With Google docs you can share, create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with people all over the world. It offers you free Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application. What's more you never need to worry about overlapping revisions or heavy email attachments. Above all, you can store everything online, that implies you need no additional back up and that you can access the files from anywhere you like. With so much to avail and all for free, I find its a great tool to manae your documents online. Still where you get stuck is that how would you get Word and Excel 2007 documents into the cloud? Well there's a simple solution, let's see what's it.
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Google refuses to stop these days. After upgrading GMail and Google search, its now time for an amazing and yet simple feature for Google Docs, insert drawing. With it you can now create and insert drawings directly into your Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The tool, just like Google's other products, is very easy to use with less clumsy options and good enough to do draw and express. It's easy to create drawings using lines, free hand scribbles, text labels and a large choice of shapes that you can move, resize, rotate and adjust. Group, order, align and distribute and other features are available when you select objects you've drawn.

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iPhone was hot, but its getting hotter with things turning up in its favor. Well, this time its with Google's update spreadsheets. For those of you complaining about iPhone's incapability to edit Google docs spreadsheets can now perk up. Google's updated  spreadsheets has come up with new features that iPhone's can enjoy. Android and Symbian would also get a share of the pie. Full article (268 words) »

Google has a very useful feature i.e. Google docs as it lets you have your own bit of storage in the internet so that you can save your documents in your account. But are you sure that your data are really private and secure? If you're currently sharing spreadsheets, documents or presentations using Google Docs and most importantly if you think they may contain sensitive information, then go double-check the permissions settings of those shared docs right now.

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One of the big challenges in using Google Docs was editing documents big windows which would cause the writing canvas to stretch the entire browser width. On wide-screen displays, this often meant viewing entire paragraphs on just a line or two of the display. When the was printed out or sent to another medium where the width was sized down to something reasonable, you may be in for a surprise. Google introduced "Fixed Width Page View" which is very similar to Microsoft Word's Print Layout view. This brings Google Docs much closer to Microsoft Word. However there is still a small niggle but with a simple solution.

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