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13 June 2013

Google Cloud Print App for Android

Google has finally released an Android app for Cloud Print. The application lets you print from any Android device to a Cloud Print-enabled printer, send files to other Android devices or save them to Google Drive as PDF files. You can also track the status of your print jobs. Until now, you had to use third-party apps.

One way to print a file is using the "print" button from the application and selecting the file you want to print. Make sure you've installed a file manager like ES File Explorer to be able to print other files than images. Another option is to use the "share" button or menu item from almost any Android app and select "Cloud Print". For example, you can open a web page in Chrome for Android, pick "share" from the menu and you can print the entire page. You can also select some text from the page and print that text.

There are a lot of Cloud Print-enabled printers from Canon, Brother, HP, Samsung, Epson, Dell. If you don't have one of these modern printers, you can still use the app if you've installed Chrome on your computer and enabled the Cloud Print connector (you computer needs to be on when you're printing).

{ Thanks, Daniel. }

Google Shows Your Recent Sign-ins

There's a new section in the Google Account settings page: recent activity. Google shows a list of recent sign-ins and other security-related actions, with information about the browser, device, IP address and approximate location.

The feature seems similar to Gmail's account activity feature, but it's not. Gmail's feature shows information about about recent activity, whether it's from a browser or an email client, and it's only limited to Gmail. Google's new recent activity feature shows "security-related actions you've taken, like signing in to your Google Account, changing your password, or adding a recovery email address or phone number. This information is for your entire Google Account, so sign-ins from any Google product (such as Blogger, Gmail, or YouTube) will be listed in this section."

There's a subtle difference: "A sign-in is only listed when you've actually typed your username and password to sign in. For example, if you've been signed in to your account for several weeks on your phone, checking your email from time to time, we'll only list the time and location of your initial sign-in." That's not the case for Gmail's account activity feature, which is not limited to the initial sign-ins.

In other related news, Google has a new security dashboard that shows information about your password, recovery options, notifications for unusual activity, 2-step verification and connected applications/sites.

{ Thanks, Florian K. and Herin. }

Navigation Arrows in Google Image Search

Google Image Search shows two arrows when you click a search results. The two buttons let you go to the previous or the next result. Until now, you could only use keyboard shortcuts (left/right arrow keys) to navigate between results.

I'm sure that website owners won't like this feature because it's much easier to go to the next image result, but users will like it. Maybe Google will also add a slideshow mode in full-screen, so that you don't have to click the "next" button over and over again.

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