James T. Cains

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Article / Updated 04-27-2023
Google Chrome takes seriously the privacy and security of your content while you browse the web, because, like it or not, there are certain people out there who will try to take advantage of you by trying to get a hold of the information on your computer. As with most things in life, it’s better to be safe than sorry when protecting your personal information.
Article / Updated 04-25-2023
Google Translate gives you a Phrasebook in which you can save translated words and phrases. You can view your Phrasebook on your computer or your smartphone or tablet, so if you have words and phrases that you use often in a different language, you can access them from anywhere.Google Translate’s Phrasebook is fine for remembering various words and phrases that it translates for you.
Article / Updated 11-04-2022
Want to translate a website to English or another foreign language? Google Translate can help you with that. And it’s not just single web pages, either. You can browse an entire website in the chosen language, and even change languages as you browse. You can also use Google Translate on your iOS or Android mobile device.
Article / Updated 10-19-2022
Google Translate doesn’t just translate words and phrases for you; it can also translate entire documents, such as plain text and rich-text documents, Microsoft Word documents, HTML, and even translate PDFs. (It also translates entire websites.)The file-size limit for translating documents (as stated in Google’s FAQs) is 1MB.
Article / Updated 06-23-2022
If you have your own website, you can use the Google Translate extension to automatically have your website translated into more than 90 languages. So, there’s no need to have multiple versions of your website created. Google Translate requires code to be placed on every page of your site, so you need some website know-how to do this.
Article / Updated 12-20-2021
So you’ve been using Google Chrome for a while and you’ve accumulated a ton of bookmarks. Or perhaps you’ve imported a slew (or is that a gaggle?) of bookmarks into Chrome from another browser. Regardless, it’s time to organize them, because you’re the ever-efficient worker bee who is super-productive to the hive.
Article / Updated 12-16-2021
What good is a Google group without other people to talk to? If you’ve created a group that’s open, then you can wait for others with similar interests to find your group and join. But if you’ve created a closed group — for example, for a business project — you need to invite others to join the group.Follow these steps to invite people to your group: After logging in to your Google account and going to your Google group, click Manage in the upper right.
Article / Updated 12-14-2021
Google Drawings is the free drawing tool built into Google Drive. It’s like a very basic version of Microsoft Visio. With it, you can create drawings like organizational charts or basic diagrams in which you need to include text, rudimentary shapes, icons, and images.However, if you need more advanced functionality, such as creating specialized drawings mechanical drawings, or building plans, you’ll need to invest in an advanced drawing program.
Article / Updated 12-14-2021
Dropbox is one of several popular cloud storage services that enable you to store and share your files online “in the cloud.” What does that mean? It means that you can store and back up your files online for easy access from anywhere — your home computer, your work computer, or your mobile device. Your files are stored on Dropbox’s servers and can be synchronized, or automatically kept up to date, on all of your devices.
Article / Updated 12-14-2021
When you, as a student, join a class in Google Classroom, you don’t see everything that your teacher sees, because your teacher is the administrator of the class and, therefore, can do more things. For example, you can’t invite other students to the class, nor can you make assignments. Figure 1 shows what you see when you join a class.