Gmail includes a fantastic feature that many don’t know about, which makes it possible for you to expand the number of actual Gmail addresses you can use. Just imagine having separate email addresses for just newsletters, work communications and more? Plus, having an additional email makes it easier to determine if something nefarious has been ...

Google Docs turns 15 years old this October 2021, since the app officially launched in October 2006, built on concepts initially implemented by the team behind Writely, which Google acquired. At the time, the real innovation of the app was multi-person document editing in a browser that worked. Years later, collaboration remains a core strength ...

The Android operating system has come a very long way from its humble and awkward beginnings. Instead of the mobile platform being an underdog, unprepared to serve power users and those who need a mobile device designed for business, Android is now perfectly adept at handling everything you throw at it and be the most ...

Let’s say you have a meeting on a video conference platform, but your normal work-from-home space is occupied, or worse, a mess. You have no time to clean it up, or find a neutral, privacy-maintaining space to set up, and panic sets in. Don’t worry—you have options to hide the space behind you: background blurring. ...

Is your Gmail inbox filled to overflowing with emails you’ve already read? Want to mass delete them? The problem with the Gmail app is there’s no easy way to do a mass delete. Even when you try with the web-based version, you’ll find you can only select 100 emails at a time. When your inbox ...

Android 11 is here, and it could become one of the most polished releases the Android platform has ever seen. Why? Because Android 11 doesn’t do much to radically change the operating system; instead, this iteration of Google’s mobile platform puts a good amount of polish on many of the dramatic features first released in ...

Google Meet is an enterprise video-conferencing service from Google that supports chat, one-on-one video calls and group video meetings. Users can chat with other participants, share videos, presentations, and slides from their desktop in real-time, as well as stream live events. Google Meet is available via web browser at meet.google.com and can also be accessed ...

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a portfolio of cloud computing services that grew around the initial Google App Engine framework for hosting web applications from Google’s data centers. The cloud computing platform provides infrastructure tools and services for users to build applications and services on top of. Any organization in need of cloud computing should ...

Google’s Calendar software may be the most popular in the world, but it is also a product of the 21st century. We don’t write big books of features anymore and when we do, most people won’t read them. That leaves us using just a small fraction of the features available in our productivity software. And ...

Google’s latest smartphone isn’t a new flagship device: It’s the Pixel 4A, the budget version of last year’s Pixel 4. Owners of flagship smartphones won’t be wowed by its features (which are minimal) or its design (which is simple), but the Pixel 4A isn’t designed with flagship device users in mind. The Pixel 4A is ...