Saturday, February 05, 2011

Now Use Google Cloud Print without a Phone

Google Cloud Print is an interesting
web service that brings wireless
printing (well, sort of) to your home
without any complicated set -up or
hardware upgrades. Once Cloud
Print is enabled , you’ ll be able to
send documents and emails to your
local printer for printing from
anywhere over the Internet.
Google Cloud Print currently
supports printing only through
iPhones and Android mobile phones
but if you find that limiting , here ’s a
new Chrome extension that will let
you print documents even from your
desktop without requiring a phone.
It adds a little Cloud Print icon to
your address bar whenever you are
viewing a PDF, a Word document or a
text file in the Chrome browser
( video demo) . Clicking that icon will
show a list of all printers that are
connected with your Google Account
– select any one to start a print job
that you can later manage from the
Cloud Print dashboard .
This works only with files that are
already on the web and if you are
print your local documents with
Cloud Print, you first need to upload
them online. Thank you @NirmalTV

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