If you are a regular user of DigitFreak, you must have heard about the Google’s recent ‘Privacy Policy’ update? If you didn’t — there is something you should know about.
Starting from 11th November, Google will be able to legally use your face (profile picture) and name (account name) for commercial purposes — why? because, you have agreed to the Terms and policies when you happily check the boxes and click on ‘continue’ while signing up your brand new account!
See Also: Don’t fret if you see your friends face on Google Ads – Its just a new policy!
When you are the one searching for some products then it’s highly likely that you will see the recommendation of some of our friends. If you don’t want to appear on one of the advertisements from Google when your friends are searching for the similar product you like or commented on — you can simply opt-out of it.
While you might be afraid of this tutorial to be a long list of really frustrating instructions, It is ridiculously simple. Literally, it’s just two clicks away.
Instructions:
1. Click this link. (And, if necessary, log into the Google. I promise that’s a link to actual Google, not fake Google that steals your password and uses it to order handbags.)
2. Uncheck the check box. Unless it’s already unchecked — in which case, leave it unchecked. Oddly, some people are saying they’re opted out by default; others say they find it checked. TL;dr: check = bad.
3. Hit save!
Importing your Google reader Rss feed list has never been so easy. You just have to click on “Import Google Reader” when you login to the website for the first time – and god! it was too fast and easy. All my feeds and lists are intact and they are listed the same way it used to be on Google reader.
My first curiosity was to figure out how digg manages the feeds and displays output. I must say, it didn’t disappointed me. Adding feeds to digg reader is easy, you just need to click on “Add”, which is located at the bottom left corner of the webpage and paste the RSS/Atom feed url and press enter.
Interface is pretty basic and resembles that of “Google reader” but in more “digg style”. It is almost perfect and minimalist – loads quick, you will feel like home again. Digg manages to bind the former Google users to the service and it is quite promising.
Well, if you have been juggling with your feeds on Google Reader with the Keyboard shortcuts like me – then you will be happy to know that it replicates almost the same keyboard shortcuts as we used to have on Google. It makes it so easy to use and it feels like you are already familiar with the digg reader because it just has everything you used to have with additional features.
Digg provides some very basic settings for the users to manage – so you don’t have much of the things to worry about, just little tweaks that you can set and forget about. The basic settings allows you to update your email ID, set unread counts (the unread feed item counts as we used to have on Google reader), share your digg feed page to anyone or share your feed list.
If you use Gmail on different devices and forgot to Sign out from one of them, you can sign out remotely through the details section. If you scroll down to the bottom of Gmail, you will see your last activity at the bottom right hand corner. Click on “Details” underneath this and you can sign out of all other sessions.
When you’re searching for directions and you want to avoid a particular road or street, you can adjust your route by dragging it to a different path. This will create a new white marker which Google will use to calculate a new route and time frame. You can create as many of these markers as you wish.
Another Google Labs tool that you can activate. Clicking the ruler tool at the bottom right hand corner of your map will let you measure the distance between two points in metres or feet. The fun part behind this option is you can choose the geeky option and measure the distance based on the size of American football fields, Olympic swimming pools and light years among other more useful measurements. This feature will only let you measure in straight lines, however.
Google Labs has some incredibly handy tools, but it can be very easy to miss it considering its location. When you open up maps, you will find Maps Labs at the bottom left hand corner of the screen. One of the options you can choose is ‘Drag ‘n’ Zoom’ which lets you zoom in by drawing a box on the map. Click the magnifying box underneath the original zoom to activate it. The smaller the box, the further you zoom in.
It’s probably no surprise that Google Drive has its own set of keyboard shortcuts which you can find through the cog icon. Scroll down the menu and you will see an option for keyboard shortcuts. Clicking this will bring up all the different key combinations available to you.
When you are composing an email, you can attach a file directly from your Google drive through your Gmail account by clicking the drive icon at the bottom of the new compose email format.
Google News is the best way to keep yourself updated with the day to day events throughout the world about any topic. It can be used as the news portal with the very least of your effort. If you’re not happy with the articles you’re presented, with the customise section is what you’re looking for.
If you want to have a stream that related to specific search terms, then create your own section. In the customise section, go into advanced (found underneath the Personalize Google News section), and select “Create A Custom Section.” Here you can add in any search term and you will be presented with a feed correlating to that. Remember if you want to add more than one term, separate them with a comma.![Top 10 stunning Digital Tech gadgets, July 2012 [images]](https://digitfreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/google_fiber.jpg)
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