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 … [Read more...] about Google Calendar to rely on Tasks instead of Assistant-based reminders going forward
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Google 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 … [Read more...] about Google partners up with Figma to bring the popular design tool to Chromebooks
The 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 … [Read more...] about The Anywhere School School 2022: Event overview and announcements for education
Pin 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 … [Read more...] about Pin up to three videos simultaneously in Google Meet with the Multipin accessibility update
All 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 on as … [Read more...] about All of Google Meet’s features are coming to Duo, app to be renamed “Google Meet” later this year
You 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 … [Read more...] about You can now copy and paste files across Google Drive instead of having to use the ‘Move’ option
How 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 … [Read more...] about How to use the VLOOKUP function in Google Sheets to find things in a table or range by row
I’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 … [Read more...] about I’m beyond ready for these Airtable and Notion-style features to come to Google Sheets
Parallels 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 … [Read more...] about Parallels for ChromeOS expands support to more CPUs
Forcing 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, … [Read more...] about Forcing myself to use “Google Chat Tasks” has reminded me how I miss regular Google Tasks
Google 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 … [Read more...] about Google will continue to let individuals and families use G Suite Legacy free edition
Google 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 … [Read more...] about Google Keep is finally adding basic text formatting options for your notes
