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Filed under: Cloud Assist, Cloud Computing, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Google Apps for Education, Google Apps Tips, Google Commerce Search, Google Search Appliance, Google Search Health Check, Innovative Innovation by Google Apps Guru

Google updated the Google Cloud Print website today with all new documentation, code samples and other goodies to help get up and running using Google Cloud Print.

The restructured site pulls together months of learning from behind the scenes by Google, partners and developers on the GCP platform.

The new site starts with a introduction to Google Cloud Print and walks you through each of the components of the Google Cloud Print architecture:

• Applications – Any type of application that enable users to print via Google Cloud Print such as web apps, desktop or mobile applications.
• Google Cloud Print Services – Google’s API allowing registering of printers, sharing of printers and sending of print jobs to these printers via applications.
• User Interface - A set of common web interfaces developed by Google that allow users to manage their Google Cloud Print services.
• Printers – Currently defined by cloud ready and non-cloud printing devices.
  • Cloud Ready Printers – A new generation of printers with native support for connecting to cloud print services.
  • Non-Cloud Printers – All other legacy printers that still connect to devices via PCs and network connections.
• Google Chrome OS Printing – Google’s new web operating system where cloud printing is the default print interface, and there is no option for local printing.

The new Google Cloud Print site provides two main areas for integration with the Google Cloud Print Services:

• Submitting Print Jobs
  • GCP Web Elements - A JavaScript widget enable simple printing of a PDF file using Google Cloud Print
  • Android Integration - Tools for submitting print jobs via Android mobile and tablet platforms
  • Services Interface - API documentation for the /submit, /jobs, /deletejob, /printer, /search interfaces, allowing seamless print integration
• Receiving Print Jobs
  • Developer Guide – A guide that covers registering printers, handling printers and print jobs on the Google Cloud Print platform.
  • XMPP Handshake Flow – Details on the XMPP print job notification system used for notifying “printers” of of new print jobs in real time.
  • Services Interface - API documentation for the /control, /delete, /fetch, /list, /register, and /update interfaces, allowing seamless print integration

The new Google Cloud Print update provides much more complete documentation on submitting print jobs and the XMPP integration for print job notification.

They also provide python code samples for integrating with GCP. You can also use the Mimeo PHP Google Cloud Print samples that I wrote earlier this year, and I will be working on a set of C# samples also, and publish when ready.

Filed under: Google, Google Apps for Business by Google Apps Guru

We’re happy to say we finally released a new design / layout to our site. As a small team, its often hard to deliver on all fronts, as a result we have been focusing heavily on clients and very little on ourselves. Hopefully we’ll be able to maintin the site and keep it fresh with content, and a couple new features will be released in the next few months, which should make the ordering process of Google products, like Google Apps for Business, a whole lot easier.

Stay Tuned!

Filed under: Cloud Assist, Google Apps for Business, Innovative Innovation by Google Apps Guru

All of us at Cloud Assist are enjoying the real time collaborative typing in Google Docs. June is the month of graduations and new beginnings for millions of students around the world. The Google Docs team is also continually learning and we’re happy to announce that the new documents and spreadsheets editors have both graduated. 

Documents
Beginning today and rolling out over the next couple of weeks, all new documents will be created using the new documents editor. Docs already created using the older editor will remain there. We will be sharing more information on how to move those documents to the new version soon. 

The new editor was built for faster real-time collaboration, better imports, and more control over your document’s layout. Since the preview, we’ve added lots of features including a table of contents, a special characters dialog, a dictionary, search as-you-type, and re-sizable images. You can learn more about the new document editor here.

Spreadsheets
The new version of spreadsheets is available as the default to everyone starting today. Since thelaunch of the new spreadsheets, we’ve added a lot of new features, including formula highlighting, sheet dragging, sheet menu, faster scrolling, an editable formula bar, and autocomplete in cells, copy sheet from one spreadsheet to another and range sorting.

GoogleLookup and spreadsheet gadgets, which will be added to the new editor shortly, can still be used in the old version which can be accessed by clicking on the “Old version” link in the top right of any spreadsheet. The old version will be available for a few more weeks..

Thanks to everyone who has tried out the new editors over the last couple of months. Your feedback has been very valuable as we prepared to make it available to everyone. The new editors also let us develop new features more quickly, so let us know what you think on the forums.

Finally, there’s also good news for Google Apps customers: these new editors will become their default soon as well. We’ll begin activating the new editor for documents on June 21 and for spreadsheets on June 30.

Source: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-google-docs-graduates.html

Filed under: Cloud Assist, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Innovative Innovation, Managed Migration, Maximising Mobility, regular, Tech News, Technology by Neil Rutherfoord

Since the launch of Google Docs drawings, we’ve been excited to see you not only create really impressive and useful drawings, but also actively share them with the world. In order to make it easier for you to share your drawings, we’ve added drawings to the Google Docs template gallery. Sharing via the gallery gives you categories, ratings, and even usage counts for drawings you’ve submitted.

Here are a couple examples of drawing templates currently in the gallery:

Some other examples already available include a coin puzzle, a series of United States maps, a business model example, isometrics, a floor plan, and an interactive learning object.

Go check out the drawings in the gallery, and please submit your best drawings to the public, so that everyone can easily take advantage of your hard work. And, let us know if you’ve made something that will blow our minds, and you’d like us to feature your drawing here on the Google Docs blog.

Source: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/06/share-your-drawings-with-google-docs.html

Filed under: regular by Neil Rutherfoord

Well our favorite film would have to be a stop-motion production by Phil Messerer

We especially like the cameo by those squirrels!

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3929735961/

We also put together this youtube video for a customer of ours called Roo Roofing. I wouldnt class it as a film as such, but it just shows what we can do, even though we never went to film school….

Filed under: regular by Neil Rutherfoord