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This week YouTube Gaming launched, making it easier to find your favorite gaming content and be notified of new live streams (and Hangouts on Air)!  There are also tips for Google+, Google Photos, AdSense and more. Image: my YouTube Gaming channel (with no gaming content). You can find it at gaming.youtube.com/PeggyKTC

Update May 30 2019:   The YouTube Gaming app has been shut down .  It's easy to enable notifications on YouTube itsel f. -- Original Article -- One of the cool features of the  new YouTube Gaming is that it will notify you on your mobile device when a new live stream from one of the channels you follow starts. That means that when your favorite Call of Duty player starts their stream, you can watch - and live chat - from the beginning. And those live streaming notifications work even for non-gaming channels! 1. Find the channel on YouTube Gaming 2. Click the Plus (+) to add the channel to your YouTube Gaming channels 3. In the mobile YouTube Gaming app, enable notifications of new live streams 4. When you see the YouTube Gaming heart notification on your mobile device, watch the live stream! More details below.

This week we have  new Google Photos features, a home page for Hangouts, Google+ Collections search and Google support on Twitter.  We also learned "M" is for Marshmallow, YouTube Audio Library has 1000 new tunes, Maps "Views" was retired, and there are updates and tips for Blogger, Google Photos, Google Docs and Sheets. Image: Elegant Ladies at the Races   by Oscar Blum  (1867-1912). The lady on the right would have loved Google Photos!

Alphabet, Hangouts and more: This week Larry Page announced Alphabet , a new parent company, with Google as a subsidiary headed by new CEO Sundar Pichai. It doesn't appear this will bring any significant changes to the apps and services you know and love, at least for the near future. Also version 4 of the Android Hangouts app was (finally) released, with group MMS updates and Outbound Caller ID. And there are more updates and tips. Read on!

This week YouTube launched their new video player, stopped freezing views at 301+, and stopped displaying comment updates under the Bell icon.  Olivier Jobert shared the unofficial "Plus for Google+" Chrome extension  that brings back a few retired Google+ features.  Google, Samsung, LG and Motorola announced regular security updates for their Android devices (goodbye Stagefright security bug ). There were also big changes in Local search results, AdSense introduces a new richer text ad, and you can now share from the Android Slides app to a Hangouts video call.  There are also tips and tricks for Google+, YouTube, Maps, Blogger and more. Dive in! Image: Clarice Beckett - Beach Scene 1932 (now in the public domain)

March 2019: The Google Help Forums are moving to a new platform integrated with the Google Help Centers. These instructions no longer apply. If you have posted a question in the Google Product Forums and are waiting for an answer, or you've replied to someone's question and want to their response, you can easily find your discussions. If you have email notifications enabled you will get an email message when you get a response. But email isn't necessary - you can find all your discussion topics in the Google Product Forum itself.  You have two options: Select "My Discussions" in the left menu - this will display all your discussions in every Google Product Forum Open a particular Google Product Forum and Filter your discussions   Read on for more details! GPF Basics: getting around the Google Product Forums 1.  Find the right google product help forum! 2.  Join the forum and configure your membership and email settings 3.  Search the foru...

Do you have a problem, question or feedback about a Google product or service such as YouTube, Gmail, Hangouts or AdSense? You have checked the appropriate Help Center and searched the product's help forum , but you still can't find an answer. What can you do next? Post your own new topic in the Google Product Help Forum! This is easy to do: Open the correct help forum Click the red New Topic button on top right Type up your question - including all the necessary details! Select a Category Click POST There are more advanced posting options that can help you better compose a question that will get you the answer you want and need. Read on for all the details. GPF Basics: getting around the Google Product Forums 1.  Find the right google product help forum! 2.  Join the forum and configure your membership and email settings 3.  Search the forum for similar questions 4.  Reply to a topic >> 5.  Post a new topic of you own  Clic...