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Just as Flickr recently announced the ability to order physical photos on canvas, metal or paper prints, Google Photos has stepped into the scene with a photo printing service of its own. Google has just made the announcement and this service is available in the U.S. starting today with a wider rollout expected in October.
Over this past weekend, the Google Photos Twitter account officially confirmed an upcoming feature on its app that can allow users to search for text in the photos. This can be helpful while searching for documents or Wi-Fi passwords. The company will use optical character recognition or OCR for this feature, which can be found
Own a #Nexus device? Well, there might soon be a new perk in addition to getting frequent software updates. According to a torn down APK, #Google is looking to give Nexus owners unlimited cloud storage for pictures saved in ‘original quality’. This pertains to images stored using the Google Photos app. For those unaware, Google
#GooglePhotos is one of my favorite cloud services for backing up photos and videos taken natively. It seems like there are about 200 million people like me with Google today making the announcement of the service breaching the 200 million active user count. It’s quite a milestone, no doubt, but far from satisfying for Google, considering
#GooglePhotos is now getting a new update which improves the user experience to a great extent. First and foremost is the update to the search experience on the handset with the addition of a more prominent search bar right on top of the app. This is a handy addition and will let you search for
The #GooglePhotos service is now receiving an update with a smart albums creation feature. This will automatically pick and choose the best photos that you took during a recent trip and place them in an album. You can also add notes to these albums to give it that personal touch. Further, you can invite people
An update to #GooglePhotos has introduced the ability to add a shortcut button within #GoogleCamera. This acts as an alternative to the image preview button that is available on the bottom right corner of the camera UI. But this new shortcut can also be moved around the screen and placed anywhere. Functionality wise though, it’s not really
An update to #GooglePhotos has introduced a nifty feature called shared albums which lets users create albums that can be accessed by others and even offer them the ability to add images or videos. This is a long overdue feature as Photos only offered the ability to share images or albums individually. This feature has
#Google is now sending out an update to #GooglePhotos on #Android allowing users to free up space on their devices. This feature will be visible in the Settings once the update has gone live and will prompt you to delete images and videos on your phone that have already been backed up to the cloud. If
#GooglePhotos was a runaway hit since it was launched roughly five months ago. People started turning to Google Photos with the main allure being unlimited storage (for sized down images) and the seamless syncing between web and mobile, thanks to the cloud. This service is so popular in fact that Google has announced there are nearly
Users of #Google Photos are now seeing the addition of a new feature called ‘Rediscover This Day‘ in the Assistant view of the app. This is essentially a reminder of sorts to tell you what pictures you took an year ago or two years ago on the same day. This feature was apparently visible to
Google may have just recently launched Google Photos, but they are already making the service more interesting. In a cryptic video involving wafles, Google seems to be hinting that you might be able to pay for one soon with a photo of it. Not only that, but the Google Photos Twitter account and ZAGAT’s comment
Ever since Google Photos was launched by Google, there has been some confusion about what this meant for Google+ Photos. Google has finally answered that question by announcing the closure of the service, keeping only Google Photos relevant. This will avoid the confusion that the customers face with the availability of two services simultaneously. It is
Google Photos has been available for quite some time now and one of our favorite features from the app is its ability to recognize people, based on your contacts and friends. However, Google has found itself to be in trouble as a user has found that the facial recognition algorithm isn’t exactly glitch free. A user named
After unveiling a couple of then odd-looking Chromebooks at I/O 2011, the road-opening first-gen Nexus 7 a year later and short-lived Google Play Edition device program pioneer Galaxy S4 during the 2013 developer-centric San Francisco conference, El Goog turned the page in 2014 and kept the event’s focus on software. Similarly, day one of Google
Google has just announced the all new Photos app for Android, iOS and web which brings unlimited image and video storage to the table. Images of up to 16-megapixel in size can be stored, while videos of up to 1080p can be saved to the cloud. These images can be accessed from a wide range