Google Presentation

Posted at Maor David's blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/maordavid/archive/2007/09/26/google-presentation.aspx

Google updated recently their Applications suite with the addition of Google Presentation. It was added to all of docs.google.com including Google Apps For Your Domain, which I also use.

Nice things in this application

• It looks just like PowerPoint!
  
• Great Revisions support - many copies are saved all the time, so you'll never lose anything.
  
• You can start a presentation then give folks a URL and they can join up and watch.
  
• Upload a PPT .
  
• You can chat about the presentation being watched.
  
• Save as a ZIP file. They'll create a "self-contained" ZIP with a single HTML file and the assets you need to run the presentation using any browser.

But there also annoying things:

No spellcheck support.

Can't link to pictures online, have to upload.

No animations, shapes, auto-layouts, wizards, etc.

Very basic. No PowerPoint-like experience on the web.

JavaScript errors.

You can upload PPT, but you can't Save As PPT.

Nice application but I think I'll wait to the next versions.

Also posted at: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/maordavid/archive/2007/09/26/google-presentation.aspx

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ZOHO - online office suite

I saw today an amazing online office suite: ZOHO.

Zoho is an a product of an Indian company called AdventNet and it includes everything from word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, notebooks to wikis, online databases, project management.

Guys, I tried it: It's amazing.

A lot of features which inclueded in MS Office suite included here...and its totally free!!

Comparision to Google Docs is unavoidable: It's better!

Try it.

 

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New and better document management in Google Docs

Google docs looks amazing!

 

Navigation

The new home page has a sidebar that lets you filter the documents by tag (renamed to folder in the interface), by type or by collaborator. You can now see all your files by default, not only the documents or spreadsheets active in the last 30 days.
The folders can now have descriptions and you can send a document to a folder by using drag and drop!

Sorting

Google removed the option to sort the files by name or author, so the only available sort option is by date.

Search

The search box includes an autocomplete feature for file names, folders, authors.