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Google Apps Hacks
By: Philipp Lenssen
List Price: $29.99
Amazon Price: $17.84

Product Description
Can Google applications really become an alternative to the venerable Microsoft Office suite? Conventional wisdom may say no, but practical wisdom says otherwise. Right now, 100,000 small businesses are currently running trials of Google office applications. So are large corporations such as General Electric and Proctor & Gamble. Google Apps Hacks gets you in on the action with several ingenious ways to push Google's web, mobile, and desktop apps to the limit.

The scores of clever hacks and workarounds in this book help you get more than the obvious out of a whole host of Google's web-based applications for word processing, spreadsheets, PowerPoint-style presentations, email, calendar, and more by giving you ways to exploit the suite's unique network functionality. You get plenty of ways to tinker with:

Google Documents -- Share and edit documents with others in real time, view them on the run with Google Docs mobile service, and use Google Notebook for web research

Google Spreadsheets -- Add real-time data to spreadsheets, and generate charts and tables you can embed in web pages

Google Presentations -- View them on a mobile phone and save them as video

Gmail -- Send email to and from a mobile phone, adjust Gmail's layout with a style sheet, and a lot more

iGoogle -- Create your own gadgets, program a screenscraper, add Flash games, and more

Google Calendar -- Add web content events, public calendars, and your Outlook Calendar to this application

Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google SketchUp: the new 3D modeling software tool

Picasa, YouTube, and Google Video -- discover new ways to customize and use these media management apps

In addition, Google Apps Hacks outlines ways you can create a simple web site with nothing but Google tools, including Page Creator, Blogger, Google Analytics, and content from other Google apps. This amazing collection just might convince you that Microsoft Office is not the last word in business applications. The price is certainly right.

Google: The Missing Manual
By: Sarah Milstein
List Price: $24.99
Amazon Price: $3.50

Product Description
Google.com is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and is used around the world by millions of people every day. Sure, you know how to "Google it" when you're searching for something--anything!--on the Web. It's plenty fast and easy to use. But did you know how much more you could achieve with the world's best search engine by clicking beyond the "Google Search" button?

While you can interface with Google in 97 languages and glean results in 35, you can't find any kind of instruction manual from Google. Lucky for you, our fully updated and greatly expanded second edition to the bestselling Google: The Missing Manual covers everything you could possibly want to know about Google, including the newest and coolest--and often most underused (what is Froogle, anyway?)--features. There's even a full chapter devoted to Gmail, Google's free email service that includes a whopping 2.5 GB of space).

This wise and witty guide delivers the complete scoop on Google, from how it works to how you can search far more effectively and efficiently (no more scrolling through 168 pages of seemingly irrelevant results); take best advantage of Google's lesser-known features, such as Google Print, Google Desktop, and Google Suggest; get your website listed on Google; track your visitors with Google Analytics; make money with AdWords and AdSense; and much more.

Whether you're new to Google or already a many-times-a-day user, you're sure to find tutorials, tips, tricks, and tools that take you well beyond simple search to Google gurudom.

PC Annoyances, Second Edition
By: Steve Bass
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $10.95

Product Description
In every PC user's life, there's a point when desperate measures must be taken. Some push their PC off a pier or chuck it into a landfill. Others turn their former computing ally into a planter box. But don't give up on your PC yet--help is at hand. This easy to read, accessible book from PC World expert Steve Bass covers the waterfront of PC gripes and gremlins, with fixes for everything from Windows glitches to browsers that won't browse. Each fix is served up in bite-sized portions for quick reading--and even quicker fixing. A revised version of its best-selling predecessor, the 2nd edition offers 50 additional pages and over 120 new fixed annoyances. This reader-friendly book tackles problems related to a wide-ranging number of topics: Windows--King of Annoyances! learn how to kick Windows in the rear, overcome glitches, take charge of the interface, live with the dreaded Service Pack 2 Hardware--wake up your DSL, tame your notebook, silence your PC's fan, work wonders with your scanner, and save paper Email--from Outlook to Eudora! Defeat spam, avoid mailing list hassles, send big files, manage folders Microsoft Office--learn workarounds for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that help you back up the unbackable and automate data entry Internet--shake up IE, stop Flash, outsmart defaults, control Favorites, add the Google toolbar to Netscape Plus, you get access to more than one hundred utilities that will help you squash bugs, enhance your email, untangle a system snarl, and much more. If your PC has ever annoyed you (do we see several billion raised hands?), PC Annoyances is for you. With the flip of a page or two, you can fix that faux pas and have your PC purring again.

Google Gmail (Visual QuickStart Guide)
By: Steve Schwartz
List Price: $16.99
Amazon Price: $7.65

Product Description

Imagine never having to delete or file an old email--and still being able to find just the missive you need--and you begin to understand the incredible power of Google's new (free!) email service! With Google's legendary search engine as its backbone and offering an unheard of 1 gigabyte of storage space, Google's brand-new Gmail service promises to revolutionize the way we use email.

In this visual, task-based reference, author Steve Schwartz shows you exactly what you need to know to get your Gmail up and running fast--from determining system requirements to signing up for an account, configuring your system, sending and receiving email, fighting spam, managing email, using Gmail's labeling and filtering systems, and more. Simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screen shots, and a plethora of time-saving tips will have you up and running with Google's Gmail in no time.

Google Powered: Productivity with Online Tools
By: Jerri L. Ledford
List Price: $29.99
Amazon Price: $17.81

CUSTOMER REVIEW:
Very Good Basic Primer
I was looking for something that would serve as a good introduction to the array of Google applications, and this book is well-suited to that task.

What you'll get:

* A good introduction to 12 or 13 of the newer Google applications. Ledford spends a little more time on the applications that are likely to be more popular (mail, docs, spreadsheets) and a little less time on some of the others (Picassa, chat, etc.). Overall, I thought the focus was just about right.

* Ledford explains the basics of each application. He offers some tips and tricks to using each application. He breaks the discussion up around different features, where appropriate (e.g., Google mail vs. the calendaring function within GMail). Along the way, readers will learn why a particular app might be more or less useful to them than competing applications (e.g., Google spreadsheets vs. Microsoft Excel). Ledford points out the most significant advantages AND drawbacks of each Google App, which is quite helpful.

* For my purposes, I was interested in evaluating the whole Google suite of applications so that I could consider whether to move my organization away from Microsoft's Office suite and toward online applications. This book is a great first-effort in helping assemble that sort of information. Undoubtedly, much more will be written about Google's suite of applications. As one of the first (if not the first) to undertake this endeavor, however, Ledford does a commendable job.

What you won't get:

* Extensive details on any one application. For example, if you want to become a GMail power user, then this book is not for you. Consider this a very basic introduction to the variety of Google applications. For an in-depth discussion, you would need to look elsewhere.

* A substitute for playing around with each application itself. It is one thing to read about Google's application suite; it is another to use and practice on the apps themselves. In my opinion, there is no substitute of knowledge gained through trying to use each of these applications. I read this manual while on a vacation in Spain, where I had no internet access. I likely would have found it more useful if I could have used some of the tips and recommendations in real time. That said, Ledford's book still serves its purpose as a good introductory guide.

Overall, I would recommend this to anyone who wants to know more about Google Apps but was afraid to ask, and to anyone who is considering whether to attempt a life without Microsoft Office. There are other alternatives to Office, but Google's Apps probably are the most prominent of them, and Ledford's book serves as a useful introduction to them.

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Whoa, Nellie. I have never heard Robert Scoble get angry before. But this morning, as I prepared to have my weekly laugh with The Gillmor Gang on the elliptical cross trainer, I heard the same decibel-level discourse I heard on Hardball with Chris Matthews this week. And what was it about? It was about data. Who can get passionate about the subject of data. The answer: everybody. It is the biggest issue on the internet as we all become users of interactive websites, rich Internet applications, • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
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Google needs to add a couple more thousand servers on its racks. Been getting a lot of these 502 Server Errors lately. This time, it?s the Ad Manager I can?t access for several hours now. Imagine if these crawls up into GMail or Google Search? 502 Service Temporarily Overloaded: Server congestion; too many connections; high traffic. Keep trying until the page loads. Actually, there?s been several incidents when the Search service was down but it was for shorter periods (several minutes).

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