IT Lesson

• formLimiter: Close your survey automatically, after a maximum number of responses is reached, or at a date and time of your choosing. 
• Ultradox Trigger: Create custom emails, reports, invoices, newsletters, etc., based on information that people enter into your form. 
• Form Values: Store and pull from lists that you use regularly in Forms, like a list of staff, students, rooms, resources or anything you want. 

• Google Apps Audit API
• Google Content API for Shopping
• Google Calendar Resource API

Directory API

Reports API

Google+ Domains API

Ajay Guwalani   Ajay Guwalani is Product Manager on Google Apps Admin APIs. His current focus is to build next generation admin APIs to make enterprise developers and admins happy.

We launched the Admin SDK in May as a new way for developers to build customized administrative tools for organizations that use Google Apps. A top priority for most administrators is keeping their users safe. Today, were adding new security management features to the Directory API to help administrators manage:

• Access granted by domain users to third-party applications
• Application specific passwords created by users
• Backup verification codes for users using 2-step verification.

As an example, FlashPanel, a popular tool used by Google Apps administrators, is using these new features to allow domain admins to review installed applications and manage or revoke access to them. The Apps Explorer in FlashPanel allows admins to see which are the most installed apps in his domain or use a filter to review applications by type of permissions (Drive, GMail, etc). It also allows admins to review the number of users who have granted access to a particular application.

The screenshot below shows an example of FlashPanel’s customized view of third-party application installs.

In FlashPanel’s integration, admins have the power to whitelist or blacklist apps, as shown below.

The Directory API now also provides the ability to manage admin notifications that are delivered to the Admin Console. Currently, admins receive notifications for events that affect their domains such as users approaching their storage limits or monthly bills that are due. Now you can use the API to list notifications, update their read status, or pull them into custom tools.

If you are interested in using these new endpoints, please refer to the Directory API documentation.

Ajay Guwalani   Ajay Guwalani is Product Manager on Google Apps Admin APIs. His current focus is to build next generation admin APIs to make enterprise developers and admins happy.

Do you like to store photos in Google Drive? You are not alone! Photographs are one of the most common file types stored in Google Drive. The Google Drive API now exposes Exif data for photos, so that Google Drive Apps can use it. The Exif data contains information about camera settings and photo attributes.

Despite being an awful photographer, I love photographing benches, and here is one I took while at the beach. Let’s have a look at some of these new fields for this photo.

When I examine the metadata for this image using a drive.files.get call, there is now a field, imageMediaMetadata, containing the detailed photo information:

"imageMediaMetadata": {
  "width": 2888,
  "height": 1000,
  "rotation": 0,
  "date": "2012:07:08 15:22:25",
  "cameraMake": "NIKON CORPORATION",
  "cameraModel": "NIKON D90",
  "exposureTime": 8.0E-4,
  "aperture": 5.6,
  "flashUsed": false,
  "focalLength": 105.0,
  "isoSpeed": 200
 }

So whether you are just storing your amateur snaps like me, or using Google Drive to store serious photographs, we hope this will be useful information for Drive apps. For example, a photo organizing application will be able to create thumbnail and information views for photos without ever having to download them.

For more information, please visit our documentation, and if you have any technical questions, please ask them on StackOverflow. Our team are waiting to hear from you.

Ali Afshar profile | twitter Tech Lead, Google Drive Developer Relations. As an eternal open source advocate, he contributes to a number of open source applications, and is the author of the PIDA Python IDE. Once an intensive care physician, he has a special interest in all aspects of technology for healthcare

• Link to 60+ OCW Collections for Web Designers
• Via Stephen Carson

2ND GENERATION OCW COLLECTIONS?
Stephen Carson (in his super OpenFiction blog!) talks about a 2nd generation type of OCW (OpenCourseWare) collection, which assembles a list of courses from various university OCWs into a curriculum. And then he shares with us a great example...

OCW COLLECTION FOR WEB DESIGNERS
Jessica Hupp has managed to compile and organize an amazing collection of OCW for web designers. Click here to enjoy more than 60 OCW, covering everything from design theory to Internet culture!

Here are a few gems that caught my attention:

• Information Visualization: Consider space, order, focus, context, and more in this course. [University of British Columbia]
• Art of Color: In this course, you’ll learn the basic principles of color in visual arts. [MIT]
• Algorithms for Computer Animation: Learn about the algorithms that make animations possible. [MIT]
• People-Centered Design: Consider how you can design for people with this course. [The Open University]
• Social Visualization: In this course, you’ll learn how to visualize people and their interactions. [MIT]
• Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Application: Use this course to discover how you can use common sense knowledge in your design. [MIT]
• Networking Infrastructure for E-Commerce: Learn about the capabilities and limitations you’ll have to work with in e-commerce. [NC State]
• Communicating in Cyberspace: Take a look at digital communication with this course. [MIT]
• The Anthropology of Computing: Consider computers as meaningful tools for society and culture in this course. [MIT]
• The Future of the Internet: You’ll learn about Internet architecture as well as current issues like network neutrality. [Stanford]
• Foundations of American Cyber-Culture: Consider new media, demographics, open source, and lots more in this course. [Berkeley]
• Web 2.0: Get a good look at web 2.0 as it relates to users, online business models, and new technologies. [Weber State University]
• A New Era?: This course takes on the new economy and innovation. [The Open University]
• Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business: Get an introduction to search engines, intellectual property in searches, advertising, spam, and more. [Berkeley]