Google Docs Redesign, and Presentations in Safari

There are a few changes in Google Docs and Spreadsheets. First of all, there is the toolbar; it has now the same colour-scheme and background image as Google Presentations. Also, the buttons have been rearranged a bit: the save, discard, &c. buttons have been removed from the top of the page. Now there is a single save button in the toolbar; to discard, I suppose you just close out the window, or revert changes. I kind of miss those buttons, but the change does get rid of some unnecessary clutter. There is also a “print” button, which uses PDF to print better-looking documents. Here is a screenshot:

Also, Google Presentations seems to have limited support in Safari. Before, you couldn’t even open it in Safari, but now it opens fine, and I think that the performance is superior to that of it in Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Where the crap is my Google Presentations?????

 Google said it would happen in the Summer... Summer is almost over! I am still waiting!

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Google Docs supports more advanced Special Character entry: new feature, or am I ignorant?

I'm not sure if I just never noticed this before, but I think it is a new feature:

What do you think?

New Google Docs interface is a preview of Gmail, 2.0

UPDATE: Please digg me: http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Google_Docs_interface_is_a_preview_of_Gmail_2_0

At least, that's what I think.

I think that the next release of Gmail will add this folder functionality, and best of all, drag and drop. I have spent a ton of time creating a mockup of what I think Gmail 2.0 will look like, if they implement the new functionality from Google Docs:

Click the image for a bigger view.

Comment with your opinions, as always! :)

After update, Google Docs iGoogle gadget is kaput

Whoops! Looks like Google's latest really cool update to Google Docs broke its iGoogle gadget!

I hope it gets fixed soon.... Maybe it will have some new, really cool functionality!

New Google Docs interface is AMAZINGLY AWESOME!

Check it out:

It adds support for regular-type folders (no nesting), DRAG AND DROP, etc. It also adds nice new icons, and stuff.

So, go to the new Google Docs and Spreadsheets!

MORE UDATES ON GOOGLE PRESENTATIONS

Update: Please Digg me!!!

Well, I got into Preezo via a Salesforce test drive trial of ShareOffice. I got into Preezo from there, and it truly is Google Presentations. Check it out!:

Aren't those screenshots amazing? Google Presentations, or Google Preezo, or whatever you want to call it.

To try it out, go to http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002glFpAAI and hit Test Drive. Then you can access it from there.

I just wonder how Google Presentations made it onto ShareOffice...

Maybe its just a skin. Nahhhh!

Google Releases Google Presentations!

Update: Please Digg me!!!

Don't you just love Google? Always releasing products when nobody's looking.

OK, that was fun. I love dragging people in with 'truthy' headlines. But, in all reality, it might be real.

Read/WriteWeb reports that ShareMethods is launching an open mashup of various web services for a web office called ShareOffice. It integrates iNetWord, Preezo, and EditGrid.

All would be fine and dandy if the screenshot they included for Preezo weren't incredibly suspicious:

It looks exactly like Google Docs, except it is a presentation app. Here is a screenshot of Google Docs:

Could this be Google Office? Could Google be working with Preezo?

I checked out Preezo, but it is private, so I can't get an invite for a while. But I did find a screenshot of the actual program:

Unfortunately, however, this doesn't seem to be the only look of Preezo. Check out this screenshot from Salesforce:

More updates later.

Collaborated Document

I've shared a document with you called "Collaborated Document":
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajfsppnbpntg_118czt7vb&invite=ctjrzhx

It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs & Spreadsheets. To open this document, just click the link above.
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Hello, everyone! I was inspired by Ionut Alex Chitu (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/defining-google-collaboratively.html), so I want to see what happens with this.

Basically anyone can sign in to Google Docs and edit this document. Who ever starts editing it gets to decide what it will be about.

This could be the beginning of a Google Wiki...

Enjoy! If no one edits first, I will start it off and see what happens.

Posting to blog from Google Docs, Apps for Your Domain

You would think you would be able to post to your blog from Google Docs for Your Domain, just like normal Google Docs, but guess what? You can't! I would really love to be able to, but the feature simply doesn't exist.

Angering. I don't see how hard it should be to add a simple feature like that!

So, Google, please add that capability, because the Blogger editor really sucks, and it is a pain to use WriteToMyBlog, even if I like it. Thanks...