Android app shortcuts, zooming in on Chromebooks, and more

What are Android app shortcuts? The options in the menu that pops up when long-pressing a home screen app icon. They’re much more helpful than they seem, if you remember they’re there. Read this article to tap into the full potential of app shortcuts.

My favorite shortcut is the one for directly opening a book into the Google Play Books app. What’s yours?

Chromecast is a great little device you can hold in a pocket and bring anywhere there’s a TV. If you travel and want to use the Chromecast somewhere else, or just want to display the time in a different format, this short guide tells how to change the time zone and time format.

The high-resolution screens of high-end Chromebooks are gorgeous and show crisp details. But they challenge your eyesight to actually see all those tiny features. These quick tips explain how to enlarge what’s on the screen by changing the display size, zooming the page, or using the touchpad.

When collaborating with other users to edit or revise a Google Docs document, their comments may end up cluttering the page. This tutorial tells how to hide the comments from view, for example, when you’re done editing or just want a clearer view of the document.

Do you have a business listed in Google My Business?

Bookmark this guide in the hope you won’t need it. The article discusses the various types of suspensions, how to avoid a business listing from being suspended, how to get your listing reinstated if it happens, whether suspensions affect ranking, and more.

There’s a full spectrum of requirements for office productivity suites, from basic tools to advanced suites with specific strengths such as editing and annotating PDF documents. This well-researched roundup recommends the best suites from major brands like Microsoft to lesser known players.

This web tool lets you add mobile device or browser mockups to screenshots for creating eye-catching visuals to share.

You can upload an image or enter the URL of a site you want to capture. The editing tools provide options for customizing the mockup, changing the background, and exporting to various image formats including SVG. Screenshot.Rocks, which is an open-source project, comes with a Chrome extension for one-click mockup generation from any page.