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The Pixel’s release doesn’t mean your Nexus is completely toast

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Google unveiled its fancy new Pixel phone during a press event on Tuesday. If you haven't seen it yet, it's an impressive handset, with VR capabilities, a fast-charging battery, supposedly the best-ever phone camera, a super-smart AI assistant and An...

Google Photos is Gmail for Photos

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The rumored Google Photos service is official. Google Photos is a new, standalone offering that gives consumers a home for all their photos and videos. Google Photos helps to organize and bring...

Incredimail launches for iPad with a photo inbox and built-in browser

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Incredimail launches for iPad with a photo inbox and builtin browser

Many of us whose parents discovered the internet in the past decade are all too familiar with Incredimail, mostly through the excessively cute stationery that would come attached to virtually every message. It's time to shake some of those old preconceptions now that an iPad version is here. The tablet port has stationery for anyone who craves it, but it's more focused on becoming a one-stop shop for everything associated with communication: it centers on a unified inbox for IMAP-based email accounts (POP3 soon) that shows quick peeks of both mail and any included links. Users won't have to leave the app at all for a few common non-messaging tasks. There's both an integrated web browser as well as a photo inbox that currently shows Facebook images, with plans to support Flickr, Instagram and Picasa in the long run. Those on Android devices or the iPhone will have to wait for their eventual turns at Incredimail, but everyone using Apple's tablet can give it a whirl today, for free -- even if they have no intentions of sending messages that could be confused with greeting cards.

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Via: The Next Web

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Google’s Picasa URL now redirecting to Google+ photo albums

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Google's Picasa photo service redirecting to Google photo albums

In yet another bid to seemingly sunset its Picasa branding, Google's redirecting Picasa users who head to its direct URL. Hilariously, that redirection is to Google+ web albums, which ... well, let's just say we haven't been using our G+ photo albums all that much. But perhaps you have, and that's just capital, given that Google is keen on you using that over its flickering, dimmed former star. Of course, should you really, really wish to access the old Picasa directly, you can head to this URL to bypass the redirect. At least until Google forces the end of Picasa through a Google+ Photos push, that is.

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Google research pane for Docs adds personal content, integration with Presentation and Drawing

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Google research pane update adds personal content search from Docs, Picasa and Google

Building off of the web search capabilities of its research pane for Docs, Google is now giving users the ability to search for and insert their own personal content. For example, if you're working on a presentation in Drive and want to add a photo from your Picasa album, or a quote from a friend's Google+ profile, you'll now have the option of adding personal content from within the research pane without leaving your project. This new search feature pulls information from your personal Picasa albums, Drive and Google+ accounts, and users will also find that the research pane has been extended to Presentation and Drawings. Unfortunately, Google Apps customers will still be limited to web-only search results, as personal content search is intended for individual accounts. However, if you're a starving student heavily embedded in Google's ecosystem, this time saver just might shave a few minutes off of your weekend cram session and that's always a good thing.

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Google research pane for Docs adds personal content, integration with Presentation and Drawing originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google retires more services, consolidates others in continued efficiency bid

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Google retires more services, consolidates others in continued efficiency bid

When you run as many services as Google does, every once in a while you're going to have to do some pruning. Evidently Mountain View's got the secateurs out, having just announced the next batch of its projects that will be getting axed wound down. For the chop are: AdSense for Feeds, Classic Plus, Spreadsheet Gadgets, Places for Android, and +1 Reports in Webmaster Tools. Other services are being merged into existing properties to prevent overlap, such as Google Storage for Picasa and Drive -- which are now consolidated -- and Insights for Search is now part of Google Trends. Naturally, the search giant claims this is all about streamlining, and improving other core products. If the retired service involves a paid subscription, or legacy data, then you'll need to check the specifics on the official blog to find out how this will affect you, which fortunately for you, is just a tap of the source link away.

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Google retires more services, consolidates others in continued efficiency bid originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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