What’s changing
Source: G Suite Updates Blog: Three new features to format and work with data in Sheets
We’re introducing three new features that will help you clean up and work with your data in Sheets. These features are:
* Remove duplicates
* Trim whitespace
* Compatible spreadsheet shortcuts
These are some great features that will be a lot more accessible than creating formulas that do the same thing.
Test your phishing email detection skills with Google. Source: Phishing Quiz Phishing is a hacking technique where the attacker fakes their identity to the victim, hoping the victim will not notice that they are not talking to who they think they are. At my school we’ve had several emails from attackers saying they are a principal,…
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Project Bloks is a research project. Our aim is to create an open hardware platform to help developers, designers, and researchers build the next generation of tangible programming experiences for kids. Source: Project Bloks – Creating a development platform for tangible programming Project Bloks reminds me a lot of littleBits, although the Bloks look more…
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Last night, as I was procrastinating working on a lesson for today, I came across Slides.com. As always, I get bored with my current presentation software of choice (currently either Google Slides or Keynote) so it was neat to play around with something new. Slides.com works pretty much as you would expect, and the editor is…