I mentioned in my reading round-up for July that a lot of the article I have read over the past month have been about Google+. There are links to the best and most useful articles at the bottom of this post. What I want to share with you here is my first reaction to Google+ and my experience one month in. And that can be described in one word… Meh! I just don’t get it, or perhaps more accurately I just don’t need it. I got an invite quite early on and set about creating some circles. What I found [...]
Things 19 & 20 – Office 2.0
Thing 19: Create a Google Document and share it. Thing 20: Sign in to ThinkFree Office and try its Write application. I will not hide the fact that I LOVE Google Documents. I use it on a regular basis to work on documents as I move around my various computers. For me the best thing about it however is the ease with which you can create forms. I have set up two for the 23 Things programme alone, the first for registrations and lately the one for completion. This year I have also used it to create a booking form [...]
Gmail – multiple inboxes
Last week Google launched multiple inboxes in Gmail. What an exciting new tool this is; it allows you to divide up your incoming messages yet still view everything in one screen. To use this feature you must first enable ‘Multiple Inboxes’ in the ‘Labs’ tab of your Gmail Settings. Once you’ve done this you can create new inboxes in the ‘Multiple Inboxes’ tab by placing is: in front of any label or category, e.g. is:starred or is:family. For me this tool has proved invaluable for splitting off my hockey emails from my regular inbox. To do this I set up [...]
