Google Sync For iOS Updated

Google Sync http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Google Sync keeps your phone or mobile device in sync with your GMail, Google Calendar and contacts. But Google sync for iOS will bring you even more, now from your iPhone or iPad you can;

• Search all your emails, locally stored and on the server.
• Accept, decline and or edit Calendar events from the iOS Calendar App.
• Send emails from a selected email address, if you have multiple address' managed by a single Google Account.

These three updates are available to both Gmail and Google Apps email accounts.
For more information, visit Setting up Google Sync with your iOS device

Three new updates to Google Sync for iPhone and iPad - Official Google Mobile Blog

Share And Book "Appointment Slots" In Google Calendar.

For those who manage their working and private life through Google services, specially GMail, like me, has something new that I am sure you would appreciate.
So far I have been happy using the Google Calendar to organize and manage my time at work or at home. So do my partners and folks at home, managing their lives with Google Calendar. But these calendars are not in sync, unless we exchange the information via, say GMail. I can see them but I cannot book an available slot on my partners calendar, unless I call and demand it :).
But now, with appointment slots in Google Calendar, things seem to change. Now everyone can manage their appointment availability, online, 24/7, without having actually make a phone or physical contact.

It is pretty simple,

"To get started, set up blocks of time you’d like to offer as appointment slots. Simply click anywhere on your calendar and then on "Appointment slots.” From there, create a single block of time or automatically split a larger block of time into smaller appointment slots."

As every Google Calendar has it's own appointment sign up page and one can offer that directly to anyone you want to share the time slots. Or you can post the URL on your website or email it directly.
Sweet and cool. No more clashes of time slots. and welcome peace of mind!
Read more at

Introducing appointment slots in Google Calendar - Official Gmail Blog

Facebook Android app, Google Calendar App, Not Secure,

Facebook's Android app, Google Calendar App, Not Secure, http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Facebook and Google Calendar Apps, running on Android OS fail to encrypt data sent to and from respective servers. Please remember it is the app that is misbehaving not the Android OS
But before jumping into conclusions based on sensationalism like The register.com did, here are the facts the team, Freedom to tinker, found. Rice University professor Dan Wallach connected a packet sniffer to his network and observed the traffic sent to and from his Android handset when he used various apps available for Google's mobile platform. The real facts are;

• Google properly encrypts traffic to Gmail and Google Voice, but they don't encrypt traffic to Google Calendar. An eavesdropper can definitely see your calendar transactions and can likely impersonate you to Google Calendar.
• Twitter does everything in the clear, but then your tweets generally go out for all the world to see, so there isn't really a privacy concern. Twitter uses OAuth signatures, which appear to make it difficult for a third party to create forged tweets.
• Facebook does everything in the clear, much like Twitter. My Facebook account's web settings specify full-time encrypted traffic, but this apparently isn't honored or supported by Facebook's Android app. Facebook isn't doing anything like OAuth signatures, so it may be possible to inject bogus posts as well. Also notable: one of the requests we saw going from my phone to the Facebook server included an SQL statement within. Could Facebook's server have a SQL injection vulnerability? Maybe it was just FQL, which is ostensibly safe.
• The free version of Angry Birds, which uses AdMob, appears to preserve your privacy. The requests going to the AdMob server didn't have anything beyond the model of my phone. When I clicked an ad, it sent the (x,y) coordinates of my click and got a response saying to send me to a URL in the web browser. (Got to love the Angry Birds Birthday Cake!)
• Another game I tried, Galcon, had no network activity whatsoever. Good for them.
• SoundHound and ShopSaavy transmit your fine GPS coordinates whenever you make a request to them. One of the students typed the coordinates into Google Maps and they nailed me to the proper side of the building I was teaching in.

So read and use applications wisely. Hope Dan does the same with an iPhone,

Google Talk Is Out Of Beta, Together With Other Google Apps, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs

Google Apps Steps Out Of Beta
After it seems like eons in internet time, Google has taken out beta from Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. I remember when I first got invite to the GMail more than 5 years ago in April 2004 when GMail team said;
"Gmail is different. Here's what you need to know." and offered me 1GB of space. Which was the largest offered at that time.
Even since, GMail have become my main email tool. Then I went on to use other Google Apps, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk.
Google Talk was more relevant to our site and then came the Google Voice, which was GrandCentral before, that added tremendous value to telecommunication at personal level. Thanks to Google, my email, phone and offce apps follow me.
Yes life do turn around Google a Bit.
Official Google Blog: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)

Tags: Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Talk, GMail, Google Voice