December 2019 News: Blogs and Maps, Google Calendar, New Feature in Google Photos

Published: Fri, 12/06/19

December 2019 | Issue 148 | Archives

What's Up with Jim and Chris - the Geeks?

Denver airport for Google Product Experts Conference

We started November at home, then flew to Colorado for the Google Product Experts conference in Boulder. Chris learned a lot and had great fun with her fellow Google Product Experts. Then we went on to Denver and presented a couple of Google Photos seminars at Senior Planet.

The photo above is at Denver airport - quite a sight. We were lucky to be flying back home to Florida well before the snow became a problem. See our November Google Photos album for lots more pictures.

Now we're home for the holidays. We wish all the best of the season for you and your families as well.

What Does This Button Do?

We delivered two of our YouTube "Button" shows this month:

What's coming up - Our Calendar

Dec 16 Bellaggio Computer and Technology Club 7pm in the Media Room
Jan 3 Deerfield Computer Club 10am
Jan 14-16 Roadtrek Rally in High Springs, FL
Jan 28- Feb 2 Discovery Owners Rally in Seffner, FL.
Happy Holidays!

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Travel Blogs and Travel Maps go together

My blog is where I tell our travel stories, but I need the maps for the visual reference.

The map can even act as a kind of table of contents for the blog. Each marker is clickable and contains a link to the blog post where I have the story about that place.

We can teach you how to make both blogs and maps.

Using Google Calendar to remind you before you miss appointments

Don’t you just hate it when you see your friend and they say, “Where were you last night? We missed you at the party.” When the only reason you missed it was that you forgot!

If you have your settings right, you will get a notification one hour (or 2 hours, or 1 day - whatever you choose) before every event entered on your calendar.

This article tells you how.

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New Feature in Google Photos: Share photos with a conversation just like sending a text.

We just did a Button show about all the new features in Google Photos during 2019 and already there are a bunch more. You can see my ongoing list of Google Photos updates and it's getting long.

The one in this article is how they're making sharing pictures so much better. Have you ever shared a picture using Google Photos and the recipient says they never got it? Did they tell you to send it in a text message instead because they like how a text message keeps a running conversation along with the pictures?

If so, you'll love this new feature in Google Photos - it makes sharing any photo(s) from Google Photos act just like text messaging. It's rolling out now on iOS, Android and Web!

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