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After years of speculation, Google Drive has arrived. It's here, it's working and it's not that original. But now that it is here, something else has to go. Drive has evolved out of Docs, in fact, it's just Docs with a new logo and a desktop client.Precisely because Drive is just Docs with a new l... |
21 May 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Google has quietly added a very interesting tool to Google Docs dubbed Research. As the name would suggest, it's designed to help users when researching a subject. Basically it adds an embedded Google Search in a panel to the right. You can use it to search for stuff that's relevant for you and easily inser... |
15 May 2012
15:31 GMT |
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One of the bad things about Google Docs is that it's still not on par with traditional office software, though it's got some big, unique advantages. One of the good things though is that it's always improving, unlike with traditional software where you have to wait for a new version to get new features... |
3 May 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Google Drive's launch is imminent, Docs users are now getting updated to the 5 GB of free storage they will get once Drive lands. Currently, Docs only offers 1 GB of free storage, but users can buy more. However, the latest rumors indicated that Google Drive would be debuting with 5 GB of free storage and the u... |
24 April 2012
05:40 GMT |
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With Google Drive only a week away, the rumors haven't stopped coming. Android users with the Docs app got a sighting of the "Drive" name, though nothing else. Now, more signs of Drive have been spotted in the wild, granted with a Google Employee.
Google's director for Enterprise in Brazil was showing a pr... |
20 April 2012
09:36 GMT |
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Google+ hangouts are becoming more interesting or at least more feature rich lately. They've just gotten Google Docs integration and now they're adding support for Google Voice as well.
What this means in practice is that you'll be able to call someone on their phone from inside a hangout.
This makes... |
24 March 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Google has confirmed that the web-powered spell checker in Google Docs is real and is for everyone. The feature is now enabled for all users, but only works in English. As expected, the new spell checker is based on the web service and uses context to generate suggestions.
It's a huge improvement over the exist... |
22 March 2012
06:55 GMT |
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Google Docs has updated its spell check engine and it seems that it's now using Google's web spell check service, the same one used in Google Search and more recently in Google Chrome.
Google has quietly rolled out the feature, but it seems to be enabled for all users or is in the process of being rolled o... |
21 March 2012
11:57 GMT |
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Google+ Hangouts are becoming a lot more useful, as the Google Docs app/integration is graduated from the testing phase and is now an integral part of the group video chat feature.Participants in a hangout will be able to work on documents while communicating, in real-time with video and audio with each other."Last y... |
14 March 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Google Docs is quite big so new features are always added to some part or another. The latest updates to Google's set of office tools bring a number of new features, such as a new Comments section, better character recognition for PDF files and images, and several other smaller tweaks. The Google Drawings edito... |
7 March 2012
10:51 GMT |
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More clues to the upcoming Google Drive can be found in the Docs source code. One interesting possibility, that seems likely, is support for third-party apps. Granted, there already is an API for Google Docs, which will become Drive, but an SDK Google is working on will enable third-party apps to integrate into Docs/... |
24 February 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Google has announced that the revamped presentations editor, which it debuted a few months back, is now ready for the prime time and will be used by default for all new presentations.
The new presentations editor, which was launched significantly later than the documents and spreadsheet editor based on the same tech... |
23 February 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Google decided to push another update for its Docs application for Android devices. The new version features a clean and fresh interface, which makes it easier to work with documents.
A new “pinch to zoom” gesture has been added in order for users to focus on a specific paragraph or a whole page. The dev... |
23 February 2012
00:59 GMT |
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Google Drive is coming, soon apparently, though that could still mean several months. The key points are known and have been known for a while, but a possible screenshot of Google Drive's web interface provides further evidence.
Google Drive is Google Docs evolved, it's not a completely new product, but it... |
17 February 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Google is betting a lot on Google+ and it's doing anything to make it successful. It's been working so far, to a degree, but there's plenty of work ahead of it. Still, one way of both convincing people to join and also showing that the site is actually useful and relevant is to eat your own dog food, i... |
15 February 2012
19:31 GMT |
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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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