Google Inbox: Less than meets the eye
Shortly after posting this, I switched back to using the Mailbox app on my iPhone/iPad. Google Inbox isn't quite there yet.
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Jawas: They'll sell you droids AND candy! #starwars
Loading In a little known deleted scene from Star Wars, before selling R2D2 and C3PO to Owen, Beru and Luke, the Jawas handed out M&Ms. View on Instagram
A beautiful Edmonton day
It's been a long time since I used the BlogPress app. And it's been a while since I blogged directly on The Newsroom rather than using a Google+ embed. And really all I wanted to do was post this photo of the North Saskatchewan River from the new Henday bridge in the west end.
Delicious Gmail pi!
Today's Gmail update version number is pi. pic.twitter.com/k5fdWFbfiy — Mike Jenkinson (@MikeJenkinson) October 6, 2014
Auto Awesome is (you want me to say awesome, don't you?)
One of the great built-in features of Google+, and why I'm doing most of my real blogging over there these days, is the Auto Awesome feature, whereby the GOOG takes your pictures and edits them for you in to what it calls and Auto Awesome. Most of them are pictures that get some kind of filter treatment, but Google+ also can take images that overlap and turn them into a panorama, or can take burst mode shots and stitched them into an animated GIF style "moving picture." The bonus here is that Google+ can automatically upload pictures from your camera roll (well, it could, at least until iOS 8 came along) and does this all without you asking. It's very cool. Here are some examples.