Introduction to Series: Top 5 Reasons to be on Google+

Google+ was discontinued on April 3, 2019 which came as a sad news to many. I was one of the enthusiastic and active Google+ users. There are people like Guy Kawasaki, the Apple Evangelist who had about 7 million followers on Google+ multiple times than on Twitter and Facebook. The shut down of Google+ was a blow to such public figures. 

I published this article in August, 2017 and leaving it as revisit to history. So look at it from historical perspective:

9 Essential Google Photos Tips!

Image source: Google Blog

Looking at the popularity of this amazing app, I devoted previous 2 posts to Google Photos covering the essential features first: storage and delete. I have included them in the list below for the benefit of first-timers and sake of completeness. This is the third and final instalment of the Google Photos series. I thought it will be more useful to list down the features as tips to use Photos effectively:

Google Photos: Don't delete them accidently!

Welcome back... to the second post on Google Photos! I hope yesterday's post 'Are your photos eating into limited storage of your Google account' helped in understanding how storage works and how Google Photos can be set-up for Free unlimited storage backing-up lifetime of photos. In this post, you can learn about the features around 'DELETE' functionality. I believe these features are among the most important due to the devastating effect of their consequences. They have evolved over a period of time and now they are safer than ever before.

Google Photos: Are your photos eating into limited storage of your Google account?

Image credit: Google Photos Homepage. Click on the image above to open your Google Photos account

Google Picasa retired on 1st May, 2016. The background was set and it was the next logical step allowing Google to focus entirely on one photo service - Google Photos which was there for one year and saw widespread user adoption. Picasa was a desktop application allowing to edit and manage photos. You could upload photos to Picasa Web Albums to store and share them online. Google Photos, on the other hand, was completely online i.e. cloud-based with no offline desktop application like Picasa. With the world moving to cloud and mobile, it was a decision to keep up with the times.