With Google's new limit on free data storage, don't forget your Gmail inbox. It could be stuffed - USA TODAY
With Google's new limit on free data storage, don't forget your Gmail inbox. It could be stuffed - USA TODAY |
- With Google's new limit on free data storage, don't forget your Gmail inbox. It could be stuffed - USA TODAY
- Google Doodle honors Japanese-American weightlifter and Olympic gold-medalist Tommy Kono - USA TODAY
- Google adds search warning for queries with fast-changing results - USA TODAY
| Posted: 28 Jun 2021 03:02 AM PDT
CLOSE  Keep your technology tidy with these fun and easy hacks. USA TODAY Since Google stopped providing unlimited storage in Google Photos June 1, some of you may worry that excess cat photos will push you into paying for extra storage or finding another place to back up your pictures. But this space crunch might not hinge on images at all, because Google's 15-gigabyte limit for no-charge storage covers not just Google Photos but also Google Drive and Gmail. Although an individual email might not seem like much, a thousand words can be worth a picture – especially if they were sent in an attached PDF or came woven into enough web coding. Google: Search giant delays phaseout of tracking tech by nearly 2 years Video games: Here's why you won't see a new Nintendo Switch anytime soon Even plain-text messages add up for those who opened a Gmail account early after the service debuted in 2004 with the pitch "Don't throw anything away." In my own Google account, Google Photos amounts to half of my combined Drive and Gmail storage. Update your Google Gmail inboxGmail's inbox-management tools still assume that storage isn't as big a problem as search. You can use special queries to find bulkier messages ("larger:10m" locates those bigger than 10 megabytes), but Google PR confirmed that you can't ask Gmail to rank the mailing lists that put the biggest dent in your quota. Neither Gmail's web interface nor its Android and iOS apps even let you sort messages by sender, which could suggest the more prolific correspondents. To do that, you'll have to synchronize Gmail to a desktop mail app like what Apple includes in macOS and Microsoft bundles with Windows. Or maybe it's already obvious which attention-starved companies, nonprofit groups or political campaigns make it up in volume. Either way, once you identify your major mail offenders, you will want to return to Gmail's website, which functions better than its apps for zapping messages in bulk. Here's how:
There are better ways to help people deal with high-volume mailing lists, and one of Google's competitors in email provided a good example almost nine years ago: Microsoft's Outlook.com lets you set "sweep" filters that automatically delete matching messages after a set interval. Google acts as if it's made deleting messages obsolete even as it steps up efforts to charge for storage. Google could improve its messaging about those extra-storage prices: Unless you know you will conquer your storage problem in the next few months, you should probably ignore Google's advertised $1.99 monthly rate for its entry-level 100-gigabyte plan and pay the 16% cheaper $19.99 annual rate instead. Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington. To submit a tech question, email Rob at rob@robpegoraro.com. Follow him on Twitter at @robpegoraro. The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2021/06/28/google-gmail-how-check-your-email-avoid-new-free-storage-limits/5319878001/  |
| Google Doodle honors Japanese-American weightlifter and Olympic gold-medalist Tommy Kono - USA TODAY Posted: 27 Jun 2021 05:44 AM PDT  CLOSE USA TODAY Sports' Nancy Armour breaks down the Olympic committee's decision to host fans at the Tokyo Olympics. USA TODAY There is a chance that not many people, outside Olympic historians, have ever heard the name Tommy Kono. Google Doogle is making sure that never happens again and that he is always remembered. On Sunday, Google honored Kono on what would have been his 91st birthday with a Doodle animation depicting the clean and jerk, one of the more common weightlifting exercises. Kono was held in an internment camp during World War II at the age of 12, one of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced from their homes and held during the conflict. He was released from the camp and drafted into the United States Army in 1950. Kono, who is considered one the greatest weightlifters of all time, won two Olympic gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and 1956 games in Melbourne and also has three Mr. Universe titles. He added a silver medal during the 1960 Olympics in Rome. NEWSLETTER: Everything you will need to follow Team USA's quest for gold in Tokyo Kono was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Weightlifting Hall of Fame and died at the age of 85 in 2016.  |
| Google adds search warning for queries with fast-changing results - USA TODAY Posted: 28 Jun 2021 07:06 AM PDT   |
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