Google Play Music alternatives

A screen recording tool is among the user-facing features of Android 11. Although not as advanced as dedicated apps, it’s enough to record quick videos for demonstrating a technical issue or how to do a task. Read this tutorial on using the screen recorder and accessing saved videos.

Speaking of Android 11, this system release brings up a new menu when long-pressing the device’s power button.

The menu gives access to useful commands for controlling smart devices, selecting payment methods, and more. You can customize the menu with several preset options, too. If you downloaded the popular automation app Tasker, this guide explains how to use it to add nearly any command or app action to the power menu.

Chrome is the kitchen sink of browsers and comes packed with features you never checked out. Like the ability to take full-page screenshots. Learn how to do it and view captured screenshots on your Chromebook. This is actually a feature of Chrome’s developer tools and should work on any supported operating system.

Do you frequently answer to mails with the same questions over and over again? Gmail supports Templates, a canned response feature that can help you with composing such replies. This tutorial covers a very specific case, creating a draft or template response from an email that contains an attached file.

Ahead of the planned retirement of Hangouts, Google is gradually shutting down some product features, such as the ability to make phone calls. If you have unused call credit, request a refund as explained here. There are a couple of caveats. First off, act fast. There’s time until “late 2020”, which is around the corner. The other caveat is credit purchased over 6 months ago is not refundable.

Google Play Music is gone for good. Here are some of the best alternative music player apps. They aren’t as complete but focus on a single use case, playing and organizing music files on the local storage of your Android device.

Nocode is a, well, no-code tool for publishing sets of Google Docs documents as mobile-optimized websites. Each document becomes a page of the site. You can select a pre-built template and add elements such as widgets and forms. Published sites are searchable and support SSL. Nocode is a quick way of publishing documentation, intranets, and other material available as Google Docs documents.