Five free Google Apps you may not know about

Introduction

Google is one of the most powerful cloud-based tools on the\r\nmarket. Whether you use it for personal tasks, school, business, or pleasure,\r\nplenty of apps are available. Some of these apps (such as Docs, Calendar, and\r\nGmail) are all widely used and well known. There are, however, other Google\r\napps you may not have run across — apps that can go a long way toward making\r\nyour life a bit easier. These apps may be less well known, but that doesn’t\r\nmean they are less capable. Let me introduce you to five such apps that you can\r\nintegrate into your free Google account.

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Forms

Once you’ve created a form, you can send it to Facebook,\r\nGoogle+, or Twitter or share a link via email. When people fill out the form,\r\nyou can track their answers in a Google spreadsheet.

Scholar

Scholar lets you include articles (including patents) and case\r\nlaw in the results. When you run a search, you’ll notice the results are a bit\r\ndifferent from the standard Google return. First, there’s a complete lack of\r\nadvertisements. That alone should prove its worth. Second, the results tend to\r\nbe heavy on books and PDFs (though websites do appear). If a result links to a\r\nwebsite, almost without fail that site is a university or other research\r\ninstitution. Scholar also allows you to track citations, create a library (for\r\nuse with citations), and view metrics of publications included in Scholar.

Cloud Print

Cloud Print is a tool worth setting\r\nup immediately — especially if you’re an Android user. It enables you to print\r\nto your printer from any device from anywhere, once you have a cloud-ready\r\nprinter set up. (You can also set up a classic printer, so long as it is\r\nattached to a desktop and configured through Google Chrome.)