Google Apps

Hello ! friends, I'm from Technowood and we have another article for you. Here we are going to talk about Google Apps what our Google Apps? Well, I'm assuming you know who Google is probably the largest search engine company in the world. Not only does Google have a page where you can find things but Google has a ton of services for us to use. So what are they? Well, it's a suite of applications that we can use and the great thing about these applications is they will run on just about anything.

You can run Google Apps on a Mac or Windows or Linux or you can run them on Android ,you can run them on an IOS or AI device you can run them on just about anything that runs on electricity. Google allows for seamless synchronization and integration of all these services.

So you can integrate things like email calendars, contacts files, folders, pictures. All data can be synchronized across multiple devices. It's a 100% free it's easy to use and most importantly it's extremely collaborative because Google Apps allow you to share information with other Google users.

So let's talk about some of the most basic and simple of the Google apps and services below-

Gmail:

First One would be Gmail. Gmail is how Google does email. So if you've used the email before you know what email is what's great about Gmail. It's very fast. It's very friendly, highly secure and very low on spam when something shows up in junk it's usually junked.

Another nice thing of Gmail is it's recognized by every device and by every system and by every software that can be used to read and write email will automatically detect Gmail will automatically configure it for you. All you have to do is plug in your email address and password and poof it just starts working Gmail comes with integrated contacts that synchronize along with your email. So your address book will automatically complete when you start typing in a name and those contacts will also feed into all the other various applications like your navigation, calendars etc and your standard Gmail which is the free consumer version ends in at gmail.com.

You can also get a corporate version of Gmail where you can put your domain name on top of that but Gmail is the most basic of all the Google Apps services but we don't stop there there is more are you ready let's see what else Google has for us.

Well, Google also has a calendar feature and this is a calendar like any other calendar you have all your standard features you can change your view between day , week or month views it gives you reminders you can view multiple calendars that can all be viewed in different colors and an overlay you can overlay things like holidays and birthdays those can all show up on top as well but the best part about this is because the Google Apps platform is collaborative you can share your calendar both publicly and privately you can even publish a calendar to a website that other people can just pull up a page and see what's on that calendar.

Google Maps:

Second one is the Google Maps app which provides Google Navigation. I use this as my GPS. So basically anybody who I put in as contact not only can I send an email to that person not only can I put them on my calendar but I can also look them up click on their name and Matt get the driving directions to get to their location.

So it is a very smart fast and efficient GPS that ties into your contacts but it will also work like any other GPS where if you don't have the contact saved you can search for an address you can view you know what are the local businesses and restaurants nearby me.

It'll know where you are and tell you what's around you and you can even get traffic information to when you are driving on your GPS so Google Maps and Google Navigation another great free app that ties into everything that is synchronized with all of your various Google services and applications.

Google Voice :

Third one is Google Voice. Here's another cool feature- Google Voice. What does Google Voice do? Well, Google Voice gives you a private phone number that you can publish and have people call what will happen to that phone number. Well, that phone number can ring up to five other mobile phones are traditional phones it can call just about any other kind of phone except another Google Voice number.

So you get one public number that you can publish and then you can call up to five different private numbers and you can get creative with how you do that you can have these things called different people at different times of the day.

You can have all five of the ring at once. So it's pretty cool the other benefit of using Google Voice is you can have privacy and anonymity to your home phones office phones and cell phones because you can make calls through the Google Voice app and only have people see your Google Voice number in the caller ID.

So it is a very nice way to use one public phone persona but have a lot of different ways to receive calls including text messages as well so people can text you on your Google Voice number. You can view your voicemail you can listen to your voicemail audibly you can get a text-to-speech what we call visual voicemail and you can also view your text messages and you can do this on the web or you can do this on the Google Voice app that runs on both Android and iPhones.

Hangouts:

Hangouts another great feature from Google Voice. Hangouts is going to gradually replace Google Voice but what is Hangouts? What do Hangouts do for us?

Well, at very least Hangouts is kind of like an instant messaging client. So if you've ever used an AOL Instant Messenger, yahoo instant messenger you can do those basic things but you can do a lot more you could install the Hangouts app on your phone and you can have that replace your normal SMS app and have a little bit nicer looking things depending on what your phone's messengering looks like.

There's a lot of other benefits you can get with Hangouts too because it has a lot of features similar to Skype. If you've ever used Skype you can call anybody else who's got a Hangouts account which is the Gmail address. You can call them as a voice call.

So you can call from computer to computer, from computer to phone, tablet to phone, tablet to computer. You can call with voice calls, video calls or even include a group of people in this call. So you can have conference calling all with Hangouts.

You can use Hangouts to call landlines from your computer and you can even use the hangouts app to replace the Google Voice app on your mobile device and have it handle both your SMS messages as well as your voice messages. So again the more you use these Google services and the more you use these Google apps the integration makes things so convenient. So seamless so easy.

Google Drive:

Google Drive one of my favorite features. You've probably heard of Dropbox. You might even use Dropbox at very least. Google Drive does everything that dropped box does. It allows you to put files and folders on your computer have those things synchronized to the cloud which means they go online and then these things can then show up on any other device.

So you can put files on your desktop or put files on your laptop be in two different locations be looking at the same files because they will synchronize. You can even pull those files up on your mobile device like your phone or your tablet but where this continues to get better is that because it is part of the Google Apps suite.

It's part of this universe it is tightly integrated with all of the other apps. So if you are on Gmail web or if you are using the Gmail app on your mobile device. You can do very quickly and easily attach any document that is inside your Google Drive and send that as an attachment to anybody else even if they don't use Google Drive. Even if they don't have a Gmail account.

So it makes it quick and easy to get to your content and send that content out to somebody else. The best feature of Google Drive or Google Docs platforms is that. It has a web-based version of Microsoft Office where you can work on PowerPoint presentations, you can work on Microsoft Word documents, you can work on Excel spreadsheets. Of course, They're not the Microsoft versions of these applications they're the Google versions of these but they look very similar.

They function quite comparably and they will work in a browser they will work on your phone and they don't cost you any money. So it's a great feature on top of that they're also collaborative meaning you can share these documents and use them with other people and you can do that in real-time so Google Drive combined Google Docs offers a lot of powerful features for sharing files and collaborating on files what else can Google do for us what is the core of the Google universe.

Well, it's seamless and it synchronizes meaning that every device that you plug in your Google account to you can have 12 computers, five phones and eight tablets and as long as they're all configured with your Google account. You are going to see the same information on all these devices and it doesn't matter if they are mixed and matched between Windows and Mac and Linux and Android and IOS or whatever else you can imagine. Everything will synchronize to every single device regardless of who makes it.

It's a wonderful thing that you can collaborate and share files and information and work in real-time with anybody else who uses Google and this is true for both the free Gmail accounts and the corporate Google Apps as well. You can cross-pollinate you can share information collaborate it's a wonderful technology.

Google Translate :

Google Translate is a free multilingual translation service launched by Google to translate text and websites from one language into another.

It offers a website, a mobile app for Android and Ios, and browser extensions and software applications. Google Translate service supports 109 languages of the world and it claimed over 500 million total users with more than 100 billion words translated every day.

Google Translate can translate various forms of text and media, which includes text, speech, and text within still or moving images.

Its functionality is given below-

Written Words Translation:

This function translates written words or text to any foreign language.

Website Translation:

This function translates a whole webpage to any selected languages.

Document Translation:

This function translates a document uploaded by the users to any selected languages. The documents should be in the format of: .doc, .docx, .odf, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .ps,.txt, .xls, .xlsx.