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Create QR Code On the Fly

Ever seen those cool 2d Bar Codes (also called QR codes) and wondered how you could easily and quickly create these to point mobile phone users to a URL quickly? Well, Google Charts API comes to the rescue. By appending the URL into call to the API, you can change at text URL like https://exhibita.com/blog …

How NOT to Offers Support Videos

I was signing up for a new YouTube account to support a forthcoming video/blog project (we’ll have announcements about it soon) when I stumbled on the following page in Google’s YouTube support pages: I was interested in learning more about desired video formats and, in particular HD video formats. So, I clicked on the video …

Calculating Value of Google Apps In Your Business

Did you know that Google provides a TCO calculator to determine how much Google Apps can save your business over your current messaging solution? While it does a head to head comparison between Google Apps Premier Edition vs. Microsoft Exchange server, the concept and pricing should be similar for Notes or other messaging systems. With …

Moving From One Google Apps Account To Another

I’ve had a number of customers who’ve moved from one Google Apps account to another recently and thought I’d write down the steps on how to do this for use by others in the same situation. This seems to happen regularly with startups who change their business model (along with their domain name) mid-stream. Some …

Google Sites API Released

The Data Liberation Front strikes again! Google announced Friday that their is now a Google Data API for Google Sites. With this API, site administrators can now programatically: Retrieve, create, modify, move, and delete pages, comments, attachments and other content. Review the revision history across the Site. Monitor all, add, modify and delete activity for …