Pages come to Blogger In Draft

Pages have been a top requested feature, and they are now available on Blogger in Draft! 

Blogger Pages lets you to publish static information on stand-alone pages linked from your blog. For example, you can use Pages to create an About This Blog page that discusses the evolution of your blog, or a Contact Me page that provides directions, a phone number, and a map to your location.

You create a page similar to how you write a blog post. From Blogger in Draft click the Posting | Edit Pages tab, then click New Page. (Note: you can create up to 10 pages.)

Once your page is published, you can link to it from the new Pages widget. The Pages widget lets you add links to your pages as tabs at the top of your blog, or as links in your blog's sidebar.

In the Pages widget, you can decide which pages will have links, and in what order they will appear. You can also choose whether or not you want links automatically created for pages when you create them by checking or unchecking the box to the left of Add new Pages by default.

Finally, for those of you that have custom templates, your custom template may not automatically support Pages as horizontal "tabs". If you are familiar with HTML, follow these instructions on how to add Pages to your custom template.

[from Blogger in Draft]

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Download Official Gmail Tips & Tricks PDF Guide & Become Gmail Ninja

So many features Gmail team has added to Gmail Lab that most of us do not know all. All the features added to Gmail with intention of increasing our productivity & making it easier for us to efficiently manage emails.

If you want to become Gmail Ninja and master gmail tips and tricks then here is official Gmail Tips guide form Gmail Team. You can access all the Gmail tips and tricks at http://gmail.com/tips or download Gmail Tips PDF for free.

Gmail Tips & Tricks are grouped under different category based on number of email you receive. So if you are getting massive number of email then Gmail Master tips are for you.

Download Official Gmail Tips & Tricks PDF & become Gmail Ninja.

[via BlogDNA]

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Google Docs: Now for Storage as much as Collaboration

Google is extending Google Docs, allowing any kind of file to be uploaded up to 250 MB in size.

The move signifies how Google Docs is now a storage service as much as a collaboration platform. Enterprise customers may now store large files on Google Docs for free or a small cost. Additionally, the documents may be backed up using third-party applications.

Google is promoting the service as a way for enterprise customer to store files without the need for a thumb drive. That's a clear sign of how traditional storage devices may be bypassed by online alternatives.

Until recently, a thumb drive served as the best way to transport large files. But now, large files can be accessed from anywhere and can be used in a collaborative context. For example, Google Docs users may store files in a shared folder for group collaboration.

The capability to upload large files will be ready within the next few weeks. Users receive 1 GB in storage. Enterprise customers will also have the capability to add additional storage for $3.50 per GB per year.

Companies may use the Google Documents List API to sync files and provide additional backups.

Google is partnering with three companies to provide additional services:

• Memeo Connect for Google Apps is a new desktop application that offers an easy way to access, migrate, and synchronize files to Google Docs across multiple computers.
• Syncplicity offers businesses automated back-up and file management with Google Docs.
• Manymoon is a project management platform that makes it simple to organize and share tasks and documents with coworkers and partners, including uploading files to Google Docs.

Google Docs is emerging as the strongest player in the storage and collaboration space. Competitors like Box.net provide similar services but are far smaller than Google.

This is a trend to watch as cloud computing becomes more predominant and the concept of collaborating online becomes more palatable. This will be especially true as it becomes apparent how documents can be accessed anywhere on any device with potentially significant cost savings.

[from ReadWriteWeb.com ]

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Change Your Default Font and Styling in Gmail

Making your email stand out and more personal is a way a lot of people like to express themselves. Gmail has done it for you

A new function in Gmail labs lets you decide the default font and style your emails are composed in. This is how you change your Gmail messages from plain black text, to a default setting that is completely personalized:

How to change your default text styling

Browse to Labs in your Gmail account.

Look for the function called "Default Text Styling", the easiest way to find it is to use ctrl + F or command + F to do a search using these words on the page. It is about halfway down the list of Labs functions.

Change the function to Enabled, and save your changes by clicking on 'save changes' at the bottom or top of the page.

You are not brought back to your inbox view. Now, click on "Settings".


On the "General" tab in settings you will now see a box with Default Text Style about half way down the page:

You can highlight the sample text in the text box, and change the settings using the buttons displayed above. For example, you can change the font:

You can also change the color of your email text:


I changed both the font and color of my default text, and this is what it looks like now:


If, after playing around with the settings you regret your choices, and want to go back to the default settings and start over, you can do so very easily with the button on the far right:

After clicking this button, my settings went right back to the default:

Are your messages going to be more colorful now that you can change your default text settings?

[from GoogleTutor.com]

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