Google Apps Today

Google Apps Today

• Google Sites example: www.tenismesalazubia.com
  Our readers are sending more examples of Google sites. This is another example of an excellent site created using Google Site. This is the site (in Spanish Language) for a Tennis Club:
  
  http://www.tenismesalazubia.com/
  
  
  
  
• Now you can view PDF documents in Gmail without downloading
  Earlier a to view a PDF file received in Gmail will have to be downloaded and opened in Acrobat reader. But now you can view PDF file in Gmail itself.
  
  Now opening up a PDF in Gmail will not open your native PDF viewer (which is relatively slow-to-load), and instead will send you to the document reader built into Google Docs. Clicking “View” quickly opens the PDF inside your browser, complete with the graphics and formatting you expect to see in a PDF. You may have seen this feature before, in Google Docs. It’s the way that we did...
  
  
• Google Sites Case Study: Global Alliance for Self Management Support
  
  Global Alliance for Self Management Support (www.globalalliancesms.org) is using Google Sites for their website and collaboration. Global Alliance for Self Management Support is an international non-profit project promoting patient empowerment and self management support worldwide.
  
  This is a case in point about how Google Apps can be used for Not for profit organizations. That too cutting across the geographical borders and collaborating with people worldwide. This Google site has used Google docs forms, Google docs presentations. The site also has Google Apps Knowledge base for those who are creating sites within...
  
  
• Google Chrome has been moved out of Beta
  Google after releasing the 15th update for its Google Chrome Web browser and officially ended the beta testing phase for the application Thursday. It already has some 10 million active users. With the 15 updates under its belt, the browser has improved its stability and performance.
  
  "Google Chrome is a better browser today thanks to the many users who sent their feedback and the many more who enabled automatic crash reports, helping us rapidly diagnose and fix issues," they wrote in a Google blog post.
  
  Shortest of Beta Period at Google: The Chrome...
  
  
• Now chat from Gmail to a mobile through SMS
  Even if the person you are chatting with is not available near PC you can chat with then using this new feature unveiled by Google Gmail - SMS Chat.
  
  Leo Dirac, Google product manager says - "A few weeks back, we ran into a few snags when we first started rolling this out, but starting today you can turn on text messaging for chat,"
  
  You get your own unique Google chat phone number, so the person receiving the texts will be able to know who you are by saving the digits under your...
  
  
• How to use Tasks in Gmail
  One of the most requested features in Gmail - "Task management" has been unveiled by Google. Task management is important especially since it comes as default in most desktop- and web-based email clients.
  
  The fact that task management goes hand in hand with handling email - this will be one of the most use solutions alsong with email. A new tasks management feature is now available in Gmail to let users manage tasks from within the web-based email interface.
  
  Enabling tasks:
  
  The experimental-only feature first has to be enabled under the Labs...
  
  
• How start up and small business can save money using Google Apps
  Most business these days use Microsoft's Office suite of software applications. MS Office (as it is popularly called) is almost as common as a PC in an office. But using office is also a very costly affair. A cost which can be avoided by start up and small business.
  
  Using Google Apps can reduce your cost multi-fold. Here is a quick assessment on how much you can save in an small office with 10 persons:
  
  

  MS Office
  MS office: $400/licence (Cost $4000)
  Hosted Email solution for 10 employees: $114/month (Annual Cost $1368)
  Installation...
  
  

• New Holiday templates in Google Docs to keep you organized this Holiday season
  You can save time and money with the Google Docs template gallery for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The templates are useful for every one from a small business owner or the chief holiday organizer. The gallery includes a few special templates designed to help you manage holidays this season better. Here are some of the useful templates:
  
  
  • Survey form to update mailing list
  • Holiday Postcard
  • Mailing Labels
  • Gift Tags
  • Video Cards
  • Newsletter
  • Gift certificates
  • invitation cards
  • RSVP capture to Party
  • Budget Tracker
  
  It's easy to get started with any of these tips.
  
  Click File -> New -> From Template to be taken to the main template gallery...
  
  
• Wesleyan University goes for Google Apps
  Wesleyan University's (http://www.wesleyan.edu) WSA-ITS Committee has announced announce that the transition to Google Apps for Education has been approved and will go online for the start of the spring semester.
  
  Google Apps will give students many new options in their digital lifestyle, including expanded e-mail capacity, calendaring, and digital collaboration.
  
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• Webinar: Achieve Success on Enterprise-class Google Apps Deployments
  Registration is required to join this event.
  
  Date and time: Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:00 am
  Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Francisco)
  Program: Google Apps Webinars
  Duration: 1 hour
  Description: Achieve Success on Enterprise-class Google Apps Deployments
  Topic: Achieve Success on Enterprise-class Google Apps Deployments
  Speaker: Customer, (speaker TBD)
  Intended Audience: 1000+; IT professionals; Health care; manufacturing, media, retail
  
  Short description: A large pharmaceutical company, Genentech (
  

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