Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Meeting

The Tablet User's Group reviewed Google apps available for tablets. Google offers many mobile apps for the ios platform. You can review all the apps available at this url: http://www.google.com/mobile/ios/
You will find plenty of apps for Google's own native mobile platform, Android at http://www.google.com/mobile/android/
If you have a Windows 8 device, the best word of advice right now for using Google apps on it, is... "good luck."  You can search for how to get Google apps on Windows 8 devices but the results are pretty poor.

Here is a great how-to on syncing your ipad and google apps account: http://www.ise.ncsu.edu/documentation/sync-ipad-and-google-apps.php 

Google Drive

Google Drive for iOS and Android is one of the most useful tools. Google Drive is file storage in the cloud. It lets you keep all your files organized in one place and it can be accessed and synced from any iOS, Android device or your computer. Any file type can be uploaded and the standard account offers 5 GB of storage. With the drive tool on a tablet you can, view your files on drive, pin them for offline viewing and create new documents or spreadsheets.

Chrome

The browser to have on your tablet. Did you know that you don't just have to use Safari on the iPad? You can download the Chrome browser from the app store and drag the icon right down to the dock (bottom of the ipad where those icons always stay).