Posts Tagged with ‘google-docs’

It is invariably entertaining to watch Microsoft trying to ensure some online presence for itself when all such attempts look mostly like the company is the last to realize internet is actually a serious business and decides to do something to catch up when others are already heavily competing in the field.
The current Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles is a great example of this trend with yesterday’s presentation of Windows Azure, the attempt to get to the cloud [...]

There’s a very thought-provoking article in the Guardian today about the dangers of cloud computing that resulted in quite an animated discussion in the blogosphere making people forget the tech companies stock valuations for a moment and try to figure out if we are really locking ourselves up in a trap of the much-hyped cloud computing.
True, cloud computing is obviously one of the most hyped terms these days and everyone thinks it is kind of hip and cool to rely [...]

Today Chris Brogan shares a story of his colleague at CrossTech Media Nick Saber losing access to his Google account completely. The only thing he could access was the search page itself while everything that required a user to be logged in was not accessible: his account credentials did not work and the only thing he got was "Sorry, your account has been disabled."
This tweet from Nick himself shows that he was deprived of all the Google services [...]

Web 2.0 is a term that means different things to different people, but there are some common characteristics that seem to characterize Web 2.0: alpha or beta status. A certain look and feel to sites. Social aspects to the application (for the most part). Building something that should enhance something else (Facebook apps, browser plug-ins). Some things are also common that also crop up, like frequent down-time, or lack of a business plan that ends up with a site shuttered, [...]

For 2008, Google has decided to make some updates to its Google Docs family, particularly its presentation application known as Presently, which happens to be the newest member having launched just last September.
The first of the new features for Google Docs to become available for all users is the ability to create a folder within another folder, which is commonly called a sub-folder (or a sub-sub-folder as Google has explained). Apparently this was a much requested feature that has [...]

For those who have been longing to somehow access desktop Microsoft Office documents online through Google Docs, there is now a new service known as DocSyncer, which does just that.
Currently available as a public beta, DocSyncer offers users the ability to synchronize their Office files with a Google Docs account. In just a few steps, anyone can begin having the documents on their computer automatically uploaded (and periodically updated) to their online Google Docs accounts, to be accessed from any [...]

While it’s not at all fair that Apple’s iPhone (and the developments its release has spawned) are getting the overall bulk of the attention doled out to the smartie market these days, it’s certainly worth pointing out highlights that are piggybacking the multi-touch marvel’s success as they make their way into public view, if only because they’re 1) quite useful, and/or 2) so frickin’ cool.
Today we talk about two Web-based deliveries: Wakoopa and Google Docs. One is a [...]

Today, Google Blogoscoped has announced that the mobile version of Google Docs is now available to users of the online office suite.
Last month, it was discovered that there were mobile-designed pages available with a link leading to docs.google.com/m, but at the time the URL resulted in a 404 error.
The Google Help Center has posted that the only devices officially supported are the iPhone and Blackberry devices while only mentioning for owners of other mobile devices that "a good rule of [...]

Just when you think there couldn't possibly be any more news to be posted about Web-based word processors and things, at least for a short while, Adobe comes out with an announcement of its intentions to get into the game. Yes, that’s right, Adobe is joining the fray.
I honestly can’t imagine why Adobe would do such a thing. It is more than anything else a graphics-based company, with its hand firmly planted in the worlds of photography, video, [...]