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How to View TIFF and PowerPoint Files in Your Browser

by Evan Shamoon on April 27, 2009 at 02:37 PM



Slowly whittling down the number of things it can't do to make your life easier, Google has just added a new feature to its Gmail powerhouse -- namely, the ability to view TIFF and Microsoft PowerPoint documents in your browser, without having to save the files on your computer and reopen them in another application. The addition comes just a few months after the company added support for viewing PDF files in-browser.

The viewer includes a set of handy features, such as letting you zoom in and out, copy and paste text, and convert these files to PDFs. You don't need Flash installed, and you don't even need to restart your browser to get things going. It just works.

Hopefully before the end of 2009, Google will figure out a way to floss our teeth, because goodness knows they're not flossing themselves. [From: Gmail Blog]

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