¤  Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Google Docs gets new feature and tools

Google Docs just added some new features to its Presentation component. It seem that the Feedback team got was good, and they've been busy adding more features that people have been requesting to make their product better. As they announced on Google Docs blog:

  • Save as PDF, for when you really need to download your presentation as a file.
  • PDF-based printing options (save trees and ink!). Go to File->Print, select how many slides you'd like on a page (up to 12), and preview your choice.
  • Vector shapes, for your basic diagramming and drawing needs. Use block arrows to point out what's important, or say something in a call-out bubble.


Earlier this year, Google Docs team also added a feature that allows us to embed Google Presentation file as Flash-base slides how to any site. Unfortunately, Google Presentaion still lacks some important features like Save as PPT and Slide Master, etc.

Another news related to Google Docs: Google Data team has released a new Windows client called DocList Uploader that lets you easily upload multiple documents from the desktop to your Google Docs account. Files can be uploaded to Google Docs via the right-click menu or drag-and-drop functionality. You can download the DocList Uploader from Google API Blog to have your own experience of the new windows-client from Google.

Also, if you're Firefox lover you can install gDocsBar which is a Firefox extension. The gDocsBar allows you always-on access to your entire collection of Google Documents in Firefox sidebar. 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. 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 Docs, so that, if you so choose, you can see only one type of document at a time. All documents are instantly searchable by name, author, or content.



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¤  Saturday, January 26, 2008

Using Blogger’s OpenID with your own site

As we all know, we can use OpenID to post comments on Blogger's blogs. Not only that, we can use our Blogger's URL as an OpenID. But the coolest feature about Blogger' OpenID is that you can use your websites, blogs, or any URLs as your OpenID and still use Blogger as your OpenID provider.

The feature is called "delegation". That means you can use your non-BlogSpot URL as your OpenID identity, but still login to any site that accepts OpenID authentication with the Google Account you use on Blogger.

In my case, I can use http://www.evnp.com/ as my OpenID, while my main Blog is hosted at http://huycb.blogspot.com - which is my real OpenID provided by Blogger.

All you need to do is just add the HTML code below to the <HEAD> section of your site (ex: http://www.yoururl.com/)

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://draft.blogger.com/openid-server.g" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://yourbloggerblog.blogspot.com" />

Change "http://yourbloggerblog.blogspot.com" to your blog’s URL then you're done.

You can now use http://www.yoururl.com/ as your OpenID identity on any OpenID sites, and you will be directed to Blogger to sign in.

[via BloggerInDraft]


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¤  Friday, January 25, 2008

Improved YouTube For Mobile

YouTubeYouTube just has an excited update for its mobile site. You're now able to watch all the YouTube's videos on your mobile. The YouTube's moble site is available at m.youtube.com.

To use the mobile interface, you need a phone that is able to stream 3GP files over RTSP. But there's a better way to play YouTube videos from your mobile phone: a Java (J2ME) application available for some phones like Sony Ericsson K800, W880 and Nokia S60 3rd Edition. YouTube's mobile application also lets you upload videos from your phone. To install it, just go to m.youtube.com/app on your phone and follow the steps described in YouTube's help center.

According to YouTube's blog, here are what's changed:

  • Millions of videos: YouTube for Mobile now features tens of millions of videos, which includes most of the videos already available on YouTube.com and your own uploaded videos.
  • Community on the go: You can now access your YouTube account, your Favorites, your own uploaded Videos and your favorite Channels. You can also share, rate, and comment directly from the mobile website to other YouTube users.
  • Mobile phone uploads available within moments: Now if you upload videos from your phone to YouTube via email/mms, they will appear within moments on both m.youtube.com and www.youtube.com. This means you can easily share videos you capture on your phone with your friends and family. All you need to do is create a mobile profile at www.youtube.com/mobile.
  • Global: YouTube for Mobile is available and localized for the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Germany, and Russia.
"YouTube for Mobile is all about bringing video to mobile phones. We believe in providing the best user experience possible for all users, which in some cases means different YouTube solutions for different phones," explains the YouTube blog.

So just point your phone browser to m.youtube.com and check out the latest changes!


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¤  Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Will Blogger catch up the race?

Recently, Wordpress has increased its free storage for all hosted blogs from 50 MB to 3 GB. What’s the impressive space for a blog?

It’s about 3 times as much free space as Google’s Blogger offers. Even more, the storage is directly attached to WordPress’s blog account, and does not restrict to any filetypes – unlike Blogger, the storage is offered via Picasa Web Albums and we can upload image only.


WordPress VS. Blogger


Increasing storage is a big deal in online services. Will Blogger catch up the race with the big W(ordpress)?



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¤  Monday, January 21, 2008

Associate email addresses with your Google Account

Google has just recently added an option to associate additional email addresses with your Google Account. You can do so by sign in to your Google Account and try to Edit your Personal information, you now should see the option right after "Edit Personal Information" section.
Note that, you cannot add email addresses already associated with another Google Account or Gmail addresses. If you try to do so, you'll get an error explaining: "A user with the email you specified already exists." or "You can not associate a Gmail address with your Google Account".

Once added, Google sends a verification email to the additional email address to verify you have access to it. You have to click on the link inside verification email and sign in to your Google Account again to verify. At the sign in page, Google explaining that "This will allow Google services to recognize that [your associated email address] and your Google Account are associated (e.g. all invitations sent to this email address will automatically appear in your Google Calendar)."


For now, it seems the only benefit to doing this is for Google Calendar.

You can also use any of your additional email addresses to sign in to your Google Account instead of using your username or Gmail address, but no doubt this will be used for other services too.

But I think, it would be nice if Google let us link multiple Google Accounts together so that we could manage all Google Account at once (Like the feature we have in Microsoft Live Account - Link Windows Live IDs)


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¤  Sunday, January 20, 2008

Hi there, I'm back!

It's quite long since I wrote my last post here, in my blog. But now, I am back on track. "Better late than never".

Everything seem to be OK. Here are some photos taken since I went back Vietnam.








It's just to update some information about me.


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¤  Sunday, December 23, 2007

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all of you.


I hope, you have a Wonderful Holiday Season!


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¤  Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Counting down ...


Just to tell you that I'm still ALIVE, and I'll be back soon enough to continue what I've done here.

I'm gonna have something to do in short period of time, after that ... my awaited day. In the mean time, I could not maintain the site regularly. But everything should be done before the end of August.

Counting down to 02 September 2007




Song : Duong Ve Que Huong
Singer: Quang Le


Sorry If you can not understand the song. Cos, it's sung in Vietnamese.


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