Apps, Games & Google Services

If you’re a keen gamer you’ll note that today Rockstar has finally launched their long awaited sequel Red Dead Redemption 2. The game is vast, and carries an intricate story and you’ll be pleased to know there’s a companion app to help you navigate your way through. The app, which …

Following the Made by Google event earlier this month Google started to roll-out Live Albums in Google Photos, a new feature that lets the Assistant automatically create albums of your favourite people and pets. Now that the Google Home Hub has started rolling out and people are using the feature …

Part of the reason I’m still playing Pokémon GO over two years later is that it gives me something to do while walking. Now your Google Fit (and Apple Health) data will soon be able to help you hatch eggs and earn candy even without the app open. The Adventure …

Google has begun leveraging one of their best services, Maps, giving you the option to follow a place in order to receive notifications from a place, as well as keep up to date with new places coming soon near you. The Follow button will appear on the Maps entry for …

After introducing Nearby Notifications to Android over three years ago, Google has today announced they will be stopping the notifications later this year. The decision to end Nearby Notifications is due to an increase in spammy notifications being received by users, which while they can be filtered out, equate to …

Google Lens is becoming more useful with every feature and usability update, now Google is attempting to make it easier to access as well bringing Lens to Google Image Search results. The new feature will apply all the intelligence that Google has gained in Lens over the past year into …

After improving support for parents to control the content their kids see on YouTube Kids last month, Google has started adding in support for YouTube Kids on Smart Displays, Google Home and Cast TVs. The service is the third officially supported service in Australia, joining Netflix and Stan in the …

While Google has a lot of information about our day to day life, they also give you the option to remove it. The controls for removing your data are not always easy to get to though, but Google is fixing that, announcing they’re introducing easier access to remove your data …

Earlier this year, Google announced that Assistant would allow users a choice of lists and notes service providers – a place to store your shopping lists, notes, and other tidbits. It appears that this is starting to roll out in the US, and though we’ve not seen it here in …

Feature creep is a very real problem in todays apps, and to combat this Facebook has decided to get back to basics with the new, simpler Messenger. The new Messenger was teased at their F8 developer conference earlier this year, in response to recent studios which show more than 70% …

Google’s announcement of Night Sight for the Pixel 3 at their Made by Google event earlier this month made claims that it could potentially do away with the flash for low-light photography. While Google hasn’t released the feature officially, an enterprising developer has apparently gotten it working. The Google Camera …

The launch of YouTube Music in Australia has garnered some local content suggestions, with Google today announcing 13 new playlists called Neighbourhood Sounds which have been curated by a local in each area. The songs feature mostly Australian music including Hilltop Hoods, Midnight Oil and loads more across a variety …

Google’s ‘Time well spent’ initiative for Android launched at Google I/O with Android Pie earlier this year is moving to Google Assistant, with the Home app now showing Digital Wellbeing settings. The update to the Home app is quite limited at this stage, with only a few users on reddit …

Australia has a massively diverse range of wildlife, including some amazing bird life. Their population across Australia gives BirdLife Australia, an independent, not-for-profit bird conservation organisation an idea of the state of our environment and every year they ask for help from the public to count the birds in their …