- Do more from your inbox with Gmail Add-ons
- For many of us, email is mission control—the prompt to generate an invoice, prepare a presentation or follow up on a sales opportunity. With so many to-dos, imagine if you could complete these tasks directly from your inbox without interrupting your workflow.
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- Gmail Add-ons Are a New Way to Work with Business Apps Directly in Gmail
- Google has a number of features built into Gmail including unique themes, different layouts and an entire Labs section with a dozen different experimental options to help you customize your Gmail experience.
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- 10 Cool Chrome Extensions You'll Wish You Had Before
- YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF THESE COOL EXTENSIONS!More Top Lists ➤ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...Subscribe Here ➤ https://www.youtube.com/user/ThioJoe?...There are tons of Google Chrome extensions out there, but everyone knows about the most popular ones. Instead, I went through the Chrome
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- Here's how to protect yourself from rogue redirect ads right now in Chrome
- Earlier today, Google formally announced a feature that would keep rogue advertisements from taking over the browser and redirecting you to another page.
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- Chrome 64 will block those pesky redirecting ads everyone hates
- Over the past few months, we've received dozens of complaints about redirecting ads on this site. The problem ultimately comes down to rouge ads being published through common ad networks (even 'safe' ones like AdSense and AdX), which then show up on sites like ours.
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- Chrome 63 Beta: Dynamic module imports, async iterators and generators, Device Memory API, and permissions UI changes
- Dynamic module imports Currently, importing JavaScript modules is completely static, and developers cannot import modules based on runtime conditions, like whether a user is logged in.
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- Google Results Now Include Your Local Library's Ebooks
- Google just made free legal ebooks much easier to find. Search for a book, and in the info bar on the right, under the buying options, Google lists local public libraries that have the ebook. (On mobile, tap the “Get Book” tab.
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- How to Effectively Search for Files and Folders in Google Drive
- If you are using Google Drive to store your backup and you have tens of thousands of files and folder in it, it can sometimes be difficult to search for that particular file or folder in Google Drive.
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- Fast Drawing for Everyone
- Drawing on your phone or computer can be slow and difficult—so we created AutoDraw, a new web-based tool that pairs machine learning with drawings created by talented artists to help you draw. It works on your phone, computer, or tablet (and it’s free!).
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- Google Chrome Now Uses Native GTK Window Buttons on Linux
- Google Chrome is finally using native GTK window buttons out of the box. Development builds of Google Chrome (and Chromium) version 63 uses GTK-rendered window controls derived from the whatever theme you’re using.
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- Chrome OS native development
- Today is the third day of my Two weeks programming on a Chromebook challenge. For the first two days I’ve played with enabling the Developer Mode on my Chromebook and installing Crouton and GCC 7 for C++17 development.
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- Chrome 62 Beta: Network Quality Estimator API, OpenType variable fonts, and media capture from DOM elements
- Network Quality Estimator API The Network Infomation API has been available in previous versions of Chrome, but has only provided theoretical network speeds given the type of a user's connection.
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- How to Add and Update Table of Contents in Google Docs
- When you’re writing a document in Google Docs, you may want to add a table of contents. Thankfully, a lot of word processors understand the value of automatically-generated tables of contents, and Google Docs is no different.
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- How to Block Websites on Chrome
- Websites are great, aren’t they? Except, that is, when they’re so great that we find ourselves clicking on them involuntarily when we’re supposed to be working, or when they rank too high for many of our search terms but then force us to sign up to them when we click through, or… well, many
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- What's New In DevTools (Chrome 62)
- New features coming to DevTools in Chrome 62: Note: You can check what version of Chrome you're running at chrome://version. Chrome auto-updates to a new major version about every 6 weeks.Top-level await operators in the Console The Console now supports top-level await operators.
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- Come play with WebVR Experiments
- Everyone should be able to experience VR, and WebVR is a big step in that direction. It’s open to all browsers, making it easier for developers to create something quickly and share it with everyone, no matter what device they’re on.
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- Google’s WebVR now compatible with Cardboard, new experiments website [Video]
- Back in June of 2016, it was revealed that Google was working on a way to make virtual reality accessible from every web browser, dubbed WebVR. Then, with the release of Chrome 56 Beta, Google started to allow developers to begin testing their WebVR projects on the web.
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- 7 Useful Chrome Extensions to Improve Google Calendar
- Google Calendar is one of the most popular calendars out there. Despite its popularity, there are some areas where it can improve. By adding and using an extension, you can add additional features and make Google Calendar better than ever.
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- Chrome 61 Beta: JavaScript modules, Payment Request API on desktop, Web Share API, and WebUSB
- JavaScript modules Modules allow developers to declare a script's dependencies and are already popular in third-party build tools, which use them to bundle only the required scripts. This release adds native support for JavaScript modules via the new <script type=module> element.
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- How to Assign Custom Hotkeys to Your Chrome Extensions
- Hotkeys can become an essential part of a user’s productivity. When all the actions you want to perform are mapped to key combinations, it becomes a lot faster to open windows, execute tasks, and search for what you need.
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- How to Speed Up Chrome with 5 Easy Tricks
- Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world, and a big part of that is thanks to the fact that it’s one of the quickest.
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- How The New York Times used the Google Sheets API to report congressional votes in real time
- There’s a common phrase among reporters: “The news never sleeps.” This is why many news outlets rely on cloud-based productivity tools like Google Docs and Sheets to share information, check facts and collaborate in real time. And The New York Times is no exception.
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- Chrome 60 Beta: Paint Timing API, CSS font-display, and Credential Management API improvements
- Paint Timing API While no generalized metric perfectly captures when a page is loaded in all cases, First Paint and First Contentful Paint are invaluable numbers to measure critical user moments during loading.
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- How to Recover Your Android Settings With Google Backup and Restore
- Google syncs really well with Android devices. What can happen occasionally is you could inadvertently delete something from your Android device. Because of the almost instant sync, this information is also deleted from your web account.
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- Google Drive Will Soon Backup Your Computer’s Entire Hard Drive
- Short Bytes: On June 28th, Google will launch a new tool named Backup and Sync for PC and Mac consumer users. This new backup tool will allow you to select all the folders on your computer’s storage disk and backup the entire system.
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- Quickly Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 with Ytmp3
- This is a sponsored article and was made possible by YTmp3. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored.
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- Google Sheets adds automatic charts, Docs & Slides sync, improved shortcuts and more
- Google Drive is full of powerful tools, and Sheets is one that many rely on as an alternative to Microsoft Excel. Today, Google is debuting several new features for Sheets that are bound to become incredibly useful to its users.
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- Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets
- Sorting through rows and rows of data in a spreadsheet can be overwhelming. That’s why today, we’re rolling out new features in Sheets that make it even easier for you to visualize and share your data, and find insights your teams can act on.
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- How to delete unwanted URL suggestions in Google Chrome
- Have you ever typed a URL into Google Chrome incorrectly? For example adding an extra character, or maybe misspelling a word? In many cases, Chrome will save that URL to your auto-suggestions, meaning that it will be there any time you try to type in that URL. Here’s how to fix that.
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- .DOC File vs .DOCX File — What’s The Difference? Which One Should I Use?
- Short Bytes: DOC and DOCX are two most common word document formats. Created by Microsoft, both are supported by almost all word processing software. DOCX, where X stands for XML, is newer and results in smaller and lighter files.
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- Google Is Testing “Chrome Home” For Android, What Is The Experiment Actually?
- Google Chrome for Android will soon welcome a new set of visual changes, dubbed as Chrome Home. Google has been testing Chrome Home under its roof for a while, and all the updates made till now can be found on Chrome Canary and Chromium builds for Android.
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- Google Search adds ‘Personal’ filter/tab to only show results from Gmail, Photos, more
- Google has long surfaced personalized results from Gmail, Photos, and other services in Search when it is relevant to a query. There is now a new “Personal” tab on the web and mobile to quickly see these results from your various Google apps.
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- Todoist introduces deep integration with Google Calendar, launching today [Gallery]
- Todoist is one of the most powerful task management apps out there, and part of the reason for that is its strong integration with third-party services. To date, though, it has lacked decent integration with Google Calendar, relying on half-baked tie-ins that barely worked.
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- The Quick Access feature in Google Drive for Android is coming to Drive on the web
- The Quick Access feature from Google Drive, previously an exclusive to the Drive app, will now be coming to the site. Once it is live, you'll be able to see the files Google thinks you are most likely to need at a given time right at the top of your list.
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- Google family groups make it easy to share photos, calendars, YouTube TV, and more
- Google has added a number of family-oriented features in recent years, and now it's bringing it all together under "family groups." This feature plugs into family sharing for YouTube TV, Google Play Family Library, and adds easy family sharing to a few other Google services.
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- KDE Plasma Is Adding Google Drive Integration
- Anyone missing Google Drive integration with KDE Plasma can stop — it’s here! Detailed in a blog post this week, the KDE Google Drive integration is super similar to that of GNOME Online Accounts, which we’ve written about before.
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- Developers now have access to Google Assistant’s speech recognition tech
- Starting today, third-party developers will have access to the same speech recognition technology that powers Google’s products. Available in Google Cloud, the Cloud Search API has also been updated with new features and improved performance.
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- How to activate YouTube’s hidden dark mode on Google Chrome
- Many of us wish there was a dark mode in every app or service, as it really does make a difference to the overall user experience. Google has experimented with this several times on several of its services, but recently, it’s been discovered that YouTube has been hiding a dark mode.
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- Android Pay functionality now works within select mobile banking applications
- Google has been trying to make mobile payments work for some time now, just like several other companies such as Samsung and Apple. However, no company has yet to be widely successful at achieving that goal.
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- Google Assistant adds ‘Notifications’ toggle in settings for phones and Home
- Earlier this evening, Google Assistant added a new “Notifications” option in settings on both phones and Google Home. Unfortunately, the new setting does not appear to do anything yet.
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- Google now lets you submit URLs for indexing directly from search results
- So this is nifty. Google is constantly adding actionable interfaces to its search results, and the latest addition (via SearchEngineLand) saves you a couple clicks for a common action: suggesting a webpage for Google to index. Now, you can submit a URL to Google directly from search…
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- Google Chrome (Dev) Lets You Enable Native Desktop Notifications
- Google Chrome is — finally — adding support for native desktop notifications on Linux, something many users have been asking it to do for years.
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- Copyless Paste, a feature that provides Context-Based Text Input Suggestions, is coming to Chrome
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- Chrome's new Custom Context Menu Revamps the Link/Image/Video Context Menu
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- Chrome 59 Beta: Headless Chromium, native notifications on macOS, and service worker navigation preload
- Headless Chromium Headless Chromium allows running Chromium in an automated environment without a user interface or peripherals. This enables use cases such as automating unit tests with Selenium and converting a web page into a PDF.
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- How to get Google Assistant on your Windows, Mac, or Linux Machine
- Google Assistant is Google’s answer to Amazon’s Alexa smart home assistant.
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- Top 4 Markdown Editors for Google Drive
- Markdown is a great way to write cleanly-formatted text online. However, it doesn’t always play nicely with web services like Google Drive. Here are three editors and one script that will improve your Google Drive/Markdown relationship.
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- Best Google Chrome extensions
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- How to Get The Most Out of Google Calendar
- “Team meeting on Tuesday,” “Finish the project by Friday” and “Dinner with friends on Saturday.” Wasn’t your wedding anniversary this week.
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- Tampermonkey
- The world's most popular userscript manager Tampermonkey is the most popular userscript manager for Google Chrome.
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- How To Enable Color Emoji on Chrome for Linux (Updated)
- Are you fed up of not being able to see color emoji in Google Chrome on Linux? If so, I’m about to make your day. Well, more precisely, ’emojineer’ and Googler Monica Dinculescu is.
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- Google Cloud Container Builder is here for all of your Docker builds
- The Google Cloud Container Builder is finally here! Creating Docker containers is easier than ever thanks to this new Google tool. Containers make the world go round, whether it’s shipping goods from China or making cat videos on YouTube work properly on your smartphone.
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- 18 Applets for Google
- Use Google Assistant to add a new Google Contact
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- 5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy on Google Chrome
- Google and Chrome are a bit shaky on the privacy front.
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- Chrome 58 Beta: IndexedDB 2.0, an improvement to iframe navigation, and immersive full screen for PWAs
- IndexedDB 2.0 The IndexedDB 2.0 standard is now fully supported in Chrome, making it simpler to work with large data sets in the browser. IDB 2.0 features new schema management, bulk action methods, and more standardized handling of failures.
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- Capture ideas in Google Keep, bring them to life in Google Docs
- Great ideas can surface in unexpected places. We created Keep to capture your thoughts anytime, anywhere—with smart tools to help you easily organize your notes, ideas and to dos. Starting today, you can capture your ideas for work: Keep is now a part of G Suite.
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- Google Pushes Hangouts in a more Corporate Direction with Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat
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- Google Announces Cloud Functions for Firebase
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- Google’s Firebase app development suite adds closer integration with Cloud Platform
- At day two of Cloud Next ’17, Google’s Firebase app development suite was announced to have closer integration with the Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Functions for Firebase offers a complete backend serverless solution, while Cloud Storage for Firebase improves the app storage experience.
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- Gmail now supports native, business focused add-ons, more coming soon
- Gmail on its own is already a very powerful email client, offering useful features and direct integration with Google’s other services, like Google Drive. However, there’s always room for improvement. Today, Google has announced that Gmail will add support for native add-ons.
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- Drive File Stream for G Suite lets you access all your files without using all your disk space
- Google is announcing a ton of new enterprise products and services today, and one of them is the aptly named Drive File Stream.
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- How to Copy Desktop Chrome Bookmarks to CAF-based Chromium Browsers
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- How to Set Up and Use Google Docs Offline Easily
- As we move into an age of cloud storage, there are many benefits and drawbacks that come with it.
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- 50 Google Sheets Add-Ons to Supercharge Your Spreadsheets
- Spreadsheets are amazing, powerful tools. They can do anything—almost anything, at least. But wouldn't it be great if they could do that one extra thing you've always wanted—if they could remove extra rows or look up research data or translate text automatically?
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- Making Google Data Studio Free for Everyone
- Today, Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful is even more relevant and broad reaching.
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- Gmail v7.2 Prepares to Add Support for S/MIME Enhanced Encryption
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- Google VP Nick Fox shares sneak peek of Allo for desktop
- In a Tweet this evening, Nick Fox, Google’s VP of Communications Products, shared an early look at Allo for the desktop. Although Allo had a decently strong start with over 5 million downloads in the first four days after launch, growth was quite slow after that.
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- How to Enable Chrome Extensions in Incognito Mode
- Modern browsers have a great feature known as “incognito” or private mode which allows you to browse the web without saving a record of the sites you visit, storing cookies, or saving your search queries. By default, Google Chrome disables all your extensions when you open an incognito window.
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- 4 of the Best Remote Desktop Extensions for Chrome
- You wouldn’t know it, but the Chrome browser is actually a very powerful platform for application developers. Lots of apps have been created over the years that run directly on top of Chrome. Remote desktop applications are no different.
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- How to use Chrome Remote Desktop to help friends and family with new devices
- If you’re anything like me, you spend basically all of your time on “holiday” not with family enjoying a nice cup of cocoa, but rather fixing and setting up all their devices.
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- Make tabs work for you.
- Make tabs work for you. Toby is a free Chrome extension that provides easy access to all of your sites.
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- Cloud Spanner beta brings Google’s globally-distributed database solution to third-party developers
- Used internally to run several large services, Google is making its Spanner globally-distributed database solution available for third-party developers. Cloud Spanner is launching in public beta today with the promise of bringing both consistency and scaling to mission-critical applications…
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- How to Protect Yourself from the Latest Gmail Security Threat
- Gmail has been rocked by a new security threat that’s so sneaky it’s left the experts baffled. On the face of it it’s a classic phishing scam, redirecting you from your email to a malicious page that steals your Google login information, but this one has an extra trick up its sleeve.
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- PSA: It’s now easier to make a Google Doc from a template via Google Drive
- You’ve long been able to quickly create a Google Doc from within Google Drive, but if your intention was to create a Google Doc from one of Google’s many readily-available templates, that required a few more annoying clicks.
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- Quickly and easily cite your sources with Explore in Google Docs
- In September 2016, we launched Explore in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to give you the insights, design tools, and research recommendations you need to do your best work. Today, we’re improving upon the feature by allowing you to easily cite those findings.
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- Introducing Toolbox for Google Play Store, a Chrome extension from Android Police that enhances the Play Store
- A few months ago, I started working on a companion Chrome (and Opera) extension for APKMirror. The extension simply added a button next to the Install button on the Google Play Store, which searched the application on APKMirror (thus allowing you to easily download APKs).
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- Think You Know Gmail? Let’s Find Out!
- It doesn’t take long for email users to make their way to Gmail. It’s always an easy option. It’s available on seemingly every platform and does a good job filtering out spam.
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- How to Make Use of Google’s Advanced Search Features for Better Search Results
- If you do a lot of Googling, you might find yourself running up against some limitations of the search engine. As all-powerful as it might be, sometimes it doesn’t do quite what you’re hoping for. Fortunately, you can use these advanced search features to be a little more direct with Google.
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