Jul 2, 2021

Avoiding unwanted memories in Google Photos

By Paolo Amoroso • Issue #74 • View online

What’s the downside of having many great photos? Having many great photos you forget you have.

Several Google Photos features help surface a selection of those forgotten photos such as the Memories carousel, animations, movies, and other creations. This has downsides too, such as reliving memories you want to preserve but not pop up randomly like the photos of deceased loved ones or pets. A tutorial below explains how to avoid unwanted memories.

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Android

Google Play is rolling out a new flow to manage your apps

The Google Play Store app is rolling out some user interface changes that require more taps for common operations such as updating apps. Get familiar with the new app update flow.

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Chrome and Chrome OS

How to fix mouse lag on extended displays in Chrome for desktop

If you use Chrome on the desktop with a second monitor, you may experience some mouse lag. Here’s a fix worth trying.

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How to enable your Chromebook’s new screen saver

As of version 88 Chrome OS has a new screen saver, called Ambient Mode, which can turn your Chromebook into a smart display such as a Nest Hub showing photos and other information. Here’s how to set up the new screen saver.

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Google Photos

How to hide people, pets, dates, and certain creation types in Google Photos Memories

This tutorial explains how to prevent Google Photos from showing unwanted memories. You can configure it to hide AI-generated creations, people and pets, or specific dates.

A caveat: the people and pets features rely on face grouping which is not available in some areas.

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How to send audio messages with Google Assistant

Do you often send audio messages with your favorite messaging apps? Did you know you can use the Google Assistant on your Android device to broadcast audio messages to other users? Here’s how.

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Android apps

Annotium - Photo Annotation

The Annotium app lets you mark up photos and images with text, arrows, shapes and more. It’s a handy tool to annotate images for explanatory purposes, or just share memes on social platforms.

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Web apps

Emberly

Emberly is a personal knowledge library platform for visual people. It lets you capture, curate, and organize knowledge in one place with visual tools such as mind maps and graph nodes. It’s designed for personal use but you can also share portions of your knowledge.

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