How to Do Everything with Google Tools, McGraw-Hill Publishing
| Highlights | Spotlight | Contents | Errata |
Get the most out of Google products and services with help from this easy-to-use guide. How to Do Everything with Google Tools shows you that Google is so much more than a search engine, offering other features such as shopping, mapping, blogging, advertising, and much more. You'll also learn to use the email, communication, document, and spreadsheet tools that make up Google Apps.
This book shows you how to maximize the Google tools that can make your work more efficient, your business more profitable, and your online experience more fun.
Highlights
| Here are a few of the book's highlights:
Learn about the many ways to use and customize Google Search features in Chapters 1 and 2.
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Navigate with Google Maps and Google Earth--or create custom maps; read about it in Chapters 3 and 4.
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Manage, modify, and share photos and other images with Picasa - learn how in Chapter 6.
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Spotlight
How to do Everything with Google Tools offers a special Spotlight project in the center of the book.
The project follows Jody Hart, the owner of the fictitious Hart of Glass Studio, as she enlists the help of a variety of Google Tools to establish an online presence.
In the project, you'll read how she:
- Assembles pictures in Picasa, and creates a Web Album displaying her wares -
- Builds a blog in Blogger, including custom colors, and a link to the Web Album -
- Maintains her inventory for subcontractor use in Google Spreadsheets -
- Designs a custom signature in Gmail, and publishes a public calendar for an upcoming open house -
- Shows her studio's place in the world via a placemark in Google Earth -
Table of Contents
Part I. Use Google to Search
1: Search With Google
2: Dig into Power Searches
Part II. Communicate--Google Style
3: Map with Google
4: Travel the Earth
5: Talk It Up
6: Say It in Pictures
7: Host Ads and Advertise with Google Ads
Part III. Construct a Mobile Office
8: Make Your Web Interface Your Own
9: Manage E-Mail with Gmail
10: Do Way More than Just E-Mail with Gmail
11: Create and Management Documents Online
12: Handle Spreadsheets Online
13: Design Websites with Google Page Creator
14: Blog with Blogger
Errata
No errata have been filed for this book. If you find an error, please email the details to donna baker.