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Category: Google
Fourteen Amazing Google Docs Hacks to Make Writing Your Next Novel Easier
Google Docs is a popular word-processing tool that lets you access your documents and files from any internet-connected device. I for one have found it to be immensely useful...
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How To Write A Book In Google Docs (video)
The above video is the work of Stefanie Newell. It came across my desk courtesy of The Book Designer's Carnival of the Indies monthly link post, and I thought...
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Google Play Books 5.1.9 Adds Audiobook Download Quality Settings, Custom Skip Duration Settings
When Google started selling audiobooks last January, the Play Books Android app made the experience so frustrating that only masochists would try it more than twice. Google has slowly...
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Did You Know Google Now Limits Search Results to Only 300 to 400 Links?
Here's something new I learned at the Computers in Libraries conference this week. Google may claim to have indexed a million or more results for the term you're searching...
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Google is Sending Out Reminder Emails About Google Plus
Google has been warning users for a couple months now that they plan to shutdown their social network on 2 April, but I guess not everyone has gotten the...
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Google Plus is Shutting Down on 2 April
When Google announced last October that they were sunsetting Google+, they didn't tell us when they were going to turn off the lights. According to the emails Google started...
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Google Site Kit Will Make It Easier to Integrate Google’s Services Into WordPress Sites
Between its SEO, traffic analysis, and performance optimization tools (Search Console, Analytics, and PageSpeed Insights, respectively), Google supplies a number of key tools used by just about everyone who...
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Google+ Isn’t Shutting Down, But It Will Be Retasked For Enterprise Use
It's been pretty obvious for a while now that Google's social network has been so completely abandoned by the public that its remaining users, Google employees, could use it to...
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How to Download Audiobooks from Google Play Books – DRM-Free!
When Google started selling audiobooks in Play Books back in January I was quick to dismiss their service because the audiobook experience was simply awful. It was so bad that...
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Google Launches a Podcast App for Android
There are currently more podcast-playing apps than you can shake a stick at, but that's not enough for Google. In its bid to collect as much data bout you...
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With “Talk to Books”, Google Wants to Replace English Lit Professors
Google's developed a new way to ask its search engine research questions, and it could make English Lit classes a breeze. Talk to Books is Google's solution to answering fuzzy...
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Google Adds Bookmarks, Speed Controls, and More to Audiobooks in Google Play Books App
Google rolled out an update today for its Play Books app that fixed the frustrating experience of listening to audiobooks in that app shortly after Google started selling audiobooks...
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The HTTPocalypse was Postponed, But It’s Still On its Way
Back in July and August of 2017 Google started telling everyone that Chrome would soon start warning users any time they visit a site enter a form on a page that...
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Google’s Support for Audiobooks is Frustrating and Disappointing
Google started selling audiobooks several days ago. If you haven't tried them yet, that is okay because you are better off avoiding Google in favor of a retailer that...
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