Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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[G] This week in Docs: Page numbers in documents and one click to Google Cloud Print

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Docs Blog: This week in Docs: Page numbers in documents and one click to Google Cloud Print

This week in Docs, we're announcing page numbers and page count in documents, plus one click to Google Cloud Print -- a couple features that we hope will save you time and energy.



Page numbers and page count in documents

Today we're making it possible to add page numbers and page count to your documents. You can use the Insert > Page number option to add page numbers to the header or footer of your documents.





We've also added the option to insert page count, which displays the total number of pages in your document. You can combine the page number and the page count to create more advanced headers and footers. For example, to create the "Page 3 of 15" header below, take the following steps:

  1. Go to Insert > Header.
  2. Click the right align icon in the toolbar to move the cursor to the upper right corner.
  3. Type the word "Page".
  4. Go to Insert > Page number > Top of page to add page numbers to the headers of your document.
  5. Type the word "of".
  6. Go to Insert > Page count to add the total number of pages to the headers of your document.




Print with Google Cloud Print in just one click

Earlier this year, we announced Google Cloud Print for mobile documents. Google Cloud Print is a service in Beta that allows printing from any app on any device, OS or browser without the need to install any software.



We're making it easier to print on the go directly from your mobile documents list in Google Docs. Simply select a document from the documents list and click on Actions > Print from the bottom toolbar. Currently, you can use Cloud Print in Google documents and spreadsheets.





To get started, you'll need to connect your printer to Google Cloud Print. To learn more, check out the new site.



We hope you'll take advantage of these latest features. Stay tuned for the next This Week in Docs.



Posted by: Chris Graves, Software Engineer Intern
URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/08/this-week-in-docs-page-numbers-in.html

[G] Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Official Gmail Blog: Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members

Posted by Ilya Frank, Senior Software Engineer

We understand that it's not always easy or affordable for our troops serving overseas to call friends and family at home, so starting today we're making it completely free for all uniformed military personnel with valid United States Military (.mil) email addresses to call the United States, right from Gmail.

There are two easy steps to enable free calling from Gmail (detailed instructions):
  1. Add your valid .mil email address to your Google Account

  2. Click on the Call phone link at the top of the Gmail chat roster and install the voice and video Gmail plugin if you haven't already.


And don't forget that for friends and family at home in the U.S., calling troops abroad is as little as $.02/minute.

Similar to free calling within the U.S., free calling to the U.S. for service members will be available for at least the rest of 2011.

We recognize and appreciate the sacrifices U.S. troops make when they serve abroad, and we're proud to help make it a little bit easier for them to stay connected and hear a familiar voice.
URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/free-calls-home-from-gmail-for-all-us.html

[G] Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Google Voice Blog: Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members

(Cross-posted from the Gmail blog)

We understand that it's not always easy or affordable for our troops serving overseas to call friends and family at home, so starting today we're making it completely free for or all uniformed military personnel with valid United States Military (.mil) email addresses to call the United States, right from Gmail.

There are two easy steps to enable free calling from Gmail (detailed instructions):
  1. Add your valid .mil email address to your Google Account

  2. Click on the Call phone link at the top of the Gmail chat roster and install the voice and video Gmail plugin if you haven't already.



And don't forget that for friends and family at home in the U.S., calling troops abroad is as little as $.02/minute. Similar to free calling within the U.S., free calling to the US for service members will be available for at least the rest of 2011. 

We recognize and appreciate the sacrifices U.S. troops make when they serve abroad, and we're proud to help make it a little bit easier for them to stay connected and hear a familiar voice. 

Posted by Ilya Frank, Senior Software Engineer
URL: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/free-calls-home-from-gmail-for-all-us.html

[G] Music Tuesday: Fresh faces, Burning Man’s musical side and more

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: Music Tuesday: Fresh faces, Burning Man's musical side and more

Summer's drawing to a close, but there's still time to discover a new summer anthem. Perhaps it's a tune from Cults, the indie-popsters Noisey profiled last week on youtube.com/music. Or perhaps you'll find your summer song in one of this week's featured playlists.



Fresh Faces: August

Every month, we feature a handful of newly-signed music partners on YouTube's homepage. This month, the pickings were so rich we couldn't narrow it down to just four, so we chose six artists to feature, and they're an inspiring group that spans the gamut, from a sixteen-year-old emcee from New Jersey who's sworn off cursing to J Dilla protege and former Slum Village member Elzhi. Add a few jazzy singer-songwriters into the mix and there's something for everyone.







Burning Man Survival Kit

The annual art festival takes place in Nevada Black Rock Desert this week. And while the event's official focus is art -- kinetic, sculptural and frequently fire-breathing -- it's also a premier gathering spot for fans of electronic music. Soundsystems on the "playa" vie with each other, putting on all-night raves that host cutting-edge deejays as well as some of the business' biggest names. We've assembled a playlist of some sounds you might hear if you were there.







James Blake and Bon Iver: Fall Creek Boys Choir

Dubstep's errant child and indie's golden son have teamed up for an EP that releases later this year. They've dropped the first song from it on YouTube, and it's a mysterious and spacious experiment in sound...just as we expected.







Sarah Bardeen, Music Community Manager, recently watched "Pigeon John 'The Bomb.'"


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/ydYDdzXtlp4/music-tuesday-fresh-faces-burning-mans.html
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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[G] Reflections on September 11 - Share Your Story

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:09 AM PDT

YouTube Blog: Reflections on September 11 - Share Your Story

The worst terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil took place ten years ago next month. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 affected the lives of millions of people, not only in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, but around the world.



In partnership with The New York Times, we're marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with a dedicated YouTube channel, featuring special content from the New York Times, archived news broadcasts from September 2001, and your own personal stories and tributes. We hope this channel will provide an enduring record of what took place on that day.



We're asking you to share with us:

  • Your strongest memory of that day or that time period
  • How 9/11 changed you, and how you believe it changed America
  • What you lost — or gained -- because of 9/11




Make a video answering any of these questions and submit it to youtube.com/September11. A selection of your videos will be featured on the The New York Times website and YouTube homepage on September 11 this year.



Through telling and sharing stories, we can all hope to make sense of an event that, for many of us, was one of the defining moments of our lives. Thank you for sharing yours.



Olivia Ma, YouTube News & Politics Manager, recently watched "Portraits Redrawn: Alissa Torres"


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/2zy-EzRxAcs/reflections-on-september-11-share-your.html

[G] Top ten reasons why customers trust Google Apps with their business data

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:56 AM PDT

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Top ten reasons why customers trust Google Apps with their business data

Posted by Adam Swidler, Senior Manager, Google Apps Team



Over three million businesses have moved to Google Apps, and several factors have driven this transition. While improved productivity and cost savings have long been at the top of the list, more and more customers are choosing Apps for its security and reliability benefits. Our pure and proven cloud is designed to protect our users' data and deliver reliability at levels that are very difficult or impossible for many organizations to achieve on their own. Even on-premises, so called "private cloud" and hybrid technologies are challenged to deliver the data protection and reliability that comes with Google Apps.



Here are the top 10 data protection and reliability advantages that we hear about most frequently from customers (in no particular order):



1. Powerful administration tools give you control of your data

When business data is stored in Google Apps, administrators have powerful tools to help them manage things like users, documents and services. Reports also provide visibility into how the applications are being used and what data is in them so that administrators have the control they need without having to maintain the infrastructure.



2. Pure and proven cloud architecture

Our datacenter server infrastructure is specifically designed and built for our applications and does not include unnecessary hardware or software code such as peripheral ports or device drivers. This reduces the number of potential vulnerabilities that could be targeted.



3. Patch management

Downloading, testing and deploying patches has become a significant pain for many IT departments. Google Apps reduces this pain because there are no servers for customers to patch. We manage the servers and take care of all updates.



4. Strong authentication

Google Apps includes 2-step verification for all user accounts - at no additional charge. Businesses and organizations can easily deploy an extra layer of protection for their user accounts using devices they already have. This makes strong authentication available to many organizations that did not have it before. Google Apps also integrates with existing Single Sign On (SSO) mechanisms via open standards.



5. Disaster recovery

Google Apps offers robust disaster recovery capabilities which are commonly measured by Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). RTO measures how long before users can access systems in the event of a failure and RPO measures how much of a gap there is in the data when it is restored. Google Apps is designed with RTO and RPO goals of zero. Emails, documents and data are saved every few seconds and replicated in multiple data centers. This means that if one of our data centers becomes unavailable, we seamlessly switch the user to another data center and because it has been replicated there is no loss of data and users can continue working uninterrupted.



6. Third party verifications

Google Apps and our data centers are SSAE 16 Type II audited and have achieved the U.S. Federal Government's FISMA certification. SSAE 16 is an auditing standard where a third party auditor evaluates the controls in place for numerous areas including physical and logical security, privacy, incident response and more. The Federal Information Security Management Act or FISMA is the law defining security requirements that must be met by all US Federal government information systems. While FISMA certification is required for U.S. Government agencies, it is also a strong validation in the private sector of the technologies and processes we use to protect the data in Google Apps.



7. Information security expertise

We employ an information security team of over 250 people with a wealth of expertise not found in most organizations. Many have advanced degrees and are thought leaders in information security. The security team regularly publishes research and contributes open source tools to the security community. They monitor our global network of datacenters and applications 24x7x365.25 (they don't rest on leap years).



8. Secure connections for users

We automatically encrypt browser sessions for Google Apps users without the need for VPN's or other potentially costly and cumbersome infrastructure. This helps protect your data as it travels between users' browsers and our data centers.



9. High availability

Google Apps has zero maintenance windows or planned downtime. While we offer a 99.9% uptime SLA, Gmail exceeded this guarantee in 2010 and achieved 99.984% uptime. We did this while delivering more than 30 new features and adding tens of millions of users. The status of Google Apps is visible to administrators and users on our publicly available status dashboard.



10. Reduced risk of data breach

Google Apps allows users to work securely on their data wherever they are, using a wide range of devices. The data is stored centrally in Google's cloud which greatly reduces the need for users to take their data with them using USB drives or similar devices, which can be easily lost or stolen. This can help reduce the risk of a data breach, something that is on the mind of many organizations these days.



Over three million businesses trust Google to protect the data they store in Google Apps and make it reliably accessible. Over the next few weeks we're going to dive deeper into each one of these areas to provide more details why Google Apps customers trust us with their business data.
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/08/top-ten-reasons-why-customers-trust.html

[G] JasonMundayMusic is August’s On The Rise Star

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:56 AM PDT

YouTube Blog: JasonMundayMusic is August's On The Rise Star

Congratulations to JasonMundayMusic, who won August's On The Rise poll after receiving the most votes from the YouTube community. Thanks to your support, Jason Munday (and his friends) will be featured on the YouTube homepage all day today.



As the self-proclaimed "nerdiest YouTube musician," Jason's repertoire includes songwriting, singing, producing, and sound engineering. His long history of musical projects on YouTube include hit YouTube bands Ministry of Magic and The Oceanic Six, whose songs were inspired by pop culture. Jason credits Ministry of Magic (a collaborative project with YouTube stars Luke Conard and Ryan Seiler) with opening the trio up to the potential of a YouTube music career with hits such as "Don't Leave," "On The Other Side," and "This Town." The band members have since chosen to pursue individual careers and Jason's current solo project, Skyway Flyer, artfully combines the big arena sounds of the 80s with modern dance rock. Check out the video below for an overview of Jason's work, past and present.







Here's a word from Jason about his YouTube history, channels, and collaborations:



"I've been a YouTuber for several years, a musician for over a decade, and a nerd for as long as I can remember. Being a YouTube musician is now my full time job, and I'm proud to say that I've got to be one of the nerdiest! I started writing nerdy music with Luke Conard and Ryan Seiler over 4 years ago, and as Ministry of Magic, we were extremely fortunate with our online following and support. Thanks to our fans, I've been able to quit my full time job, move to Los Angeles, and pursue my dream of music and video making. I've since been able to focus so much more time and energy toward many different music projects and being out in LA amongst a vast ocean of music & film industry people, not to mention the growing YouTuber population, I've been able to network and make friends that are always looking to collaborate and even just help each other out. I always try to excel at whatever it is I'm focusing my efforts towards, and I find it fascinating to be able to look back at where I started and the place I've reached and simply look forward to where to future will take me. I'm inexpressibly grateful for all the good fortune I've had and as long as there are people enjoying what I do, I will continue to create it!"



If you've enjoyed monthly On The Rise blog series and want to see more rising YouTube partners, check out our On The Rise channel or look for our playlists on the browse page. Keep an eye out for next month's blog post, as your channel may be the next one On The Rise!



Devon Storbeck, Account Manager, recently watched "Ready For Anything" (Live!) - Skyway Flyer."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/dPOvhcl8RHI/jasonmundaymusic-is-augusts-on-rise.html
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