Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix for everything Google!
In this edition:
- Google Finance gets more real-time quotes
- Google Map Maker
- Google Doc creation shortcuts
- Customize Google forms
- Personalized YouTube homepage
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Googleholic for June 24, 2008
Googleholic for June 20, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
In this edition:
- Upcoming AdWords system maintenance
- Sites gets new features
- YouTube tries long-form
- YouTube introduces Screening Room
- Google Docs on ultraportables
- Google Finance adds cash tracking
Googleholic for June 17, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
In this edition:
- Get the Google Toolbar for Firefox 3
- Improve efficiency with Google Docs
- Google Code Jam '08
- Googolopoly, the game
- Gmail and Google Reader tips
Googleholic for June 13, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
- Upload PDFs to Google Docs
- Google I/O sessions now online
- Edit the Google Mobile page
- Easy way to export gCal ICS files
- Use Google Docs for Craigslist ads
- Google's agreement with Yahoo!
Googleholic for June 10, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
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Street View expands
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Docs gets PDF storage
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Feedburner's new address
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Google Reader, Contra-style
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Grand Theft Google
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GBroswer rumors
Googleholic for May 23, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
- A new page view for Google Docs
- Reminder: Update your AdSense account to a Google Account to stay active
- Google launches Safe Browsing diagnostic
- Weezer goes YouTube All-Stars happy
- Round-up of other Google stories we covered this week
Googleholic for May 3, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
In this edition:
In this edition:
- Google expands iPhod/iPod Touch interface and adds News
- Customize your Google Docs with CSS
- YouTube gets a new player
- Google launches private beta for Google Analytics for Blogger
Googleholic for April 29, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
In this edition:
- Street View for Google map directions
- Google's PageRank for images: VisualRank
- Stock Screener for Google Finance
- Speaker Notes and YouTube videos for Google Presentations
Googleholic for April 25, 2008
In this edition:
- Google Finance gets a revamp
- Google Product Search updated; still lousy
- Google Docs initial offline rollout complete
- Goolgle annoyances
Googleholic for April 8, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
- Google App Engine launches; spaces already filled, scalability questioned
- YouTube adds C-SPAN channel
- Use Google Docs for social spreadsheets
Add page numbers and other information to Google Documents
As Google Docs slowly begins to take form as a legitimate office replacement, there are still a few glaring feature absences. One of those is the inability to add custom-formatted page numbers or dates to your documents. If you don't mind rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands a little dirty, Google Operating System tells us how to add page numbers and other information to your document's header or footer. This involves a little HTML editing, so consider yourself warned.
Note: If you simply want page numbers added to your Google Doc, and you don't need to customize them by adding color, size, or scheme, then you're better off exporting the document as a PDF and selecting the bullet that adds page numbers to your document. In other words, the following method is useful only if you want more customization than Google Docs by default provides.
In order to add a header that displays, for example, "Page (current page number) of (total number of pages)", open your Google Doc, click on "Edit HTML" (right next to the Revisions tab), and add this code at the very beginning of the code:
<div style="text-align: right;" class="google_header">Page <span class="google_pagenumber">1</span> of <span class="google_pagecount">1</span></div>
To add the same information to the footer, add this code to the bottom of the document:
<div style="text-align: right;" class="google_footer" id="google_footer">Page <span class="google_pagenumber">1</span> of <span class="google_pagecount">1</span></div>
Now that the code is in, you can customize it any way you desire.
Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta now available
One word comes to mind when looking at Microsoft's answer to Google Docs and the other up-and-coming online office suites (hint: it's not the word that Microsoft continues to splay across their advertisements).
Lame.
To spare Microsoft more misery, we've come up with a "what might have happened" story that will hopefully allow us to better understand why their new online workspace is so underwhelming.
Continue reading Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta now available
New Google Docs feature makes mass surveys easy
Forms are created in Google Docs spreadsheets via the share tab, where you'll need to make sure you select "to fill out a form." Multiple-choice or free-response questions can be added as you wish. Then add some email addresses, and wait for the responses to arrive. Survey-takers don't need to sign-in and can access the survey through an email message or a link. The responses will be added to your spreadsheet automatically.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
gDocsBar: Firefox sidebar to manage your Google Documents
gDocsBar is a new sidebar extension for Firefox that gives you instant, always-on access to your entire collection of Google Documents. With built-in search and filtering, and easy browsing of your online documents, gDocsBar will quickly become a "how did I do anything before this?" Firefox add-on. Once installed, you'll be prompted to login to your Google account (you do have one by now, don't you?). Don't worry about the vulnerability of your login information; the credentials are sent to Google directly over SSL.
Now that you're logged in, you'll see a list of your Google Documents, including Spreadsheets and Presentations. You have the option to sort them by date, title, or author, in ascending or descending order. There are also tabs for each type of Google Doc, so that, if you so choose, you can see only one type of document at a time. All your documents are instantly searchable by name, author, or content.
Uploading documents to Google Docs has never been easier than with gDocsBar. Simply drag and drop a file to the upload section at the bottom of the gDocsBar sidebar, and the file is instantly uploaded. Word to the wise: it has to be a file type that Google Docs supports, or else you will run into errors.
If you're a steady user of Google Docs and Firefox, this is a no-brainer.
[via Webware]
Googleholic for January 29, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
This edition covers:
Instead of purchasing airtime based on time slots or demographics, Google Adword's TV ads will let advertisers bid for specific shows. From the looks of it, this will give advertisers a lot more flexibility when setting up budgets for television advertising.
Blogger is infused with three more languages
Blogger has added support for three more languages, bringing its total number of supported languages up to 40. The new languages available are Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew, and are fully fleshed out with right-to-left features such as right-to-left templates, as well as bi-directional input to give users flexibility in how they want their posts to appear. If you would like to use these new languages on your Blogger blog (or any of the other languages for that matter) you change the language settings from the dashboard.
Accessing Google Docs offline
Google Blogoscoped gave Google Gears a shot to see what kind of offline functionality could be had with Google Docs. Unfortunately, from the looks of it, offline capabilities are capped to renaming and starring files - viewing and editing is not possible at this point in time. So although the ability to "access" your Google Docs files offline is there, it is going to need a little more work before it's going to become standard fare for Google Docs users.
And other bits of Google we tracked since the last issue:
Google Reader adds timestamp - For those that do not enjoy the wait between the time it takes for a published post to update, the timestamp in Google Reader will let you at least know just how large the discrepancies are.
Google adds new search result views - If you're feeling adventurous and want to experience what it's like to be on the cutting edge of search, Google has just released three new experimental search views for you to play around with - map view, timeline view, and info view.
- Google TV ads to let advertisers bid for shows
- Blogger is infused with three more languages
- Accessing Google Docs offline
Instead of purchasing airtime based on time slots or demographics, Google Adword's TV ads will let advertisers bid for specific shows. From the looks of it, this will give advertisers a lot more flexibility when setting up budgets for television advertising.
Blogger is infused with three more languages
Blogger has added support for three more languages, bringing its total number of supported languages up to 40. The new languages available are Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew, and are fully fleshed out with right-to-left features such as right-to-left templates, as well as bi-directional input to give users flexibility in how they want their posts to appear. If you would like to use these new languages on your Blogger blog (or any of the other languages for that matter) you change the language settings from the dashboard.
Accessing Google Docs offline
Google Blogoscoped gave Google Gears a shot to see what kind of offline functionality could be had with Google Docs. Unfortunately, from the looks of it, offline capabilities are capped to renaming and starring files - viewing and editing is not possible at this point in time. So although the ability to "access" your Google Docs files offline is there, it is going to need a little more work before it's going to become standard fare for Google Docs users.
And other bits of Google we tracked since the last issue:
Google Reader adds timestamp - For those that do not enjoy the wait between the time it takes for a published post to update, the timestamp in Google Reader will let you at least know just how large the discrepancies are.
Google adds new search result views - If you're feeling adventurous and want to experience what it's like to be on the cutting edge of search, Google has just released three new experimental search views for you to play around with - map view, timeline view, and info view.
