Google Apps: Users can now buy additional storage if you need it

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Google Apps Users can now add additional space to their Google Apps accounts. Starting at $5 per year for another 20gb is an incredible price and great for companies that have held off moving to Google due to space limitations. They even offer a whopping 16TB for $4,096 dollars for companies that need to store it all. See the official news below for all the details. From Google Enterprise Blog: Welcome to User Managed Storage As more and more people discover the power and flexibility of creating and collaborating … [Read more...]

Google Update: 12 new file types supported in Google Docs Viewer

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12 new file types supported in Google Docs Viewer Google Docs Viewer allows users to quickly view PDFs, Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations online by viewing them in the browser without downloading them locally. New files supported: Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX) Apple Pages (.PAGES) Adobe Illustrator (.AI) Adobe Photoshop (.PSD) Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF) Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG) PostScript (.EPS, .PS) TrueType (.TTF) XML Paper Specification … [Read more...]

Google Apps Notifications

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Google has updated the notifications to have pop-up style notifications when new email arrives. Currently I use Google Notifier but since I have Chrome open 24/7 this will be a little more useful and fewer things will be running. Google also added an unread count to Chrome, see below. Google Release Info Released on 1/26/2011 Desktop notifications for email and chat are now available for all Google Apps domains. These are HTML5 desktop notifications which display pop-ups whenever a chat message or new email … [Read more...]

12 Fantastic Apps For Small Business!

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As we prepare for the end of 2010, we celebrated 12 fantastic apps for business. Each series of posts highlight one app for the 12 days before Christmas but in case you missed any we have the summary below. 12 Days of Christmas App Wrap-up Day 1: Dropbox Day 2: WordPress Day 3: Google Apps Day 4: Evernote Day 5: Truecrypt Day 6: Pandora Day 7: Firefox Day 8: Hootsuite Day 9 TeamViewer Day 10: Roboform Day 11: Pidgin & Adium Day 12: Jing Have an app that you have loved using this … [Read more...]

Day 3: Google Apps – 12 Days of Christmas Apps

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On the 3rd Day of Christmas my true love gave to me.... Google Apps! Google Apps has had an incredible year! Google has added so many features in 2010 that it would be very hard to try and list them all. Even as this post is being written a new feature was released, allowing business people with assistants and secretaries to give access to their accounts without giving out their main username and password (more info)! Google Apps Highlights: Google Apps account can now be used to access 61 Google Services from … [Read more...]