Category: Technology

Awesome! 😊

Originally shared by Nik Collection by DxO

Today we’re making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free.

Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.

The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities — from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images.

Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund, which we’ll automatically issue back to you in the coming days.

We’re excited to bring the powerful photo editing tools once only used by professionals to even more people now. 

http://www.google.com/nikcollection

Yay! Moar bug squishing in the G+ web preview

Finally search for post in communities, that makes thing a lot easier.

Also some drag&drop re-prder awesomeness when posting multiple images.

* 220 bug fixes

* 3 accessibility issues addressed

* Search for posts within a Community

* Ability to re-order multiple images in a post using drag & drop

Originally shared by Luke Wroblewski

G+ Web Preview Update Mar 16

We’re starting to roll out two more features and loads of bug fixes to our G+ preview on the Web today including:

* 220 bug fixes

* 3 accessibility issues addressed

* Search for posts within a Community

* Ability to re-order multiple images in a post using drag & drop

As always, please send us your ideas/issues using our Send Feedback menu item as that’s the best way to ensure we’ll see them.

Thanks~

Bring all the updates!

That circle switching magic looks awesome – looking forward to it..

Originally shared by Luke Wroblewski

G+ Android Update 7.4.0

We’re starting to roll out another update to the Google+ Android app today. This is our fifth Android update this year and includes several bug fixes and two new features:

* 18 bugs fixed

* 7 accessibility issues addressed

* Ability to pin posts on your profile

* Quicker access to the “Display Circle Streams” setting on the Following screen

* If you have the “Display Circle Streams” setting on, you can now switch between Circle streams from the header of the Google+ home screen on Android

As always, additional Android updates are on the way, so please keep the ideas & issues coming by using our Send Feedback menu item. Thanks~

Updates

Incoming Google Photos​​​ updates..

Now with a bottom navigation bar (that’s a big one) , “collections” is now “albums”, navigation is faster – and more. Of course it’s staged rollout so I’ll have to wait 😭 oh, well..

Originally shared by Google Photos

Easier and faster navigation

Rolling out today, the latest Google Photos update features an improved design and performance enhancements.

A new bottom bar makes it easy to move between the Assistant, Photos, and new Albums view. So you can spend less time flipping menus, and more time looking at your photos.

You’ll also notice that – based on your feedback – Collections has been renamed to Albums, and features a new scrolling carousel on top with easy access to your shared albums, people, places, things, animations, collages, movies, and device folders.

These changes make Photos faster and easier to use than ever, and will be coming soon to iOS.

Get the latest update for Android (v1.15) in the Play Store: goo.gl/55OnIr

G+ love to the IOS app

Originally shared by Luke Wroblewski

G+ iOS Update 5.3.0

We launched an update to the Google+ iOS app today. This version is now available on Apple’s App Store and contains the following fixes & improvements:

* 35 bugs fixed

* 9 accessibility issues addressed

* Ability to create polls

* Quick actions on the home screen with 3D Touch

* Create new Communities (with WebView)

* Fixed replying to comments on YouTube videos

As always, please send us your ideas/issues using our Send Feedback menu item as that’s the best way to ensure we’ll see them. Thanks~

fu&k!

I almost forgot, but today I got this reminder when I started the app.. Google is killing the app My Tracks -it stops working on April 30th, 2016.

https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/6333516?hl=en&ref_topic=2391064

I’ve tried Google Fit, as suggested, but.. It’s not enough, or maybe too much.

I’m giving Geo Tracker by Ilya Bogdanovich a try for now (best one so far), but it’s missing Google drive intergration and that was a nice feature in My Tracks that I’ll miss.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilyabogdanovich.geotracker

Anyone else know of a good candidate?

YouTube is launching a Custom Blurring tool today that lets creators blur any object in a video, even if the object moves. Nice feature if you want to blur sensitive information such as a license plate or other stuff that you didn’t want to get in your shot.

Originally shared by YouTube Creators

From teaser vids to wardrobe malfunctions, our new blurring tool has got you covered: http://goo.gl/TU8RCH