Weekly Monitor Digest: Last Week's Top Stories (7/5 - 7/8)

What I Learned Playing Prey to Windows Scammers

PCWorld | In this intriguing experiment, Fahmida Rashid explains what it was like to be on the receiving end of a popular scam.

10 Cutting-Edge Tools that Take Endpoint Security to a New Level

Network World | The 10 products tested in this review go beyond proactive monitoring and endpoint protection. They evaluate threats in a larger ecosystem, combining the best aspects from network intrusion detection and examining the individual process level on each computer. That is a tall order, to be sure.

4 Browsers That Might Break Your Chrome Addiction

Wired | The browser wars are basically over. Sixty percent of desktop users worldwide rely on Chrome. That doesn’t leave much room for anyone else, which is a shame! Especially since browsers like Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and Edge all offer brand-new features, or at least new ways of thinking about what a browser should and shouldn’t provide.

How to Make Google Drive Apps Look and Work More Like Microsoft Office

PCWorld | Here are a few dials you can turn to get Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to perform a little more closely to their Office counterparts.

3 Google Search Tricks Every Word Lover Should Know

BetterCloud Monitor | If you love to read or write, or you’re just a lover of words in general, Google has a few really cool search tricks that you might not know about. Here are three fun and useful search features that any logophile will enjoy.

Advanced Tricks for Making Your Google Slides Better with Multimedia

BetterCloud Monitor | If you want to take your Google Slides presentation from “good” to “awesome,” you can turn to these helpful multimedia tricks. Here are a few great ways to spice up your Google Slides with photos and music.

SaaS Updates Summary: July 5–July 8

Last week, Google announced updates to the Admin console and also released an updated version of Google Apps Password Sync (GAPS). Microsoft introduced free Skype Meetings, as well as faster OLAP pivot tables in Excel 2016 and new functionalities for Skype for Business Mac Preview.