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Get Access to Web-based Microsoft Office Apps Now!

In the coming months, Microsoft will unveil a Google Docs like product that will let users create and edit Office documents in the browser itself without requiring a copy of Microsoft Office software.

The product, known as “Office Web Apps”, will include online versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Like Google Docs, Office Web Apps will be available for free and you can use it from all popular browsers on Mac or Windows PC even without the Silverlight plug-in.

How to get Microsoft Office Web Apps

Microsoft is expected to ship Office Web Apps alongside Microsoft Office 2010 sometime next year but here’s a simple hack that will help you access the preview version of Office Web Apps right now…

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Tags: Digital Inspiration, Excel, Microsoft, Office, Office Web Apps, PowerPoint, Silverlight, Word

Your Google docs: Soon in search results? | Webware – CNET

Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets accustomed to publicly publishing their documents might want to rethink exactly how publicly available they want to them to be.

Google on Thursday wrote in a blog post that “in about two weeks, we will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and other search engines…This is a very exciting change, as your published docs linked to from public Web sites will reach a much wider audience of people.”

via Your Google docs: Soon in search results? | Webware – CNET.

Tags: CNET News, Google Apps, Google Docs, search.

Social NetWok for Google Apps

SocialWok lays a social network on top of your email, Calendar, Docs, Sites and so on – something that the Google Apps suite was missing when being used as the main infrastructure for an organisation.

Tags: Google Apps, Social Network, Socialwok

How to Access Gmail When It’s Down – Gmail – Lifehacker

Last week’s Gmail outage is just the latest in a long series of outages in our favorite webmail application, but you don’t have to let that stop you from accessing your email and getting things done.

Access Gmail Through Alternate Modes

Just because the Gmail web interface went down doesn’t mean that Gmail is entirely down—often you can continue to access your account using one of the alternate web interfaces, which often are still accessible even when the regular web interface goes down.

via How to Access Gmail When It’s Down – Gmail – Lifehacker.

Tags: access, Gmail, Lifehacker

Embeddable Google Document Viewer

Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don’t have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online.

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Tags: Document Viewer, embed, Embeddable, Google Docs, PDF files, presentations

Seven Easy Ways to Integrate Your Google Apps – Google Apps – Lifehacker

The information you keep in Google apps like Gmail, GCal, Reader, and Voice doesn’t just live in one place. Check out a few easy but non-obvious ways to plug different Google apps together and share their data and features.

via Seven Easy Ways to Integrate Your Google Apps – Google Apps – Lifehacker.

Tags: GCal, Gmail, Google Apps, Google Reader, Google Voice, integrate, Lifehacker

google-docs-upload – Project Hosting on Google Code

A tool for batch upload documents to a Google Docs account with recursive traversing of directories. The tool supports PDF upload.

Total list of supported formats: csv, doc, docx, html, htm, ods, odt, pdf, ppt, pps, rtf, sxw, tsv, tab, txt, xls, xlsx.

To run the application you need Java 1.6 or greater installed.

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Tags: application, Batch Upload, documents, Google Docs, Java 1.6

Delete Large Email Attachments from your Gmail Inbox to Free Up Space

Free up Space in Gmail via IMAP – The Strategy

Now the more interesting part. Let’s see how we can free up some important disk space in our Gmail inbox using a simple strategy:

Step 1: Track down bulky email messages in your Gmail inbox that contain large file attachments.

Step 2: Save these attachments to the local hard drive.

Step 3. After the attachments are saved locally, remove them from the online mailbox without deleting the corresponding email message(s).

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Tags: attachments, Digital Inspiration, email, Gmail, Google Mail, IMAP, mailbox

Let Search Engines Index Your Google Documents and Presentations

If you have a pile of documents and presentations stored in your Google Docs account that you want to world to find via search engines, here’s a workaround.

The Problem with Google Docs

While Google Docs is a great place for uploading documents that you want to share with the world, there’s one basic problem with that approach – most people won’t ever find your public Google documents on the Internet unless they have the direct URLs.

via Let Search Engines Index Your Google Documents and Presentations.

Tags: Collaborative, Digital Inspiration, Docstoc, documents, Google Docs, index, Issuu, presentations, Scribd, Search Engine, sharing, SlideShare

Minimalist Gmail: How to Get Rid of the Non-Essentials

I’ve been running a Minimalist Gmail setup lately, stripped of nearly everything but, you know, emails … and I’m in love with its simplicity.

There’s something pure about having nothing but the essentials.

Now, some of you will recall a couple of other posts I did, and let’s quickly review them for background:

via Minimalist Gmail: How to Get Rid of the Non-Essentials.

Tags: Firefox, Gmail, Greasemonkey, Minimalist, simplicity, zenhabits