Instagram is a great place to share photos and short videos with friends, family, and whomever else stumbles upon your stream. If you’d also like to share your favorite music, then you’ll want to check out the Sounds app. With Sounds you can look up an artist or band and share a clip from a …

Now playing: Watch this: Stop Google from tracking your voice 1:41 When you ask Google a question, these recordings are automatically saved to your Google account. While the recordings are only accessible by you, they may include some private information you don’t feel comfortable having in the cloud. There’s no reason to panic. It’s easy to access and delete recordings, …

The Google Photos team last announced updates during the Nexus event in September, and now yet another feature is making its way to the app: hide specific people. According to Google, this feature will “Hide a person from appearing under People” and “… also prevents events with that person from appearing in ‘Rediscover this day’ cards in the Assistant.” Note: …

Google Keep lets you create notes, lists, and photos that sync between your mobile device and the Web. For organization there’s color-coding, reminders and labels. To build on all of these features, today’s update — spotted by AndroidPolice — brings the ability to add drawings to notes and lists, as well as annotation for photos. This step makes the most …

If an article you share on Twitter doesn’t have an interesting title, your followers probably won’t click it. And if you want to add a description or comment, you’re confined to the 140-character limit to do so. Instead, why not add a snippet from the article itself? In just a few steps, Xcerpt for Twitter can create a snippet image …

If your Gmail inbox has turned into a daily chore of deleting messages from people or companies, then it might be time to start using the Block or Unsubscribe features. The Block feature became available back in September on both the Web and Android versions of Gmail, and Unsubscribe (which was already available on the Web) has finally started rolling …

Whenever you write an email or IM to someone you don’t know very well, you want to be as polite as possible. This will help keep the lines of communication open while you get to know their etiquette preferences and sense of humor. To help you out, the Politeness Web tool from FoxType Labs can be used to check the …

Not all of your friends or coworkers use the same communication tools. They do, however, all have a Web browser. Skype’s announcement from yesterday acknowledges this by offering up its solution to get everyone in the same chat: allow anyone to join the conversation with a unique link to Skype for Web. Want to try it out? Here’s how: Note: …

Google Chrome’s built-in PDF viewer can make opening PDFs super-quick. Unfortunately, you don’t have access to all of the same tools you can use in apps like Adobe Reader. Thankfully, you can change one Chrome setting to make the process a bit faster: Open Chrome and type “about:plugins” into the omnibox at the top. Find Chrome PDF Viewer in the …

Nicole Cozma/CNET When someone sends you an image via text, it’s easy to save it at that moment. But what if you have a long texting history, don’t remember who sent you a particular photo or you just want an app to do the work for you? Well, you’re in luck. In a recent How To Geek post, an app …