A passkey is a digital credential that is used as an authentication method for a website or application. The passkeys standard is a type of passwordless authentication, promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium and the FIDO Alliance. Google has announced that passkeys, touted by the tech giant as the “beginning of the end” for…
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Google Voice Still Here
Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. phone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States. It is used for call forwarding and voicemail services, voice and text messaging, as…
Google Maps Tips
Google Maps is one of the most useful Google applications with so many practical and fun uses they can’t be counted. No other map application can be compared to it. The first and most obvious is driving directions on you phone. Did you know you can send map directions from your computer’s web-browser to your…
Train Your Gmail Spam Filter
In Gmail do you have important messages that end up in the spam folder. You can train Gmail to know what is and isn’t spam. Watch the video and Leo Laporte will tell you how.
Google’s Mishap
On Sunday June 2nd nearly all of the Google Cloud was disrupted doe to a configuration error which has some people thinking, “Is this the time to hand all of my critical computing over to the cloud.” Not only the Google services you would expect to go down were effected but many sites that are…
Google Fiber, Epic Failure
You may have heard of Google’s plan to end its 1 gigabit fiber Internet service after less than two years. This has been quite a shock to the services current customers. Google Fiber has encountered a myriad of technical issues with the micro-trenching technique and networking equipment it was using. I thought after resolving the…
My Google Fiber
On the 27th and 28th of June the Google Fiber technicians came to do my installation. It took to days to do because the the equipment out front had to be replace first. On the second day the tech brought it into the house. Equipment Review My thoughts after having the service for one day: the…
What’s New With Gmail
Gmail after several years has a new look and some new functionality. What’s New? New look – The corners are rounder especially the compose but which is now oval instead of rectangular. Big deal! A sidebar for Google’s apps, Smart reply, Snooze an email, Confidential email, A choice of layouts, Find out more about these…
Google Assistant Wins, Suck It Siri!
Google is taking on Alexa, Siri and Cortana with its own voice assistant: Google Assistant. It has made incredible progress thus far and it’s probably the most advanced of the assistants out there. Watch this incredible demonstration of the Google Assistant at work…
A Look at the New Gmail
Google just updated Gmail with one of its biggest redesigns in a long time. The update brings several security features like confidential mode, which allows you to add two-factor authentication and / or set expiration dates for individual emails. Phishing alerts are also now highlighted in a much clearer way, with bold red boxes that are harder…
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