Android’s 1×1 widgets are powerful and underused tools that can help you start a specific action very quickly.
One example is the ability to add a contact directly to your home screen. Android gives you three options: a widget that launches that individual’s contact card, a direct dial, or text message. Check this article from PCWorld.com
These days, it’s popular to talk about all the ways people are addicted to their smartphones and how they should use them less. But is it really that bad? Could your smartphone actually make you more productive in a healthy way? Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
Google will soon become a modern-day TV guide with live listings in search results.
Once the feature rolls out, searching for show titles will bring up a list of air times and channels at the top of the Google search results page. Users will also be able to specify a TV provider for precise local results. More of this article from PCWorld.com
Google’s gone on a building spree with its productivity apps this week. The latest work comes to Google Keep, as the colorful note-taking service is inching closer toward being a full-blown competitor to apps like Evernote and OneNote. There are some new organizational capabilities and deeper ties to Android and Chrome. Check this article from PCWorld.com
Google wants us to stay in our browser and not go anywhere else.
The Chrome Web Store is just six years old and it has already fenced us into using our browsers for productivity. But it has also given us the bridges to connect with the right kind of extensions. Chrome extensions do the heavy lifting and thanks to them the browser isn’t a vanilla box anymore. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
One of the reasons we keep our phones out at work is to quickly and surreptitiously reply to a text or a phone call. With Microsoft’s new beta build of Windows 10 Mobile, we can put them back in our pockets. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
After first teasing the feature over five months ago, podcasts are now ready for your ears inside of Google Play Music.
Google unveiled the feature Monday by highlighting several groups of related podcasts, similar to how the service handles music curation. A report that Google would do so, linked to a leaked NPR email, turned out to be dead on. Check out this article from PCWorld.com