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Google Apps Hacks | 
| Author: Philipp Lenssen
Publisher: Make Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 138512
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Pages: 374
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Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 1
ISBN: 059651588X
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780596515881
ASIN: 059651588X
Publication Date: April 16, 2008
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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.
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 Google Apps Hacks November 9, 2008
David A. Shaver (Galesburg, IL USA)
Google Apps Hacks
This book is a keeper! Loaded with all kinds of things you would never think to look for. Such as did you know you can create PDF's with Google Docs? Or did you know you can upload photos of local landmarks for Google Maps? This books tells how to that and much more.
 Not that helpful, at all October 23, 2008
Raymond Brigleb (Portland, OR, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed with this book. The majority of the content isn't even technically about Google Apps. It goes into YouTube and Blooger and so forth. It even covers software that isn't by Google at all!
By doing so, it completely loses focus. On top of this, the content in the book is not very deep. The "hacks" are rather obscure, without covering any fundamentals or anything I would actually want to do.
I spent about two hours with it and it's sat on my shelf since. I shall likely resell it so as to not have wasted the paper!
A collection of hacks and tricks September 6, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Philipp Lenssen's GOOGLE APPS HACKS provides a collection of hacks and tricks to offer different ways of customizing Google Apps, from its email and spreadsheets to some of its desktop applications such as Google Earth. Owners of Google Apps learn all about document sharing, embedding web pages into Google Calendar, adding photos to its mapping system, and more.
Great intro to many different Google applications August 10, 2008
ueberhund (Salt Lake City, UT United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While this book wasn't chock full of the kind of insider information that you usually get from a "hacks" book, it did offer a lot of good information that I haven't seen altogether in one place. Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware of all the different tools that Google is making available: from Google Docs to Gmail to iGoogle and more. This book does an excellent job showing how to use these tools and how to get more out of them than you probably thought possible.
The book spends the first 4 chapters going through the various applications within the Google Docs family--which is essentially an online, non-Microsoft version of the Office suite. Subsequent chapters are then dedicated to Gmail, iGoogle (a customization of the Google home page), Google Calendar, Google Reader, Picasa, blogging, Google Maps (and related programs), and analytics. Even with all this information, there are still Google applications that were left out--but I suppose that is to be expected, otherwise this book would be well above its current 400 pages.
I found each chapter to be well written, and I felt that each "hack" was something a real user would try/want to do. The author includes lots of screen shots and includes extra HTML and javascript within the text where appropriate. The author goes so far as to show (in a few cases) some 3rd party applications that rival the Google offering. For example, in discussing Picasa, the author shows some non-Google alternatives.
I thought this was a great book that was well-written and easy to follow. It opened my eyes to many of the possibilities that currently exist within Google products. If you're looking to get more out of your Google experiences, this book is highly recommended.
Useful and Fun To Read Book About Hacking Google August 5, 2008
Casadejunqueinc (los angeles)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading this book and found many useful tips to enhance the Google search experience. Some of the things I already knew about, like Picasa, Google's photo organizing software. Other Google features were completely unknown to me until I read this book.
One reason I think this book works is because the author is young, born in 1977. Most of the technical book writers are old guys who go back to the first generation of personal computers, which was two years before author Philipp Lenssen was born. The author definitely brings a young attitude towards using Google, tweaking it and making it your own.
Book level: Advanced computer user. Not for the beginner.
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