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Google Drive is coming, it's not a matter of "if" it's a matter of "when." And "when" is looking increasingly like "soon." The company has been testing its cloud storage and sync service for a few months now and the drive.google.com URL has been spotted before. But if you try to visit it by yourself, you�... |
14 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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We've been hearing about Google Drive, the cloud file hosting and sharing service from Google for a while now. There have been plenty of clues and hints and Drive was most definitely coming. But now we have another confirmation, the Wall Street Journal is saying that Drive is on its way, in the coming weeks or m... |
9 February 2012
05:33 GMT |
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It may not have seemed like it, but January was a busy month for the Docs team. Several new features have been introduced, from the hard to miss customizable paragraph styles to more subtle changes such as progress bars for Google Sites uploads. Earlier this week, the Google Docs document editor got a much welc... |
8 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Google Docs is expanding the use of its customizable paragraph styles and may even be rolling out the feature for all users. Some Docs users noticed that the paragraph styles in the documents editor were now customizable and they were also persistent between documents.
This has been a minor but annoying shortcoming ... |
7 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Google is finally making it possible to set a default font, font size and other style option to be used with all documents. Currently, the document editor always defaults to Arial 11 since that's what Google Docs defines as "Normal Text."
You can change any of the style settings of course, font, color and so on... |
3 February 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Google has just released a new flavor of the Google Docs application for devices running under its Android operating system. Most of the enhancements packed with the new app release were meant for offline use.
The new application release arrives with better management of offline content, including the possibility t... |
2 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Google Docs is now part of Google Takeout, the tool designed to make it easy for users to export their Google data, from various products, in one fell swoop. It's been easy to export Docs files in a variety of formats, but having them a part of Google Takeout makes it even easier and more convenient to get as mu... |
25 January 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Quickoffice, Inc., the company responsible for the delivering one of the most popular office productivity solutions for smartphones and tablets, has just announced that an important update for the Android version is now available for download.
The latest versions of QuickOffice Pro and Pro HD add new functiona... |
18 January 2012
20:01 GMT |
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It’s not uncommon to come across phishing emails that point to pages perfectly replicating the legitimate site of the company whose name is involved in the scam. Security experts have found a couple of phishing campaigns that rely on Google Docs to make them look more genuine.
One of the malicious emails targ... |
16 January 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Google is trying to prove that Google Docs is a great tool for your office not only for work, but for fun as well. With the holidays looming ever closer, Google is debuting a Secret Santa gift exchange template, along with other holiday-themed ones.
The template takes care of all the steps, from putting your ... |
16 December 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Google is adding a new tool to its Docs demo site, the presentations editor, which recently got a major upgrade. Thanks to the new underpinnings, it can be used without a Google account or signing in enabling users to take it for a spin to see how they like it.
For those that use it, Google Docs is both a joy and ... |
10 December 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Google Reader was not the only mobile application for Android that got an update today, but Google Docs also got a makeover in the new version 1.0.30 available for download via the Android Market.
Google Docs for Android is meant to offer users the possibility to enjoy fast access to their documents on the Google D... |
3 November 2011
03:38 GMT |
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Google is getting ready for the next stage of Docs, at least the file storage part, its transformation into Google Drive. While Google hasn't confirmed the move, there have been to many signs and actual proof to doubt that Drive is coming and coming soon.In a move that perhaps indicates that Drive will become th... |
2 November 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Just as new info surfaced about the upcoming file sync and cloud storage service, based on Google Docs, in Google Search itself, we now have a way of actually enabling a Download Google Drive menu entry in Google Docs.Granted, it doesn't do anything, it shows up in the menu, but it doesn't lead to any app b... |
1 November 2011
17:41 GMT |
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New proof that Google is definitely working on GDrive or Google Drive has surfaced. You can check it out for yourself, do a search for 'writely' and the second result will link to a page titled "Writely – The Web Word Processor – test page for Platypus (GDrive)."
Writely is the name of the onli... |
31 October 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Google has been falling short on its promise to make its most popular services work online. Using HTML5 for this turned out to be harder than it expected, so people have been left without any offline support in Google Docs or Gmail for months now, even longer in some cases.
Google promised that offline support was c... |
31 October 2011
11:11 GMT |
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At first it was a cloud OS, a bare-bones operating system that would enable you to access the web and run web applications and not much else. Then it became a cloud app platform, enabling you to run a unified cloud desktop and a set of apps no matter where you logged in from.
Now, Jolicloud is becoming a cloud servi... |
28 October 2011
07:17 GMT |
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Google is finally updating is Presentations app in Google Docs. While all of the other editors got a major update last year, Presentations has only now been updated to the new underlying tech layer powering all Google Docs editors.However, after it's done migrating all users to the new Presentations editor, Goog... |
18 October 2011
13:04 GMT |
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Computers, even smartphones, thanks to smart software and thoughtful design are accessible to many people with a diverse set of disabilities. Even not being able to see won't prevent you from using a computer. The web though is another matter. And a computer without the web is pretty useless these days.Google is... |
8 October 2011
06:45 GMT |
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Android users who like being capable to create, view, edit, upload or share documents while on the go have a simple application for that, coming from Google themselves, namely Google Docs, and a new flavor of the software is now available for download for them.
Released on Wednesday, the new application iteratio... |
6 October 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Google has announced that it's rolling out the revamped Docs to everyone. All of Google's websites have been undergoing a redesign, even those as complex as Docs.Both the homepage, with the document list and the individual editors have been freshened up and updated with the 2011 Google look.Google Docs user... |
3 October 2011
18:51 GMT |
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This time around, Google Drive seems to be a reality. Granted, it was real when the previous rumors surfaced, several years ago, but the project was killed off. Now, it will go live for everyone.
It will be an evolution of the current Google Docs, which can store any type of file, and not a completely new service,... |
26 September 2011
07:47 GMT |
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Google has always been an adept of small updates and changes coming in frequently and that's not about to change soon. Google Docs may be getting some big new features now and again, but most of the improvements have come in time from small tweaks and added functionality.
The latest such example is the possib... |
22 September 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Google has announced a number of accessibility improvements for Google Docs and Sites as well as for Google Calendar. These improvements include support for several screen readers as well as more comprehensive keyboard shortcut support. Overall, the improvements should make the products easier to see for the visually... |
15 September 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Google is always making small changes and adding new features to its products. In the last week, Google Docs has gotten a new editor and a few new features. You may have already noticed the Fusion Tables editor which, while not new entirely, is now part of Docs.
The document editor introduced a new formatting copy... |
14 September 2011
13:01 GMT |
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There are clear signs that Google is working on something dubbed Google Drive. The first clues showed up a couple of weeks ago and, now, there are more, but there is also better indication of what Google Drive may be, not a new product, but, rather, simply a rebranded Google Docs document list.
As the Google Opera... |
13 September 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Productivity application developer, Avatron Software, has released an updated version of its pioneering file-sharing app, Air Sharing 2.7. The new version brings Google Docs support that enables iOS users to access and view files stored on Google’s online document management platform.Air Sharing is optimized fo... |
13 September 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Google Docs has always been about collaboration and a big part of that is the comments system. Users who work on the same document can share thoughts and opinions in the comments, besides the document.
But, by enabling someone to comment, you would enable them to edit the document as well. Of course, that's n... |
13 September 2011
04:10 GMT |
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As some of you may have noticed, Google Docs completely melted down earlier this week for about one hour, leaving users without access to their documents or the documents list.
Google fixed the problem quite rapidly, but it is now explaining what happened and what steps it's taking to minimize the chance of i... |
10 September 2011
05:02 GMT |
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The offline support in Google Docs that has now been made available to all users may be a bit disappointing, but there are several other new things that fare better.
For one, you may notice a new editor in Google Docs, Fusion Tables, a data management tool that aims to make it easier to work with large data sets.
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9 September 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Google has started rolling out the offline support feature for Docs. The company has been working on this for quite a while, more than a year now, and the launch has already suffered several delays, but, unfortunately, what Google has launched now is very, very basic offline support that doesn't address the most... |
8 September 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Google Docs offers a solid set of apps for those that need something to get the job done, but the number of features built into each one has never been their strength. That said, Google is working on adding more features and functionality, to appeal to more use cases.Google Apps' and by extension Google Docs... |
2 September 2011
11:12 GMT |
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There have been rumors about GDrive, a cloud storage service from Google, for half a decade now. Not unsubstantiated rumors, mind you, Google was working on storage in the cloud several years ago.The project got shelved though and, while Google Docs can be used as backup storage of sorts it's not ideal for this.... |
1 September 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Google has finally re-enabled offline access for Gmail as well as Docs and Calendar. It's been working on the functionality for more than a year and it said more than three months ago that the features were just about ready and coming 'this summer.'
It waited until the very last day of summer to rol... |
1 September 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Google has been transitioning all of its products to the new Google+ like design. It's already gotten some of its sites in line and it is now testing a redesign of the editors in Google Docs, arguably much harder to upgrade properly than simpler sites like the Google Help Pages or even Google Calendar.
If you... |
30 August 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Introduced back in April, Google Docs for Android has just been updated new feature called Web Clipboard and support for 45 additional languages.Google Docs allows Android fans and tinkerers to create, edit, upload and share their documents directly from their Android device.With the new version, users will be able t... |
24 August 2011
13:17 GMT |
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Google Docs' spreadsheet editor enables users to build powerful formulas to process data, but all of the options and functions can be daunting at times. You may know what you want to do, but you may not be sure what function to use in a particular case. Google is making it easier to discover what everything does... |
10 August 2011
05:50 GMT |
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More than a year ago, Google Docs introduced a series of revamped editors, for documents, spreadsheets and so on. The new editors were built from the ground up and documents created with the new editor could not be opened with the old one. Still, there were plenty of old documents which people didn't convert and... |
6 August 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Google has started testing the new company-wide design and layout for Google Docs. Just like with Gmail, it's just an experiment and users have to opt-in, but anyone can activate the new look now. Even if you use few Google services or websites, you've probably noticed the new design already. Google Search... |
5 August 2011
05:59 GMT |
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Google Docs is adding a number of more advanced chart types to its spreadsheet editor. It's also adding the possibility of taking a snapshot of a chart and easily pasting it into documents or drawings.
"Today, we’re releasing a few new types of charts, plus a feature that allows you to copy your charts... |
4 August 2011
09:31 GMT |
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While some big features are still in the pipeline, offline mode support is still MIA for example, the Google Docs team is rolling out a couple of smaller changes that should be great for those waiting for just these new features.The first addition is support for the web clipboard in the drawings editor. This means th... |
2 August 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Google has made a small but possibly significant change to Google Docs, you can now upload files as big as 10 GB, whereas the previous limit was 1 GB.
That's great news if you regularly handle large files and if you pay for storage in Google, but it won't mean anything if you're using the standard,... |
22 July 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Google Docs and Gmail just got a very cool feature and a very useful one in many, many cases. You can now preview archived attachments you get in Gmail, or archives uploaded to Docs to see what's inside and even preview the files contained, if they are supported by Google Docs Viewer.
"Downloading files that ... |
15 July 2011
09:08 GMT |
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Google teams regularly hold 'feedback sessions' to find out what new features users want the most. The Google Docs team in particular does this and the latest session revealed the biggest changes users want the team to implement.
Some of them are obvious, offline access for example, which Google is alrea... |
13 July 2011
04:29 GMT |
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Yes, there are Google Docs videos. Well, there are if you upload them to your Google Docs account. Since you can now upload any file to Docs, users started adding video files as well, to store them in the cloud. Early this year, Google introduced the ability to watch those videos on the site. Now, Google is enabling... |
8 July 2011
11:31 GMT |
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The Google Docs team unveiled a great Android app a couple of months ago. For long-time Docs users, it was way overdue and greatly appreciated. But not everyone is going to have the Docs app installed and this is exactly when you need to browse your files or share a document with someone.
Luckily, there is the mob... |
8 July 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just announced the availability of a new version of their Google Docs for mobile, aimed at bringing a range of new features on the smaller screens of mobile phones.
At times when they are not near a computer, users can take advantage of the various capabilities that G... |
8 July 2011
02:13 GMT |
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Computer users all over the world can no longer deny the benefits of cloud storage over the local one, and the developers at Box.net also reached the same conclusion. This is why they have tightened their integration with Google Docs.Not only can users have access to their documents at all times, regardless of the d... |
22 June 2011
16:57 GMT |
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One thing that's been 'coming soon' for almost a year now is offline support for Google Docs and other Google services via HTML5. Lately, Google has said that it is putting the final touches and that the feature is already in testing internally. Offline support for Docs, Gmail, Calendar is coming this ... |
20 June 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Google has just revealed that the discussion feature for Docs has been updated, but there are also a number of other small updates and tweaks that have been introduced recently for Docs and Apps. There is a new way of dealing with spelling suggestions, a new font has been added and Sites users will now be able to res... |
9 June 2011
10:03 GMT |
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