Google has recently announced a few new upgrades to Google Apps this weekend. One is exclusive to the Premier Edition while the other series of changes are to Google Calendar.
If you are looking for a compelling reason to move up to the Premier Edition, this may just be it. Not that I, or to the best of my knowledge any of my Google Apps clients, have experienced any significant loss of service in the past but you never can tell as the Apps become more and more popular? Yes, Google has finally upped the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Premier Edition to a 99.9% uptime guarantee. That amounts to under 9 hours of downtime a year! You can learn more about this at http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html.
Google has also announced a series of usability improvements to Google Calendar as well:
- A whole raft of new keyboard shortcuts (visible by pressing ? key) for things like navigation (k and j for previous and next period,t for today), changing views (a for adgenda view, d for day view, w for week view, m for month view, x for four day view), performing actions(c for create event, e for event details and del to delete an event) and maneuvering about the application(/ to search, + to focus on a calendar, q for Quick Add, Ctrl+P to print, s for settings and, of course, ? for shortcut screen).
- If you routinely have trouble getting everyone?s schedule coordinated, you can now automatically find the next available time period across those attending an event.
- The application will also perform automatic time zone detection when you are traveling
- If you frequently travel to another location or work with others in a different time zone, you can set up a secondary time zone
- You now have more granular control over meeting reminders
If you?ve used any of these features and have a comment, or have questions about upgrading to the Premier Edition, please feel free to use the comments section below.
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.
I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.
I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.
I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguardfor the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
Bragging rights
Private Pilot with Instrument rating and proud husband of soon to be 25 years (and counting).
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