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You can now open Office files stored in Google Docs directly from Microsoft Office. After downloading the file with Google Cloud Connect, you can sync changes to the file stored in Docs and collaborate with others.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Cloud Connect

How to access what’s new:
Go to the Cloud Connect menu in Microsoft Office and click ‘Open from Google Docs’. All documents that can be opened with the application you’re running will appear in a pop-up dialog.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/06/open-files-more-easily-in-google-cloud.html

MockupTiger forums already have login enabled with Gmail. Down the line when we release the web service it will be lauched in Google Apps store and have a fluid connection to Gmail.

Gmail has emerged as the best free email alternative and all of my business emails are hosted on Google apps

Some of the new Gadgest you can try are listed here

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-gmail-gadgets-to-try.html

How Interest Categories Work
When a user visits a website, Google analyzes the content of the site and uses data from third-party companies to associate interests with a user’s cookie. Google takes into account how often users visit sites within those categories, among other factors, to assign interests to that user. Your ads will then show to users in the categories you’ve selected while they are surfing the web. If you are interested in what categories Google has assigned to you, you can find out by logging into your gmail account and going to www.google.com/ads/preferences.

Interest category marketing has been in beta for over a year, but Google announced today that this feature is now available to all AdWords advertisers. These categories allow advertisers to better target audiences across the display network based on their interests and demographics. You can choose from a list of categories that match the type of user you want to target, and Google will show ads to the people it thinks are interested in those categories.

Google adwords team has posted some examples on how to use Adwords for the following scenarios

Scheduling ads
Turning on/off special ads for a promotional event
Turning on/off certain ads on a repeating basis (e.g., every weekend)
Turning on/off a special ad campaign for a promotional event
Pausing low-performing ads or keywords
Pausing low-performing keywords based on success metrics (e.g., high cost per conversion)
Pausing low-performing ads based on success metrics (e.g., low CTR)
Bids and bid scheduling
Adjusting bids for keywords based on cost per conversion
Changing bids to reach a desired average position
Raising bids to ensure ads show on the first page
Bid scheduling (e.g., a higher bid during certain hours of the day)
Controlling budgets and cost
Increasing budget for campaigns that convert well (using cost per conversion)
Budget scheduling (e.g., higher budget on certain days of the week)
Pausing campaigns that have spent a certain amount partway through the month
Pausing campaigns that have received a certain number of clicks partway through the day
General examples
Understanding how to make a rule work on one, several or all campaigns
Excluding keywords from a rule

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/06/faster-than-fast.html

Thanks to Chrome’s new prerendering technology, some Google.com search results will appear to load almost instantly after you click on them.

Although Google.com is the most high-profile site to use this new prerendering technology, it can be used by other sites since it’s been designed as a web standard. Web developers interested in learning more can see our post in the Chromium blog.

This is innovation at its best and Google keeps pushing the bar!

MockupTiger is a very powerful Prototyping and Wireframing application. It is web based and can be run on your desktop or you can host it on your own domain. Please visit Mockups website for more details

http://www.mockuptiger.com

Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on. This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html

Chrome’s JavaScript engine V8 runs compute-intensive JavaScript applications even more quickly than before. In fact, this beta release sports a whopping 66% improvement on the V8 benchmark suite over our current stable release.

MockupTiger is a web based application and it is built heavily with Javascript. In fact the whole front end is jquery. Even right now on our internal test the application is lightning fast and with more browser performance boost this should all good for web based applications such as Mockup Tiger.

Can’t wait when browsers start using hardware acceleration for rendering html5 canvas tag. That would be a giant leap forward.

The need for the new protocol arises as the older IPv4 runs out of room. “IPv4 has approximately four billion IP addresses (the sequence of numbers assigned to each Internet-connected device),” the Internet Society explains. “The explosion in the number of people, devices and web services on the Internet means that IPv4 is running out of space. IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol, which provides over four billion times more space, will connect the billions of people not connected today and will help ensure the Internet can continue its current growth rate.”

“The good news is that Internet users don’t need to do anything special to prepare for World IPv6 Day. Our current measurements suggest that the vast majority (99.95%) of users will be unaffected,” says Google network engineer Lorenzo Colitti. “However, in rare cases, users may experience connectivity problems, often due to misconfigured or misbehaving home network devices. Over the coming months we will be working with application developers, operating system vendors and network device manufacturers to further minimize the impact and provide testing tools and advice for users.”

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