Google Apps

   Google Apps

Online email storage plus access to range of Google apps and Google groups.

Google Apps Setup

 * UK English Google Apps — start here to order Google Apps.
 * Configuring MX records — help changing your domain's MX Records for email delivery.
 * Configuring CNAME Records — help setting up CNAME Records for subdomain mapping.
 * Configuring IMAP client list — links to instructions for most desktop email clients.
 * Google Apps Status — performance info page for Google Apps services.

Google Apps Services
Google Groups — Allows you to setup and maintain a public mailing list where they do all the work.
 * Google Groups Support
 * Google Pages Support Group

Google Notebook — allows you to keep track of information 'clipped' from a webpage including images and text. Doesn't seem to support grabbing the url which is odd. See Google Notebook FAQ

Google Page Creator — allows you to create custom web pages with 100mb of space. You can add Gadgets thought they look a weeeee bit ugly. Probably good for anyone wanting a simple site for free.

Google Advanced Search Operators
Append your Google search with the following words to get more detailed results. See Google: Operators page.

Alternate Queries

 * cache:searchlink — get the version of the page currently cached by Google:
 * cache:news.bbc.co.uk


 * cache:searchlink searchterm — highlight the searchterm on the cached page:
 * cache:news.bbc.co.uk science


 * link:searchlink — list the webpages with links to the specified page:
 * link:cubittartists.org.uk


 * related:searchlink — list similar wepages to specified page:
 * related:news.bbc.co.uk


 * info:searchlink — show info Google has stored about the specified page including links to all the operator searches above:
 * info:cubittartists.org.uk

Retrieve Other Info

 * define:searchterm — definition for specified term including related phrases:
 * define:wonderful


 * stocks:tickersymbol — show stock exchange information by typing the ticker symbol:
 * stocks:ibm

Advanced Searches
You can access most of these via the Google: Advanced Search page.
 * site:searchsite — find all the results from a specified website:
 * site:cubittartists.org.uk


 * site:searchsite searchterm — find results from specified site and specified term:
 * site:cubittartists.org.uk david harrison


 * intitle: — will restrict results to pages containing the query terms in their page title:
 * intitle:david harrison artist


 * allintitle:searchterm — will restrict results to pages containing all the query terms in their page title:
 * allintitle:david harrison artist


 * inurl:searchterm — will restrict results to pages containing the query terms in their url:
 * inurl:poodle666


 * allinurl:searchterm — restrict results to pages with all the query terms in url:
 * allinurl:poodle666

Configuring Google Apps for IMAP access

 * 1) Login to the gMail/Google Apps account
 * 2) Click Settings on top-right of page.
 * 3) Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
 * 4) Select Enable IMAP and click Save Changes.
 * 5) Click on the Settings on the
 * 6) Open your Email client — Entourage.
 * 7) Select Tools > Accounts and click New.
 * 8) Set the Email address and Account to —
 * 9) Set the IMAP Server to —
 * 10) Set the password
 * 11) Open the advanced options popup
 * 12) * Enable SSL
 * 13) * Set the port to 993
 * 14) Set the SMTP Server to —
 * 15) Open the advanced options popup:
 * 16) * enable SSL (STARTTLS)
 * 17) * Set the port to 465 or 587
 * 18) * Enable Authentication: Yes
 * 19) Click on the Options tab:
 * 20) * Tick Send commands to server simultaneously.
 * 21) * Tick Always download complete message bodies and In Inbox only.
 * 22) * Tick Partially retrieve messages....
 * 23) * Tick Live Sync and Only connect to Inbox and Connect on launch.
 * 24) * Tick check for unread messages.
 * 25) Click on the Advanced tab.
 * 26) * Tick on all the store message on server options.
 * 27) * Tick Move messages to deleted items folder and Empty on quit.

See also Connect Entourage to Gmail iMap.

Google Groups

 * Google Groups — Allows you to setup and maintain a public mailing list where they do all the work.
 * Google Groups Support — support site.
 * Google Pages Support Group — join this group.
 * Google Page Creator — allows you to create custom web pages with 100mb of space. You can add Gadgets thought they look a weeeee bit ugly. Probably good for anyone wanting a simple site for free. See  salmondan.googlepages.com/home my pages.
 * Google Notebook — allows you to keep track of information 'clipped' from a webpage including images and text. Doesn't seem to support grabbing the url which is odd. See Google Notebook FAQ

Google Webmaster Tools

 * Google: Webmasters — webmaster resources to help with crawling and indexing questions.
 * Google: Webmaster Central Blog — official news for crawling and indexing sites for Google.