Google | - Part 7

How Google Can Help You Plan the Perfect Summer Vacation

A good summer vacation can be the highlight of your year… but planning it is often significantly less fun. Thankfully, with a few easy tricks on Google’s platforms, your trip’s logistics can come together easily and travel with minimal stress. If you’ve found yourself digging out scraps of paper trying to find the meeting place… read more »

Google Abandons Its Free Photo Editing Tools

Google is abandoning the Nik Collection, its free suite of photo editing tools. The company isn’t killing the Nik Collection, so it will still be available to download and use. However, Google has decided not to develop it any further, putting the future of the Nik Collection in doubt. The Nik Collection is a set… read more »

Knowing These Google Tricks Will Make Your Genealogy Research Easy

Tracing your family tree can be an amazing experience. You’ll uncover grand old stories, funny family rumors, and revelations of connections to wealth or tragedy. But to get there, you need to know how to collect the information, how to store it, and how to present it. One way is with a family tree application…. read more »

You Should Be Using the Google Home App and Here’s Why

It can be a challenge to stay on top of all your smart home devices. With hundreds of competing brands, industry standards, and manufacturer apps, managing everything is akin to a full-time job. However, if you’re invested in the Google ecosystem of products, there’s some good news: you can use one app to control all… read more »

How to Integrate Google Calendar Into Thunderbird

Google Calendar is arguably the best tool to share calendars online. The web interface is great, but if you want to be efficient, you’ll unite your Google Calendar with a tool you’re using anyway. Meanwhile, Thunderbird comes pre-installed with the Lightning Calendar. While you can add network-based calendars to Lightning, this calendar doesn’t natively support… read more »

Everything You Need to Know About the Google Docs Phishing Scam

Google Docs has eaten away at Microsoft Office’s share of the productivity market over the past few years. Arguably better collaboration tools and a simple, cloud-based interface have made it a lot of people’s go-to word processor. Sadly though, we keep getting shown that nothing on the internet is safe. Case in point: the Spring 2017… read more »

Does Dr. Google Hurt You? How to Better Research Health Issues

We all know that Google is a popular and dependable search engine. So much that the word became a verb listed in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary many years ago. But does that make it a reliable source for researching health issues? Sure, you may receive plenty of results from your search, but should you trust them? For… read more »

Waze vs. Google Maps: Which App Is Best for You?

When Google acquired Waze back in 2013, a lot of users thought it meant lights out for the Israel-based mapping service. But that hasn’t been the case. Instead of being entirely folded in, Waze continues to exist alongside Google Maps. And that’s great in terms of user preference and choice, but it leaves us with… read more »

Make a Mother’s Day Movie Using Google Photos

Mother’s Day is fast approaching, at least in the U.S., where it’s always observed on the second Sunday in May. In 2017, that means it’s on May 14. Most moms (even geeky ones) generally don’t ask for much from their children, but celebrating Mother’s Day in some way is always appreciated. Depending on when you’re… read more »

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