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Official Gmail Blog: Making security easierGoogle has closed one of the big security risks associated with using its free hosted Gmail mail service. You can now select an option in your account preferences to make every session require an encrypted Web connection. Although this may make your Gmail slower as each time your mail connects to server and back it has encrypt ... Full story

Here a question from one of users"I no longer use Outlook and use only my gmail (Google Apps Mail). Is there an add-in or other means that I can open my gMail account when I want to send an eMail to someone on the web? In other words, the ... Full story

Jason Slator writes about using Google Apps in his technology blog. Here are few excerpts from posting:"To gain a level of integration we have to rely on the gadgets/widgets on the start page and, whilst usable, this is where this sort of technology shows its infancy as some widgets are better integrated than others and business widgets are mixed in and ... Full story

How to Setup Google Apps for Your DomainWhy Google Apps?Google Apps provides everyone at your organization a custom email address (like bob@yourdomain.com), tools for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations (Google Docs), a shared calendaring system and access to a flexible intranet system (Google Sites). All this for free in Google Apps Standard Edition.Google Apps Premier ... Full story

Many administrators hit trouble while setting up Google Apps for domains with DNS in Plesk. Here are some vital tips for setting up with PleskIf you are hitting the wall using Plesk, just making changes to Plesk will not be enough. You have to change the DNS setting in control panel of your Name Server provider.You have to log in to ... Full story

When your host does not accepts CNAME you have to use IP address to setup Google Apps. Some Domain hosts don't like to use CNAMEs. You can give them the following IP addresses:Domain Verification: For domain verification you need to create a Cname with string provided by Google Apps. You can use following IP address for this to create three ... Full story

Creating a DashboardWhether you have a complex involving many members or simple project having handful of team members - a dashboard enhances the visibility and helps in tracking. In an addition to your project management tools small communication is the key to project success, particularly around sharing status and progress updates to keep everyone moving in sync through each milestone.Since Google ... Full story

Google Sites now provides a simple way to track site usage, by integrating with Google Analytics. This is available to Standard, Premier, Education and Team Editions using Language US English (New features are first released to US English)Here is how to access this new feature:Sign in to Google SitesOpen the site which you want to trackClick 'Site Settings'Navigate to the ... Full story

Keeping up with its continuous development approach Google Apps mail has now added 8 new languages. This is available to Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsNew LanguagesBengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and TeluguGmail now supports following languagesArabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, ... Full story

When reviewing your co-workers online documents, you can insert color-coded comments to differentiate from the rest of the text.How to insert color coded comments in a Google Document?Place your cursor where you'd like your comment to appear, and click the 'Insert' tab along the top of the page. Select the 'Comment' icon from the displayed toolbar and let the ... Full story