Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET If you have been getting started with Google Photos, then you have probably checked out Google Photos on the Web and the mobile device of your choice. That’s what I did last week. I am an old Picasa user and struggled through the awkward Photos-as-part-of-Google+ years before blossoming with Google Photos. …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Facebook introduced an option for users to add OpenPGP public keys to their profiles and select to receive encrypted notification emails — account recovery emails, in particular — in an effort to better protect your privacy online. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy and is used to encrypt email communications. It requires two keys — one public, the …
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Matt Elliott/CNET You can have your Android M, your Brillo, your Cardboard and any of the other products announced at Google’s I/O developer conference yesterday. I just need Google Photos , a product I’ve been waiting for to create order out of my sprawling photo library. I have used Picasa for years to share photos with family, but it wasn’t …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Unless you spend your free time watching hours of C-SPAN, the odds are you aren’t too keenly aware of the inner workings of Congress and instead rely on hysterical headlines from MSNBC, Fox News and other news outlets to keep you informed. With Countable, you can stay better informed of the bills making their way through Congress and …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Revisions for Dropbox is free in the Mac App Store, and it’s basically like turning on track changes for your Dropbox account. It’s great for individual users who have come to rely on Dropbox to manage their files, and it’s a boon for workgroups that use Dropbox to collaborate. Dropbox itself keeps previous versions of your …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Whether you want neatly tiled windows on a luxuriously large display or help juggling windows on a cramped MacBook display, Mac app Magnet can help multitaskers maintain order. Magnet is currently $1.99 as part of $2 Tuesday, down from its usual $4.99 price. With Magnet, you have three easy ways to manage your open windows. You …
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Matt Elliott/CNET I’m sure Evernote is wonderful, but it’s overkill for my note-taking and information-capturing needs. In the absence of Evernote and apps of its ilk, I often resort to snapping shots with my phone as reminders of things to buy, books to read, recipes to try and so on. Then, when I need to recall the information in a …
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Matt Elliott/CNET With the default Camera app, it’s easy to use the Apple Watch as a remote shutter release. When you launch the Camera app on your Apple Watch, it opens the Camera app on your iPhone and offers a live preview and on-screen buttons to snap a shot or self-timed burst mode shots. Thanks to a crafty Reddit user’s …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Sharing a link to a Web page with a friend is as easy as copying and pasting the link into an email, IM or text and hitting Send. If that friend is seated right next to you, it’s even easier with Google Tone. Google Tone is a new Chrome extension that lets you share a link …
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Matt Elliott/CNET One of the best features of the Apple Watch is delivering pulses and chirps and chimes to your wrist, saving you from needing to pull your iPhone out of your pocket or dig it out of your purse to check an alert. Like the iPhone, the Apple Watch has a Notification Center that you can access by swiping …
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