was only available in Dropbox.

In this post i am included the steps to host a website in Google Drive. For this example i am used One - A Free one page html template by WEGRAPHICS.NET.

How to Host Web page in Google Drive ?

1. In your computer arrange all your HTML, CSS, JS and resource files in a folder.
2. Login to your Google Drive account.
3. Click on the upload icon and select Folder, then browse the websites folder you created in computer and click OK...now it will start uploading.



4. After successful upload , click share on the right side of the uploader prompt or select share by right clicking the uploaded folder.



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5. It will alert a new Dialog with Sharing setting. In that setting Dialog click change under the Who has access title and select Public on the web ..click Save.

6. Then copy the Link to share url.



7. Now the final part change sharing URL to the hosting URL.

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B6kD6rxC7uARX0p4SmUxU1BjT0U/edit?usp=sharing

8. Remove the red color part from the sharing URL and replace the green color part of the URL with https://googledrive.com/host/

Hosting URL will be something like this.
https://googledrive.com/host/0B6kD6rxC7uARX0p4SmUxU1BjT0U

Note : You can also get the hosting URL by previewing your html file.

Thats it done ... use the Hosting URL to share your website...For a Good looking URL .. use .tk or similar free service to forward to your hosting URL.

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Are you bored of seeing the default Windows icon of hard drive or USB drive? Did you ever think about changing those icons? Then here is the solution for you.

This post describe a simple method to change the icon of your USB drive or hard drive to your favorite one.

Method:
1. Download your favorite icon file from the web or convert your favorite image to icon.
2. Open Notepad and write down the following code below in Notepad .

 [autorun] 
 icon=iconname.ico 

* In the above code iconname should be the name of your icon.

3. Now Click File > Save Or Ctrl+S to save the file.
4. Type File name: autorun.inf and change Save as type: All Files (*.*).



5. Click Save .
6. Now copy the saved autorun.inf file and your .ico file to the root directory of your USB drive or hard drive. For hard drive you have to restart the system to take effect the change and for USB drive just unplug and plug it back to see the change.

Thats it done !!!