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Insert drawings in Google Docs
Google launched a new feature in Google Docs. Now you can add drawings to your Google Spreadsheets from within the Google Docs interface.
In order to access the drawing tool, open any document, document, spreadsheet or presentation, in Google Docs and click “Insert” and select “Drawing”. A new popup will open and you’ll be able to draw or add you custom drawing to you Google Docs.
The Official Google Apps blog points out some important features of Google Docs drawing tool:
- Custom shapes and lines: Use the new ‘Polyline’ tool to create custom shapes, close shapes, fill them and reposition points.
- Snap to Guides: Helps you align shapes with the canvas and other shapes when dragging and resizing.
- Draw multiple lines: Start drawing a new line immediately after finishing a line, without having to re-select the line type.
I personally like this new feature as it allows most commonly used functions popular in desktop or online drawing tool.
Gmail introduces previews for Youtube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp
In a run to improve the email experience, Gmail has introduced another interesting feature. The users can now preview the Youtube videos, Picasa and Flickr photos and Yelp reviews without opening another window or tab.
Preview of the Youtube videos with in the email
After allowing Youtube preview in Gmail Chat back in January, Gmail introduced this feature in the email as well to help people view the videos and photos sent to them within their email window.
For the feature to work you’ll have to enable it in the Labs tab under Settings.
Enable feature in Gmail Labs
As described in Gmail blog, “Gmail currently automatically detects package tracking information, addresses, and event information and shows quick links to delivery status, maps and directions, and Google Calendar. So why couldn’t Gmail automatically detect links in emails and show videos, photos, and ratings right inside these messages as well?”
Gmail is not the only one in the race to provide a better email experience to users. Yahoo also announced the limited beta launch of applications in Yahoo Mail in December last year.
The proposed apps to be introduced by Yahoo Mail.
According to Yahoo, “We are bringing your favorite Web sites and services right into your inbox. These applications will allow you to communicate, share and get more done within Yahoo! Mail.”
I personally like using both the services. Each of them has some unique features which make me keep using it. One can only imagine that what features can truly define the ultimate email experience.
New beta version of Google Chrome released
Google released a new beta version of its product, Chrome, yesterday. It not only updated the browser for speed and other small features like full page zoom, form autofill and autoscroll, but also; it opened up a new channel for the beta updates so that they can test the beta versions before actually launching the stable version in future.
According to the brand new Google Chrome blog,”The best thing about this new beta is speed — it’s 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.”
The new features also include the options like form autofill, full page zoom, and autoscroll. Another notable feature is that now you can drag any tab out of its window as a whole new window to get a side-by-side view of both windows.
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