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Make Holiday Shopping Simple With Our Gift-Planning Checklist
6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | One of the best ways to cut down on holiday stress is proper planning. Our gift-planning template makes it simple to plan, track and budget for your holiday purchases. More »
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Export All Your Google Docs To A ZIP File
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Google Docs has officially thrown open its data doors, allowing users to back up all their documents to whatever formats they choose and compressed into a ZIP file. It’s serious peace of mind for those concerned about the cloud. More »
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Automatically Open PDFs, PowerPoint Presentations With Google’s Doc Viewer
8:00AM Adam Pash | Most web browsers: Google’s Doc Viewer allows you to view any PDF, PPT, and TIFF directly in your browser without downloading the file and launching another heavy desktop application. This user script automatically redirects any link to such files to Doc Viewer More »
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Google Docs Previews Make Sense Of Docs Links
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | You may get a lot of Google Docs links emailed to you, but their URLs tell you nothing about what’s inside. A new Gmail Labs feature shows you the name and a text preview of Docs files shared via Gmail. More »
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Google Adds Shared Folders To Docs
10:45AM Adam Pash | Good news for people using Google Docs to share or collaborate on documents: Google today has added folder sharing and multiple document uploading to its popular suite of web-based document and spreadsheet apps. More »
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Distraction-Free Writing In Google Docs; No Add-Ons Necessary
12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | We’ve highlighted a variety of ways to create a distraction-free writing environment including altering Microsoft Word and running portable applications. This is much easier: open a Google Docs template and set your browser fullscreen. More »
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Google Docs Viewer Bookmarklet Makes PDFs Less Freeze-y
10:40PM Kevin Purdy | Clicking a PDF and waiting, waiting, waiting for it to load, or possibly crash your browser, is an inescapable web annoyance of bad-stand-up-comedy proportions. Unless you convert all of a page’s PDF links to open with Google Doc’s streamlined viewer. More »
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Use Google Docs To Convert Images To Text
9:40PM Kevin Purdy | It’s not an official feature (yet), but Google Docs can perform OCR image-to-text conversions on high-resolution files you upload to it. They have to be pretty darned clear and crisp, but it’s a nice freebie. More »
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Nocs Is A Google Docs-Powered Notepad Clone
7:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Notepad clone Nocs looks and feels just like the regular Windows utility, but instead of editing local files, it can save and edit text notes directly to your Google Docs account. More »
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