Google or DropBox? Or both?
I’m torn. I use Google Apps. I use DropBox. I love ‘em both.
I also have gigs of photos, docs and music I’d like to backup online.
DropBox is $99 per year for 50 gigs.
Google is $20 for 80 gigs. Or for the same price as DropBox ($100) I’d get 400 gigs on Google!
But DropBox syncs so nicely. (Except that I can’t specify to not sync via 3G!)
And the DropBox UI is so nice. And it integrates right into your file system.
But we use Google Picasa at home, and it plays nicely with Google’s cloud storage. And we use Google Apps at work, so sharing would be easier. And we now have User Managed Storage on Google - which beats giving everyone equal disk quotas which they don’t all use at the same rate…
Arrghh! Come on Google, just buy DropBox and mash ‘em together.
Google launches Cloud Connect for MS Office
Watch the video for an explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H12teRzulW0&feature=player_embedded
Looks promising! Document version control too. Nice.
Source: googleenterprise.blogspot.com
Outlook 2010. Nothing’s changed.
I upgraded to Office 2010 this week. Yep, as much as I virtually live online and run apps in my browser and the cloud, I do occasionally need to use some of the desktop Office apps.
It’s been several years since I last used Outlook for email - and boy am I grateful. Google apps works wonders for me (and for my company), and over 2 million other companies who’ve made the switch.
The standard Office apps have been bling-ed a bit and seem a little snappier, but other than that, after a week of using the 2010 version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio I haven’t experienced much end-user innovation.
I’d heard a few good things about Outlook 2010 from some quarters and so (reluctantly) installed it too. I connected it via IMAP to my Google Apps account and spend a few hours using it to see for myself. I must say, I am underwhelmed. And as you can see from the screenshot - it’s buggy too (one of several crashes and error messages I got!)
Uninstalled Outlook, and back to the trusty web-apps.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has moved 11,200 of their crew members to Gmail as part of their Google Apps Premier Edition deployment
Just don’t call it that!
I have been waiting for this moment for years. Google has finally given is cloud file storage for ALL our docs and files.
I know DropBox have been offering this (free) for a while - and I use it, and love it - but having an integrated solution for file storage with Google Apps is a killer for us. It means file sharing, folder sharing, doc syncing, cloud-based freedom and off course offsite backups.
Bring it on!
Source: googlesystem.blogspot.com
Google Contacts - now deals with duplicates
As someone who has nearly 2000 contacts - I often get dupes. I manage my contacts on Google apps, syncing with my contacts on my iPhone, Plaxo, Twitter, LinkedIN, Facebook and a few others I can’t even remember!
Google is smart enough to add a contact you mail frequently, or keep multiple records of the same email address for the same contact (work, home, or previous work). But this often leads to multiple records for the same person.
Scrolling through 2000 names on your phone is tricky! Thanks Google - this is going to help!
Official Gmail Blog: One button to merge all duplicate contacts
Source: gmailblog.blogspot.com
Over 2 million companies made the switch to Google Apps.
Glad we were one of the first!
via the Google Apps Blog
Source: googleenterprise.blogspot.com
