DocSyncer: Sync your MS office with Google

For the not so techie, It works like this, you have a word, excel, powerpoint document on your pc, that document gets uploaded online automatically. Every changes that you make on that document whether on your PC or online, you’ll be able to see the updated one whichever file you open.

You have to download an application on your computer.

REQUIREMENTS:

Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
(Mac OS X version coming soon!)

500 MHz processor or above

10 MB of disk space

64 MB of RAM memory

Broadband Internet connection

When you’re done installing, your DocSyncer admin page will automaticall open. Then it will start syncronizing the documents on your PC. But currently, it will only sync any document that is in your My Documents and Desktop folders.

So if you just want to sync the contents of a single folder, you can do so. Just click edit on the menu above the Folder List view (left side of screen). I guess, you just place all the docs that you want to be synced in a single folder - that’s if you don’t want DocSyncer to sync all your docs.

Ok so WHY use DocSyncer?

So that when you’re not infront of your PC and you want to access a document, then you could just go to an internet cafe and open the document from there. You can open it using Google Docs or download it to the PC that your are currently using and change it there. (but if you do that then it doesn’t get re-synced - so just use Google Docs)

Or, since Google Docs can be accessed through a mobile phone, you can access your document on your cellphone, edit it there then access the updated docs on your pc when you get back.

As you can see from the pic above its a “previous version feature”. So if you want to see your previous versions of the file - old contents versus new changes you’ll be able to see it (i don’t know yet up to want extent the editing history tracking will be).

One more thing, It serves as your back-up if ever you loose your file due to a virus or your pc crashes or you accidentally permanently deleted your file.

Oh.. I checked my Google Docs admin page. I saw the documents that were uploaded by DocSyncer.

I’m a big fan of automatic synchronization. I’m using Foxmarks for my bookmarks. I can open my bookmarks anywhere!

File Associations
Now you can launch Google Docs just like Microsoft Office! This feature allows you to auto-launch documents into Google Docs should you click on them anywhere on your computer - just like a file association. As long as the file is synced to Google Docs, it will launch instantly in your browser. If the file isn’t on Google Docs, the default application for that file will launch instead (such as Microsoft Word). If you’re disconnected from the Internet (such as on an airplane), DocSyncer will detect this after a few seconds and launch the document in your default application. A few points on this feature:

* You need to reinstall DocSyncer (which only takes a minute - no need to uninstall first) for file associations to work.
* File associations are completely optional for now and can be turned on in your My Account Settings.
* Only works on XP - Vista support coming soon.

Open Files Locally through My Account
While using My Account through your browser, you can now open files locally in their default application by clicking Open Locally. It takes a few seconds after you click Open Locally - we’re working on getting this speed down to less than a second. This feature is great for those who are still wanting to operate in both worlds (Google Docs and Microsoft Office).

Expanded File Support
In Settings, you can choose what file types should and shouldn’t sync to DocSyncer and your Google Docs account. We’ve added support for RTF, TXT, CSV, and HTML as well as the ability for you to turn off certain file types. We also sync XML Microsoft Office files (such as DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) by default, even though Google Docs doesn’t support them yet (when they add support, we will sync them to your Google Docs account).

Changing Your Google Docs Account
In Settings, you can now disconnect your DocSyncer account from your Google Docs account. This isn’t recommended unless DocSyncer was hooked up to the wrong Google Docs account (such as the case where users have more than one Google Account).

Custom Folders
During the beta, only the My Documents and Desktop folders are synced. However, now you can edit which folders inside these folders are included or excluded. Just click Edit on the top left of the My Account page.

What we’re working on…

* Google Apps for Your Domain support. We hear you and it’s coming soon!
* Google Docs Folder Support - Through Google’s API, we have no way to assign documents to folders. We’d very much like to do this so your Google Docs account is just as organized as your computer. We’re trying to work with Google to add support soon.