The article discusses various Google Maps features, including creating personal landmarks, adding reports for road conditions, and displaying current speed. It highlights improvement tools for navigation and accommodations, like avoiding tolls and highways. With upcoming weather-related alerts and voice customization, Google Maps is evolving into a comprehensive travel companion.
The last couple of weeks I showed you 10 Tech Tips and mentioned maps in that bit of information. I received several questions from readers asking about learning more about Google Maps. So, here are 10 Google Maps features you may have not heard of before. You can see Google Maps at maps.google.com. These are…
Before I start today’s article I want to thank those of you who responded about the Google Photos features I talked about last month. I am glad to you found a lot of useful information from them, it was my pleasure. Today, one of my readers wrote to ask me about a specific Christmas present…
Last week I finished the second part of an introduction to the new Gmail interface. This week I will wrap it up with the last one regarding, “Smart Compose.” Smart Compose was recently introduced to Gmail and it is an excellent addition. Now, let us understand one thing very clearly. I have read many articles…
We ended last week with me starting to mention the right-side menu in the new Google Gmail interface. It contains the Calendar, Keep and Tasks (also, a small “+” icon). It makes it much easier to get to all three items. When you click one of them they open in a side menu and you…
As you are well aware Google Chrome is my browser of choice (read as “my favorite”). The others are all fine and I used to be a Firefox supporter, but years ago I switched and have not looked back. Today I have a few new items Google has added to the browser that may interest…
We are getting to that time of year again when people are thinking about buying a new PC for themselves or someone else. Have no fear; this column is not about "How to find the best $5,000 computer for $14.95." I stopped writing those articles several years ago since I stopped getting emails requesting them. …
Your computer continues to start up slower than you remember it doing when you bought it. You may have already run Disk Cleanup, Error-checking and Defragmentation but things still frustrate you about its operation. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some "anti-frustration" software on your side? Well, there is! Soluto has been available for several…
I received several emails last week after my final Office 2013 article. They asked if I would use it or not. They wanted to know what I really thought, so this should be the absolutely, positively last Office 2013 column. I am also including a reminder about Microsoft Internet Explorer. Office 2013 has several revamped…
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