Understanding how your local desktop and network environment can affect your video call quality for meetings can help you improve them. This can be especially helpful while working from home because many users are utilizing personal computers to perform work as opposed to a company-issued device. With tons of browser tabs open, other software running, […]
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Google Meet on the web is adding convenient new options for creating and joining meetings
Google Workspace users should start seeing more options on the Google Meet homepage for joining or creating different types of meetings within the next two weeks. When you click “New Meeting” after receiving the update, you will see three options – create a meeting for later, start an instant meeting, and schedule in Google Calendar. […]
Continue ReadingQuick Tip: How to preserve your Chrome Tab Groups after restarting your computer
Ever since Google announced their Tab Groups feature, I’ve been using them for pretty much everything. After adding flags for tab group collapsing and freezing, they’re becoming somewhat of a power tool for productivity. When I switch over to my Windows desktop for some editing work or game development, I’m just a bit sad that […]
Continue ReadingSmart Compose and autocorrect can now be used in Google Docs comments
Within Google Docs, autocorrect and smart compose are now officially available while commenting. These features should help you to comment quickly and with confidence by reducing your chances of misspelling something or making grammatical errors. I say that both smart compose and autocorrect ought to exist everywhere, so placing it in Docs comments now is […]
Continue ReadingHow business owners and teachers can enable Google Play on store-bought Chromebooks
During my time as a Chromebook Expert in big box stores, I’ve seen many business owners large, medium, and even small return their devices after getting them home and realizing that the Google Play Store was not able to be used on them out of the box. What they didn’t realize is that consumer Chromebooks […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Meet gets more live caption languages, a redesigned Nest Hub Max experience, and more
After Zoom announced that they were going to allow their software to run on Nest Hub Max, they also dropped news of extending their 24-hour calls through March of 2021. Now, Google is rivaling that with its own extension on unlimited 24-hour calls in the free version of Google Meet through March 31, 2021, for […]
Continue ReadingGoogle joins the Modern Computing Alliance and vows to help organizations transition to the cloud
The rate at which technology is evolving is becoming quite baffling. For companies that continue to utilize legacy software solutions, they are oftentimes locked into slower, less responsive experiences and are limited to specific devices. On the flip side of the coin, those that wish to transition their infrastructure and teams to the cloud face […]
Continue ReadingGoogle acquires Neverware bringing official support to Cloudready OS
Anyone who has spent any time around the Chrome OS ecosystem is likely familiar with a little product known as Cloud Ready. For nearly a decade, Neverware has worked diligently to bring the Chrome OS experience to aged out Windows and macOS hardware. For countless educational institutions, enterprises, and home users, Cloudready’s custom Chromium OS […]
Continue ReadingGoogle went down hard with an outage, but most of you probably slept through it
If you are seeing news around the internet about Google’s services being down (Twitter was especially blown up in the early morning hours with outage hashtags), there are some things you need to know. Mainly, it’s not the first time it has happened, and it won’t be the last. As a matter of fact, an […]
Continue ReadingEditing Office files from Gmail attachments will now be simplified to one click
Over the next two weeks, Google will be making it easier to natively edit Office files in Docs, Sheets, and Slides which come to you as Gmail attachments by adding a pencil icon to the attachment itself. This means that opening these files will now just take one click! Previously, you’d have to click the […]
Continue ReadingAll Google Workspace apps will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 as Microsoft begins phasing it out
Having recently announced their plans to ‘sunset’ Internet Explorer 11 and Legacy Edge in favor of their Chromium-based Edge browser, Microsoft will say goodbye to their 8-year-old Explorer 11 near the end of next year. With that, Google has already begun to make plans for their Workspace customers to ensure that they continue receiving a […]
Continue ReadingTake up to $2500 off of a new Jamboard and supercharge your meetings
Virtual meetings and online learning have become the new normal and with that comes the need for better, more-affordable technology to change the way we interact with co-workers or the classroom. Google’s underrated Jamboard happens to be one of those pieces of really cool tech and right now, you can equip your office, boardroom, or […]
Continue ReadingHow to install and activate Microsoft Office 365 on your Chromebook
In my time as a Chromebook Expert in the retail space, I’ve seen hundreds of people confused by the process by which they get Microsoft Office 365 up and running on their new Chromebooks – especially during the Back to School season! I felt like putting together a step-by-step guide that can be referenced at […]
Continue ReadingMigrate from Google Cloud Print with these 12 Alternatives
Over the past few days, I’ve addressed the difficult topic of Google Cloud Print’s untimely demise. We’ve already put out a guide for those who are looking to transition from it on their personal Chromebooks and another for teachers and business owners to get their students and employees switched over to standard wireless printing. While […]
Continue ReadingHow to enable wireless printing for your students or employees and survive the death of Google Cloud Print
With Google Cloud Print getting the axe on December 31, 2020 – yes, that is just a few weeks from now – Chromebook owners will need to begin making use of standard wireless printing. Since we’ve already done a walkthrough on how to set that up for regular users, we thought it appropriate to help […]
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