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  • Ghost meetings are a growing RTO problem but Google could fix it

    Sunday, Apr 20, 2025
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    The conference room shows a meeting about to start, but the room is totally empty. Where are all the attendees? Is everyone just running late? Nope, they’re all working from home today, but no one thought to remove the conference room from the meeting invite! Google could fix this problem, or allow us to fix it ourselves, but we need to bring their attention to it! Read more to find out how.

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  • Create your own dynamic wallpaper in KDE with NOAA GOES satellite images

    Sunday, Jan 12, 2025
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    NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) takes full disc photos of the earth every hour. You can create your own auto-updating dynamic wallpaper with these images and a little scripting. It's a fun way to make your desktop a little more alive and I'll show you how to do it in KDE.

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  • Why the daily morning standup is sabotaging your team's productivity

    Thursday, Oct 3, 2024
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    Science on sleep patterns, productivity, and focus time encourages teams to avoid the morning standup. See why and how you can try this with your teams to help them boost their productivity.

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  • Google Slides Power User Tips

    Friday, Aug 30, 2024
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    Google Slides may not have all the fancy graphical animations that Powerpoint supports, but the vast majority of business presentations we use it for, it's great. That said, it does have some power-user capabilities that aren't very widely known yet. Hopefully these tips will help

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  • Google Sheets Power User Tips

    Wednesday, Aug 28, 2024
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    A lot of hardcore Excel users scoff at Google Sheets, but I find it to be a fantastic and powerful spreadsheet app with superb collaboration tools. I often see people failing to take full advantage of the power of Google Sheets, or sometimes even the basic features, so hopefully these tips will help.

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