Archive for the ‘Google Docs’ Category

It will be a serious issues if documents stored by you in your Google Docs can be seen by someone else. Imaging what happened when your financial data is compromised. Google needs to tighten the security for its SaaS applications, otherwise many customers may move back to traditional systems. Read more about the security breach in Google docs in (ISC)²BLOGHTTP://BLOG.ISC2.ORG/ISC2_BLOG/2008/09/SERIOUS-SECURIT.HTML Full story

Here is one more useful tip for Google Apps usersGoogle Docs can be used to create PDF files. So if you want to convert your word doucyment to PDF you can use Google Apps (this is similar to Open Office functionality). Google Docs ... Full story

One of the fastest and easy way to create a document using Google docs is to use templates/ Google has over 300 templates - business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations - ready for use. You want an invoice, want to write a resume or ... Full story

Update from Official Google Docs Blog:What do wedding planners, gas mileage calculators and photo albums have in common? They're all examples of templates available in the Google Docs Template Gallery that Sarah Beth Eisinger (Docs Templates engineer), Grant Dasher (intern), and I built and (happily!) released today. Read more Full story

sausheong shows the way to download Google Docs through APIAn interesting and perhaps little known feature in the Google Documents List Data API (perhaps because it’s currently undocumented!) is that you can use the APIs to programmatically get the word processor documents in various formats. This means that if you have a ... 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

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

Looks like adding new features is a way of life at Google. Just seen a flashing message on one of help pages now again they have released some new features. It is really amazing the ease by which they are able to add new features. Just compare this to a PC based application like outlook - you will keep installing packs and not everyone ... Full story

Google is fast - shortly after the offline version of Google Docs (through Google Gears) they have continued with their fast development cycle and have launched some of the really good new features:More sharing options in Docs listNow you can both add and remove people's access and set ... Full story

Now you can work on your documents off line when you do not have an internet connections. So you can work on your document while you are waiting at reception or traveling to California.For offline access - Google Docs is using Google Gears, another open source technology (technically a browser extension) that enables web applications to run offline. So even when ... Full story