Month: August 2018

Gmail feature latency

It’s 2018. 🙂 Why am I unable to address an e-mail to an extant group of recipients from my Google Contacts? Am I missing something? How do they market themselves to organizations without features like these? It seems fundamental or at least something inevitable whose time should have come long ago. 🤔

Android 9: Pie, priority notifications?

If I’m seeing things correctly Android 9 did away with priority notifications and it seems like that’s a huge step backward.

Priority notifications allowed you to tell your phone that while you didn’t want to turn off all notifications you just wanted ones that were important to you for a while. I think if you were to ask people they would love to have this capability. However in Android 9 it looks like this middle ground between all notifications and full-on do-not-disturb mode was eliminated. If I’m wrong about this I hope someone will let me know. My investigations so far have led me to believe that Google decided this feature was a waste of time for some reason. I’m hoping that they choose to reimplement this obviously useful feature.

Pushbullet – Your devices working better together

Source: Pushbullet – Your devices working better together

This app seems remarkably well designed.  It connects your phone with your browsers and PCs so that you can share files, get notifications across devices, send and receive SMS messages across devices. . . .  Pretty slick.  (I just started using it FYI.  That’s my disclaimer.  🙂 )