• Google Wave Now Open to Public

    Google Wave Now Open to Public

    Techtree News Staff, May 20, 2010 1442 hrs IST

    Tweaks, updates and other improvements made to the existing interfaces of few Google products

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At the on-going Google I/O Conference, Google has made a couple of changes to its existing line of products. For starters, the experimental service Google Wave will now be available to general public. Google Calendar has a spruced up interface and there are a few improved features in Google Docs. These changes are effective immediately.

Google Wave has taken a long time and loads of criticism for causing all the fuss over the web, especially Twitter. Until now, Wave was an invite-only service which has now been opened up to general public. Google Account holders can sign into Wave and can start using it from today. You can now start striking conversations with other Wave users and even chat with their existing contacts. If you are new to Wave and are going to try out it out for the first time, make sure you've quite a lot of patience. You'll need it as

Wave can be a bit confusing for beginners.



Google has shined up the interface of the Calendar and made it look just like other Google apps. A noticeable change in Google Calendars is that the Tasks link has been removed. The color palette has been altered and the text has been tweaked a bit.

Meanwhile, Google Docs has an improved comments feature and also a new dictionary feature. Google Forms also gets new themes and users can make use of new special characters added to the tools.







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