MORE Great New Features in Google Apps!

If you get a message in your Gmail inbox from your cousin in Germany, a business associate in Mexico or a pen pal in Japan and it's written in their native language, the Labs folks at Google have another innovation for you. Using Google Translate technology, Gmail will offer to translate the message from the original language to your own default language (or any other language you choose).

To enable this feature, within Gmail click on Gmail Labs (either the tab or the green beaker icon) and click "enable" under Translation. When Gmail detects one of your messages is in a language other than your default language, you'll see a header at the top of the message. Click the link that says Translate message to.... Your message will be translated inline (no need to open a new tab or window).

In other Apps related news, Google has made some big updates to Google Sites including allowing for hierarchical navigation of your Site's pages, refreshing the edit menu to be more consistent with Google Docs and switched the site settings area to vertical navigation to prepare for upcoming features, one of which, according to Jens Alfke of Google, is Google AdSense integration.

(Hat tip to Google Operating System  and The Official Google Apps Blog )

Google Calendar Adds Tasks!

Google innovation continues to add more features to Google Apps, the premier software as a service based suite of messaging and collaboration applications that offers organizations powerful productivity tools.

Google has recently added tasks to Google Calendar, after previously introducing the function as a Gmail Labs  feature. Tasks will appear in the Tasks Gadget on the right side of your calendar grid.  Using this feature, you can now assign due dates to your tasks that will appear on the "All Day" event section of Google Calendar.

You can create tasks either by clicking on an empty space in the "All Day" section or in Month view and then choose the task option.  You can manage your tasks in the Tasks Gadget on the right side of your calendar.  To mark a task as complete from within Calendar click on the checkbox next to the task.  For more instructions on using tasks please click here.

Whether your business is moving everything to the cloud, just wants an affordable email solution or struggles to give employees access to critical information, Google Apps will help you stretch resources and work smarter. SADA has a demonstrated track record and competency in the implementation and customization of Google Apps. Give us a call today at 866.997.0000 or visit us at http://www.sadasystems.com/services-and-solutions/google-apps.

Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Announced

Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server allows users to access Gmail, Google Calendar and Contacts using built-in BlackBerry® applications. Google Apps Connector installs on BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, connecting it to the Google Apps servers and synchronizes email, calendar and contacts for BlackBerry® users.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server is currently in beta testing with select companies and universities, and will be available free of charge to all Premier and Education Edition customers this July.

For more information on this new feature please contact Michael Higby at 818.942.1094 or michael.higby@sadasystems.com.

Plain Paper Tweeting

This might be today's equivalent of hooking up the old gray mare to a Model T Truck circa 1923 but if one does not have access to a computer or consider themselves fully digitally literate they can still have take advantage of hot social networking services like Twitter using a fax machine.

For $14 a month the Celery fax-to-email service makes available the latest "killer app," that is, the ability to post to and receive messages from Twitter via fax through handwritten messages. The service also allows a user to update their Facebook status and receive RSS feeds.

Someday our grandchildren will say, "Huh?"

SADA Launches Client Referral Rewards Program

We would like to take a moment to extend a personal thank you for helping SADA Systems grow last year. We really appreciate you helping “spread the word” about our company and the services we provide. In case you may not recall all of the services we provide, please visit this page on our website, which lists everything. Maybe there are needs you have we may not be providing yet - if so, please let me know. We'll be more than happy to help.

Also, we would like to extend a $25 Visa gift card for any future referral as a small token of our appreciation. If a referral turns into a SADA client, we will forward an additional $250 Visa gift card. Hey, in this economy, every little bit goes a long way.

Referring clients to SADA is easy, simply click here, and fill out the form.

We look forward to continuing to work with you for the rest of 2009
and beyond. Thank you for your continued business.

New in Labs: Google Search right in Gmail

From the Official Gmail Blog:

Posted by Adam de Boor, Software Engineer

I used to have a problem. People would ask me questions, over chat or email, and I'd have to leave Gmail to search Google for an answer. Then I'd have to select the answer, copy it, go back to Gmail and paste the answer into the chat window or my reply. Sometimes I'd get distracted and forget to go back to Gmail, and I'd have to go through it all again when I remembered what I'd been doing.

With the new Google Search experiment in Gmail Labs, my problem is solved. When you turn this feature on from the Labs tab under Settings, you'll see a new search box on the left side of your inbox, like this:


Type your search in, and a window (like a chat window, but a bit bigger) appears at the bottom of your screen with the first few search results.


You can click on a search result and it'll open up in another window (or another tab) so you can make sure it's what you're looking for. Once you're sure it's a result you need, moving your mouse over the result back in Gmail reveals a pull-down menu that lets you do stuff with the search result.

What's in the menu depends on what you're doing in Gmail:

• If you're reading a message, you can start a reply to the message with the search result as the first thing in your reply.
• If you're writing a message, you can paste the result, or just the URL into your message.
• If you're chatting with someone, you can send the result via chat.
• You can also always compose a new message to send the search result.

If you have keyboard shortcuts turned on, typing g and then / will take you to the search box when you're not composing, and Ctrl + g will do it when you're composing (that's ⌘ + g for Mac users).

Like all things in Gmail Labs, we're going to be tinkering with it, so let us know what you think.

Oh, and one other thing: with all the stuff we've been adding to Gmail Labs lately, the left side of your account might be getting crowded. A lot of the people who've been playing with this new feature have found it useful to turn on "Navbar drag and drop" in Labs so they can move the web search box up to the top where it's easy to get to.

Sheet protection in Google Docs spreadsheets

You can now control who can edit individual sheets in a Google Docs spreadsheet.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
To protect a specific sheet, select the sheet and click the down arrow next to the sheet's name, and select the 'Protect sheet' option. Next, select who is allowed to edit the sheet from the 'Protect sheet' preferences box.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/04/sheet-protection-gives-you-finer.html