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Apple‘s new phone software means your photos take up half the space they used to, and that’s great. But it also can bring some complications.  Good news: New tools are emerging to help you avoid the hassles — and to take better advantage of the change. The new photo compression technology comes with the HEIC …

Mileage is money. That’s the truth for the self-employed, the small-business owner and just about anyone who drives for work. For every mile you log, you get to deduct 54 cents from your taxes. OK, but how do you log those miles? In the old days, you jotted odometer readings into a notebook, then spent a lot of time with …

With MacOS High Sierra and iOS 11, iCloud Drive is finally catching up with Dropbox and Google Drive in terms of sharing ability. You will need to convince your collaborators to start using iCloud Drive, however, if you want to share files on Apple‘s cloud service, a dubious proposition given the head start that both Dropbox and Google Drive enjoy. …

We’re using our phone cameras to photograph a lot more than friends and flowers. It’s good for taking pictures of restaurant receipts, shopping lists, maps and other documents whose information we want tucked away in our pockets and cloud storage systems. Which is why Microsoft just updated its free Pix camera app for iOS to understand when it’s taking a …

For fans of Google Drive, the headlines last week seemed alarming: “Google Drive shutting down in March!” “Google Drive is dead!” Um, no. Although Google does plan to make a change early next year, the Drive service itself isn’t going anywhere. Rather, it’s the Google Drive app that’s being terminated, and that’s only because it’s being replaced. Here’s what you …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Drive is dying — time to update 1:05 The Google Drive app for personal computers will stop working March 12, 2018. Its fuller-featured replacement, Backup and Sync, is available now. Stephen Shankland/CNET If you’re among the hundreds of millions of people using Google Drive to synchronize files across your PCs and phones, be warned: you’ve …

Now playing: Watch this: How to get started with Google’s Backup and Sync app 1:28 Google’s new Backup and Sync app replaces both the company’s Drive and Photos desktop apps for Windows PCs and Macs. You can use the app to back up the contents of your entire computer — or just selected folders. Set up Backup and Sync First, …

Now playing: Watch this: New version of Google Drive goes live 1:18 iCloud, who? After a couple weeks of delay, Google launched its new Backup & Sync app, which can store your entire computer system to Google Drive. The original debut was scheduled on June 28, but was pushed back a few weeks for fine tweaking. Backup & Sync allows …

Now playing: Watch this: The easy way to switch from an iPhone to the Samsung… 1:45 Are you ready to give Samsung another shot after last year’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 scandal? The troubled electronics giant just released its newest flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S8. If you’ve taken an iPhone detour while Samsung worked out its issues and are …

Buying a Chromebook doesn’t necessarily mean you need to make Google Drive your cloud-storage boo. There is no reason to severe a long and meaningful relationship with Dropbox just because Google Drive is baked into Google‘s Chrome OS. You can always access Dropbox via the Web on a Chromebook, but a better way is to use a Chrome extension that …