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Google plus codes AKA Open Location Code – Google rearranges the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
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about half of Google’s workers are contractors who don’t receive the same benefits as direct employees – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/inside-google-s-shadow-workforce
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how to rename and reorder my Google+ Circles
https://plus.google.com/circles – plus.google.com > People > Your circles there you can rename them, you can also reorder them, … it wasn’t really easy to find that item, but after I found it, I wonder, why I didn’t find it quicker
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running a YouTube playlist through Chromecast or through HDMI cable
using Chromecast absolutely looks neat but ProxFlow only applies within my browsers (Chrome, …), Chromecast talks to YouTube itself, not taking ProxFlow into account
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latest Chromium/Chrome experience trouble accessing gmail address book, Firefox is fine
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I have trouble accessing the contacts on my gmail address book – seems to be ongoing for about a week – google, what are you doing?
Loading stalls for ever at like 90%, happens to both Google Apps and ordinary account.
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streaming the YouTube “channel” of a favourite musician to a TV through Google Chromecast – wow!
youtube.com superb entertainment – maybe for hours right now I am watching #CéuNoBis, and I really enjoy it
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Google+ Hangouts on Android vs SMS: is there now any noticeable signalling? yes
Integrating SMS handling into Google+ Hangouts: in the past almost everything was fine, just that incoming SMSs didn’t really get properly announced – which made me use Deutsche Telekom’s “joyn” app instead. Delivery confirmations are rather, rather desirable these days. Who invented SMS without confirmation in the 1st place?
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LEGO Magnum P.I.
Just cast this nice video via Google Chromecast to my Samsung kitchen TV in order to enjoy it with my little son, who likes both: LEGO Magnum P.I. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/49834 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080240 the characters are: Magnum, Higgins, TC, Rick
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there is so much crap on Google+ – just got “What’s Hot” muted (hopefully)