APT Project Demonstrator Lunch

On the 11th November the APT STAIRS team held a luncheon to say a big thanks to all the demonstrator leader's contributions, and to hold a brainstorming session on Google Docs API developments.

For more details about the Demonstrator Lunch, just visit our Demonstrator Lunch web page, where you will find information on how we engaged everybody in our brainstorming session, as well as pictures and live footage from the event.

Bloomsbury Survey Results

For all you of you who contributed to the Bloomsbury Survey of Web Use we would like to thank you again for all efforts, as your answers and comments have provided us with some very useful and valuable data.

So for anyone interested in viewing the results of technology use across the Bloomsbury Colleges please go to our Survey Analysis web page. Here you will find a Report on our findings along with a set of graphs to represent the data from academics, students, researchers and support staff.

Back up Google Docs to your hard drive

You can now download all your Google Docs documents to your hard drive with a programme called Syncplicity.

Syncplicity is a file back up and synchronization service, that works with your Google Docs account.

Once that initial sync process between Google Docs and your local Office document folder is done, you can edit any document locally using Microsoft Office Word or OpenOffice and Syncplicity will automatically upload the updated version of the document on to Google Docs.

This is very handy if you need to edit documents offline (like in a plane or a taxi) without requiring a browser with Google Gears.

Also, if you create a new document in your Google Docs account, a copy of that document will get downloaded to the local folder so you always have access to the document even without internet.

At the moment Syncplicity is free during it's beta period, and is very easy to use, with it's colourful user friendly interface.