ESCAPE GOOGLE PHOTOS
Google’s free photo storage is a thing of the past. Jonni Bidwell has some free software to get your albums in order.
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hen invitations to Google’s new mail service found themselves in the hands of the great unwashed the world of free email changed forever.
No longer did users have to make do with a handful of megabytes of storage, obnoxious adverts and the terrible fear that at any point a connectivity failure would dash the missive you were currently working on into oblivion. Now users could enjoy 2GB of storage, and further enjoy watching that quota rise, ever so slowly, in real time. Yes, there were adverts, but they were small and textual. They were also relevant because they were chosen by algorithms that fed off the contents of your email.