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21 Tips to Make Google Docs, Sheets and Slides Work for You

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides have evolved to become very component online productivity tools, enabling you to churn out documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any computer (with other collaborators, if necessary). But are you taking full advantage of everything these web apps have to offer? These 21 tips will save you time, improve your work,…

Gadgets David Nield

How Google One Actually Stacks Up to the Cloud Competition

These days it’s hard to do without a little bit of cloud storage space, whether it’s for your holiday photos or your digital music, and Google just revamped its offerings with new price points, a new name, and some new extras. So how does Google One stack up against what you can get from Apple,…

Gadgets David Nield

Weird Google Docs Bug Is Locking People Out of Their Drafts [Updated]

Google Docs users have been hit with a nasty surprise today as they try to edit documents—they’re getting locked out of their drafts and receiving a message warning them that their documents violate Google’s terms of service. The abuse policy for Docs and other Google Drive services forbids users from publishing a range of content,…

Tech News Kate Conger

What’s Really Going On With Google Drive

On Thursday, Google made a confusing announcement that could easily scare the crap out of 800 million people: Google Drive’s going away—but actually, no, it’s not. However, there are a few things you should know about the changes that are coming. First and foremost, the Google cloud service known as Drive is going to be…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Google vs Apple vs Microsoft: Which Online Office Suite Should You Be Using?

You don’t necessarily need to install a desktop application to get your hands on a decent office suite any more, and the biggest names in tech all have free, online productivity tools you can access from any browser—so which one should you be using? We take a look at the features, strengths, and weaknesses of…

Gadgets David Nield

How to Build Your Own Private Netflix

Movies and TV shows come and go on Netflix on a regular basis, which means you might be half way through your favorite flick when it gets yanked from the service. The solution? Buy all your own content and set up your own private cloud-based streaming service you can get at from any computer or…

Gadgets David Nield

18 Quick Tricks for Google Docs

Behind the clean and tidy interface sported by Google’s online office apps, there are all kinds of features and tools you might not yet have stumbled across—and some of them can seriously improve your productivity. Here are 18 of our favorite quick tricks that won’t take long to learn but which will come in handy…

Gadgets David Nield

4 Tricks to Work Faster in Google Docs

If you use Google Docs, you probably work on a lot of documents with other people. However, there are some smaller and lesser-known options you might not know about that can take your productivity to the next level. Here are four easy tricks you can use to be more productive in Google Docs. 1) Copy…

Gadgets David Nield

Make Impressive Pixel Art With Just a Google Spreadsheet

Pixel art, the digital equivalent to old-school pointillism, can be an incredibly tedious to make if you don’t know how. That’s why coder Amit Agarwal’s new Google Sheets trick is so impressive. It allows you to take any 300×300 image and turn it into an in-browser masterpiece. Click here to copy Agarwal’s Google Doc file,…

Tech News Darren Orf

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Google Drive Master

Think you know Google’s online productivity suite back to front? Whether you’ve been using Google Drive for five minutes or five years, there’s always more to learn, and in that spirit we present 10 valuable tips and tricks for mastering the service. 1. Enable Drive’s offline features Google Drive can work offline, but you have…

Gadgets David Nield

You Can Get 2GB of Free Google Drive Storage Today

Want some more space for your documents? Of course you do. Well, you can grab 2GB of extra capacity on Google Drive for free today. Here’s how. All you need to to is head to Google and run through a very brief security update—checking that your backup email address is correct, renewing account permissions, that…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

How to Add Social Media Links to Your Gmail Signature

You don’t have to settle for a staid, text-only signature for your Gmail account: with a little image manipulation and the help of Google Drive, it’s possible to insert images and even links to your social media accounts (or any other part of the web). Here’s how to set it up in a few minutes.…

Gadgets David Nield

How to Sync iTunes Music To Your Android Device

Taking your iTunes library out with you on an Android smartphone or tablet is no longer the impossible mission it used to be—there are a number of apps and services that can help, including Apple’s first major Android app. We’ll go through the various options so you can choose the one that works best for…

Gadgets David Nield

Nest Your Cloud Storage Folders for Extra Backups

The likes of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, and Box are falling over themselves to offer you straightforward cloud storage and syncing services. If you’ve signed up for two or three of these apps, then you can easily combine them to create extra online copies of your files, just in case one of them goes down…

Gadgets David Nield

How to Back Up and Restore WhatsApp Chats with Google Drive

It’s been a long time coming, but Google Drive backups have finally arrived in the WhatsApp client for Android (if you don’t see the option yet, you should soon). Here’s how to make sure all your chats, photos, and videos are safe and sound, and how to get them back again if you need to.…

Gadgets David Nield

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Without even thinking about it, this week I included two Android apps that both encrypt data for their users–one of which was recently endorsed by Edward Snowden. The rest of the apps in this week’s roundup, offered for iOS and Windows Phone, are less about privacy and more about creativity or usefulness. And there’s also…

Tech News Leah Becerra

This Plug-In Puts Google Drive Inside Microsoft Office

The office suite wars continue apace. If you use Microsoft Office on the desktop, you’ll know Redmond’s engineers are very keen for you to turn to OneDrive for all your cloud storage and syncing needs. But a new plug-in brings Google Drive into the mix, too. Here’s how to get it up and running on…

Gadgets David Nield

Dropbox Just Got Comments for Shared Files

I’m really surprised that Dropbox didn’t already offer this feature, but the file-sharing service now allows comments on its shared files, just like Google Drive. This’ll make it a lot easier to add context or ask questions about files you’re sharing in a group. To start a comment conversation, you tag someone’s username or email…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Keep Older Versions Of Your Documents On Google Drive Forever

Google Drive does a decent job of managing older versions of non-native files, automatically keeping them for 30 days or 100 revisions. You can access these older versions from within the individual file options, but there’s also the opportunity to keep a particular version of a file for all time if you know that you…

Gadgets David Nield

Today’s Your Last Day to Get an Easy 2GB of Free Google Drive Space

The other day, Google started running a promotion where you can get a free 2GB of space for your Google Drive account just by reviewing your security settings (which you should be doing anyway). Today’s the last day it’s good. Do it. Dooooo iiiiittt. For your own good. Instructions below! https://gizmodo.com/get-2gb-extra-google-drive-space-just-by-checking-your-1684923230

Tech News Eric Limer

21 Tips to Make Google Docs, Sheets and Slides Work for You

How Google One Actually Stacks Up to the Cloud Competition

Weird Google Docs Bug Is Locking People Out of Their Drafts [Updated]

What’s Really Going On With Google Drive

Google vs Apple vs Microsoft: Which Online Office Suite Should You Be Using?

How to Build Your Own Private Netflix

18 Quick Tricks for Google Docs

4 Tricks to Work Faster in Google Docs

Make Impressive Pixel Art With Just a Google Spreadsheet

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Google Drive Master

You Can Get 2GB of Free Google Drive Storage Today

How to Add Social Media Links to Your Gmail Signature

How to Sync iTunes Music To Your Android Device

Nest Your Cloud Storage Folders for Extra Backups

How to Back Up and Restore WhatsApp Chats with Google Drive

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This Plug-In Puts Google Drive Inside Microsoft Office

Dropbox Just Got Comments for Shared Files

Keep Older Versions Of Your Documents On Google Drive Forever

Today’s Your Last Day to Get an Easy 2GB of Free Google Drive Space

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