GMail address actually ignore periods and + signs. So your actual email address is firstlast@gmail.com. You can use filters though to track who is spamming you. When asked for an email address give them someindicator+first.last@gmail.com and then setup a filter to flag any emails address to that email......then you’ll…

Use it to "laminate" small paper items such as ID cards.

Google Keep supports tagging and you can use that to organize your notes much like Evernote notebooks. Plus you left out that it integrates with Google Assistant so you can add notes with voice assistant. You can ask a Google Home Hub Max to show your notes too. It doesn’t have a native desktop app, but works great as…

Along the lines of zombo.com, this still exists and has been updated to support https!
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If you have Android, buy a Roav Bolt. While Google Assistant is built-in to the phone, this device can hear better and has a button you can press to read back your messages, answer the phone or reply and you don’t even need to look at the thing to hit it.

Slight correction, the Governor of Virginia ordered the statue of Robert E. Lee, owned by the state, that is located in Richmond to come down. The others are owned by the city I believe so it's a joint effort.

Google does verify the backup email address(es) as well as any other backup methods like phone or SMS. So sounds like her backup options were not set at all. Also if she had setup her account legacy options, then the designated person who would eventually gain access would be able to get in and recover her stuff. Set…

Instant mashed potatoes, Minute Rice, oatmeal even baby formula water for those models that have a formula mode. The uses are awesome. 

I still wear my LG Watch Sport daily. I like it, but it had a bad battery when I first got it. After sending it off to LG to replace the battery it’s been fine since (LTE is turned off so that helps). It is chunky compared to say the Fossil line of Wear OS watches, but I get lots of compliments about it from plenty of…

There is a dark theme now.

Just go to alternativeto.net. You can search or use the category options and find just about anything. You can narrow down the search to OS (desktop, mobile, online, etc.) and license (free, freemium, open source , paid, etc.).

Also US Cellular. They have a smaller footprint, but I’ve been places where my Verizon phone had no signal and my Google Fi phone did pick up US Cellular.

If it’s sunny out, wear sunglasses or if it’s cloudy out, wear clear safety glasses. Nothing kills outdoor riding like a bug in your eye at full speed downhill.

Depending on the news site, sometimes RSS can be overwhelming too. If you really want to slow down then go with something like Google News or Apple News or use a newspaper’s app. I’m also finding as a long time RSS user (highly recommend Newsblur) that many news sites are killing off RSS capabilities. There isn’t a…

I’m a news junkie so I feel ya. First, I recommend Newsblur over Feedly since a subscription to pro is only $25 a year and it’s a lot like Google Reader if you miss that service. The Newsblur mobile apps can be configured to download articles offline too and support dark/black modes.

Google Play Books now sells audiobooks too. The player is great and works on the phone, desktop or Google Home devices and syncs where you left off.

Straight up, it’s $45 + sales tax for your area, but if you set up autopay, they knock off $2. Quitting is even weirder....you just stop paying! That’s it.

Pishaah......Straight Talk - $45 a month period gets unlimited talk and text and 8GB of LTE data that throttles down if you go over, but never cuts off (there is also a 10GB plan if that’s what you need). You can either use a GSM phone (uses AT&T’s network) or a CDMA phone (uses Verizon’s network). They also offer…

Some of that probably comes as more and more stuff is going to online versions these days. I don’t need a local email client or calendar if I use Google’s products online (or these days on mobile). For the most part, the stuff that comes installed by default is updated regularly, but I find myself using less of the…

Not so much a single song, but a whole album of songs to get you pumped: