Google Plus tiene un nuevo programa de foto que cambiará la vida de las madres

dinsdag 24 september 2013

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por Nicole Fabian-Weber hace 59 minutos

Ok, así que no voy a mentir. Aunque me inscribí en Google Plus hace 1 millón de años, no lo uso muy a menudo. (Y no, no es porque soy Facebook; No tengo una cuenta en Facebook ya.) Es... Nunca he visto la necesidad de involucrarse fuertemente con otra forma de medios de comunicación social... hasta ahora. Google Plus sólo se ha hecho camino más fácil para las mamás (y, bueno, personas sin hijos) para organizar sus fotos.

Que son fáciles de organizar fotos? ¿Dónde firmo? ¿No es, como la temida tarea número una de todas las madres? (Eso y clasificando ropa de bebé que ya no queda?)

Cuando subes fotos a tu cuenta de Google Plus, es súper fácil de añadir fotos; eliminar fotos; cambiar el título del álbum; cambiar la carátula del álbum foto; etc. Como muy fácil. Y entonces puedes compartir dicho álbum con amigos con el clic de un botón, incluso si no están en Google Plus ellos mismos. ¿Y lo mejor de todo? Las fotos pueden ser automáticamente respaldado en un archivo zip para el almacenamiento fuera de Google + (Vamos, qué padre no vive con el temor de perder todas sus fotos!). Haga clic en la pestaña "Descargar álbum" debajo de "Más" y voila! Tu álbum se descargará en su computadora.

Pero hay otra cosa que me ha hecho oficialmente un converso de Google Plus: la foto herramienta puede unir un montón de fotos en uno. Como dicen que tiene muchas fotos de un evento, ninguno donde todo el mundo en la foto se ve bien. Google Plus puede sacar imágenes de todo el mundo sonriendo y crear una foto muy buena. Bastante impresionante para los padres quién es casi imposible conseguir una gran foto de familia.

Así que sí, realmente podría prescindir de otra adicción a los medios de comunicación social, pero si esta cosa foto facilita mi vida, estoy en!

¿Cómo organizar sus fotos?

Imagen via Andy Eick/Flickr

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Lowest Price: Google Chromecast Streaming Device, Only $34.48!

woensdag 18 september 2013

Lowest Price: Google Chromecast Streaming Device, Only $34.48!

Streaming television devices like Roku and Apple TV are nice, but the price tag gets a little hefty. Stream movies and music to your television without busting the budget! Best Buy has the Google Chromecast back in stock with free shipping and 1.5% cash back from Ebates—just $34.48 shipped.

Released in July, Chromecast is the #1 best-seller in electronics from Amazon. It’s a simple plug-and-play streaming media device that uses a PC, tablet or Smartphone as a remote to watch a movie from Netflix, surf Youtube or play music from Google Play—all for under $35.00.

While the percentage off isn’t huge, this is the absolute lowest price available for the newest (and most affordable) way to stream movies to your television. Chromecast gets 4 out of 5 stars from over 1,600 Amazon reviewers.

Chromecast is regularly priced at $35.00 on Amazon and usually sells out very fast.

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5 Google Earth Mistakes You Have to See to Believe (PHOTOS)

dinsdag 3 september 2013

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by Nicole Fabian-Weber 3 hours ago

It's news as disappointing as learning there's no such thing as Santa Claus: Google makes mistakes sometimes, you guys. I know. I'll hold while you process this and then subsequently collect yourself.

Although the Internet giant is smarter than god, they've been known to make a gaff -- at us users' expense -- from time to time. Particularly when it's come to their maps.

Here are 5 epic Google Earth mistakes. And don't worry, as far as I know, the Easter Bunny are Tooth Fairy are real.

1. Google Earth may be to blame for a murder. CBS News seems to think that a mislabeled home was the cause behind the 2010 murder of Dennis and Merna Koula in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Steve Burgess, the president of a local bank, had been receiving death threats for some time. Burgess lived next door to the Koulas, and his residence was mislabeled as the Koulas house. CBS insinuated that perhaps Burgess was the intended target, instead of the Koulas, and Google Maps is to blame for their deaths.

2. Google Earth happened to catch an unusually hilly road that looks like it's from an episode of The Jetsons:

Or, you know, it's just a computer glitch.

3. Google Earth erased the image of the White House roof. What's over Obama's head?! Just kidding. The erasure is intentional in order to obscure air-defense and security assets that are in place.

4. Google Earth discovered a bridge that no one should ever, ever drive their car across. Actually, just kidding again! Another glitch. Oh, Google.

5. Google forgot to blur out someone's license plate. As Seroundtable.com put it, "hysteria ensued". And I kind of can see why. With privacy concerns being what they are these days, who would want their license plate on an Internet map for all the world to see.

Have you ever spotted a Google Earth mistake?

Image via Postcards from Google Earth

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Google Shuts Down for 5 Minutes and the Internet Disappears

maandag 19 augustus 2013

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by Kiri Blakeley 4 hours ago

Imagine that the world's only map gets lost. Or the computer that controls every single traffic light in the world goes down. Now you have somewhat of a vision of what happened when -- zoinks! -- Google went down on Friday!!! During the five minutes that Google search went dark, there was a 40 percent drop in global traffic! In other words, we all sat there with our fingertips hovering over the keyboard ... totally ... LOST.

Says Internet traffic analytics firm GoSquared:

Google.com was down for a few minutes between 23:52 and 23:57 BST on 16th August 2013. This had a huge effect in the number of pageviews coming into GoSquared's real-time tracking -- around a 40% drop, as this graph of our global pageviews per minute shows. That's huge. As internet users, our reliance on google.com being up is huge. It's also of note that pageviews spiked shortly afterwards, as users managed to get to their destination.

OMG. Well, I personally didn't notice it, it must have happened during one of my brief lulls during the day when I'm actually NOT using Google. Hey, I've tried other search engines. They suck.

Most of us keep the sites we traffic frequently in our browser and they pop up automatically or we find them in our bookmarks. But if we're looking for, say, "Greek restaurant Smith Street" or "places that sell monkeys NYC" or looking for a news story or recipe or the weather or even doing a little ex stalking, where do you go? Google!!

I'm sure if Google ever shut down permanently, we'd all slowly crawl out of our dark corners and blindly feel along the sides of the Internet until we eventually stumbled upon what we were looking for. But we've all become hopelessly reliant on Google. No wonder the government is watching it! (Supposedly.)

I'm an early Google adapter. A relative of mine suggested it to me over a decade ago, when everyone was still using Yahoo search. I couldn't believe how much easier it was. It took the rest of the world about five years to catch on.

But now we all can't imagine life without Google the same way we can't imagine going back to pay phones or vinyl albums. Can you fathom actually having to, like, go to the phone book to find a place? Does anyone even have one of those things anymore?!

Google, we're counting on you. Don't let that happen again, 'kay? PLEASE?! For the love of God, Google!! ARE YOU LISTENING??!!

Do you ever worry about what would happen if Google goes down?

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Mother's Home Raided After Innocent Google Search for 'Pressure Cooker'

zaterdag 3 augustus 2013

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Update: Law enforcement admitted that they had been sent to the home, but they were alerted by the husband's former employer, because reportedly he (or someone else) was using a work computer to do searches on "pressure cooker BOMBS." That's quite different from "pressure cooker." Michele updated her blog post to confirm that she was later told they were alerted because of work searches, but does not clarify what the search terms were. Was it "pressure cooker" or "pressure cooker bombs"?!

Be careful what you Google! One family reportedly got a visit from police after a confluence of strange Google searches got them branded as terrorists. The family, who live in Long Island, New York, and are as far from terrorists as you and me, say they suddenly got a visit from six men in black, who rolled up to their house and demanded a search. What brought this supposed terrorism task group to this suburban family? Google searches that any one of us could have made! Check it out.

In case you were still under the illusion that your Internet searches aren't being monitored, think again!!

Michele Catalano wrote in her blog about the unannounced visit of six lawmen who showed up on their lawn while her husband was home. Michele writes:

Little did we know our seemingly innocent, if curious to a fault, Googling of certain things was creating a perfect storm of terrorism profiling. Because somewhere out there, someone was watching. Someone whose job it is to piece together the things people do on the internet raised the red flag when they saw our search history.

What was going into Google? The search terms "pressure cooker" and "backpack" -- two of the items associated with the Boston Marathon bombers, who used backpacks to conceal their pressure cooker-bombs.

But Michele was just researching "pressure cooker" so she could make quinoa, and her husband was looking into buying a backpack. Top it all off with a teen son who apparently clicked on a news link about how bomb-making instructions are easily available online and pictures that the family posted on Facebook of explosives for their July 4th fireworks -- and wahlah! Terrorism Task Alert Force pegged them as criminals.

Until they showed up and found nothing in the home -- and Michele's husband mentioned "quinoa." "What the hell is quinoa?" one agent supposedly asked.

The agents peppered Michele's husband with questions, including, "Do you have any bombs?" They searched the house (their son was sleeping in his bedroom at the time) and the backyard. After apparently realizing they weren't dealing with terrorists, they left.

Scarily, at first everyone denied the family had been searched, which led people to accuse Michele of making the whole thing up. But later county police reportedly confirmed they had sent detectives to the scene of the non-crime.

I've written about this sort of thing in the past. As part of my job, I routinely Google the weirdest, most crazy shit. The other day, while trying to find a story about Alanna Gallagher, the little girl murdered and left under a tarp in the street, I Googled, "Little girl naked tied up." You don't want to know what links that suggested!

I'm truly surprised no one has banged on my door yet. Hopefully this post will get me out of any future trouble!

I've used search engines like DuckDuckGo that don't monitor your searches, but they are slow and don't have nearly the same quality of results that Google does.

How is this happening? Why are we all allowing it? And don't think it couldn't happen to you. According to Michele, the agents said they make 100 searches like this a week!

I find the whole thing disconcerting. You hope that cops will realize it's just a Google search when nothing criminal pops up in your house, but who knows? They could say you hadn't acted on your criminal intent yet!

Ugh, scary.

Do you worry about this kind of thing? Do you feel our privacy is being invaded or this is necessary prudence?

Image via Victor1558/Flickr

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