Nicole Cozma/CNET Google Drive allows you to easily share documents, spreadsheets or media files with friends or coworkers. However, the list of options for how you share something has always been a bit too brief, only including the abilities to view or edit. Now there’s two new options for locking down your files, and here’s …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Gmail and Inbox by Gmail are providing access to the same email service, but in different ways. If you’ve found that you prefer the way Inbox handles your mail, task list, and other reminders, then you have probably started using it as your primary email client. However, you may also still be in the habit of typing Gmail.com …

Amazon.com Nicole Cozma/CNET Amazon provides a relatively private shopping experience. Whether you’re just price-checking on gifts for friends and family, or searching for items that you might be embarrassed to look at in public, you can do it all from your computer. Unfortunately, looking up these items will add them to your browsing history, and they can also appear on …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Sending photos through Messenger, or via Facebook.com, is a quick way to share moments with friends and family. If you want to view a shared photo without scrolling up forever through the conversation, then you’re in luck. Facebook has an option for you to view all photos shared in a conversation in their Messenger app, and on their …

Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET When sharing photos on Instagram, you may receive either unwanted comments, or even spam messages (don’t click their links!). Whether you just want to remove a comment you don’t like, or you want to prevent a spammer from also spamming your followers, Instagram allows you to delete and report individual comments. Here’s how: Enlarge ImagePress on …

Earth View on the New Tab page Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET Chrome’s New Tab page is almost as empty as the search giant’s official homepage. However, there have been many extensions over the last few years that sought to spruce it up a bit. As the unofficial Google Operating System blog shares, there’s yet another competitor in the New Tab …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Many companies across the Web are providing support for secondary authentication. Some do this with apps like Google Authenticator, while others just use SMS. Essentially, both methods provide you with a security code that you need to provide in order to log-in to your account. LinkedIn is currently offering SMS authentication only, and you’ll need to enable it. …

Nicole Cozma/CNET If you have a lot of friends on your Facebook profile, then you know how crazy it can get when trying to keep up with everyone’s status updates. You may have tried using the Most Recent mode for your timeline, but the posts you want to read get lost in a sea of game updates and location check-ins. …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Google decided to create a standalone Photos service that didn’t need to run inside of Google+. Unfortunately, some of the sharing issues present in Google+ Photos also made their way to the Web version of the new service. Read on to learn about both sharing methods, and which one is right for you. Official sharing feature Using the …

Google’s new Bookmark Manager interface. Nicole Cozma/CNET Update, June 24, 2015: Google recently reverted to the original bookmark manager by default. If you’d like to try out the enhanced one described in this post, you’ll need to visitchrome://flags/#enhanced-bookmarks-experiment to enable it. Back in May, Google was testing a new bookmark feature it called Stars. Unfortunately, the feature didn’t go public, …