E036 - Calendar Time Insights, Gifs coming to Chat, Offline for all file types in Drive, New Beta for Moving folders to Shared Drives, Google buys Playspace, and more

Another shoutout to another great group of tech folks on the ground in Louisiana, the Footprint Project is providing solar power and batteries to police stations, local government, locals, and other relief orgs all helping with Ida relief. Take a look at their amazing work at footprintproject.org. This is not a sponsored post, nor was the last one, just trying to get the word out about some of our amazing friends doing excellent work. Now back to our show!

Published Releases

1. Better understand how you’re spending your time in Google Calendar

2. View embedded Office files in your documents

3. Find and share GIFs in Google Chat

4. Easily make all files types available offline in Google Drive

5. New beta makes it easier for admins to move folders to shared drives (Beta Signup)

6. Use the “Inspect Groups” function to view a users direct and indirect group membership

Other Topics

• Google is reportedly making its own ARM-based Chromebook processors

• Playspace

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