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Book Description

The march of the Android-based tablets has begun, including Galaxy Samsung Tab, Motorola XOOM, Nook and more. But where do you start? And what can you do with an Android tablet?

Taking Your Android Tablets to the Max is a one-stop shop for users of all skill levels, helping you get the most out of any Android tablet.

This book offers:

• A breakdown of the differences between an Android 2.0+ or an Android 3.0 device
• Tips for choosing the best device for you and how to best network (i.e., best wireless carrier for 3G or 4G or just WIFI)
• Detailed walkthroughs on how to get the most out of your tablet and the apps for it

What you’ll learn

• Which Android tablet is the best; what size and features
• What carriers should you choose for 3G/4G or just WIFI
• How to fully enjoy your tablet—books, music, movies and games
• How to use your tablet in a workspace
• How to take your tablet on the road
• How to maintain your tablet
• How to work and live with the cloud as part of your tablet experience Download Now »

Book Description

How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organization’s needs? This concise guide shows you how to use Google Scripts, the JavaScript-based language that provides a complete web-based development platform—with no downloads, configuration, or compiling required. You’ll learn how to add functionality to Gmail, spreadsheets, and other Google services, or build data-driven apps that run from a spreadsheet, in a browser window, or within a Google Site.

If you have some Java experience, getting started with Google Scripts is easy. Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to build applications that authenticate users, display custom data from a spreadsheet, send emails, and many more tasks.

• Learn Google Script’s built-in debugger, script manager, and other features
• Create a user interface as a pop-up window, a web page, or a Google Sites gadget
• Use data objects and CSS to build effective product pages
• Automatically generate web forms from key values you specify in your Google Docs
• Create a database UI that works as a mobile app and Google Site gadget
• Use Google Docs and Gmail to create a document revision workflow

Table of Contents
Part I: Understanding Google Script Download Now »

Book Description

The advent of Cloud computing and SaaS (Software as a Service) is a major turning point for businesses. Google is one of the pioneers of this approach and the collaborative solution of Google Apps offers a set of office tools (email, calendar, word processing, and spread sheet) for a price, which is two to five times more cost-effective than traditional offerings.

This book is all about making your transition to Google Apps fast and easy. It shows you how to develop a customized adoption path, and takes you through extending and securing your apps while teaching you to manage administrative tasks.

The book begins by presenting Google Apps’ collaborative and security tools. It then moves on to discuss different ways to extend Google Apps and their integration with development tools like Google App Engine. It also discusses integration with mobile devices like iPhone, Blackberry and others. By the end of the book you will be walked through a pilot project and identify the things that need to be done at the time of full migration. This is done using a case study called ‘Advanced integration with information systems’.

This is the English language translation of: Integrer Google Apps dans le SI, copyright Dunod, Paris, 2010

What you will learn from this book :

• Master collaboration with tools like Google Docs, Google Sites and video sharing
• Extend Google Apps with Google marketplace and Apps Engine to get one-stop shopping access Download Now »

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How would you like to share your calendar, access your e-mail, or create and share documents, all online from your smartphone/mobile device, netbook, or desktop? If you answered yes, then you should know that the best of all these online applications and services are being offered for free, from one of the Internet’s biggest names, Google. These apps are in an online suite of productivity and fun applications called Google Apps.

Getting StartED with Google Apps gets you started collaborating and creating with Google’s online suite of applications on the Chrome operating system—analogous to using Microsoft Office on Windows. The differences are that Google Apps and Chrome are mostly free and run entirely on the Web.

With this book, you get clear and easy-to-use instructions for getting up and running with basic Google Apps like Gmail, Google Voice, and more. Moreover, you get detailed visuals and step-by-step explanations on the more sophisticated Google apps like Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations, SketchUp, and more. So get going and have some fun while you’re at it.

What you’ll learn

• How to use Google’s suite of online applications, Google Apps
• How to set up your home office or company on Google Apps
• How to create a collaborative Google Apps environment and online network Download Now »

Book Description

As one of today’s cloud computing services, Google App Engine does more than provide access to a large system of servers. It also offers you a simple model for building applications that scale automatically to accommodate millions of users. With Programming Google App Engine, you’ll get expert practical guidance that will help you make the best use of this powerful platform. Google engineer Dan Sanderson shows you how to design your applications for scalability, including ways to perform common development tasks using App Engine’s APIs and scalable services.

You’ll learn about App Engine’s application server architecture, runtime environments, and scalable datastore for distributing data, as well as techniques for optimizing your application. App Engine offers nearly unlimited computing power, and this book provides clear and concise instructions for getting the most from it right from the source.

• Discover the differences between traditional web development and development with App Engine
• Learn the details of App Engine’s Python and Java runtime environments
• Understand how App Engine handles web requests and executes application code
• Learn how to use App Engine’s scalable datastore, including queries and indexes, transactions, and data modeling
• Use task queues to parallelize and distribute work across the infrastructure
• Deploy and manage applications with ease Download Now »

Book Description

With this book, you can build exciting, scalable web applications quickly and confidently, using Google App Engine — even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development. App Engine is one of the most exciting web technologies to appear in the last year, providing a simple, easy-to-use application framework with basic web tools. While Google’s own tutorial assumes significant development experience, Using Google App Engine is for anyone who wants to get started with this platform. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to build complete, interactive applications and deploy them to “the cloud,” using the same servers that power Google applications. You will: Download Now »