When considering cloud computing, one of the questions we often here is “How can I get my data out if I decide to change services?”. Over the past few months, Google has confirmed its commitment to ensuring data portability. This week, they delivered on this promise with export capabilities that let you export multiple files […]
There’s now a new Google Sites Data API in Labs that allows client applications to access, publish and modify content within a Google Site. With this new API, Google Apps administrators can: Retrieve, create, modify, move, and delete pages, comments, attachments and other content. Review the revision history across the Site. Monitor all, add, modify […]
One of the legitimate criticisms of Google Docs has been that the menu options and user interfaces differ between Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations. Just released, Google has updated Google Docs to minimize the differences between the apps. Learn more and see the updated menu bars here.
Push mail is now supported on iPhone and Windows Mobile devices using Google Sync. Learn how to access the new features here.
Users of the Premier and Education Editions now have improved controls over access controls and publishing for Google Docs. Administrators can now determine if users are allowed to publish documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to the Internet. Get the details on how to manage the settings here.
When managing permissions in Google Sites, you can make others owners, collaborators, or viewers. You now have the ability to remove yourself completely from site permissions. As such, you can fully hand over ownership to others. Get the scoop here.
Directory Sync allows mid-size and larger organizations to manage Google Apps user accounts through Active Directory or other LDAP servers on the internal network. The latest Google Apps Directory Sync version (1.6.7) now supports suspend user functionality and other new use cases to make deployment easier such as: The ability to sync users as suspended […]
If you work with drawings in Google Docs, you will be pleased to learn that you now have more flowchart shapes and the ability to format multi-line text boxes. While not revolutionary, these incremental changes improve usability. Learn more here
Google Forms have always been a convenient easy way to gather simple information, but have lacked some of the features found in commercial survey tools. We are happy to share that this is changing. With several recent rounds of updates, Google Forms have are maturing. The first round of enhancements include: A new Grid question […]
Blackberry offers an enhanced Gmail plug-in that gives you the following capabilities: Archive a message Add a star to a message Add a label to a message Report spam email message Perform local and remote searches View related messages conversation view These features work within the plug-in but do not effect email in Messages application. […]
