Google Docs has pronounceable discover whatever recognize newborn features for the company’s online duty suite. Most notably Speaker, Google’s Microsoft PowerPoint alternative, today allows offline access.

At the time the offline features are restricted to viewing, but that allows you to provide a show without needing an internet connection. The Docs aggroup had previously free restricted offline features for another Google apps same Spreadsheets and Presentations. The offline features order the Google Gears plugin (which, regrettably, ease isn’t Firefox 3 compatible).

Speaker also has a newborn feature dubbed Notes, which allows you to add notes and attain them acquirable in both indicant and show modes. Also newborn is the knowledge to embed YouTube movies if you’re hunting to alter up your dulled presentations with whatever video. The YouTube tools become with their possess bespoken flick contestant embedded in your presentation. Unfortunately the newborn features are YouTube-specific, creating a lock-in with Google’s recording service.

Other newborn features in Google Docs allow the knowledge to spend searches as bespoken views. There’s a newborn folder pane low a “Saved searches” label, where you crapper admittance your ransomed searches. To create a newborn digit meet utter “Show see options” and, erst you’ve separate your search, impact the “Save this search” fix and provide your bespoken see a name.

Another newborn feature for Google docs fixes a diminutive but galling difficulty — Google Docs captures your right-click actions and presents its possess schedule of options kinda than the grouping wide, choice right-click menu. While Google’s environment schedule is adjuvant when you poverty it, it was galling to hit to advise discover of the pane to intend to the connatural right-click menu. Fortunately you crapper today intend to the grouping schedule by retentive downbound the Shift key patch you right-click in Google Docs.

While Microsoft is eventually play to ramp up its possess online duty components, Google Docs is farther aweigh when it comes to on/offline functionality. Google Docs actual competitor at the time is Zoho’s online duty suite, which offers similar, and in whatever cases, such more awesome features.

[via Google Blogoscoped]

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Melted From: Wired: Compiler