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Getting Liberated: Easy Backups for Google Products

Byte Technology

You’re meticulous about keeping your Gmail and photos perfectly organized and up to date. But have you been blindingly relying on the Internet behemoth to keep your data safe and sound? To begin, visit the “download your data page” ( takeout.google.com/settings/takeout ) and select the Google products you’d like to download.

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3 BIG reasons not to build a Mobile App!

Whole Whale

According to data compiled by Statista in 2021, Americans spend 5-6 hours a day on mobile devices. Some data that inform this assumption: 95% of the US has a smartphone ( Pew Internet ). Globally, there were roughly 197 billion app downloads in 2017 ( Statista ). A Data-Informed, Hypothetical Story of HappyApp.org.

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What actually happened: Apple Mail Privacy Protection

M+R

When a user downloads that image, it registers as an “email open.”). Since Apple Mail can be set up to work not just with Apple domains, but also with most of the major inbox providers (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail…) this impacts a huge segment of email subscribers. Now, however, we’ve got three different open rates to think about.

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6 signs your association management software may be a dinosaur

Nimble AMS

Do you use Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail? You aren’t sure exactly how your AMS handles data security. In today’s world, you can’t afford to ignore data privacy and protection laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s sweeping law on data protection and privacy.?.

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Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Amy Sample Ward

When joining, the presence of ad-recommending data was very clear. Check out the invite screen shot below: But for all the talk about “owning our data&# that Facebook has really been instrumental in igniting, Google’s response is “data liberation.&# You could then share messages, notes, talk about class, etc.

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A Month with the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

Here's what I've ended up with: Contacts: gSyncIt, via Google (my contacts sync to Gmail, then to the Pre). If I added a new contact in Gmail, it sync'd to the Pre, but if I added or deleted a contact on the Pre the change didn't show up in Gmail. I can listen to music while syncing data, browsing the web, or downloading an app.

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Your Google Search History — The Fun and Creepy Truth

Tech Soup

Last spring, Google made our entire search histories available for download and viewing. I like CNBC data journalist Mark Fahey's account of his experience. There are a few different ways to view or download your Google search history, but viewing it online directly in your Google account is the easiest to understand.

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