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What are you supposed to do with your laptop from 5+ years ago that barely turns on anymore? You could donate it, or try to sell it, but it's really not worth much and it might not be in great shape. Google has announced a new solution that can turn that old, sluggish laptop into something that you will actually want to use again. Chrome OS Flex is a new secure operating system that essentially puts a cloud-based version of Chrome OS on your laptop. The interface matches almost exactly like...

Parallels Desktop for Chrome OS also contained user-friendly features and enabled Windows use of certain USB accessories

You can recover deleted emails in Gmail for up to 30 days before they are permanently gone by sorting through the Trash folder.

Gmail allows you to recover deleted emails on a computer or mobile device within 30 days. Getty Images You can recover deleted emails in Gmail for up

Why worry with Windows 11 when the market has Chromebooks (and Chrome OS)? What does Windows 11 really bring to the table? Better security (maybe) and Android compatibility, yes. But dont Chromebooks already have that covered? Credit: Dreamstime Ive been preaching the benefits of Chromebooks over Windows since the first commercial Chromebook, the Samsung Series 5, rolled off the production line in June 2011 — 10 years ago. But it’s only been in recent months that Chromebook sa...

Google is rolling out a new feature that will show an “External” label to email threads that include recipients that do not belong to a user’s Google Workspace organisation. The new feature is added to the existing external recipient warning banner. The rollout of the feature has already begun for Gmail for Web as well as Android, and it will be rolled out to iOS later.

This is a free, completely private and customisable tool that allows enterprises to see if apps are compatible or whether they are cloud-ready or not. Organisations can also now configure over 500 policies in the Google Admin console. New policies have been added over the past year including those affecting new security, updates, accessibility, network file sharing and more. Importantly, all policies default to a Google recommended setting ensuring that users only have to set up the ones they n...

Reload now. Once this is done, your Google Calendar will be synced for offline use. As soon as the sync is complete, your calendars status will show ‘Ready for offline. And when you are using the Google Calendar offline, a notice appears that reads: “It looks like youre offline. Some actions might not work”. According to the Google Calendar support page, you wont be able to create or edit events, e-mail guests, and access tasks or reminders while using the Google Calendar offline. It is a...

Google has purchased Neverware, the makers of the Windows to Chrome OS conversion service CloudReady. Google eventually intends to add CloudReady to its collection of Chrome OS offerings for subscribers. Commercial and education users will eventually be able to use the Google Admin console rather than a secondary Neverware Admin Console. No changes are planned for the free Home version of CloudReady at this time. If you have a clunky old computer that still works but is just slow as molasses o...