Psst....wanna add a healthy pinch of productivity to your Android home screen? These are the widgets (yes, widgets!) you want:

I learned a ton of new Google Docs tricks while researching this story -- like how to shift text sorcerer-style, no cutting or pasting required.

This is one you won't want to miss:

Don't let the name fool you: Google Home (and the new Assistant Smart Displays, too) can actually be incredibly useful at work.

Here's how:

I started poking around while looking at some stuff this morning, and I can't help but wonder if +Pushbullet has basically been abandoned.

No app updates since last October, nothing on the company's blog since October 2016, and no significant activity on the company's Twitter account since about that same time.

The account has sent some scattered replies since then, but even those ended in December -- despite there being numerous questions posed by users, including paying subscribers, over the past several months (https://twitter.com/search?q=%40pushbullet).

About the only place I've been able to find any signs of life are on Reddit, where the founder still posts occasionally and swears the app isn't dead (https://www.reddit.com/user/guzba). If it isn't technically dead, though, it sure seems to be on life support. That's a shame to see.

That being said, of course, maybe it shouldn't be entirely surprising. See below, from 2015.

Time to pour one out for an old friend, I guess?

Ahah! It's all starting to make sense...

I can't be the only one thinking this -- right?

Big things are a-brewin', y'all. And the timing almost certainly isn't coincidental.

Anyone else starting to feel a bit of deja vu here?

Android 9 irritations? Here are simple solutions to common Pie problems (all inspired by actual questions I've gotten from folks over the past several days):