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Tips for Saving to Google

If you're using the Save to Google  Chrome extension, here are a few tips: 1. Select some text from the page before clicking the star icon to use this text as a note. You can change it later. 2. You can change the title of the page you save in the small box that's displayed after clicking the star icon. Just click the title and it becomes editable. 3. Pick an image to illustrate the page. From the same box, you can click the arrow icons to choose an image from the page. 4. If you don't like the images, there's a default thumbnail that uses the first character from the title. Click the right arrow icon until you reach the end of the list. 5. Add a tag to group similar pages. 6. If you clicked the star icon by mistake, click the delete icon to remove the page from your list of saved pages. 7. Use the Google Save site to manage your saved pages. You can select multiple pages to add tags or delete the pages. If this link doesn't work for y...

YouTube Loop

Back in 2014 , I found a way to loop YouTube videos using a feature of the HTML5 player. It looks like YouTube added "loop" as a standard feature. Just right click inside the HTML5 player and click "loop". This way, you can watch a video on repeat until you pause it or uncheck "loop" from the contextual menu. It also works for embedded videos. Here's a short video you can use to test the loop feature:

Show Zoom Slider in Google Maps

Are you missing the zoom controls from the old Google Maps interface for the desktop? Mouse over the "-" or "+" button at the bottom of the Google Maps page and click "show slider". You'll get the old zoom slider which allows you to quickly control the zoom level of the map. If you want to go back to the default interface, mouse over the "-" or "+" button and click "hide slider". The nice thing is that Google remembers your preference.

Export All Your Google Keep Notes

How to export all your notes from Google Keep? I found two ways to do this. One option is to use a feature that converts one or more notes to a Google Docs document . 1. Select all your notes: go to Google Keep  and press Ctrl+A (or Cmd-A for Mac). Important: This only selects the notes from the current view, so archived notes aren't included. You can repeat these steps for archived notes or select all your archived notes and unarchive them. 2. Click the 3-dot icon from the top of the page and pick "Copy to Google Doc". 3. Wait a few seconds and you should see a link at the bottom of the page that says: "Open doc". Click that link to open the document that includes all your notes. Another option is to use Google Takeout and export all your notes as HTML files . Google Takeout exports all your notes, including archived notes and notes from the Trash. You'll get a ZIP archive with HTML files for each note. The archive may also includes ...

Google Photos Search Filters

Google+ Photos has a few search filters that are pretty useful. You can find them if you click the small arrow from the search box: Auto Backup, Hangouts, Google Drive, Posts, Auto Awesome, Videos and more. The nice thing is that most of them are also available in Google Photos. Google Photos has a search page that shows a few filters: Creations (replaces Auto Awesome), Google Drive, Video, Recently Added. Here are some searches you can use to bring back the filters from Google+ Photos: #AutoBackup - shows all the photos automatically backed up from your mobile devices and desktop computers #Desktop - shows the photos automatically backed up from your desktop computers #Posts - shows the photos added to your Google+ posts #All - shows all your photos #PhotosOfYou - photos you've been tagged in #CAMERANAME - replace CAMERANAME with the your camera's model or brand to see all the photos taken with that camera. Some examples: #Nexus5, #Canon, #iPhone.