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Use Google Docs Viewer for Document viewing within Browser

Jan 24

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Tools / Plugins / Extenstion | 4 Comments

Google Docs

Google Docs Viewer

I was looking for a way to let users see Microsoft Word Doc or PDF files online while using my application without leaving their browser without downloading files and then opening it to view with Word or PDF viewer. I was looking for some way out either via any PHP or Microsoft.NET libraries, did some googling on that; but later on I just got an idea that google already has all code written for me.. when I have any email attachment in PDF or DOC or DOCX google does it for me..! Even while searching I can see PDFs by converting them in HTML. So I just googled it up and found that Google already has this ability that we can use Google Docs Viewer without any Google Account Login. YES that's true no Google Account login is required. It's damn simple and easy. Just pass document path as attachment as parameter and we are done.

Google Docs Viewer gives us ability to embed PDF, DOC/DOCX, PPT, TIFF:

Yes that's true; Google Docs Viewer gives us ability to view/embed functionality of PDF, DOC/DOCX, PPT and TIFF viewing on the fly without writing a single line of code by just giving a link or embedding within. No PPTX or XLS/XLSX is supported, Read the rest of this entry »

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Offline Gmail on the way – Thanks to Google Gears

Jan 29

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in News | No Comments

Gmail Offline on the way

Gmail goes Offline

One of Gmail’s most requested features – offline support – is now available in testing. In other words, you can now use Gmail without an Internet connection, just like you can with desktop mail clients like Outlook.

The offline support is made possible by Google Gears, which you’ll need to download in order to utilize the feature. Here’s how it works, according to Google’s Andy Palay: Read the rest of this entry »

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Google Chrome… and the Browser war continues…!

Sep 14

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Browsers | No Comments

Google Chrome has been arrived now since while..!

And war of browsers is continue with added competitor. End users are going to benefit from this as they will get better user experience as an end result of all these browser competition. So as the outcome we as end users will get feature rich, friendly, fast and secure browsing experience from most of the browsers as all of them will try to raise the bar.

Yes, Web Developers have one more browser in the list to be tested for their application or web site compatibility. Chrome is in it's beta and didn't passed ACID test yet.

There are some really nice features like:

  • In-build Task manager for ending process of each tab or viewing details of each tab.
  • Incognito mode. (Don't leave any trails when you browse).
  • Separate process running for each tab, so that one bad page won't crash rest of the tabs.
  • Ability to drag tabs out of the browser window. (That's fantastic..!)
  • Great space saving and clean look and design giving maximum viewing area for a web page.
  • Ominibox as smart Addressbar

If you didn't tried it yet, then give it a try. You can download it here.

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