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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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