Google Docs Adds PDF Uploads [Google Docs]
You can’t edit them yet, but Google Docs users can now upload PDF documents and view, copy text from, print, and share them. Nice solution when you don’t have a reader handy, or when PDFs are part of a larger project—but note that competitor Zoho already offers PDF viewing for even non-registered users. [via]
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Google Tools Will Tell You If Your ISP Is Slowing Down Your Connection [Google]
And I was starting to feel unfulfilled by the stuff coming out of Google’s labs. Its senior policy director, Richard Whitt, says that they’re cooking up software that’ll tell you if your ISP is screwing with or slowing down your connection because you’re hogging too much bandwidth, and what exactly they’re doing to it. (There’s […]
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Google Docs Adds PDF Uploads and Previews
Earlier this week there were a few Google Docs users that noticed added support for PDF files, and today Google has confirmed it. This has been a standing request from Google users for some time, especially as other document-sharing tools like Scribd and Docstoc have ensured that nearly all file types can be uploaded […]
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Microsoft officially unhappy with Yahoo-Google deal
Nearly 24 hours after the deal is announced, the company finally goes on the record as saying it raises competitive issues.
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Google Drives Towards Microsoft and Adobe With Gears
Google launched Gears last May, and for the first year of its release it was considered a minor, niche product that a few developers and users may take advantage of to allow offline access to web applications. You can probably recall the arguments at the time: who needs offline access, connectivity is everywhere anyway, […]
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Make Your Own Feed Reader with Google Spreadsheets [How To]
The Digital Inspiration blog shows how to create your own web page or embeddable widget that shows live feeds from your choice of web sites. Using Google Spreadsheets’ publishing function, it takes only a little bit of cell hacking to pull in and customize feed items, and you simply publish only the cells containing […]
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Google Reader for iPhone Adds Notes, Email Sharing [IPhone]
You can now add notes or share items through Google Reader’s iPhone interface. Emailing an item opens your iPhone’s Mail app with the entire item—links, photos, and all—embedded in the body of the email. Thanks Andrew!
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Google Speeds Up Mobile Search
At Google, it’s all about speed. That’s doubly true for mobile applications. Google made some improvements to its mobile search, making it load faster on most mobile browsers. It does this by caching the page.
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