Tag: Google

  • Migrating Photos from Facebook to Google Photos

    Migrating Photos from Facebook to Google Photos

    Reading Time: 2 minutes There has been a shift within cloud services such as Google, Facebook and others. That shift is to make migrating photos from one service quick and easy. The old fashioned method would be to download media from service A before re-uploading it to service B. This requires lots of space on hard drives…

  • Of Photos, Aperture, and Sliding Between Volumes

    Of Photos, Aperture, and Sliding Between Volumes

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the years I have used Aperture, Picasa and the Apple Photos Apps. In that time they have organised my files chronologically, automatically, as soon as I took pictures, in some cases. What They Do Aperture was well behaved. It would organise photos by year, by month and by day, so…

  • What’s Old Is New Again – Live Google Location Sharing

    What’s Old Is New Again – Live Google Location Sharing

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Almost two decades ago we had Google Latitude. Google Latitude allowed us to share real time location with friends and family 24 hours a day. We didn’t need to ask “Where are you” because there was already an app for that. Today I saw “Google’s real-time location is here: this is…

  • Retiring Google One and iCloud for Photo Cloud Storage

    Retiring Google One and iCloud for Photo Cloud Storage

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Since I am planning to downgrade my Google One plan from two terabytes to 200 gigabytes as Kdrive offers me a better deal I took the time to check when, and how easy it would be to downgrade the plan. It’s actually very easy and I have a few months to…

  • Conversing With Google Bard

    Conversing With Google Bard

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Two days ago I was given access to Google Bard and since then I have been experimenting. The key feature that sets Google Bard apart from ChatGPT is that it can answer questions about what is happening at the moment, rather than before September 2021. By being current you can ask…

  • Thoughts on The Google IT Support Course

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I am currently studying the Google IT Support Course. I am familiar with many of the topics and I have used many of the tools discussed. What the course offers, and the reason for which it has so much value, is that fills my knowledge gaps. One example of this is…

  • Playing With Grasshopper

    Playing With Grasshopper

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Grasshopper is a Google app to teach adults and children about Javascript. It provides people with short, easy to understand modules to get a grasshopper to do things. The curriculum is divided into seven modules. These are: Fundamentals Fundamentals II Intro to Interviewing Array Methods Animations Animations II Using a…

  • Google Arts & Culture

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Google Arts & Culture App Google Arts & Culture is an app that allows people to look at Arts and culture from around the world easily and intuitively. This app allows you to learn more about arts and culture based on your current location as well as by topic, art medium…

  • Google Local Guides and I

    Google Local Guides and I

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Google Local Guides and I are mutually beneficial. I love to go up to the mountains and document their beauty and Google Local Guides needs images and reviews. I have been sharing images with Google Services for several years but it Google Local Guides is relatively recent. When I was added…

  • The Demise of Google reader

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Google Reader was a great tool because it made gathering and sharing content from specific sources intuitive and easy. It provided us with one place from which to do most things. Today Google have announced that they are pulling the plug on Google reader. In my eyes Google reader had become…