Googling Friday #12

Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Googling Friday.

Edit your Google Docs on your mobile devices

Google announced this week that you will now have the ability to edit your Google Docs on your iPhone, Android, and iPad devices. I tried it on my iPhone just a few minutes ago and when you highlight say like a header, it creates an edit box within that same line of the header, so you can edit the header or add to it. This is welcome news and am looking forward to trying it out on my iPad. I am moving more of my documents to the cloud and a lot of times I am just taking my iPad with me instead of my MacBook to different places.

Google Voice for iPhone at last

On Tuesday, the official Google Voice app for the iPhone appeared in the iTunes app store. It offers everything the desktop client does at the same price as the desktop client (FREE!). I absolutely love Google Voice! It is our default long distance carrier now on our landline and has allowed us to drop our landline to the basic service like a dial tone.

Google Maps review

You have read here back in Googling Friday #7 of my thoughts on Google Earth, there is also Google Maps. What I like about Google Maps is if you have it say on an iPhone which is one of the included apps for it, it will show you as a moving blue dot and you are able to see just where you are even by walking. A case in point, when my wife and I went to Oxford, MS a few months ago, we were looking for Ajax Diner on the Square. By walking around the square and pulling up their location in Google Maps, we were able to quickly locate it and enjoy a nice lunch there (try the Southern Pecan Beer and the Deuce burger btw). I do find that it is often better updated than TomTom when it comes to rural areas. I was using the TomTom app on my iPhone to drive out to my friend Kenny’s place and it took me out to some backwoods country where the only thing missing was a banjo playing. Luckily, I switched over to Google Maps which accurately got me to his house. Needless to say, Google Maps has helped me out several times and is worth every penny it costs which btw it is free.

Well that is going to do it for this edition of Googling Friday. See you all next week!