{"id":3793,"date":"2016-04-15T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T22:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T22:25:36","slug":"cnet-google-drive-improvement-unlocks-the-potential-of-google-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/15\/cnet-google-drive-improvement-unlocks-the-potential-of-google-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"CNET: Google Drive improvement &#8220;unlocks the potential of Google Photos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Shankland is delighted that he can now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/au\/news\/google-drive-new-checkbox-unlocks-power-of-google-photos\/\">selectively sync directories in Google Drive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[F]or me, it&#8217;s a profound transformation. Not only does it improve the cloud storage service, it also unlocks the potential of Google Photos. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly happy about this because now I can let Google&#8217;s artificial intelligence smarts sink their teeth into my photo archive. Sorting photos by person, identifying landmarks and locations, picking favorites and culling the duds &#8212; Google Photos has a lot of interesting features, and I expect they&#8217;ll get better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I too constantly run out of SSD space, but I prefer to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/apps\">Google Photos desktop uploader<\/a>\u00a0(which just uploads instead of syncing). Diff\u2019rent strokes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/google-drive-folder-deselect.jpg\" alt=\"google-drive-folder-deselect\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/google-drive-folder-deselect.jpg 1426w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/google-drive-folder-deselect-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/google-drive-folder-deselect-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/google-drive-folder-deselect-1024x567.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Shankland is delighted that he can now selectively sync directories in Google Drive: [F]or me, it&#8217;s a profound transformation. Not only does it improve the cloud storage service, it also unlocks the potential of Google Photos. [\u2026] I&#8217;m particularly happy about this because now I can let Google&#8217;s artificial intelligence smarts sink their teeth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}