Tag: GOOGLEDOCS

Remember Google Wave? We don't either. But Google apparently does, and the company isn't quite ready to let go. On its blog today, the company announced a discussion feature that it has added to Google Docs to allow "rapid and seamless discussions, help the right people participate, as well as integrate discussions with email in an intuitive way." In other words, your very precious comments ...

Google has been systematically expanding the Docs feature set for several years. It seems a group of geeks finally realized the full potential of that diversification process, and their Docs manipulation recently resulted in a surprisingly captivating creation. Sporting some awesome geek-hop handles, Tu+, Namroc, Metcalf and the Consulate General Alex C., the crew generated -- apparently with "no ...

Rather than continue to try and kick down the front door of Microsoft Office, Google is sneaking around the back. Google Cloud Connect is an Office add-on that syncs all your Office docs for easy viewing and sharing online. It even brings real-time collaboration and revision control to Office 2003, 2007 and 2010. You can sign up for early access here. ...

Over the next few days, Google will finally be rolling out mobile editing for Docs. When you load up a document on your Android phone (2.2 or higher), iPad or iPhone (3.0 or higher), you'll see a brand new "edit" button that invites you to tweak your text files on the go. Check out the video after the break to see the feature in all its text-editing, real-time collaborating glory. ...

Amateur Web wizards will soon be able to make a little extra cash on Google, thanks to a new security rewards program that the company unveiled. The new program is essentially a duplicate of Google Chrome's vulnerability reward service, which offers cash compensation to anyone who discovers security holes on the Web browser. Now, vulnerability hunters can troll for weaknesses on more Google ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Google just unveiled drag and drop functionality for images to docs. Yes, now you can drag illustrations directly from your desktop directly into documents in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. [From: Docs blog] The 'Thomas was alone.' flash game seems simple enough: move blocks ...

Hewlett-Packard announced yesterday a new line of printers that have their own e-mail addresses in an attempt to breathe new life into printing. Rather than connect a device to the printer, you can simply e-mail a document, photo or PDF to one of HP's new machines, and it will be waiting in the printer's tray when you get home. The company hopes these new printers, which will be released over the ...

Back on August 21st, federal investigators in New York issued a search warrant against Levi Beers and Chris di Diego, both of whom were accused of masterminding a spam operation called Pulse Marketing. Instead of just seizing the suspects' e-mails, though, police went one step further and snatched all files saved on their respective Google Docs, as well. Ten days after FBI officials issued the ...

Google is gearing up for a war with Microsoft. We all know that later this year the Office product standard bearers will unveil a new version of its flagship productivity suite that will be accompanied by a Web-based component. So today, not about to give up its turf without a fight, Google announced a major update to its Google Docs products. Some changes are quiet and primarily ...

The German government, Web developers, and even Microsoft itself have all pushed the Internet browsing public to ditch Internet Explorer 6. Now Google is getting in on the action and taking drastic (but long overdue) action -- ending support for the browser across its line of productivity tools. Now, to be fair, Google is ceasing official support for several older browsers, including past ...

Google is about to unleash the long-rumored Gdrive cloud storage service upon the world -- except it won't be called Gdrive. Nope, Google will simply be integrating file storage into the existing Google Docs. Starting today, the search giant will slowly bring the feature to Google Docs users over the coming weeks. You'll be able to upload and store any file, regardless of type, online and access ...

It's no secret that, by now, Google has collected an absolutely absurd amount of information about you. Google knows what you search for, what Web sites you visit (Chrome), which pictures you post (Picasa), the contents of your e-mail (Gmail), who you call (Google Voice), what you watch (YouTube), what you write (Blogger), what pills you take (Google Health), where you are (Google Latitude), ...

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 ...

Productivity blog Lifehacker is a great resource online for software downloads, productivity tricks, and great DIY projects. Many readers out there take every endorsement or piece of advice from the blog to heart as words to live by. While we wouldn't go that far, the folks at Lifehacker certainly know a thing or two about using software and tools to be more effective and productive. The editors ...

Google has started giving users the ability to edit their Google Documents in an offline mode. Google Documents, part of Google's free online suite of office software, is a word processing application that allows you to create, view and edit documents as well as import Microsoft Word files, .txt and other popular document formats. The rest of the suite, accessible from within your browser, ...