Archive for Google

Big Attachments In Gmail

You can now send really huge attachments to Gmail using the new Google Drive integration. Here is Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla to tell you all about it. Read More→

Google While Offline

Offline Apps

google_iconGoogle Chrome can be used offline with some applications (Google applications at first but there should be more later.)

There are different methods for each of  the Google applications. Let me explain:

Gmail – At the present time this is the only way to use Gmail offline and that is using a Chrome app called “Gmail Offline” of course. It does not look much like Gmail. It is more like “MS Outlook”. Read More→

Gmail and GDrive Integration

gmail-google-drive4Google has announced that soon Gmail and Google Drive will work together.  If you want to add an attachment to an email you will not have to leave Gmail to grab a URL from a document in Gdrive.  You will browse to the file as if you were adding it from your computer.  This will make it a lot easier to share files via email.

Here’s how it works.   Read More→

Google Drive

I’ve been Google Drive for over a week and I truly think it is a great service. Gdrive integrates your “Google Docs” and your desktop computer. Sort of like “DropBox” except all of the documents you created in “Google Docs”  are there also; not as actual files but as links to those files in the cloud. Read More→

New Google+ Features

This week we saw some great new features in Google+. Most of what’s new is to Hangouts.

  1. Search – First is the one everyone has been waiting for and that’s search. When Plus first came everyone said, “Are you kidding me no search? It’s Google for Christ sake!” Now it’s here. It is very well implemented. It is a great way to find new people to Circle. Read More→

Google+ Tips

Still trying to figure out how to use Google+? Veronica has a few helpful hints on getting the most out of the newest social network on this Tekzilla Daily. Read More→

Turn Off Email Notifications In G+

Hate those irritating Google+ emails notifying you that someone’s added you to their circle? On today’s Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to make sure that you only get the emails you actually want. Hate those irritating Google+ emails notifying you that someone’s added you to their circle? Read More→

Google+ Pros and Cons

I’ve been using Google+ for about a month and I think it is fantastic. I’ve been using it to communicate what I think is important in the tech world mostly. I’ve also been reading a lot of post from others, Trey Ratcliff the photographer, Leo Laporte and others in TWiT family to name a few.  Read More→

Using Google+

I just got a Google+ invitation a few hours ago and I’ve been using it ever since. Google+ is like Facebook (more like Friendfeed but you don’t know what that is). It is a little like Twitter and it is a little like Skype. The really great thing about G+ is that it is easy to create groups (called circle) and only share with those circles that you want to share. Read More→

Google +

Google has finally come out kinda-sorta with their long awaited social application. Well it’s more like applications. Called called Google + it has many great features the first is the ability to create groups and to only share particular things with that group. Your grandmother wont see how drunk you were at that party. Read More→