Category: Google

New Google Maps Beta Photo Tour

  This is our new Google maps features photo tour (2013). We were invited to preview and test Google’s new maps beta interface yesterday, and we went through and created a whole photo tour, talking about what we liked, and what we didn’t. The full review is coming soon, but for now, enjoy the photo gallery of Google Maps 2013. Below is the text...

How To Get Android Studio IDE Right Now

So you want to download Android Studio, Google’s new Android intergrated Development enviroment, released at 2013 Google IO? We’ve got you covered. Get it before your friends and colleagues by following these 4 steps.   Visit this hidden support page, which has the Android Studio download Accept the terms and conditions. and click the download button. Have fun, and enjoy the brilliant new environment....

Google Now For iOS Tutorial: Get the most out of Google Now

We explained the setup process in a separate tutorial here. Google Now, Google’s vocal assistant, can be a powerful tool, if you know its’ abilities and limitations. There are two parts to Google Now. The first is called “cards”, and the second is voice search. We’ll start with cards. Cards are like little apps to check on different parts of your life. Cards are...

How And Where To Get Google Now For iOS

Google Now, Google’s popular virtual assistant, has come to Apple’s iOS, but it’s not where you’d think. Several people have asked me where the app itself is. Here’s the secret. There’s no app. Google Now is built right into google’s search app, which was their first app on the store, and has been on it practically since its’ inception. To access Google Now, do...

Google Takes on Old Challenge With New Technology

Google Ideas, Google’s global issues think tank, announced this week a $3 million investment that they’re making into creating a global human trafficking hotline network, helping to combat a problem that has been worsening for literally hundreds of years After holding various events, and discussions on illicit networks, slavery, and human trafficking, Google ideas has started developing a system for tracking trafficking trends on...