Tagged: Google Docs

FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs – Cyberduck! Everyones friend.

 

FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs. I use this and it works great. I have used other Mac FTP programs but this is just full of features. Something that would be very useful to laptop users it is synchronization feature. I am surprised more people don’t use it.

Here is another program that is free and seems to be open source called FUGU. It uses the built-in capability and is only a front end.

 

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Saving to a pdf in Google docs is twice the size of a word file and larger than Word saving to a PDF

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Has anyone used Google docs to save to a word file and also to a pdf? Without changing anything between the two the PDF is 180kb and the word doc is 90kb. Isn’t the advantage of a PDF that it compresses unnecessary information? When I compress the same file from the 90kb word file in Microsoft Word 2011 to a PDF on a Mac I get 150kb. What is the other 30k doing in that PDF file? Has anyone else noticed that Google docs makes chunky PDF’s?

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Free Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Beta Download v.2

Mihai Andrici said here

“While Office 2010 for Windows has been tagged with a June 2010 release date, the Office for Mac OS X was named Office 2011 for Mac, with a release date set for this holiday season. Fortunately, if you want Office 2011 for Mac and want it now, you are now able to download the beta 2, a version that has been leaked online, along with the serial key you need.

“The beta 2 version of Office 2011 for Mac you can download, is the build 14.0.0.100326 and comes with one major visual UI improvement called Ribbon user interface, but also adds some features such as better integration into Office Web Apps.

“And come to think of it, these are the only major problems Microsoft Office has at the moment. In my opinion, yes, the Ribbon UI is an obvious improvement, but my guess is that the main feature/improvement in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac (as well as the 2010 Windows version) is Microsoft’s ambition to try and respond to Google Docs easiness of use when it comes to collaborating on a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint presentation over the Web.

“But you can check out more for yourself by downloading Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Beta 2 version free. When asked for the serial key, enter: TDMC8-7GYKM-DXJFD-7PVCC-6GX4J.”

Link: Free Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Download (Beta 2 build 14.0.0.100326)”

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Mozy vs. Crashplan which is cheaper?

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Leaving Mozy’s online backup and switching to CrashPlan Gravitational Pull. With the price change from Mozy the best option for Mac users seems to be Crashplan. I have everything saved in Google Docs but if I move from Google, this will be the service I go to.

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Geek Squeak (#99): 12 New File Formats in the Google Docs Viewer (via What’s On My PC)

I wonder if Google will allow you to define file types one day. That would be helpful for those who have legacy files.

Geek Squeak (#99): 12 New File Formats in the Google Docs Viewer Google Docs is worthy of a What’s On My PC – Geek Squeak. Cross posted on the Official Gmail blog – February 18, 2011 Google Docs has launched support for 12 new files types: Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX) Apple Pages (.PAGES) Adobe Illustrator (.AI) Adobe Photoshop (.PSD) Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF) Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG) PostScript (.EPS, .PS) TrueType (.TTF) XML Paper Specification (.XPS) Not onl … Read More

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