In my household, I’m the digital enthusiast, whereas my fiancée is in love with the idea of completing tasks from paper or even a sticky note. Don’t get me wrong, I love the smell, feel, and traditional nature of paper, and still use a real journal to this day, but I love the flexibility, collaborative […]
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Google Calendar to rely on Tasks instead of Assistant-based reminders going forward
According to a new APK Insights report by 9to5Google, Google could be moving away from Assistant for reminders inside of its Calendar app. Instead, it’s looking like it could be replaced by the official Google Tasks system – you know, that app that we all thought the company forgot about, but suddenly started getting lots […]
Continue ReadingGoogle partners up with Figma to bring the popular design tool to Chromebooks
The Anywhere School 2022 event that took place yesterday brought us many exciting announcements about the future of Google Classroom and the role Workspace features and Chromebooks will play. Things like auto-transcribing Meet calls and “cast moderator” mode in the new Screencast app will be pivotal in today’s digital classroom. There was one more announcement […]
Continue ReadingThe Anywhere School School 2022: Event overview and announcements for education
Google’s The Anywhere School 2022 webinar event took off today with product launches and announcements to improve how students and teachers use technology in the classroom. The announcements included new updates to Chromebooks, Google Classroom, and Google Meet. Here’s a summary of everything that’s coming: The official launch of Screencast app Last month, we shared […]
Continue ReadingPin up to three videos simultaneously in Google Meet with the Multipin accessibility update
Google Meet will now let you “multipin” things during video calls including participant’s feeds and active presentations. This can be useful for a number of reasons but is primarily being advertised as an accessibility feature as that’s how it was first announced last month during Global Accessibility Awareness Day. For example, someone who is deaf […]
Continue ReadingAll of Google Meet’s features are coming to Duo, app to be renamed “Google Meet” later this year
Just days after Jaxon wrote his piece about the innovations that Google Duo made over Hangouts and how it was better, Google is saying goodbye to it. Despite what you may read in the headline, Duo itself sure will be dead and gone as a brand, but its features and the app itself will live […]
Continue ReadingYou can now copy and paste files across Google Drive instead of having to use the ‘Move’ option
Before Google cleaned up Drive’s duplicate, messy file structure, pretty much all users had multiple versions of the same file in many locations, making it nearly impossible to manage. Now that they’ve gone through and turned these into what can basically be considered arrows or shortcuts pointing to the original file, Google is allowing you […]
Continue ReadingHow to use the VLOOKUP function in Google Sheets to find things in a table or range by row
Google Sheets is powerful. It’s not as powerful in some ways as Microsoft Excel has become over the past four decades, but it’s stuffed full of functions – Google’s name for formulas – and these can be used to turn the spreadsheet service into a powerhouse for data organization and analysis. Today, I’m going to […]
Continue ReadingI’m beyond ready for these Airtable and Notion-style features to come to Google Sheets
I used to hate spreadsheets. Period. The main reason why is that I hated formulas, and thought they were extremely confusing. I mean, I was right, of course, but I also had pretty much no data to organize in my youth, so I couldn’t see the practical application of learning to use them, to begin […]
Continue ReadingParallels for ChromeOS expands support to more CPUs
Parallels is the industry leader in cross-platform software solutions. The company’s latest endeavor brings a full Windows desktop to ChromeOS to help enterprise clients make a smooth transition to a cloud-centric workforce. The purpose of Parallels Desktop for ChromeOS is to allow employees to have access to vital legacy Windows applications directly from secure, lightweight […]
Continue ReadingForcing myself to use “Google Chat Tasks” has reminded me how I miss regular Google Tasks
With the revamp of Google Chat came a new way to access and organize Tasks. The collaborative “Spaces” feature meant that you could assign tasks to others who are there with you and keep them organized with separate Space lists. This is similar to the standard Google Account Google Tasks feature, but it also allowed […]
Continue ReadingGoogle will continue to let individuals and families use G Suite Legacy free edition
This January, G Suite Legacy free edition administrators received an email stating that support for the service they and their organizations had been using for the past 16 years was being deprecated. Understandably, this threw many loyal users into a fit of rage, and many could not understand why Google wanted to push the new […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Keep is finally adding basic text formatting options for your notes
Google Keep was released in 2013 – that’s almost ten years ago! Within that time, the service has seen many improvements, but aside from the note backgrounds, a material you remake and new homescreen widgets for rapid logging ideas (all recent developments, I might add) almost none of them have been user-facing. Now, it looks […]
Continue ReadingWebex Meetings teams up with Google to release a Progressive Web App for Chromebooks
If you’ve read Chrome Unboxed for any length of time, then you probably already know what a “PWA” is. A Progressive Web Application is a website with app-like functionality. They’re becoming increasingly more popular these days, and in many instances, are replacing traditional installable apps entirely. Today, Webex, a Cisco product for video conferencing often […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Docs receives dropdown chips and table templates, making Smart Canvas even smarter
Ever since Google took Docs to the next level with the Smart Canvas update, it’s become capable of so much more than just being a word editor. By tapping the “@” sign on your keyboard, you’ll be presented with a whole load of Notion-style block tools that can help turn your boring, old document into […]
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