Inline Google Docs for Wordpress

Many of the Google Apps users have blogs based on Wordpress. This plugin would allow them to simply view some shared docs without having to leave their site. This plugin supports private Google Docs.

This will be a very useful plugin that I could visualize. Google has a very good ability to import Word and Excel spreadsheets. This plugin would allow you to display some work (Word and Excel) in your blog without having converting to HTML.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/inline-google-docs/

Google Gears now available for Safari for Mac

Google Gears, the browser plug-in that lets you access your favourite webapps when you're not online, is now out of beta and available for the Safari browser for Macs (in addition to Firefox on all platforms). Gears gives you offline access to Remember the Milk, Zoho Suite, Google Docs, and more webapps.

Google Video launched for Premier Edition (You Tube for Google Apps)

Google Video for business, the latest addition to the suite of collaboration tools in Premier Edition is available now. Video lets employees easily upload videos and securely share them with a few co-workers or their company's entire domain. 

Features of Google Video for business include: 

* Community features: adding tags, comments and ratings 

* Embed videos on web pages, including on Google Sites 

* High quality video streaming 

* 3GB of video storage per users account, which is shared by the entire domain 

If you've checked the option to "Automatically add new Google services" on the Domain Settings page of your control panel, Google Video for business is already available to your users. If this option  is currently unchecked, Google Video is not yet available to your users; you can activate the service from the US English version of the control panel at anytime. 

Once activated, users can get started with video at 

http://video.google.com/a/YOURDOMAIN.com. 

Learn more about Google Video for business: 

http://www.google.com/apps/collaboration 

Read the announcement on the Official Google Blog: 

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/video-sharing-goes-to-work.html 

Read the announcement on the Google Enterprise Blog: 

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/09/introducing-google-video... 

A version for Google Apps Education Edition customers that allows faculty and staff to upload and share videos with students will be available on September 8 for free trial until March 9, 2009, at which point it will cost $10 per user, per year. 

Google Apps Hacks

Yesterday we have introduced you to the book Google Apps Hacks! Here is summary again for those who missed and also at the end web address of a site offering download link.

Can Google applications really become an alternative to the venerable Microsoft Office suite? Conventional wisdom may say no, but practical wisdom says otherwise. Right now, 100,000 small businesses are currently running trials of Google office applications. So are large corporations such as General Electric and Proctor & Gamble. Google Apps Hacks gets you in on the action with several ingenious ways to push Google's web, mobile, and desktop apps to the limit.

The scores of clever hacks and workarounds in this book help you get more than the obvious out of a whole host of Google's web-based applications for word processing, spreadsheets, PowerPoint-style presentations, email, calendar, and more by giving you ways to exploit the suite's unique network functionality.

The following site gives link to a downloaded version:

http://knowfree.net/2008/05/04/google-apps-hacks.kf

Clever ways to use Google Apps - New book Google Apps Hacks

TITLE : Google Apps Hacks
AUTHOR : Philipp Lenssen
PUBLISHER : Make Books
ISBN : 059651588X
PUB DATE : 2008-04-16

Can Google applications really become an alternative to the venerable Microsoft Office suite? Conventional wisdom may say no, but practical wisdom says otherwise. Right now, 100,000 small businesses are currently running trials of Google office applications. So are large corporations such as General Electric and Proctor & Gamble. Google Apps Hacks gets you in on the action with several ingenious ways to push Google's web, mobile, and desktop apps to the limit.

The scores of clever hacks and workarounds in this book help you get more than the obvious out of a whole host of Google’s web-based applications for word processing, spreadsheets, PowerPoint-style presentations, email, calendar, and more by giving you ways to exploit the suite’s unique network functionality. You get plenty of ways to tinker with:

• Google Documents — Share and edit documents with others in real time, view them on the run with Google Docs mobile service, and use Google Notebook for web research
• Google Spreadsheets — Add real-time data to spreadsheets, and generate charts and tables you can embed in web pages
• Google Presentations — View them on a mobile phone and save them as video
• Gmail — Send email to and from a mobile phone, adjust Gmail’s layout with a style sheet, and a lot more
• iGoogle — Create your own gadgets, program a screenscraper, add Flash games, and more
• Google Calendar — Add web content events, public calendars, and your Outlook Calendar to this application
• Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google SketchUp: the new 3D modeling software tool
• Picasa, YouTube, and Google Video — discover new ways to customize and use these media management apps

In addition, Google Apps Hacks outlines ways you can create a simple web site with nothing but Google tools, including Page Creator, Blogger, Google Analytics, and content from other Google apps. This amazing collection just might convince you that Microsoft Office is not the last word in business applications. The price is certainly right.