Google Apps Gets Presentations
Google Apps is now almost complete. Presentations that was launched earlier last month is now a part of the Google Apps for your Domain. I just got this email from the Google Apps team. I am quoting the email straightaway. Presentations — all new! We’re pleased to announce that you can now create and share presentations with Google Docs — the application in Google Apps formerly known as Docs & Spreadsheets. With this feature, you can create a new set of slides from scratch or import existing presentations and share... Read The Rest →
Search DivShare for Multimedia using Google
One of my favorite How-To Sites Tech Recipies has posted an amazing post as to how you can use Google to discover hidden multimedia treasures on DivShare. Incase you are wondering what DivShare is all about, then here is brief intro into what it does and how this hack works : DivShare is a web host allowing the unlimited storage of various types of files. This makes it a great source for finding free media. using the following Google queries as a guide will have you downloading in no time.... Read The Rest →
Google Office is Almost Complete
Google Apps one of the chief competitors to the Microsoft Office Suite has finally come up with a presentations app that allows to create simple presentations. Right now the Presentations feature from Google does not stack up that well against Powerpoint. You can import Powerpoint files into the Slideshow and edit them as you like. But the real problem is that you can’t save files as a powerpoint presentation or a open office presentation. Presentations from Google stores the stuff as a HTML with Javascript, CSS etc. embedded right into... Read The Rest →
11 Reasons why Google Apps is Better than MS Office
After the recent partnership of Google with CapGemini to help in promoting Google Apps for Organizations some major companies like Microsoft and Zimbra have been criticizing Google Apps for its shortfalls. While I agree that Google Apps has its own shortcomings, but I see no reason Google Apps can’t have a mass adoption by the enterprise sector. Here are some reasons why Google Apps is the right choice for most Enterprise Users. 1. Eliminate email hassles instantly. No more outages, lost mail, spamming, phishing, viruses, security breaches. 2. Reduce costs.... Read The Rest →
Orkut Gets New Languages
About 10 days back I made a post regarding the introduction of new languages in Orkut. I Made a screencast thinking that it will be easier for Orkut users to change their Language. Apparently the Screencast didn’t come out as well as I expected it to come, so a lot of users had trouble in getting their language changed. So I have made another screencast where things are definitely cleaner and are easily visible unlike the previous demo. Trying out the new Languages on Orkut is really simple and here... Read The Rest →
Google Webmaster Central gets a new look
Google Webmaster Central has got a new look with more tighter integration with Google Services. The New homepage looks super sexy and its definitely better than the old bland look it had. The New look is being slowly rolled out and as of now only the New Homepage has been launched. Here are some of the new features of Webmaster Central : Analyze your visitors Google Analytics is a free tool for webmasters to better understand their visitor traffic in order to improve site content. With metrics including the amount... Read The Rest →
Google Reader gets Even Better
Google Reader, one of the best RSS Readers out there in the market today. While Bloglines only recently updated itself to a beta that actually manages to stack up pretty well to GReader. While Google Reader was missing some basic features like Search but with the latest additions we now have a Search Option at the top center of Google Reader. Along with the Search option that also features infinite scrolling to see those thousands of results, Google Reader also has a wide pane option that gives you more reading... Read The Rest →
Googling the Recent Web
There are times when you might want to search for the latest news on Google but the search results aren’t usually the latest. Google’s Advanced Search gives you more power than you can possibly think and one of the best uses of the advanced search is searching for pages that have been recently indexed. The trick here is the URL encoding which google does when you use the advance search. The parameter that specifies the date range is as_qdr(query date range). Using this parameter and the Bookmarking features of Firefox... Read The Rest →
Orkut Adds More New Features
Orkut finally is moving in the right direction in the social network scene. Right now Orkut has traction only in India and Brazil but things are likely to change in the future. Only last week orkut redesigned its interface, which has received a lot of positive feedback from its users. The latest entry to Orkut is similar to what Facebook already provides. Orkut now displays notification from your friends when they make changes to their profile, adds photos to the album, videos, testimonials etc…
Ultimate Funny Ads by Google
Over the years ever since Google started to show google ads in google searches I have some seen some really funny ads in it. After about a month of collecting these funny ads I finally decided to show it over here. I know it is not related to any apps or softwares, but this post is just intended to bring a liitle bit of humor on this blog. So go ahead and have a good laugh at these ads and I must say Google Does have a good sense of... Read The Rest →
