Google Apps Hacks

268 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

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With some technical knowledge, you can set up custom Google

Apps for your organization or team (or private use), and create a

Google Site.

Google Sites (http://sites.google.com) is a content management system that includes wiki-like features

(like visual on-page editing) as well as project management tools (like the creation of task lists). It’s

more advanced than Google Page Creator, but also requires a Google Apps account (as opposed to a

regular Google account)—and a Google Apps account in turn requires you to have your own domain.

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What’s a Google Apps account? Google Apps (http://google.com/a/), formerly called Google Apps

for Your Domain, is a service that Google offers for businesses, students, schools, and organizations

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The BrowserPool client offers different

operating systems with different browsers

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Using BrowserPool to test how a blog layout

renders on Mac OS X with Safari

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After you’ve entered your domain into the form—I entered “blogoscoped.com” back in Figure

10-50—click the Get Started button, and complete the registration form that follows, as shown

in Figure 10-51. Another form follows requesting you to provide an administr ...