Gmail with PowerPoint preview; Google Analytics
Posted by Jacque on June 13th, 2007
Gmail Rolls Out PowerPoint Preview
From Google Blogoscoped, updated news of the slideshow feature for Gmail (some folks got this as experiment for a while).
When someone sends you a PowerPoint attachment, you can instantly open it in a new browser window by clicking “view as slideshow.” You can then go through the pages via the arrow buttons on top (highlighted in yellow) and/or you can right-click the Flash-based slideshow to open a context-menu which allows you to automatically play the presentation.
Right now Google doesn’t allow you to actually edit & create slideshows, but a presentation tool is expected this summer to add to their Google Docs & Spreadsheets apps.
Visit Referrers From Google Analytics
Google Blogoscoped also points out a small improvement to the interface of Google Analytics that might save you some time in the future. “You can now click on a small icon next to referrer URLs to have the referrer open in a new window. (To try this, go to e.g. Traffic Sources -> Referring Sites, and click on a specific domain.)”
Avoid having to sign in to Analytics every time by going straight to “google.com/analytics/home/”
