We are obsessed with Google Photos! It is the most modern, easiest, and most fun way to enjoy your pictures from your smartphone, and all your other cameras too. With just a little bit of learning to get you started on the right track, it is work-free, worry-free, and lots of fun. The more learning, the more fun. If you love your pictures, you'll love Google Photos. We're writing a brand new "Learn Google Photos" book and we want to write a book that you'll really like. So, we want you to tell us what you like! We've set up a private Facebook group specifically to share the book-in-process and get feedback from you. All you have to do is log in to Facebook and join the Learn Google Photos Group. If you are a Premium Geeks on Tour Member, we have a tutorial videos page already set up for you!

Don't just take a picture of documents you want to store in Evernote ... Take a Document picture. There's a big difference. 

One of the things I like to do with Evernote is take pictures of receipts that I feel I need to keep. Even if I also keep the paper copy, having a scanned image is especially good with the thermal paper type of receipts because they fade over time. To substitute for scanning, it’s import to know the difference between taking a regular photo note and a ‘document’ photo note?

Explore and Experiment. These are two things you should be doing with your smartphone all the time! Just when you think you can’t possibly find anything new your phone can do, a friend will tap a button that makes magic happen and you’ll ask, “How’d you DO that?” One of those things for me is the fun, speeded up videos that are popping up on Facebook all the time.
I understood the iPhones ability to take Slow Motion video, but in one of our smartphone photography classes a student played with the Time-Lapse setting instead and showed me a video of me walking around the classroom looking like an old Keystone Cops movie!

This article tells you how, and shows you a little video example at the end.

I recently heard about a new way to download Google Maps so they are accessible offline. I’ve used offline Google Maps before, but we couldn’t search or navigate. It’s search and navigate that makes Google Maps so useful! Now, I’m reading that maps saved offline can be used for search and navigation. Hooray! So, I immediately opened my Google Maps to try it. It didn’t work. I couldn’t find the “Download” button anywhere and that is what the instructions told me to use. 

Read the article to learn what I did wrong, and how you can not make my mistakes!