Google Apps: Track Gmail usage with Google Analytics

An addition to Google Docs and Google Sites, Google Apps’s Premier andgoogle apps Google Apps: Track Gmail usage with Google Analytics Education customers can start tracking the Gmail usage in the organization using Google Analytics.

Just like usual Analytics, implementing this feature will allow administrator to view the statistic such as users’ locations, languages, length of visit, etc.

Please note that, Google Apps’s Standard edition customer as well as normal Gmail users doesn’t have this feature.

If you new to Google Apps, this is how to set it up, or read more here.

  1. Log in to the Google Apps admin control panel at https://www.google.com/a/your_domain.com.
  2. Click Advanced tools along the blue navigation bar.
  3. Next to Reporting, click Set up Google Analytics. If you haven’t yet created an account for Google Analytics, click Learn more in the New to Analytics? section. You can enter your domain name as the primary URL for your Google Analytics account.
  4. In the text field for Web Property ID, enter your Google Analytics Web Property ID. The format of the Web Property ID is like this: UA-10876-1. If you aren’t sure how to locate the Web Property ID in your Google Analytics account, click here.
  5. Click Save changes. It takes up to 24 hours to start tracking your domain. In Google Analytics, the status will read ‘tracking not installed’ for up to 24 hours.

Google introduce desktop access point for Gmail and Google Apps

In order to provide the feeling as if Google apps are just like another applications installed on your local computer, Google Doc team yesterday via their Google Pack, releasing tiny app that taking care of Google apps shortcuts on your computer.

shortcut Google introduce desktop access point for Gmail and Google Apps Once installed, it will place Google Apps’s shortcut on desktop, start menu as well as add-remove-program. Opening Google Apps was now a breeze from this shortcuts. App such as Gmail or Google Doc will opened on the streamline version of Google Chrome by default.

I’ve noticed this shortcut(but no on start menu program) on my desktop ever since using offline Gmail. Good to know that it is now available for other apps as well.

google shortcut Google introduce desktop access point for Gmail and Google Apps

Editing Google Spreasheet on mobile phone is even easier now

Editing Google Doc’s spreadsheet in mobile phone browser is become easier now, with the introduction of new ‘edit’ button on each spreadsheet lines. Clicking the edit button will open up the whole lines for editing, deleting or updating the record.

Only iPhone, T-Mobile G1 and Nokia S60 phones can view this feature at the moment.

This feature available by default when viewing Google Spreadsheet on the above mention mobile phones. To get the similar view on your computer’s web browser, follow this tricks.

Change

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=<Your spreadsheet ID>

to

http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=<Your spreadsheet ID>

Google Spreadsheet run in iPhone

 Editing Google Spreasheet on mobile phone is even easier now

Google Spreadsheet run in computer

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Google Docs adds Print Preview

Google Doc team introduce another new feature, Print Preview which available on almost every office suite such as Open Office or Microsoft Office.

This is a small but very useful feature, for user who need to print out their documents, to be able to view how the documents look like before sending to printer.

Print preview menu is available from your File menu bar. This is how it looks like.

Google Docs is now become even closer to desktop office suite, right?

googledoc print preview Google Docs adds Print Preview