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| | | | | How Google Meet Weathered the Work-From-Home Explosion | | Wired | As the coronavirus spread and more countries issued stay-at-home orders, people flocked to video chat services for work and to check in on family and friends. Google saw Meet undergo 30-times growth in the early months of the pandemic; soon enough, the service was hosting up to 100 million meeting participants each day. | | How to Deliver an Exceptional Employee Experience from Onboarding to Alumni (Webinar) | | LumApps | Although creating an exceptional employee experience isn’t something that can be changed in a day, we can help you get you there. Join LumApps and BetterCloud experts for a webinar on August 13 on How to Create an Exceptional Employee Experience from Onboarding to Alumni. | | Colorado City Forced to Pay $45,000 Ransom to Decrypt Files | | BleepingComputer | On July 27th, the City of Lafayette suffered a ransomware attack that impacted their phone services, email, and online payment reservation systems. At the time, the City had not explained what was causing the outage but stated that residents should use 911 or an alternate number for emergency services. | | Firefox for Android Now Displays Simplified URLs, Similar to Chrome | | Android Police | Mozilla has only recently pushed its completely rewritten Firefox for Android to the stable release channel, but gHacks has only now spotted a change that many people might dislike. Just like most Chromium-based browsers, including Google Chrome itself, Firefox has stopped showing the full URL in the address bar, omitting the protocol and the www. subdomain. |
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| | | How To Use Assigned Access In Windows 10 | | Infosec | Suppose you would like a user to use only one application on Windows OS. If this is a requirement, then the first thing which should come to your mind is the Assigned Access feature offered by Windows. | | How to Add Image Captions in Microsoft PowerPoint | | How-To Geek | Adding a caption to an image is an effective method for providing additional context of the image or giving proper credits to the image owner. Here is how to insert image captions in Microsoft PowerPoint. |
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| | | Block Google Meet Participants From Knocking Again | | G Suite Updates | Previously, when disruptive members were ejected from a meeting, they were able to continue disrupting the meeting by either re-joining or continuously knocking. Note, if the moderator mistakenly ejects a participant, they can still add that participant to the meeting by manually inviting them. |
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