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Monday, September 2, 2019

How (and why) to use Vivaldi Profiles

You might not think Vivaldi Profiles are even worth considering. That assumption might be very wrong. https://ift.tt/2MTdRJo https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Drone tech to help in rescue & relief ops

A team of students from IIT Madras has developed a drone technology that can help in rescue and relief operations, especially after natural disasters. https://ift.tt/2Uo43rL https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

How MuleSoft disclosed a critical security flaw, proactively contacting customers to verify patches were installed and openly responding to reporter questions (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
How MuleSoft disclosed a critical security flaw, proactively contacting customers to verify patches were installed and openly responding to reporter questions — MuleSoft deals with a sensitive security issue and sets up an example for the whole industry to follow. — John is a software engineer and a pretty good one.

India Inc counts on apps to take care of unfit employees

Firms are making physical fitness a priority like never before and increasingly taking the app route to help staff. https://ift.tt/2ZzPN4l https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Smartphone sales to ring the softest since note recall

Some market experts slash forecast for 2019 owing to likely weak demand, others monitoring situation. https://ift.tt/30S1sbV https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Fintech panel moots P2P lending marketplace

Fintech panel suggests comprehensive legal framework for consumer protection. https://ift.tt/2LrzM7p https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Buffering hits Google talent search at NITs

Google wanted to be Day 1 recruiter, but sought two weeks to decide on candidates after interviews. https://ift.tt/2ZvODYg https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

How to add Firefox bookmarks to an Android home screen

Make opening websites considerably easier on Android with Firefox bookmark shortcuts.

How to enable caching on Nextcloud 16

Find out how to improve the performance of your Nextcloud cloud server by enabling caching.

Interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri about the company's strategy to transform all of its products to "as-a-service" offerings (Sean Gallagher/Ars Technica)

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri about the company's strategy to transform all of its products to “as-a-service” offerings — Exclusive: Neri tells Ars about the leap HPE is making—and why not everyone will make it. — It's been just over two years …

Google adds an out of office feature to Gmail and Hangouts

Google is making things easier for you if you are out of office. If you are a Gsuite member, you can now mark ‘out of office’ on your Google Calendar and that will inform people reaching out to you even before they send an email or ping on Hangouts.

The new feature is available on Gmail and Hangouts. In Gmail and Hangouts, a banner that is positioned right in the compose window or the chat window respectively, will tell the user is out of office. The banner states the recipient is out of office and will back on so and so day and date. The banner comes right after you enter the recipients name on the compose window or if you open their chat.

The new feature is essentially to help you get more uninterrupted time away from work, while for a sender, it will be helpful for them to know the person they’re messaging is not there to reply.

The feature is being rolled out in phases to users. It will first hit instant mails and then come to scheduled emails as well. The feature was first announced at Google’s Cloud Next 2019 conference in April, as part of multiple new features announced for Gsuite users.

Hangouts is still on its death knell though. But Google has pushed the deadline to June 2020. Earlier in 2017, Google had announced it will be breaking Hangouts into two apps — Meet and Chat. Google first said they will be transitioning Gsuite users to the two apps and then the classic Hangouts users will be transitioned. However, later Google backtracked and said that on the basis of feedback from users, the transition will be postponed to June 2020.

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