January 2020 News: Food from Google Maps, Google Photos Updates, Decade of Geeks

Published: Mon, 01/13/20

January 2020 | Issue 149 | Archives

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

Denver airport for Google Product Experts Conference

Happy New Year everybody. And, Happy New Decade! The 2010s saw the smartphone transform our world - what's next?! 5g, IoT (Internet of Things), Artificial Intelligence, and virtual reality, promise to be even more transformative. Hold on to your hats.

The photo above is at home having a rare New Year's Eve party. Thanks to our friends who helped us make this decade changer a memorable one. No, we didn't make them stay till midnight, we followed the countdown from Rio de Janeiro and made midnight be 9pm our time! See our December 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:

We also posted lots of new short, tutorial videos:

What's coming up - Our Calendar

Back at it for the New Year. Everything is in Florida. We'll be visiting the Tampa RV Show, too. It's always entertaining and we see a lot of our friends.

Jan 3 Deerfield Computer Club 10am Here's the Seminar
Jan 14-16 Roadtrek Rally in High Springs, FL - Just for fun
Jan 28- Feb 2 Discovery Owners Rally in Seffner, FL.
Feb 4-7 Riverside RV Resort in Arcadia, FL
Feb 12-16 RVillage Rally Spirit of the Road 2020
Feb 26 Sun City Center Computer Club Seminar
Feb 27 Golden Gate Computer Society Remote Seminar on Snapseed

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Try Google Maps for Restaurant Delivery

You've probably heard of DoorDash, or Uber Eats? Well, there's another one called Postmates. And then there's Google Maps, where Restaurant listings may connect with any of the delivery services.

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Lots of Google Photos updates in 2019

We keep up with them all! And, we've written them up in one place for you to read:

Snapseed has moved
Account and backup status has moved
Manual Face Tagging
Pick a frame from a Live or Motion photo
Google Drive no longer syncs with Google Photos
Get prints made straight from the app
Photo Frames
Markup and Text on photos
Crop Document
Edit movies on computer

and MORE!

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Decade of the Geeks

It's hard to believe that it was only 10 years ago that we bought our first smartphones. Now we've taught 183 episodes on how to use them!

On the other hand, it seems SO long ago that we were teaching Picasa. That was our most popular topic EVER - with a live audience of over 700 people. That all ended when Google Photos was released in 2015 - and we jumped right on that bandwagon. Cloud-based storage is definitely the way to go!

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