Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Google Docs - makes me happy

My spreadsheet just auto resized to fit the data instead of me having to go to settings and change it.  Thank you Google for finally updating the default settings of an "excel" document into something more modern and reasonable.  Keep it up!

Though I disagree with you on your currency setting.  $1000 is nice, but isn't $1000.00 better?

Google Buzz - read items don't change color when read

In Google Reader, it's easy to tell when an item is read because the color dims.  Though I seem to have the same "scrolling counts as reading" rules in Google Buzz, the new message remains yellow causing me to scroll by it several times wondering if this is marking it read, having to rely only on the unread item number on the sidebar....

Chrome - autofill preferences a huge mess

Been using Chrome for a while now.  Finally found it's achilles heel.  An area where the Amazing Googlers who do so much good work, slacked off and left me mass clicking.  I almost couldn't believe I was at a Google App.

Missing from Autofill preferences:

1. Delete all - the only way to clear all the bullshit data that Google has been gathering and simplify my auto fill to one address so it works properly is to individually delete all of the auto fill data one at a time.  I'm well trained in video games, so the clicking is no problem for me, but it's really annoying.

2. Sync - just did this on one of my other computers and now I have to do it again.  Not good.  Not  Google.  Maybe it does sync but it hasn't yet, I don't now cause there's no sync button on the autofill preferences page.

3. Bizarre Floating Window Design - Strange X in the upper right corner to return to the preferences pane, strange floating window breaks the design yet again.  Should just be part of preferences with a menu entry on the left hand column, fully integrated.  Again, I don't know who's putting all these show stopping pop up windows in all your products, but it's a waste of time because you're just going to have to remove them all when you realize how lame and flow breaking they are.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Blogger - edit profile page missing options

Wanted to add some break lines, bolds and links to my profile.  Had to type them in HTML myself, which worked fine, but didn't seem very elegant.  Also it ignored the break lines I put in, converted my beautiful paragraphs into a huge blob of text.  Very ugly.

Google Docs - needs Dropbox-like sync! BADLY! killer ap making feature missing!

Great minds think alike: (COME ON GOOGLE! Get on this. Add dropbox folder sync to Google Docs and TAKE OVER! )

Synch to a folder on the PC as dropbox does - Google Docs Help: "Add the ability to synch a folder on your pc to add to google docs..just like dropbox. And please remove the 250mb file size limit. We are beyond that at this point in time. Dropbox does not have any limitations. Personally, until Google Docs can provide the same services as dropbox, there is no real need to stop using dropbox. Google Docs just seems to be too little too late at this point. Once the same ability is there for Google Docs as there is for dropbox I will switch immediately."

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Google Docs - sharing is hard, spell checker missing

It's too hard to add multiple people to multiple documents.  I tried to grant access to my entire collection, but I think it only gave access to the first document, then I had to manually select each document and it didn't remember the people, so I had to re cut and paste their information in.  (looks like I might have been able to just share the collection. Will try it next time.  Still seems like sharing could be more like setting up my friends as editors, seeing them on a sidebar and dragging and dropping groups of documents to them.  Or creating a group for them, like Book Editors, and then being able to drag and drop multiple items to a group representing multiple people.)

Spell Checker - Standard search and replace spell checker seems to be missing.  I'd like to go through the document word style, not just clicking on annoying red lines.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

maybe the greatest thing that google has ever done...  when I pushed send, it asked me if I wanted to attach a file, since I mentioned it in the email and forgot to attach it... brilliant!