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Category Archives: Google Apps
Boomerang for Gmail: disappointing
Boomerang is supposed to make up for a lack of mail scheduling in Gmail. Good idea, but sadly too much flaws to make it a viable option.
- You must resort to the English interface (I tried with English (US); I did not try English (UK)); at least with French, the « Send Later » button won’t appear.
- You must allow pop-ups for authentification!
- You must allow IMAP access; if you activated the Advanced IMAP control lab, you must also allow Drafts to be visible in IMAP — does it mean that Boomerang has access to my mail?
- The Hour must be entered manually, because the bulit-in calendar doesn’t allow selecting hours.
Extra conditions:
- Scheduled mails do not appear in Drafts, but in a <q>Boomerang-Outbox</q> label (or in a new button in the toolbar!
- It seems that Boomerang for Gmail can’t be deployed in Google Apps; it must be manually installed in any Chrome browser :/
- Worst of all, the free version only allows for 10 messages to be scheduled.
It’s a shame, especially considering an earlier version was much better.
Google multiple accounts: now more than three accounts
It is now possible to have more than thee accounts simultaneously with the multiple accounts. I don’t know how old is this, but that’s pretty cool, sometimes (at least for me).
Choisir Google Apps est-il encore pertinent ?
Google Apps est sérieusement menacé par Microsoft et ce, par la faute de Google eux-même. Dès lors, est-ce encore une bonne idée de se spécialiser sur Google Apps ? Difficile à dire, la balle est dans le camp de Google.
Voici ce qu’en dit Calipia dans un très intéressant article intitulé La Valse de boss et montrant comment même des entreprises mondiales (Google, Apple et Microsoft) dépendent d’un être humain et de sa créativité (ou de son absence).
Dans l’extrait suivant, l’emphase est de mon fait. Continue reading
Nouveau : changer l’adresse mail d’un utilisateur de Google Apps
Il est enfin possible de changer |’adresse mail d’un utilisateur existant de Google Apps (administrateur inclus). Je ne parle pas des alias, mais d’un vrai renommage (qui fonctionne donc aussi pour le login). Ça marche avec l’édition standard également.
Merci à Google Apps France pour la découverte.
Coding Horror: HTML in Gmail
I am OK with badly written HTML on a daily basis if I have to. But a signature is something one has time crafting properly. And so, I would like to be able to create a clean HTML signature. Plus, experience told me that even the signature is not that clean when copied and pasted from a mail. Pure HTML is so much better.
I WANT to be able to instert my HTML signature in code way, not WYSIWYG way!
Not convinced? See for yourself:
First the result:
My department
Email: myaddress@mycompany.org
My Company — Its address
Phone: 01 23 45 67 89 | web: http://example.org
Did you read our newsletter? Click here!
Consider your environmental impact: only print if necessary.
Then the clean code:
<div><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20188079/fakelink.jpg" height="55" width="96"></div></div>
<address> style="font-style:normal";<strong>My Name<br />
My department
Email: <a href="mailto:myaddress@mycompany.org" style="color:#36F">myaddress@mycompany.org</a>
My Company — Its address<br />
Standard : 01 23 45 67 89 | web: <a href="http://example.org/" style="color:#36F" target="_blank">http://example.org/</a><br />
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Consider your environmental impact: only print if necessary.</strong>Then (beware), Gmail’s horrible code:
<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20188079/LOGO-ADN-sig.jpg" height="55" width="96"></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b><div style="display: inline ! important;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><div style="display: inline ! important;"><span style="font-family: arial; border-collapse: separate; font-weight: normal;"><b><div style="display: inline ! important;">
<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><div style="display: inline ! important;">My Name</div></b></span></span></div></b></span></div></b></span></div>
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</b></span></span></div></b></span></div></b></span></div></b></span></span></div></b></span></span></div></b></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;">My Department</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">Email: <a href="mailto:myaddress@mycompany.org" style="color: rgb(17, 37, 8);" target="_blank"><font color="#3366FF">myaddress@mycompany.org</font></a></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;">My Company — Its address</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">Standard : 01 23 45 67 89 | web: <a href="http://example.org" target="_blank"><font color="#3366FF">http://example.org</font></a></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial; border-collapse: separate; font-weight: normal;"><b><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><div><div style="display: inline ! important;">
<b><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20188079/ADNImpact/ADNImpact-2011-03.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#CC33CC">Did you read our newsletter? Click here!</font></a></b></div></div></span></div></b></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: bold;"><br></div></span></span></div></span></div></div><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-weight: bold;"><div style="display: inline ! important;">Consider your environmental impact: only print if necessary.</div>Still with me? Please Google, do something! It is not just a matter of aesthetics or bandwith: It also made it very hard or even impossible to manage HTML signature for all employees in my company!
Erreurs connues de Gmail
Si vous ou un de vos utilisateurs constatez un problème sur Gmail, commencez par vérifier sur la liste des erreurs connues de Gmail.
Gmail cherche dans les fichiers joints
Je viens de découvrir que Gmail cherche dans les pièces jointes — au moins les fichiers .txt.
Je m’explique : je cherchais à savoir si j’avais noté quelque part ma clé Windows XP. Comme je change d’ordinateur (trop) fréquemment, le seul endroit où j’ai un peu de confiance de retrouver pas mal d’info, c’est Gmail.
Je tape donc les premières lettres de la clé dans la recherche Gmail. Immédiatement, Gmail me la retrouve, ce qui me confirme que je me l’étais bien envoyé. Dans le corps d’un message, j’imagine.
Et bien non ! Dans une pièce jointe ! Et Gmail l’a bien retrouvé.
Ce n’est probablement rien de nouveau, mais ça n’en reste pas moins très notable.
Auto-entrepreneurs : votre adresse pro sans problème avec Gmail
Audience : administrateurs d’entreprise sous Gmail normal ou Google Apps (gratuit ou payant), créateurs d’entreprise, toute personne souhaitant améliorer sa crédibilité tout en gardant la même adresse… et ses relations ! Un niveau technique modéré est demandé. Aucune compétence en programmation n’est requise.
Résumé : cet article explique comment migrer d’une adresse de « type perso » vers une adresse de « type pro » sans débourser un centime (sauf pour acheter le nom de domaine) et uniquement en utilisant Gmail (sauf pour les redirections web) et ceci sans perdre un seul contact. Continue reading
No pasting into Google Presentations
Get used to it: every once in a while, I’ll post in English, be it for international audience or simply because I wrote elsewhere in English and don’t feel like translating the whole thing.
Context: impossible to paste Google documents to Google presentation (internal pasting, web clipboard). Someone complains at Google’s forum. Below is my reply.
Same problem. I tried to copy from drawings to presentation, to no avail. I tried with brand new documents too (new drawng and new presentation). Heck! They even have an article on how it is supposed to work!
abedepaul81 > right, I think they have to revamp the whole Google Apps thing. They accumulated a lot of technology, they sort of merged everything together, but this is very inconsistent (just one example among countless other: did you noticed you can use some fonts in Google Write, but not in Google Presentations?)
They should seriously look at Apple and its framework, which tremendously help achieving a unified interface (for instance, thanks to textServices, every single OS X application coded the right way may use basic Emacs bindings for text manipulation like ctrl+e). Much, much better.
Sure, it requires a massive backoffice rethinking and it will definitely cost time and money. But it will definitely pay for it in the (not-so-long) run.