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Over a period of time you will collect many passwords and accounts inside google chrome if you use chrome to manage your passwords. At some point you may wish to remove all these passwords or atleast clean up a large number of them. Dealing with them inside chrome or passwords.google.com can be a longwinded pain if you want to 50+ passwords. It may not be obvious but you can bulk manage passwords in chrome /google quickly and easily at-least you can at the time of writing using chrome 78. Right so before we get started we should make sure that we will be able to re-import the passwords back into chrome once we are done. 1) go to chrome://flags and search for ‘import’ and then make ‘Password import ‘ set to enabled. ) 2) You will now get a prompt to relaunch google chrome, relaunch 3) Now make your way back to chrome://settings/passwords and you will now see the option to import where export once was. If you want to check import works first, do this now. Bulk Managing passwords into Chr...

So Normally If you want to create a shortcut in Chrome you go to Settings>More tools> Create Shortcut on the site you want and then you will have the apps shortcut but sometimes the site does not seem to have a favicon that is 128x128 pixels and ends up being all distorted. This is definitely the case for many of the Gsuite screens like the Apps page or the Admin page. As you can see below its horrible! Anyway do not worry you can quickly sort it be creating your own Chrome extension. Following the official google guide you only need to do parts 1 and 2, downloading the example manifest.json file and editing it as needed with the right links and name. Then all you need to do is install it in chrome and your good! I did this locally just for myself but as a Gsuite admin you can also give this to your organisation with a number of apps. See here for examples then all you need todo is upload and install in chrome and you can have your chrome shortcut with the right logo. ...

So this week we have been celebrating just a bit, we just released a brand new service called nerd.vision its a developer tool that allows the developer to debug their environment whether that is production or local. No matter what your skill it gives you ‘nerd vision’ get it, yeah cool right ?! nerd.vision is a freemium tool and in its initial release all features are free we are super pumped to get it out to the developer communities - to kick things off we are supporting python and java, with node, php and many other languages coming soon.  Want a feature that you do not see submit it here: https://www.nerd.vision/product/roadmap and get your friends to vote for it. Anyway, as the title suggests this is about doing things right, so in the past with past products we have continued to use ‘older’ style products which are enterprise grade mainly due to what was available at the time and a lack of need for change in the underlying systems.   Digital River for Ecommerce SalesFo...

So we love the Google Hangouts Meet hardware, so much so we equipped all our meeting spaces with them with a mixture of the Logitech PTZ and Huddly camera setups paired to the Asus Chromebox 3 and Mimo Vue touch screen display, Meet speaker etc. During a recent update the Mimo Vue touch screen display, stopped responding to touch input. We tried everything, powering down the devices pressing reset etc etc. The google diagnostic tool from the admin panel reported everything as all OK too. In the end what we did to fix it was hold the reset button on the back of the Mimo view display down for 30 - 60 seconds and the device started working again. (Will add a photo soon). I am surprised this worked as I would of expected the full powering down and unplugging of devices should of achieved a similar result but obviously something more is happening when the reset button is held.

How to get Fitbit and Pocophone F1 notifications working Latest :Update 24/May/2019 So the Pocophone has been now working flawlessly with the Fitbit and Notifications there have even been a couple of updates on both the Pocophone and Fitbit device and app. MIUI: 10.3.4.0 (Stable) Fitbit App: 2.94 Quick Apps 1.4.1.0 Fitbit Charge 3 SW: 28.20001.60.39 Under 'Settings'/ 'Manage Apps'/ 'Fitbit App'/ 'Other permissions' set to allow 'Home screen shortcuts' - I also allowed it to 'Show on Lock Screen' 'Battery saver' then set it to 'Battery saver (recommended)', If you continue to have issues set it to 'No Restrictions' Under 'Other permissions' allow 'Show on Lock Screen' - I also allowed it to 'Home screen shortcuts' Under 'Auto Start' Set this to 'On' 'Lock Background Apps' Set Fitbit app to Padlock, todo this, press the square button...

So with any car the first thing I like to find out is where are the jacking points is there anything special I need todo to get it in the air. Luckily the Swift is super easy, see below for a diagram from the users manual Option 1 – Centre Jacking points There are two ways the Front centre jacking point / Rear center jacking point. Option 2 – Sill Jacking points Sill jacking points

So you want to embrace a digital transformation and stop running your file server, mail server etc internally. Running all these systems internally has a cost on the workforce, as these systems age and grow they demand more attention. For us the GDPR caused us to look into all of our systems, understand where and what every bit of data we had and how we should deal with it. It caused us to ask the questions of do we still want to maintain these systems and be responsible for these systems security. Initially we looked into systems like, BOX, Dropbox, Amazon work mail etc.The problem with these systems they are disjointed, and the cost quickly adds up.   Then we looked into Gsuite, Office 360 and Zoho Office. Zoho office was the first one out it didn't seem a great set up for a business our size. Next was Office 360 it was a possibility  but as the Dev team use Linux it probably would not be the best fit. There was nothing wrong and for the windows users of the business it would...