More Google tools

Following on from the last post, here are a few extra new Google services you may have missed.
Some months ago Google purchased a company called Jott, who had one of the best wiki collaboration technologies available.
They later customized the code by their own engineers and released Google Sites.
Here’s a short video showing this new service.
You […]

Google Docs now available while you’re not connected to the Internet

It was just a matter of time before Google came out with this feature which people had been asking for a long time.
Google Docs is now available in offline mode.
This means that you can get access to your Google documents while not actively connected to the Internet.
Once you re-establish Internet connectivity, all of your changes […]

bye bye Google Desktop…it was fun while it lasted

In order to assist you in digging out content that’s buried deep in the abyss of your hard disk folders, many players have come to market to try to be the dominant desktop search provider.
The main players are: Google Desktop Search, Yahoo Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and Copernic Desktop Search.
I have used them all, […]

Google Apps now directly competes with MS Office….Yeah right!

Google have recently released a new product bundling called Google Apps.
It’s a product bundling which includes:

email via Gmail
calendaring via Google Calendar
instant messaging via Google Talk
online word processor
online spreadsheet
web page creator
simple web-based admin consoldes

Another important point is that Google allows you to run all of the above on a domain name of your own choice. […]