Google Docs is currently a popular location on the Internet to store document formats like Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF documents. This is soon going to change according to a Techcrunch story on the subject. Google will roll out an update to Google Docs in the coming weeks that will remove the file type limitations [...]

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The extension development for the Google Chrome browser is slowly taking up speed. While there is still no option to use extensions in the latest public release of the Google browser the developers are slowly improving the capabilities of the extensions manager. The latest dev builds of the web browser support extensions right out of [...]

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Data storage in the cloud offers several advantages like being able to access the data from multiple computer systems. But there are also aspects of cloud computing that only become apparent recently like being unable to access the data if the service or some of their servers become unavailable or are terminated completely. Backup solutions [...]

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The Google Docs development team has finally added one of the most requested features to the document management service. The ability to share folders – and with those the documents contained in those folders – was not given until the new release yesterday. This new feature makes it more comfortable to work with several users [...]

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One cannot really deny the fact that Google is constantly working on new features for their popular online services like Gmail or Google Docs. The latest feature is currently available as a demonstration only and not yet integrated into Google Docs. The Google Docs OCR demonstration can OCR the three image formats jpg, png and [...]

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Google Docs Viewer is a new online service by the Google Docs team that makes it possible to view document like Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint directly in the web browser. The advantage of this option is that it is no longer required to download the document to the local computer system to [...]

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How would you announce a major change to a product that is likely going to affect a large userbase? Probably not in the same way that Google announced upcoming changes to their popular document management and editing platform Google Docs. In a recent post at the Google Docs Help Forum Marie, a Google employee, notified [...]

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Google Docs is a popular document hosting and editing service on the Internet. Part of its popularity stems from the fact that Google account owners can use it without having to register at yet another website and the integration with other Google services like Gmail. One problem that only some users encounter when using Google [...]

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Offering computer translations of documents seems to be a one of the features that Google wants to introduce in many of their services. You might remember that they have added automatic translations of RSS feed items in Google Reader a while ago. A super useful feature for users who follow foreign blogs. A few days [...]

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