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| | | G Suite Admins Can Now Monitor Mac, Windows, & Chrome OS Access w/Endpoint Verification | | 9to5Google | G Suite is letting administrators keep tabs on desktop devices accessing corporate apps and other data with a new “Endpoint Verification” feature. This “lightweight and easy solution” can list desktop and laptop devices accessing corporate enterprise data. Available as a new Endpoint Verification report in the Admin console, administrators can dig deeper and view whether a device is compliant with established corporate policies, as well as user details including name and email address. | | Journalists Got a Free USB Fan at the Trump-Kim Summit. They've Been Told Not To Plug It In. | | Mashable | While the world's eyes watched Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un meet in Singapore last week, the information security community was abuzz with concern. Journalists covering the event received goody bags containing a blue, innocent-looking mini USB fan. "Do not plug this in. Do not keep it," tweeted journalist Barton Gellman, who led coverage on the U.S. National Security Agency after receiving top secret documents from Edward Snowden. The risk is the device could be a covert method of installing malware onto the computers of journalists covering the summit. | | Would You Swap Windows 10 for Windows 95 — 2018 Edition? | | BetaNews | Here's an interesting video. Windows 95 was never much to look at, with its predominately gray, boxy design, but two decades ago it was revolutionary, introducing Windows users to the concept of a Start menu and taskbar for the first time, as well as rudimentary plug-and-play support. If it had a modern makeover, could we forgive its shortcomings? Feast your eyes on Windows 95 — 2018 Edition, and decide for yourself. | | Google Is Tightening Up Chrome Extensions So You Can’t Install Them from Websites | | The Verge | Google is announcing some changes to the way it handles extensions in its Chrome browser. Now, newly published extensions will only be available in the Chrome Web Store. For years, web developers have been able to trigger installations of Chrome extensions from their own websites, or inline installation as Google calls it, but Google is phasing this method out. |
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| | | 29 Best Add-ons for Google Docs | | Template Monster | Google Docs offers only basic features to format a document, and it is bundled with world-class collaboration tools. The application is ideal for co-editing simple documents in groups. But once you need to do something more than just editing, that's where add-ons come in. There are more than three hundred tools that will help you create documents faster; edit text; add graphics, formulas, and signatures; and publish texts in a way you want. Here are 29 of the best ones. | | 18 Gmail Settings That Will Change How You Think About Your Inbox | | Fast Company | "I dug through every nook and cranny to uncover Gmail’s most valuable out-of-the-way settings. These next-level options go beyond the broadly known basics and have the potential to reshape how you handle your email," writes JR Raphael. Some of them are specific to the new Gmail design, while others apply to both the new and classic versions of the site. So fire up your brain’s memory banks: It’s time to crank up your inbox IQ. |
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| | | The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message | | The Atlantic | What if you deleted all your emails during vacation and never looked back? The author of this article emailed a professor for a story, only to get this out-of-office response: "Thank you for your message. Email received between [these dates] will be deleted from this server eight hours from now. Please send your message again after [this date]." This is a really interesting article about email culture, out-of-office messages, and FOMO (fear of missing out). |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: June 11 – June 15 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week, Google introduced a new feature called Endpoint Verification, which gives admins more visibility into which computers are being used to access corporate data and apps. Google also announced that on June 28, 2018, Tasks will launch as a standalone G Suite core service. But wait, there's more! Google's App Maker is now generally available, and there are some changes to the Gmail routing settings in the Admin console. In other news, Microsoft announced that user experience updates for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook will be rolling out gradually over the next few months. |
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