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| | Heyo! Today's note will be a quick one. Sorry, not sorry.
Mike Stone and I were recently chatting about our favorite IT subreddits—and much to my surprise, I didn't have much to share. I don't spend a lot of time on Reddit, but this chat made me think that I should check it out more often.
We also thought it'd be fun to see what your favorite IT subreddits are. I've created a new thread here for us to share. Let everyone know how you're spending your IT-related time on Reddit! I'll see you in the comments. |
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| | | Angry MacBook Owners Get Class Action Status for Butterfly Keyboard Suit | | The Verge | A judge has certified a class action suit against Apple for its fragile butterfly keyboard design. The suit covers anyone who purchased an Apple MacBook with a butterfly keyboard in seven states: California, New York, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, and Michigan. That includes people who bought a MacBook model dating between 2015 and 2017, a MacBook Pro model between 2016 and 2019, or a MacBook Air between 2018 and 2019. | | Top IT Trends Powering the Distributed Workforce | | BetterCloud | Today's the day! It's not too late to sign up and hear from BetterCloud’s CIO and Jamf’s VP of IT about best practices for deploying and managing technologies across users, apps, and devices. Click the link above to grab your spot. | | Microsoft, Google, and Others Join Forces To Improve Browser Compatibility | | Neowin | Google and Microsoft have announced that they're joining forces with other companies such as Igalia, as well as the "broader web community" to improve compatibility across different web browsers. The movement, called Compat2021, will see the effort focus on five major areas that draw complaints from the developer community. | | Android Apps Like Gmail Are Crashing and ‘WebView’ May Be To Blame | | Engadget | Yesterday, a number of Android users (self included) suddenly saw notifications pop up on their devices saying that apps had stopped running. Many of the apps throwing errors suddenly can't be opened, and they include important ones like Gmail, a number of banking apps, Google Pay and others. |
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| | | The Best Way to Clean Windows 10: A Step-by-Step Guide | | MakeUseOf | Over time, every Windows installation builds up junk that takes up space and wastes resources. It's easy to neglect regular maintenance, so often the problem comes from old files and programs. Let's walk through how to clean Windows 10 using a variety of tools for different situations. | | How to Disable the “Change File Extension” Warning on a Mac | | How-To Geek | If you do a lot of file shuffling on your Mac, you might get annoyed at the “Are you sure you want to change the extension?” warning that always pops up when you try to rename a file’s extension in Finder. Luckily, this warning is easy to disable. Here’s how. |
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| | | Additional Language Support for Live Captions in Google Meet on Android and iOS Devices | | Google Workspace Updates | Users in APAC and Europe can now enable live captions in the following languages in Google Meet on mobile devices: French, German, Portuguese, Spanish (Spain and Latin America). Live captions can help users easily participate in meetings who may speak a different primary language, are in loud noisy environments, are deaf or hard of hearing, or have other disabilities that make listening difficult. | | Be Informed When Someone Subscribes To Email Notifications of Your Calendar | | Google Workspace Updates | When you share your calendar with others, they have the option to subscribe to changes you make on your calendar. In order to increase transparency to calendar owners on who can access this information, Google will inform them via email if someone subscribes to be proactively notified about upcoming events or any changes to existing and new events on their calendar. | | Alternate Runtimes Makes It Easier To Build Google Workspace Add-Ons, Now Generally Available | | Google Workspace Updates | Google is launching a new way to create Google Workspace Add-ons. With alternative runtimes, developers can write Add-ons in any language and on any infrastructure, and then publish them to the Google Workspace Marketplace. Alternate runtimes was previously available in beta. | | Changes to Google Drive Search Operators May Alter Your Google Vault Search Results | | Google Workspace Updates | Starting April 27, 2021, to: and from: won't match files shared before March 2021, but will better reflect actual sharing actions compared to the current logic. Before April 27, 2021, please check your saved Drive search queries in Google Vault and, if needed, make updates to ensure you get the results you expect. | | Find Files Shared With You Using Updated Search Operators in Google Drive | | Google Workspace Updates | Google is updating how some search operators work in Google Drive to make finding shared files easier. This includes adding new search operators and changing the behavior of some existing search operators. You’ll still be able to perform all the same searches, just the operators you’ll use for them may change. | | New and Improved Google Chat UI on the Web | | Google Workspace Updates | Starting March 24, Google is making some changes to the interface of Google Chat on the web (i.e. chat.google.com) and the Progressive Web Application (PWA). The new interface is similar to that of Chat in Gmail, giving users a consistent and predictable Chat experience no matter where they are. | | Customize Notification Frequency With More Options in Google Chat and Chat in Gmail | | Google Workspace Updates | Google has added more options for notification settings in Google Chat and Chat in Gmail. The new options affect push notifications on desktop and mobile, as well as notification badges on both the Chat and Gmail apps. |
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