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| | | | | Even Google Engineers Are Confused About Google’s Privacy Settings | | The Verge | Google’s privacy settings don’t just confuse its users — they confuse its employees too, according to internal documents unsealed in a lawsuit over Google’s data collection. “The current UI feels like it is designed to make things possible, yet difficult enough that people won’t figure it out,” one Google employee said. | | The SaaSOps Show: What Even is SaaSOps? | | YouTube | Justine & Brian welcome guests Colin McCarthy & Mike Stone to unpack SaaSOps. What even is it? It's a lot of things! But mostly SaaSOps is a framework for managing the insane number of SaaS apps used by the average company today — and the actions IT is managing every single day across all of them. | | Microsoft Will Support Windows 10 Version 1803 Until 2021 Because of Coronavirus | | BetaNews | Some people running Windows 10 version 1803 (also called Windows 10 April 2018 Update) have been granted an extra six months of support. Version 1803 of the operating system will now reach end of service in 2021 rather than this year, but the extension does not apply to everyone. | | Financial Services Business Leaders and CIOs Disagree on IT Infrastructure | | ComputerWeekly | According to Gartner’s 2020 Financial services Covid-19 pulse survey, more than half of business leaders in the sector believe their organisation’s IT infrastructure is a weakness when it comes to responding to the challenges, but only 20% of CIOs felt the same. |
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| | | How to Turn Your Olympus Camera Into a Webcam for Your Mac | | CNET | A new piece of software from Olympus makes it easy to turn your Olympus camera into a high-quality webcam for video chats and conferences on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or just about any other platform on your Mac computer (there's a Windows version that was released earlier, too). | | How to Delete All Completed Reminders at Once on iPhone and iPad | | How-To Geek | Reminders on the iPhone and iPad is a simple, no-nonsense task-management app. Sometimes, though, simplicity comes at a cost. One glaring example is the Reminders app doesn’t automatically delete old reminders. Fortunately, there’s a work-around! |
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| | | Expanding Shortcuts in Google Drive, Reducing Unorganized Files | | G Suite Updates | Shortcuts simplified file and folder structures in Drive by creating pointers to items, rather than having items which existed in multiple locations. Now, Google is sharing three updates to its plans for shortcuts and file locations. |
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