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Automatically Organize Your Travel Plans with Gmail and TripIt
by Ranju Chaudhary on Aug.20, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies
Online travel service TripIt has just added a new feature that will automatically import itinerary and travel confirmation plans from a user’s Gmail or Google Apps account to the service’s web and mobile apps.
TripIt
links accounts using OAuth. All you have to do is login to your TripIt account and go to this page and enter in our Gmail
or Google Apps e-mail address.
Once you grant permission to the service, confirmation e-mails from an airline, travel website or hotel will be automatically imported into your account. When you set-up the import link, you can choose to go back and grab older e-mails or just start fresh from today.
We think this is a great feature, especially for frequent travelers. TripIt is a really great service because all you have to do is forward your travel confirmation e-mail to TripIt and it automatically parses the information and makes it easy to view and access. Having a truly autonomous solution like auto-import from Gmail makes an already great system even better; it even lets you sync mulitple accounts if you have more than one Gmail or Google Apps address.
Pro Tip: Subscribe to your TripIt CalDAV feed in Google Calendar
or iCal and you can have constant access to all of your upcoming trips in your favorite desktop or mobile calendar app.
Do you use TripIt or another service to manage your travel plans online? Let us know!
Gmail Now Lets You View Word Docs in Your Browser
by Ranju Chaudhary on Jun.26, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies, What's Happening?
Gmail now supports the ability to view Microsoft Word documents in your browser with a single click. The Google Docs viewer that handles the new duties already provides one-click viewing of PDF, Powerpoint and TIFF files.
The Word Doc viewing functionality works the same way as it does for the other supported file formats; simply click the “View” link at the bottom of a Gmail message with a Word doc attached to see the file displayed in your browser, without having to open a separate application. From there you can also download the document to your desktop or click “Edit online” to go straight into edit mode in Google Docs.
It’s a small update with big productivity implications for those who use and share Word docs frequently. What other file formats should Gmail support with one-click viewing?
