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Offline Gmail, Google Calendar And Docs? Yes Please!

3:32AM September 1, 2011 | Brent Rose

Gmail. Damn near everyone you know uses it, and now they (and you) can use it offline. Sound the trumpets! And if that’s not enough, offline Google Calendar and Docs will be rolling out within the week. This pleases me. More »


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Google Docs About To Be Invaded By 10GB Cat Videos

9:33AM July 22, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

High-rolling Google Docs users with extra storage can open the upload pipes all the way. Google now lets you upload a file that’s 10GB in size. Can’t wait for the first cat video to land in my shared folder. [Google]


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Google Apps Vs Office 365 Feature Showdown: Which Should You Use?

10:00PM July 6, 2011 | Alan Henry

Microsoft took the beta label off Office 365 last week, and many consider the cloud-based productivity suite a potshot at Google and Google Apps. Office 365 may offer cloud-based document, storage and collaboration services that look like Google Apps, but the user experience and price tag are very different. Here’s a look at the major differences between them. More »


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LiveScribe Smart Pens Now Let You Share Pencasts Via Facebook

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2:15PM May 23, 2011 | Nick Broughall

The folks over at Livescribe just keep on making their pens smarter and smarter. Today they’ve announced that you can share your handwritten notes on Facebook, Google Docs, Evernote and as a PDF directly from the notebook itself. More »


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Google Docs Levels Up: Unlocks Pivot Table Powers

8:05AM May 18, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Google Docs went Ding! today and gained some additional functionality, rolling out natively supported pivot tables. The pivot table, as any A/R Coordinator worth his salt can tell you, allows data from one workbook to be summarized in another, saving huge amounts of time and brainpower. This function been available on Excel since 1997 but has been only available to Docs users to this point through the Panorama add-on. [Google Docs Blog via Business Insider]


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Google Docs For Android

4:51AM April 28, 2011 | Sam Biddle

You know Google Docs, it’s the fantastic text editing, word processing web app from the Google. And cruising Google Docs via the mobile browser has long been fine! But nothing beats a dedicated app – which is now an option for Android users. More »


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I Can’t Believe Google Docs Has Only Just Added Page Breaks Now

5:55PM April 13, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

It’s one of the small features in word-publishing software that we take for granted – pagination. But it’s taken Google up until now to add page breaks to its Docs offering. The new update also adds native printing; the ability to print right from the browser in a WYSIWYG-stylee. [Google Docs Blog]


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Google Docs Comments Become Discussions, Adds Notifications

2:52AM March 17, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Google Docs has always been a great collaboration tool, but the “comment” system left a bit to be desired. Comments were essentially sticky notes attached to text in the document, on which all parties could leave little messages. Google’s completely revamped this feature, turning it into a more IM-like experience. More »


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Google Docs Plays Nice With 12 New File Formats

11:40AM February 19, 2011 | Adrian Covert

If you use Google Docs more than you use Microsoft Office, you’ll be happy to know that they added support for 12 new file formats, including Excel, Powerpoint and Photoshop files. Here’s the full list: More »


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Seven More Easy Ways To Integrate Your Google Apps

5:16AM February 9, 2011 | Kevin Purdy

Google’s productivity apps — like Gmail, Google Maps, Calendar, Docs and so on — can play so well together, once you’ve ticked the right checkboxes. We’ve previously shown you seven ways to integrate your Google apps; now we’re adding another seven clever tricks to the fold that make managing your web-based life much easier. More »