Week Inward Review - August 22, 2015: Google Photos, Hangouts, Google+ Collections

This calendar week nosotros have new Google Photos features, a domicile page for Hangouts, Google+ Collections search together with Google back upwardly on Twitter. 

We also learned "M" is for Marshmallow, YouTube Audio Library has K novel tunes, Maps "Views" was retired, together with at that spot are updates together with tips for Blogger, Google Photos, Google Docs together with Sheets.

Image: Elegant Ladies at the Races by Oscar Blum (1867-1912). The lady on the correct would accept loved Google Photos!

Google Support

• New! Tweet your Google production questions amongst the #gHelp hashtag to acquire assistance - or boundary inward together with outset helping! (Google Top Contributors)
• New! Get assistance amongst Google Photos inward the novel official Google Photos Help Forum (forum link)

Google Photos

• New! Get assistance amongst Google Photos inward the novel official Google Photos Help Forum (forum link)
• Update: Time-stamp editing on the web, reorder Photos inward an album (Google Photos
• Update: Google Photos for Android straight off supports Google+ trouble organization Pages, offers to a greater extent than Movie editing options, lets you lot reorder content inward albums together with more! (Google Photos)
• Update: Google Photos novel feature: rediscover photos from the past times (Google Photos)
• Update: Google Photos for iOS update: alter the embrace photo, relieve animations equally videos, rediscover this twenty-four hr catamenia together with to a greater extent than (Google Photos)
• Update: Google Maps Views is retired - discovery your photos inward Google Maps "Contributions" (Google Maps)
• Tip: Get Analytics for shared Google Photos links (John Elstone)

Google+

• Update: Google+ introduces search for Collections (Peter Zheng)
         Here's what the novel Collections search looks like (me)
• Tip: Google+ Community Owners together with Managers: Get Community stats amongst the Community Meter Chrome extension (Olivier Jobert together with Romain Vialard)
• Article: Google Photos + Hangouts + Streams: is Google ahead of the times? (Jack Wallen @ Yahoo Finance)

YouTube together with Video  

• Update: K costless tracks added to the YouTube Audio Library (YouTube Creators)
• Tip: Creatively purpose sound effects to amend your videos 
• Tip: Improve sound character inward videos shot amongst your smartphone (Vimeo)

Live Streaming

• Watch coders code live: livecoding.tv makes a solo action social 
• The ultimate postulate to Blab.im (via Mike Downes)

Hangouts

• Update: Hangouts gets a good-looking page of its own at hangouts.google.com (Jordanna Chord)
• Tip: Verify your telephone release to allow your friends easily outset a Hangout amongst you (Jordanna Chord)

Blogger together with Webmasters

• Tip: Blogger weblog advanced tip: customize a Dynamic Views template (Marc Ridey)
• Tip: site hacked? Here are tools to assistance build clean it upwardly (Google Webmasters)

Productivity - Maps, Docs

• Update: Google Maps Views is retired - discovery your photos inward Google Maps "Contributions" (Google Maps)
• Update: Sheets for Android makes it easier to edit spreadsheets on the acquire (Google Docs)
• Update: straight off preview impress layout inward the Google Docs app for Android or iOS (Google Docs)
• Tip: Send your notes together with highlights on Google Play books to a folder on Google Drive (Google Docs)
• Tip: Clean upwardly your Google Contacts (Jordanna Chord)Android

Android

• M is for marshmallow (Android Developers)

Updated March 2019 to take away Google+ links