Gmail account almost full? Anne Mitchell of The Internet Patrol explains how to free lots of space by deleting old attachments. On the other hand, you can always simply buy more storage space from Google. 20GB costs just $5.00 a …[Continue]
How to Keep Your Gmail Account Secure
To help you keep your Gmail account secure, Gmail lists recent sessions at the bottom of your inbox. There you can view recent account activity, and also see if your Gmail account is still logged in another session. If you …[Continue]
How to Use Google’s Search by Image
Identifying a mystery celebrity in a photo, or finding websites that have stolen your copyrighted images has gotten a whole lot easier with Google’s Search by Image. Images can be dragged and dropped, uploaded, specified by URL, or (with a …[Continue]
Does Google Know What You Love?
What do you love? Google thinks it knows, and has launched a new search service by the same name. Searching for “cats” for example, will display results in a visual table format from multiple Google services, including YouTube, Google Maps, …[Continue]
Google Announces New Voting Widget
In a move designed to make Google more social, the search giant recently added a voting widget to both its search results and third-party websites. Called Google Plus One, it allows those signed into their Google accounts to vote their …[Continue]
Google Releases Free Video Conference Call App
Just recently released from beta, Fring is Google’s free group video call app for iPhone and Android. The mobile phone app enables group video phone calls with up to four people at once, over Wifi or 3G/4G phone connections. It …[Continue]
Google and Facebook Offer Enhanced Security
Because our online accounts have become so important, both Google/Gmail and Facebook now offer two-step verification for enhanced security. The basic concept in two-step security is that in addition to your username and password, whenever you login into a new …[Continue]
Google Announces Daily Trivia Game
Recently Google announced a daily trivia game called A Google a Day. Unlike other trivia games, where it is considered cheating to “google” the answer, this daily quiz encourages it! But in order to squelch answers from other players appearing …[Continue]
