Google Takeout is a service that Google users can make use of to export their user data to their local PC. Not all Google services are supported by Takeout though, which limits the use of the service somewhat. Up until now, it only offered to export Picasa Web Albums, Google+ related information, Google Voice data [...]

Categories: Google

Google Docs users have quite a few options to synchronize their online documents with local computer systems. Among them Gladinet Cloud Desktop, the Microsoft Office add-in OffiSync or DocSyncer. Insync is a new option for Mac and Windows users (and soon Linux as a Linux port is in the making) who want to synchronize their [...]

Categories: Google, Mac, Software, Windows

Sometimes you may need to create a quick chart without access to a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc. You could say that installing the spreadsheet program would resolve the issue. But that’s only possible if you are working on a computer where you have sufficient rights to do that. And that’s [...]

Categories: Online Services

With Google Labs projects being discontinued by Google came the cancellation or transfer of popular services. One of the services that will be discontinued this November is GoogleLookup. GoogleLookup is a Google Labs technology that allows Google Docs spreadsheet users to search for and add data into their spreadsheets. Spreadsheet cells that make use of [...]

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Hypothetically, what would you say if Microsoft would enable an offline mode for Hotmail or Office Live 365 but only for Internet Explorer? Chance is, a lot of users would cry foul play and demand that Microsoft would enable support for other web browsers as well. If you look at Google these days, you might [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome

Tomorrow Microsoft launch their new Office 365 business cloud platform integrating email, calendaring, office, sharepoint and intranets with communications and messaging.  It’s a big platform with a big future ahead of it as I wrote about the other day. Now Google are hitting out with a blog post entitled “365 reasons to consider Google Apps“.  [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft

Have you ever used the word processor in Google Docs and noticed unregistered misspellings? The first thing you should do is check in the View menu to see if Show spelling suggestions is activated. If it is turned on, the problem could actually be the less-than sign () or a period (.) with a capital [...]

Categories: Google, Tutorials Basic

Google Docs is a great way to share documents (such as this article), but keeping track of shares can be tricky. That can be remedied with some thought-out collections (folders) and by avoiding a few habits. The idea is to think like an administrator. You want to make sure you know who can use what [...]

Categories: Google, Tutorials Basic

Google Docs is a portable cloud based document hosting, creating and editing application. Google recently added an option to add storage to Google Docs, and other Google services, which could make the service attractive to users who did not use it until now because of the storage limitations. A standard Google Docs account is good [...]

Categories: Mac, Software, Windows