At Google's Cloud Next event last year, it announced that it was going to find new ways to protect users against spam and abusive practices of its services. The entire year was filled with Calendar and Drive spam among other things where suspicious events, files, and more were randomly appearing in … [Read more...] about Google Drive will now alert you of suspicious files with a large, yellow banner
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G Suite Legacy Free Edition users are being required to upgrade to Workspace in July
Admins for organizations using G Suite's Legacy Free edition are receiving emails this morning stating that support for the service is being deprecated. All users are being told that they are now required to upgrade their license to the new and improved Google Workspace. This comes 16 years after … [Read more...] about G Suite Legacy Free Edition users are being required to upgrade to Workspace in July
HP unveils “Fortis” brand for blended learning with two Chromebooks in tow
Welcome to 2022 where CES might as well have been 100% virtual and most PC makers are content to simply launch new products on their own schedules. Personally, I'm all for it. As much as I like attending in-person events, a good majority of Chromebook-related releases require far less fanfare and a … [Read more...] about HP unveils “Fortis” brand for blended learning with two Chromebooks in tow
[Updated link] How to pop Google Tasks out of Gmail and use it as a standalone web app
Updated link: Try clicking this link instead to access Google Tasks as a separate website! I love Google Tasks. Even though its identity has effectively been split between two different task management systems - one in Google Chat, and the other remaining traditionally named with just a new … [Read more...] about [Updated link] How to pop Google Tasks out of Gmail and use it as a standalone web app
‘Companion Mode’ in Google Meet rolling out now to make hybrid meetings much easier
Not long ago, Google announced something called 'Companion Mode' for its Google Meet hardware that was meant to help remote teams connect with each other, even if they weren't in front of a Chromebook or desktop computer. Now, this new tool is rolling out in an official capacity! Companion Mode … [Read more...] about ‘Companion Mode’ in Google Meet rolling out now to make hybrid meetings much easier
Live translated captions are now able in Google Meet to reduce language proficiency barriers
If you're hosting an all-hands meeting with globally distributed teams, you may be happy to hear that Google Meet's previously announced 'Live translated captions' are now generally available. The company stated last year that they would be rolling out soon for select Workspace editions, and now … [Read more...] about Live translated captions are now able in Google Meet to reduce language proficiency barriers
10 Tips and Tricks to help you get the most out of Google Keep
As I previously stated in my Google Keep bulk editing article, Keep is one of my favorite services that the company offers. It's lightweight and versatile in its offerings, even if those offerings are fairly vanilla. I actually love that about it. Where other notetaking services are complex and … [Read more...] about 10 Tips and Tricks to help you get the most out of Google Keep
How to move Keep notes between Google Accounts in bulk
One of my favorite Google services is Google Keep. I use it across all of my accounts as a journal of sorts for tracking my experiences, thoughts, and more. For work, I write down interesting article ideas, and for my game studio, I use it as a worldbuilding tool for my game universe. It's one of … [Read more...] about How to move Keep notes between Google Accounts in bulk
Google Tasks on the web will soon add favorites and list views
In a new Keyword blog post this morning, Google unofficially revealed an update to Google Tasks on the web. While discussing tools to help you tackle your New Year's resolution, it inadvertently dropped an image of the Tasks sidebar in Google Workspace, but instead of looking how we're all … [Read more...] about Google Tasks on the web will soon add favorites and list views
Google Docs fixes a wrong in the world by auto-correcting your em dashes in latest update
I've needed to use em dashes quite a bit in the last few months for some larger documents that I'm collaborating with others on, and unfortunately, I never learned to use them properly. Instead, I have always used hyphens both because I didn't know better, and because I'm too lazy to use the unicode … [Read more...] about Google Docs fixes a wrong in the world by auto-correcting your em dashes in latest update
Google Drive will begin informing its users of content violations via email
Google Drive allows you to store almost any and all filetypes from general formats like zip archives, images, audio, and videos to Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe files. While it was originally only really known for its Document storage, it's become so much more over the years. With that, however, … [Read more...] about Google Drive will begin informing its users of content violations via email
Google Calendar takes its turn preventing unwanted spam invitations in latest update
Millions of Google account users have been receiving unwanted spam files in Drive, and events on their Calendars from people they don't know, and Google has done quite a bit to shut that down. In July, they made it to where you could block people from sharing files with you if they weren't in your … [Read more...] about Google Calendar takes its turn preventing unwanted spam invitations in latest update
