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Google Docs is great but there are other options...

For the ones that are not comfortable with the features of  Google  Docs, there are other Web 2.o applications available.  One of them is  Think Free   which provides text editor, spreadsheet and presentation software with the same look and feel of MS Office.  They offer a webtop (like a desktop but in the Web) with 1GB capacity. There is group editing and group sharing.

They offer four products:

• ThinkFree Online:  Manage, access, and edit documents over the internet. Get the best Microsoft Office compatibility available. Share and get everyone's input on your story, schedule, or marketing materials.
• ThinkFree Desktop:  Word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications that let you create and edit Microsoft Office format documents. Compatible with Windows, Linux, and Macintosh systems.
• ThinkFree Server: Run ThinkFree on your servers. Easy centralized maintenance and a lower license cost reduce TCO. Edit remote documents online while providing security behind your firewal.
• ThinkFree Portable:  Office on the go. There are two versions:
  
  • It runs on U3 USB memory devices. The software runs on the portable device without worrying about the applications on the host computer you are using at the moment.
  • There is another portable version for iPods.  The software loads from the iPod into the memory of a computer that the iPod is connected to, regardless of whether the computer is running Mac OS X or Windows.

The first product is free, the other three are sold with license prices between $30 and $49 USD.

Jorge I. Blanco

Get thins done with Google Apps

Now take a look to a 17-minute video shows how to use Google Apps, with a focus on the integration of Gmail with other Google products to create a productivity suite of sorts. Here’s Rajen Sheth, a manager for Google’s enterprise products, doing a really nice job providing the overview:

Google Calendar.

Now you must ask yourself why use a Google Calendar, if you can keep track of all your apointments in your cell phone, Agenda, or even mail client like Outlook, Well let me tell you why, only one word, COLLABORATION, in this case im going to give you an example..

I have a calendar  on my isisconsulting.com.mx account, you can acces that form the left corner in the link CALENDAR..

Now you enter too the google calendar, and you will se a nice calendar like any other web application or outlook calendar, with some diferences..

Now you can crate you rask ans cretae shared calendars, for this you only need to follow this single Steps..

1.- Go to Calendars, and click in Calendar administration, blue link on the bottom.
2.- Create new calendar, we are going to create a Sap BO new calendar. must apear like this

3.- Now we have two calendars One personal Calendar an One Sap BO calendar, with diferent colors.
4.- Write some appointment in one of the calendars, like Meeting with John Tomorrw at 10:00

 

5.- Now if you notice is a Green appointment, you select wich calendar you want to  use. and if you click on it you will can edit all the information inside, and share your calendar with some one, like in this example i will invite like collaboration to mi friend John.

Now John is invited to the event i create,

6.- But we can share all the calendar to all the team, im going to invite to all the isis team to be Calendar collaboration. Jus click on the green arrow just the Sap Bo calendar and will apear the option to share all calendar, just invite all the tem members.. must view like this.

Ready you have your first Google calendar Class. Please take a look on this video..

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews_breeze/Calendar/index.html

Why Web-Based Applications?

Now that the Isis team is moving to Google Apps, some one can ask why use we use web-based applications - What are the advantages relative to desktop applications. Its a long story but let me make some comments about this. I found this is infomation that can be useful to understand what are WEB APPS..

Im going to be one of the examples, i have already installed in my Lap Top the Office suite from Micrsoft, because sometimes i need it, but normally i use  Google docs and spreadsheets for my needs and most of my task.

One nice thing about online
applications is that they are updated automatically, so you are always
using the current version. Collaboration and universal Web access to
your work are two other pluses.

• Viability of the vendor. Will the vendor be
  around in the future, or will it and your data disappear? We are lucky
  that some of the players are really big, such as Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) .
  It is probably best to stick with one of these. I would not hesitate to
  bet that the readers of this column probably have an alternate online
  e-mail account from Google, Yahoo, MSN , AOL, etc.
• Data privacy. We don't seem to worry
  about this with the big boys, but it would be fairly easy for someone
  to post an application to compile e-mail lists or even infect a user's
  computer with spyware
  or adware. Again, larger and more stable sites probably have more
  safeguards in place to protect your data and computer from hacking,
  viruses and identity theft. (Hah -- from recent news let's hope that
  they have better safeguards in place than federal government agencies!)
• Speed of use. High-speed computers
  and high-speed connections work best. Even with a really fast
  connection, many of these applications seem to be slower than an
  application residing on your computer. CF and I have both had Web-based
  applications time out on us.
• Price. Most of these online
  applications are not free. They may have an initial free trial period,
  but many charge a monthly or yearly fee after that. Many offer
  non-profit and academic pricing.

Now. there are a lot of web applications now running over the web, and for a very accesible price, or even free, let me tell you what can be a good formula for your computer or laptop and WEB APPLICATIONS.

You can have your computer with Linux, any Distribition, and you will have Open Office by Default, notice that comes with  every linux distribution, and for windows you need to purchase MS Office for $300 US Dolars, an then you can have both Web apps and Desktop Office aplications, nomally the files you most need you can create in Web apps and save it like Open Ofice or PDF, and you can modify that  file and upload to the web when you are connected again, normally people use Word Processors like Word processor, not need that  millions of functions that comes with MS office, and believe me this is only the  beginning, there are WEB BASE, databases, videoconfernce, CRM, Bussines Intelligence etc..

hope this be usefull for all..

Beginning with Google Apps

The   Isis team it´s now testing this new GOOGLE APPS, and let me explain you a little about what are searching for, firs of all, normally all Hosting services only give us like 10 Mb of mailboxes, thats crazy for  2007, normally i use almost 1 gig, only for my email, let me explain you why..

1.- I keep almost all mail that arrives that have some kind of use for me, maybe  some day that information can be of some kind  interest for someone, and there its going to be  mi life throw some mails.

2.- I use to send  images, video files, audio mails, and that can be done very easy combining GOOGLE MAIL, and GOOGLE TALK, then using Google Apps  we have both.

3.-I travel a Lot and i need to chek my mail form a lot of places, like the Airport, bus station, restorant, and other educational institutions, then the  web capability and mobile  capabilities of Google Apps match exactly with what i need for my life and work.

Here is a little video thet explain very brioefly how google apps work.

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews_breeze/Apps/index.html

And here is a little video for mail service from Google Apps.

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews_breeze/Mail/index.html