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| | | Google Is Making It Easier to Reschedule Meetings in Calendar | | The Verge | Google is making it easier to reschedule meetings in Calendar — and avoid all that unnecessary Slack chatter — with a new feature that lets participants propose alternative times from within the app itself. The organizer of the meeting is then given the option to review and accept the new time or reject it. All attendees’ availability windows, if their calendars are shared with co-workers, will also now be displayed in a side-by-side view, so it’s easier to propose times that work with everyone’s schedules. | | With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye to Your PC As You Know It | | Computerworld | "For over 30 years, we’ve thought of PCs primarily as Windows machines, which we owned and controlled. That’s about to change forever," writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. "Microsoft is getting ready to replace Windows 10 with the Microsoft Managed Desktop. This will be a 'desktop-as-a-service' (DaaS) offering. Instead of owning Windows, you’ll 'rent' it by the month... DaaS for Windows isn’t new. But you’ll no longer be in charge of your Windows PC. Instead, it will be automatically provisioned and patched for you by Microsoft." | | 5 Takeaways from “Securing G Suite and Beyond: Tales from the Trenches” (Google Cloud Next ’18) | | BetterCloud Monitor | Well, Google Cloud Next ‘18 is a wrap! If you missed it last week, here are some highlights from a panel called "Securing G Suite and Beyond: Tales from the Trenches" that we thought would be particularly relevant to our audience. The panel, which included four BetterCloud customers, explored security topics that are top of mind right now for many modern IT professionals: How have security needs evolved, and what are the biggest concerns moving forward? What lessons have people learned? Here are five key takeaways, along with some tips and best practices the panelists shared. | | Cloud Computing Just Had Another Kick-ass Quarter | | Network World | Even as other parts of the internet economy stumbled, cloud service providers accelerated their growth. Could that save the tech boom? Network World takes a look at the top players. | | Do You Like Cheeky IT T-shirts? Vote For Your Favorite Design | | SurveyMonkey | In case you missed it in yesterday's newsletter: For the first time ever, we're creating Monitor swag. We created several T-shirt designs and wanted to let you, Monitor readers, vote for your favorite one. Whichever one wins, we'll print. And if you'd like a free T-shirt of the winning design, we'll send you one. Thank to you to everyone who's voted already! Vote here (this week only). |
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| | | How to Enable Dark Mode for Gmail | | How-To Geek | Microsoft just added a dark mode to Outlook.com, but Google is way ahead of Microsoft. Gmail has had a dark theme for years. Here’s how to enable it — and get a better, more complete dark mode for Gmail, too. | | Getting the Most from OneNote, Part I: A Hidden Office Gem | | TechRepublic | The more information you put into OneNote, the more useful it is. You can tag, flag, recognize, record, and search just about anything. |
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| | | Making a Living Scamming the Scammers | | Engadget | Just as there are scammers, so there are scam baiters. These real-life vigilantes make it their business to deceive the deceivers. A common strategy is to simply call fraudulent support lines and waste as much of their time as possible before the person on the other end realizes they're the one being tricked. Here's the story of how Kitboga scams the scammers. |
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