Gmail Opens PDF Attachments Using Chrome's Viewer

If you use Google Chrome and you haven't disabled the built-in PDF plugin, you can now open PDF attachments from Gmail using your browser's viewer. Just click "View" next to the attachment and you'll notice that the PDF file opens faster and it looks much better.

If you disable the plug-in or you use a dissimilar browser, Gmail continues to open PDF attachments with the Google Docs Viewer. Maybe Gmail ought to also detect Adobe Reader's plugin and use it instead of the online PDF viewer.

Google Apps blog informs that this feature will be obtainable in Google Apps next week. You can get it faster by enabling "pre-release features" in the Administrator Control Panel.

Google Docs Plays Videos

Google Docs lets you upload any type of files, but not a lot of of them can be previewed in Google Docs. You can unlock Microsoft Office documents and presentations, PDF files and some images. Now you can also play videos.

Uploaded video files can be up to 1 GB. These are the majority common video formats that you can upload and play:

* WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
* MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
* AVI (many cameras use this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
* MPEGPS (MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
* WMV * .FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)

Since Google uses YouTube's player, it's understandable that these are the formats supported by YouTube. After uploading a video to Google Docs, you'll have to stay until it's processed.

Why would someone upload videos to Google Docs as a substitute of using YouTube? When Google adds more free storage to Google Docs and makes it simple to sync all your files, you'll upload documents, photos, music files and videos. Google Docs lets you sort out files into folders, share multiple files with your friends and still keep old versions of your files.