KENT: My name is Kent, and I'm the creative specialist
on the Google Web Designer Team.
I'd like to demonstrate the dynamic ad
workflow in DoubleClick Studio using Google Web Designer.
You're going to have to have a few things set up first.
And the first thing I have is a product feed.
I've got six products here.
For each item, I have a different name, a price,
and a URL to an image.
Then in Studio, I'm going to have
to have a few things set up--
my account, an advertiser, a profile, which links to that
feed I just showed, and a campaign.
With everything set up, I'm ready to go into Google Web
Designer.
And let's take a look at File, New.
Give it a name, and just make sure
that we are in DoubleClick.
Just to make it easier to see, I'm
going to give the background a light gray color.
And I'm going to choose my Text Tool.
Draw it a box, and type in some sample text.
I want to give this a name I can find later.
I want this to be the name of my product.
So I'm going to call this name-txt.
With it selected, I want to open up my dynamic panel,
Plus icon, then we're going to choose
a schema, which is custom.
Now, I'll have to log into my account.
Once I'm in, I'll have to fill in my credentials
for account, advertiser and profile.
Once I'm logged in, I'm going to see a screen
where I can choose the item I need, in this case my name-txt.
I want to change the text content.
And I'm going to choose the name from my spreadsheet.
So now, each item appears here
everything from my spreadsheet.
I'm going to choose Name and OK.
I can check this works already by Command-Return.
And I'll see this text has been replaced with actual data
from my feed.
So everything's looking good.
Now, I need to set up an event before I
can push this into Studio.
So I'm going to go to the events panel and Plus, page1.
I want a Mouse click, Google Ad, Exit ad, gwd-ad
for Metrics ID, I'm just going to put exit.
And my URL is the full URL to your website.
In this case, I'm going to use Google.com.
Now, I'm ready to publish.
DoubleClick Studio now again, you're
going to have to log in to your preexisting account.
Once you're logged in, you can make a new creative right
in GWD.
Just give it a name and hit Enter.
It's successfully created, and Publish.
When that finishes, I can switch over to Studio, Creatives tab,
and I'm going to search for that new name I just made,
which I see.
It's right here.
One little bit of housekeeping is
I'm going to have to upload a backup image.
Right here.
So that's uploaded.
It's already set as a backup.
That's going to allow me to move on.
Preview and now, I see a preview
of my ad pulling in some dynamic data.
Now, at this point, it's pretty easy
to go back and forth between GWD and Studio,
make changes, and see them here.
So suppose we want to add an image, next.
Here's how we can do that.
I'm going to choose the Tag tool with the image modifier.
Draw a shape.
And in the Properties panel, I want to change this
to Resize instead of Stretch.
The name is OK.
gwd-image-1.
Now, let's make it dynamic.
Dynamic panel, Plus, and let's choose that item.
Now we want to change the source.
And I'm going to look for my image URL.
Let's preview again.
Command-Return.
And I'm seeing we're getting dynamic data
from my name and my image.
And if we want to see this in Studio, now it's already setup.
So this is pre-populated.
This is telling me we've uploaded that backup image
already.
And I'm just going to say Publish.
Now, when that's complete, I go back to Studio and Refresh.
And I'll see that my ad has been updated.
The next thing I might want to do
is send a preview link to a colleague or client.
And I can do that by going to the Dynamic Content tab.
Search for my advertiser.
Now, I'm going to look for my profile in the preview step.
My Creative is already checked.
We're going to launch, update, and I'll
see a preview of my dynamic ad.
I can share this with someone by clicking the Share icon.
We're going to make it public, so anyone with the link
can view.
Update.
Let's copy this URL to my clipboard.
I'm sending this link in an email to my client.
When they click on it, they're going
to see exactly what we just saw.
And this is dynamic.
Every time it loads, it's pulling
in another row from my feed.
That's it.
Thanks a lot for watching.
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Gradient Tool Overview - Google Web Designer - Duration: 4:53.
JEAN-PIERRE: Hi, this is Jean-Pierre.
I work on the Google Web Designer team.
And I'm going to talk to you about gradients in Google Web
Designer.
Two types of gradients are available,
linear gradients and the radial gradients.
They can be applied on both the border and background
of most elements.
This is the color that's available in the Color panel
or anywhere you can pick a color.
I'm going to show you how to work with gradients by creating
a rectangle.
And from there, either in the Color Panel or Property Editor
or any other location you will be
able to modify the colors to add radial or linear gradients.
So once I have selected the rectangle, I'm
going to pick the radial gradient.
I can then modify it by selecting a color stop
and picking a different color.
I can also add color stops.
I need to click on this line that shows me the existing
color stop.
This creates a new one, which I can then modify.
I can add several color stops.
If I don't want a color stop, I just
click on the color stop, drag it.
And when I release, it disappears.
I'll show you again that step, because it was not in view.
I need to click on it, then move the mouse outside.
And when I release, it disappears.
I can apply gradients on the fill color
or on the border color.
Here this is showing you this is a solid color red.
I'm going to choose a linear gradient this time.
And I can then modify it to fit my needs.
I'm going to create another element.
By default, it keeps the gradient
that was used in the previous shape and makes it available.
But when I select a new shape then,
the current gradient is shown.
The icon shows the current linear or radial gradient
to give you an indication of what is the current color
choice.
Once you have the gradient, the Gradient Tool
allows you to modify them for radial gradient allowing
you to pick a different center or by changing its shape.
I can do this here for the fill color.
If I want to do it for the radial gradient, for the stroke
color in the other shape, I need to click on edit stroke.
Then I can select my other shape and change its gradient center
and shape.
When editing and selecting a shape with a linear gradient,
I can modify the position of the end stops
or rotate the linear gradient from the tool.
This concludes our demo on gradients
in Google Web Designer.
Thanks for your time.
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Shapes Overview - Google Web Designer - Duration: 4:05.
JEAN-PIERRE: Hi, this is Jean-Pierre,
an engineer on the Google Web Designer team.
And I'm here to talk to you about shapes in Google Web
Designer.
Here are the different shapes available.
We have rectangles, ovals, lines, and Bezier paths.
I'm going to show you how to create these different shapes,
except for the path that I will show in a different video.
In order to create a rectangle, you
need to press on the Shapes menu to select the Rectangle tool.
And once it's selected, you click on the stage,
drag, and release when you have the rectangle you want.
An option is if I do the same,
but pressing the Shift key, which allows
you to create a square instead.
The Properties panel lets you to modify
all the different variables, such as the width, the height,
add some translation or rotation to the rectangle.
Control feedback on color, the stroke color, the stroke width
styles, and also allowing you to have one corner, either all
of them with the same radius, or changing only one of them.
The next shape we're going to talk about
is the oval, which you can access here from the menu
or by the O shortcut.
Same as rectangle, you drag on the stage and release when you
have the bounding box you want.
You can then change the fill color or the border.
For the PI, change other color, panel, change the stroke
or fill color, change the stroke width.
An additional option that exists is the ability
to have an empty oval in the middle,
and an additional oval drawn in the middle.
The next shape that we're going to look at is the line.
You can apply by pressing the Shift key,
create an horizontal, vertical, of 45-degree line.
Same as with the others, depend on those
to modify the stroke width, change the existing stroke
color.
When you look in code view, you can see a basic line.
Looking at the class associated with this
will allow you to change manually
the different properties if you want.
This concludes our demo on shapes in Google Web Designer.
A different video will explain how to create Bezier paths
in Google Web Designer.
Thank you for your time.
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Spotify Uses Google Optimize 360 to Increase Premium Subscriptions - Duration: 1:59.
Spotify is the world leader of music streaming, but you can also listen to audiobooks or even podcasts on it.
We operate in over sixty markets. We have seventy-one-million subscribers through Spotify Premium.
Our goal is basically to improve conversion rates from free to Premium.
It's very important first to understand what our users are looking for
One of the challenges is localization. At Spotify we have loads of local knowledge, we have great teams, they want to do a lot of localization for their specific markets.
In Germany it's quite surprising that the most streamed content is not music but is an audiobook.
We decided to launch a test with Optimize 360.
We wanted our users searching for audiobooks on Google to see a very dedicated landing page to audiobooks.
So in this case with the direct integration with Adwords and Optimize 360, when people have searched on Adwords for audiobooks only then showed them this page.
We did fifty percent of all traffic, we sent them on to the normal Premium page,
and then the other fifty percent of the traffic, we'd send them to a rebranded Premium page with a lot of audiobooks on there.
Optimize 360 made the process very easy. If we had wanted to run this audiobooks experiment without Optimize 360,
it would've taken a couple of months, but it took a couple of days.
The results were far above our expectations. The audiobook landing page had generated
an increase of twenty-four percent of Premium subscriptions.
Before Optimize 360 we weren't even testing anything. It has changed the way Spotify
is trying to be more and more locally relevant across all of it's markets.
A/B testing is about learning about your customer.
It's still important that we learn our lesson from it and that's why we want to do as much testing as possible.
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Get Paid to Search Google: Flexible, Non-Phone Work at Home - Duration: 7:28.
- Hey, Angie Nelson from theworkathomewife.com.
Today we're going to be talking about
one of the most favorite work at home jobs
among the members of my community,
and that is search engine evaluation.
Now, many of my followers have told me
just how much they love these positions,
and how it meets the requirements
that many of them are looking for.
And that is what we're going to be
talking about in today's video.
Make sure you stay to the end of the video
to find out how you can learn more about
the companies that we're speaking about today,
in addition to some others.
Now, your first question may obviously be
what is a search engine evaluator and what do they do?
Well, if you've done any kind of
extensive research on the internet,
you have probably found out
that Google doesn't always get it right.
Usually, when you do some kind of a search online
the results that you're given are going to be determined
by a computer, by what Google calls an algorithm.
But what's missing there is the human aspect.
Robots aren't always so good at interpreting
or determining what we're actually looking for.
And that's where these
search engine evaluators come into play.
They can actually tell Google, Google will give them a list
of the searches that they want to know about,
and these evaluators can go in
and actually tell them whether
the results that they're being provided are relevant
and whether they're quality results.
Now, there are quite a few things
that the people within my community love about these jobs.
The first one is going to be that it's really flexible.
In most cases, you are going to be able
to do the work whenever and wherever you want.
You don't need to be tied down to any specific schedule.
So this can be a great one for those of you
that need to, kind of, pick up work on the go
or as you can around your kids' schedules
or another work at home opportunity
that you already have in place.
It's also going to be non-phone work.
For most of these positions,
you are simply going to be doing the work online.
You aren't going to need any special equipment,
and you're not going to need to be on the phone
in order to complete your jobs.
So no customer service involved here.
These jobs also don't pay too bad, either.
In most cases, the reported earnings
are around $12 to $15 per hour.
Now, with all these pros,
there're obviously going to be some cons as well.
In most cases, these are going to be project-based jobs,
which means that, sooner or later,
they're going to come to an end.
You may also find, with some projects,
that your hours are limited.
We have heard stories of some projects
only allowing the evaluators to work one hour per day.
And when that contract comes to an end,
you may have a wait time until the next project starts up.
Therefore, this is not going to be one
that you can necessarily depend on for a steady paycheck
or even to pay your bills,
but it is nice side gig to have in place.
Now, another thing you are going to have to be aware of
is that most of these companies
have a non-compete clause in place.
Now, that means that you can't be working for more than
one of these search evaluation companies at one time.
And they are going to know it
because most of them are using the same software,
so they are going to be able to find out
pretty quickly if you're working for more than one of them.
And that's not something that you want to jeopardize
because once you get fired from one,
you're probably not going to be
hired by any of the others, either.
So make sure you're reading your contract
and you're following the rules.
Now, there are a handful of companies
that hire at-home workers to check search engine results.
Now, Appen usually requires a commitment
of four to five days per week,
and usually Monday through Friday.
And there's usually a lot of flexibility
in the times that are available.
Now, Leapforce and Lionbridge
are two others in this industry
that you'll want to check out to see
if any job listings are available for any of these.
As I said before, there may be
a non-compete clause in place,
so you're only going to able
to get hired for one of them at a time,
and most of these are going to pay only once a month.
So that's another thing to keep in mind
if you are someone who needs a regular, steady paycheck.
This one is going to be a little drawn than most,
so you will want to have something in between
to kind of get you through the month
if you can't really go 30 days between paychecks.
Now, iSoftStone is another one that hires
at-home evaluators, though they aren't quite hiring
as frequently as some of the others that we do see.
With this one, they are longer term positions,
and this company usually works
with Bing as opposed to Google.
Now, several of these companies do hire internationally
if you are viewing this video
and you're not based in the US,
this may still be an opportunity that's available to you.
But as for the purposes of my videos,
I'm based in the US, so most of the job positions
that I am talking about in my videos
are going to be available to US residents as well.
Now, while we are talking about
search engine evaluation in this video,
these companies usually hire
for some other positions as well.
You may be finding some positions
for ad evaluation, social media evaluation.
A couple of these may also hire
for things like transcription,
so, even if you aren't finding
the search engine positions available,
you may find some other great positions
that are available to you at the time that you're looking.
And as I said at the beginning of the video,
most of the members of my community
that are offering feedback on these positions
is that they really enjoy them.
A lot of my readers have said
that they are been with these companies
for several years now,
and they've never had any problems with pay
or with any of their work.
It's really a good gig to have in place,
even if it's not steady and available year round.
But that brings us back to one of
the most important roles in working from home,
and that's never put all of your eggs in one basket.
It is always a good idea to have
a lot of little flexible gigs in place
that can fill in the blanks when
one of your bigger gigs does go offline
or maybe work isn't available.
That is something that we run into
a lot in the work at home world.
You may run into a lot of feast
and famine cycles in your workload,
so it is good to always have
a couple of these little flexible gigs in place.
Now, I'm going to leave you a link
in the description below to a blog post
that's going to talk more about these positions,
and also some links to the gigs
that we talked about today.
And while you're over there,
feel free to sign up for my weekly newsletter
which always includes new work at home job leads
in addition to some great opportunities
that you won't find over here on our videos.
Now, if you liked today's video,
please give it a like and a share,
and make sure you're subscribed
so you'll get notification of my next video.
Until then, I wish you best of luck
in your work at home job search.
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Using Material Design with Flutter - Duration: 13:01.
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Google Pixel 3 XL Will Have A NOTCH - Duration: 2:34.
So a leaked photo of the screen protector shows that the Pixel 3 XL will feature a notch,
while the smaller model will have proper top and bottom bezels, albeit slimmer ones than
last year.
Google adopting a notch like every other Android manufacturer is very disappointing considering
that they're the 2nd most valued brand in the world.
So it was expected that Google would opt for a more original design instead of this one
that every other Adroid manufacturer is doing.
Pixel phones are typically purchased by the most hardcore Android fans out there.
They want a pure Android experience, and they also want to get big software updates the
moment they're released, not six months later.
Google's own Pixel phones are the only way to make either of those things happen.
Of course, as I understand it correctly hardcore Android fans also have something else in common:
they hate anything that Apple does.
So notch could become a problem for Google.
Thankfully the smaller version doesn't have a notch and hopefully, there won't be any
hardware differences between the two.
So people who don't want the notch can opt for the smaller version.
That being said, we can see that there's an additional hole at the top of the screen protectors
possibly hinting at dual front cameras, but If I were to guess it could be for some kind
of fancy, AI-powered, face-unlock feature, because Google has shown it doesn't need them
for portrait mode effects.
Both phones would also have two speakers on the front, just like their predecessors.
And both of them will have what appear to be pretty significant bottom bezels.
The Pixel 3 XL's notch also seems to be pretty significant, possibly even thicker than the
iPhone X's notch at first glance.
Anyway, Google will likely introduce the Pixel 3 phones
during an event this October, so there's plenty of time to see more Pixel 3 leaks before the
official announcement.
So make sure to subscribe and do let me know your thoughts on the design of the new Pixel
phones and I'll see you'll tomorrow...Peace out!
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Google Cloud at KubeCon 2018: Interview with Matt Rickard - Duration: 5:26.
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BridgingApps Facebook Live Shares How to Use Maps, Waze and Google Maps Apps - Duration: 28:48.
Good afternoon. It's a stormy day here in the Houston area. I'm Jana Rodriguez
and I'm broadcasting live at the Easter Seals of Greater Houston Technology Lab
with BridgingApps. Today I'm going to speak a little bit about our favorite
maps apps. I'm gonna speak about three of them today. Give me a moment while I switch
screens here - show my device. There we go. Today I'm using an iPhone, an iOS device.
Two of the three apps I will be speaking about today can be downloaded on really
any type of phone. I'll be speaking about Google Maps, Waze and Apple Maps. Apple
maps will be the local map app that comes with iPhones. So if you're not on
an iPhone that one will not be available for you to download on an Android phone,
for example. But the other two will.I'm going to start off with Google Maps. Give
this a tap. Great. So it's showing if anyone was curious where we are. If
you're interested in joining us next time in person. We are located right over
here inside the loop near 59/69 so showing right here by West Park. I've got
it marked as my work location. So this makes it a little bit faster if I'm
traveling around and aiming to get to work. On the very top it says, "Where are
you going in a white bar?" If I give that a tap I can search for something that
I'm looking for. It can be something specific like an exact address. I can
type in something general such as breakfast or lunch. I could type in a
name if my contacts have been added here. And, I can type in another general type
of things such as coffee, a name of a place, Apple Store, maybe supermarket, a
specific store H-E-B. By typing any of that in here. Let's try
H-E-B. Going to tap search at the bottom right. It's corrected my spelling of
H-E-B. The correct title and it's giving me some suggestions of H-E-B
grocery stores nearby. I can zoom in and out a little bit here to see which one
looks like it's in the direction I'd like to go. Or at the bottom, the white
bar that says show list, I can give that a tap to take a look at my options here.
Here it specifies some great information. This is one of my really - one of my
favorite things about using Google Maps is that it gives some information such
as the phone number of this location, the hours usually and that can be really
helpful. I love using Google Maps when I'm going to a place for the first time,
especially if it has to do with food, because there are reviews on there that
are pretty much built by Yelp. And there are photos. And I think it's a great way
to find out if what they have on the menu - might be something I'm interested
in. So, for example, I'm gonna switch my screen again here. I will type in
something like, you know what since we're in Texas, I'm going to look for barbecue.
And, actually instead of typing out barbecue or BBQ I'm going to use the
microphone at the very right side just under my battery there. I give that a tap.
Barbecue. Its abbreviated it for me. Now I've got several options on here. You can
see that there's ratings. For example, the top one here has a 4.1 star
rating. It's been rated by 884 people. It's got two dollar signs to let you
know that that's the price range that it's in. It's a little pricier than the
one below it which has 1 dollar sign and it's 2.3 miles away from
me. I'll give that a tap. So as I mentioned earlier one of my favorite
features about using Google Maps to search restaurants is here's so much
information. It's more than just knowing where it is located on the map. I have an
option to call should I need to make a reservation. For example, I can save this.
I can share it to send to someone else who I might be making plans with. I can
even connect to their website. There's a description, the physical address, they
have an option on here to see their menu. There's an option to place an order. And,
this lets me see how busy they are at different times during the day. One of
the nice things about Google is its tracking options will allow people to
say that they're there. How long they've spent there, which lets say collect this
data to tell us when are the peak times. When is it so busy that it may not be a
good option. Or, just to expect that you'll be there for a while. I'm going to
scroll a little bit lower. Now this is my absolute favorite part about using
Google Maps for searching restaurants. There are photos on here that
regular people have posted. So, if they have something great they might post a
picture and it might become something I feel is interesting or appetizing. It
might bring me to choose that restaurant. Or, maybe something wasn't so great. Might
help me with my decision. So switching back here. There are 201 photos of
this restaurant. Gives me a good idea of what the restaurant looks like. Some of
their food. Sold. How can I resist this place when there's a beautiful piece of -
now please forgive me if you're from Texas and I am pronouncing this
differently. I am originally from Florida so I'm gonna say that's a beautiful
slice of pecan pie. My husband says that I'm pronouncing that wrong, but that's
how I say it and I am a big fan of pecan pie so this seems like the place for me.
Switching back over here. Another reason that I find this useful is photos like
this can help you decide how accessible this may be for you. Is this located in a
place that's easy to get to? Is there enough parking? If you're going at peak
time is it going to be hard to find parking? Let me scroll back here a
little bit. Go back. And, another important feature I like to use with Google Maps
is the Google Street View. If you've ever seen some weird-looking car that's got a
contraption on top. It's their camera. It's a Google car that has driven all
over the world up and down every street and it's captured a Street View. I love
this option for many reasons. One being is I can get an idea of where I'm going
before I get there. I'll know if there's any important landmarks that might help
me get there to help me pay attention to the road instead of looking at my phone
so much. And, get an idea of what I'll be working with when I get there.
Oftentimes I do take out my elderly grandfather. He's 88 years old and stairs
are not very compatible with him. So, if we're going somewhere for the first time
I do like to go to Google Maps do a Google Street View to see how accessible
the entrance is. Or, how far the parking is going to be. Is it enough room for him
to get around? Is it too far of a distance for him to walk from the
parking lot to the entrance? It really helps us plan what it's going to be like.
So switching back over here to my device screen. You'll see there that delicious
meal. There's 201 photos. To the left of that
is another icon here and we can see the restaurant. There's a little loopy arrow
at the bottom left. I'll give that a tap. I might have tapped the wrong one.
Here we go. This here is the Google Street View. This gives me a good look at
the location. You can see it looks like there's plenty of parking here. There's
something I can't miss it's next to a giant armadillo looking bull statue
thing. So I'll keep an eye out for this statue if I head over to this place. That
really helps me locate the area. So very briefly that was the Google Maps app.
This is available on iPhones, most tablets and Google Play devices as well.
So pretty much any device that is a smartphone or has internet capabilities
and that option of downloading apps can use the Google Maps app. Secondly. I'm
going to speak about the Waze maps app. Waze is spelled W-A-Z-E. This is also available
to download on most platforms. It's not specific to any one. And, I'll switch my
screen here. It looks like a little happy ghost on wheels. As you can see right
there it's the second map app. I have it's blue or turquoise. Might be
debatable what color that is. I'll give that a tap to launch it. Great. So, here
again, I have it locating my current area and it shows me marked by work. As you
can see that little blue suitcase icon. Zoom out a little bit. Here you can see
right there right above us is a dog park. It's my favorite part about this office.
You can't have a bad day when playing puppies are in your view. So that's
pretty great about this location. Many great things about this location, but
that's one my favorites. Now with this app it is I'd
say I'd word it as it's almost crowd-sourced. If you're familiar with
that term where users of this app can input information. Where this becomes
very useful and very helpful is if someone a couple miles ahead of you
realizes that an exit is closed, for example. Or, perhaps there's debris in the
road. Maybe there's an accident that's now going to cause a road closure. That
can be updated into the app, which will give you an alert. Waze is my preference
when I'm looking to get from point A to point B in the fastest manner. So Google
Maps is much better at finding you a good route that's maybe shorter. Waze
might take you out of the way, but it is aiming to get you there faster. It's
hoping to avoid traffic. So be prepared if you're using Waze to go some odd
routes. It's great about getting you somewhere quickly. It's very often
updated. When other users are in the app it will track things such as speed to
let people know well you know what it looks like there's a slowdown if you
take this route. So I'm going to have you exit and take this odd route instead,
which may be longer if you're looking at miles, but it should cost you less time.
So, this is one of the benefits of Waze just be aware it is constantly updating.
So, if you're driving you will become friends with your your navigator there
who every so often will tell you in 400 feet make the left or pothole reported
ahead. Maybe a road closure reported ahead. So this is also - I am NOT one who
speeds, but I will say that it's there is some peace of mind knowing
to remember to look at my speed and make sure I'm going properly with the traffic
when it will remind you that a police is reported ahead. Or, that the speed limit
has changed. There are alerts in there. And, as I switch back to my screen here.
I'm going to exit the app for a moment you can see the little icon there has a
red 22 on my driving today - on my route I had 22 alerts. Now if you're in Texas
this shouldn't be any surprise, especially if here in Houston. If you're
not from here I will mention that our traffic is unlike anything I've ever
seen before. So 22 alerts in one drive not too alarming. Now at the bottom the
left here and for the purposes of this video I have changed to my home address.
I'm going to give that a tap. If I needed to get to that address. I've actually
changed it to Chick-fil-a which is a place that pretty much feels like home
to me sometimes. Now you can see on here that at the bottom are the options of
route, send ETA, and well l I took too long. So, it's disappeared. There we go. And,
overview. I'm going to start with overview. Give that a tap. Here's a big
picture idea of the route it wants me to take. Give overview another tap. There we
go. At the bottom here it says 2:08. It predicts that being the time I arrive
there, which would be 9 minutes from now. When I record from this connection
here it changes the time on my phone. 9:41 is not the correct time. Now one of my
other favorite options about this is the Routes option. There we go. I have an
option of list view which gives me an overview of my different route
options. Or, if I tap Map view I can take a look and see what my options are on
the map to see what streets is recommending that I
take. Now as I mentioned earlier this may change once you get on the road as it's
constantly looking to give you the faster route. So you may get alerts of
faster route. We found a faster route. Would you like to take it? And it will
give you that option to stick with the original plan or go with the new route.
Again this is constantly updated by other users so it may seem like getting
from point A to point B the fastest route is taking Main Street, but once you
get on the road there's been a change - an unexpected change such as an accident
maybe. That's where this comes in really handy. It will give you that information
and suggest an alternate route. So very briefly that is the Waze app. Again Waze
is spelled WAZE. It looks like a little blue driving ghost as you can see down
there. And, now we'll be moving over to the last app of today which is the Apple
Maps app. Here we go. Now with this one it will only be available on Apple devices.
As you can see most of them work in a very similar way. At the bottom there's a
white bar where I can tap for a search. Here again I can type in general items
where it's suggesting. For example food, drinks, shopping. I'll go ahead and tap
shopping. Or, just for the sake of reference, if I had a specific address,
maybe 123 Main Street. I could type that where it's blinking and says
search for a place or address. And I can use the keyboard at the bottom to type
in a specific address. For my example though I'm going to use a suggestion of
shopping. Here we go. Here's some areas nearby. It's also giving me an option of
specifying a little further what I'm shopping for. It could be popular
shopping areas, apparel, groceries, Sporting Goods. And here's some popular
nearby. I'm going to tap on the Galleria. We can
see on there it has three - oof losing my words here. We have three dollar signs.
There we go. We've got three dollar signs on the Galleria. This place might be a
bit pricey. So I brought the map up here and we can see that there are - this is a
shopping mall. It's a shopping center there. It's 1.3 miles away from us. The
other nice thing about this is at the bottom right corner, right below where it
has the parking garage showing there on the map, it tells me what the weather is
looking like. I do like that part about the Apple maps. I'll zoom out a little
bit. Great. And, if I give a tap on the upper right there's a little circle with
a lowercase i. This gives me more information and more
options to choose from. So I can choose from looking at the map, checking out
what the traffic looks like with transit or choosing the satellite view. I'm gonna
keep it on the map view for now. Great. Now I'll give this another tap. This also
gives a lot of options that we saw in the Google Maps app. For example, there is
also here an option to call, locate the website, save it as a favorite, or share
it with someone else. I can also see the hours - the physical address. If I give
find out more on Yelp a tap. It will open the Yelp app to give me some more
information such as those photos that I love so much in the Google Maps app. It
is nice to have several map options. As you can see personally I do have all
three downloaded on my phone. When I leave in the morning or in the afternoon,
closer to traffic time, I will make my decision on what map app to use based on
my travel goal.
So if I'm going somewhere I've been before I might use Apple maps for the sake of using Siri.
My favorite feature with Apple maps
is that it is integrated with Siri, the assistant on this phone. So just for
example, give me... I spoke - I let go too soon. So I'll give this a try. Give me
directions to the nearest Walgreens. Getting directions to Walgreens.
So what Siri has done for me is search the map for the nearest Walgreens and
she's now giving me directions. In this she's going to guide me. For example tell
me in 400 feet make a left. I'm going to end this example here. An important note
with using Siri is there is a difference between asking give me directions to the
nearest Walgreens versus asking, "Where is the nearest Walgreens?"
Searching Bing for where is the nearest Walgreens. So when you ask
Siri to locate the nearest Walgreens, it'll show you your options. When you ask
give me directions to the nearest Walgreens it will jump into navigation
mode where she does start to direct you towards that location. Now when I am -when
I know I'm traveling somewhere and I need to get there by a certain time or I
am concerned about taking the faster route, that's when I will use Waze. Or, if
I'm taking a normal route, one I'm familiar with, and realize something has
changed, which again in Houston, this is something that I feel happens daily.
There's so much construction. Sometimes an entrance to a highway is there in the
morning and by the afternoon it's gone. I'm going to zoom out a little bit here.
You can see there are several different bubbles popping up here to
show everything that ranges from a little icon of a construction worker, a
hazard sign. I'll give this a tap to see what's going on over here. Someone has
reported 22 minutes ago that there's a car stopped on that road. You zoom out a
little bit here. Knowing Houston there we go we're gonna see some red spots. Here's
some road closures near Post Oak. And, this is actually on the 610 Highway. I
believe the speed limit there is actually 60 miles per hour, but as you
can see here, it's reporting that people currently on this route are averaging
about nine miles per hour on the feeder road. And, it looks like 18
miles per hour on the actual highway. So, Waze is definitely my go-to when I want
to when I'm concerned about time. I want the fastest route there or if I feel
that there might be some changes. Maybe I found some traffic. I'd like to know, oh
my goodness, what's going on up ahead. The other day on my route into work my usual
route was so backed up. So, I opened up Waze to see what was going on and I
found out that the light the traffic light up ahead was not working. So it
least gave me that alert to let me know what was going on. And it advised me to
go around the traffic and take a faster route into work, which was very helpful
to me. Now Google Maps briefly one more time. I'll switch over here to my iOS
screen. Google Maps again is my favorite when I am looking up a place, especially
a restaurant, because it is integrated with Yelp. And, users can add in here
their photos and their experiences their ratings. From my previous example I
searched barbecue or bbq as you can see up top. If I go to the second option here.
Give this a tap. I've got - I can scroll down a little
bit here. I've got the typical information, the option to call and share,
view the website and the menu. Google Maps shows me the times that they're
most busy. If I scroll just a little bit further, I've got the Street View option.
It looks like this restaurant has actually added a sort of a street view
of inside the restaurant as well. I can tell because that first long
rectangular image shows a little white circular arrow at the bottom right
corner. That's letting me know there's a 360 image there. So if I give that a tap,
I can take a look inside this restaurant. Really get a feel before I get there.
Again as I mentioned, I travel around and I might take my grandfather out with me
so we are concerned about what's accessible to him. This is a great option
if you're going out with someone who may have some special needs or special
desires or requirements for going places. And in this case I can see exactly what
we're working with. The style of chair might be important for us for example.
And, what the style of ordering is here. In this case, with my grandfather, I would
have to help him take the tray. You can see here that this restaurant is one
where you grab a tray with your food. So it's great to know that before I get
there. It helps me plan that I'm gonna help my grandfather get to the table
first and I'll get the food. You can scroll down a little bit more. Again this
is my favorite part. I can see the photos that other people have
uploaded on here. And, honestly, this is one of my life hacks when I'm at a
restaurant for the first time and I'm trying to decide what to get. If my menu
doesn't have photos I know Google does. This might help me decide what I'm going
to order because finding those user photos helps me see what I'm in the mood
for. So it's one of my favorite features
about using Google Maps is searching restaurants and seeing when the busy
times are, getting an idea of what the restaurant looks like, using the Google
Street View and seeing the the uploads of photos from other users. Helps me and
get through the menu, so I do love that option. There are so many features of
Google Maps. That just happens to be my favorite.
Now, this today was a very brief introduction of our favorite Maps apps.
In review we went over Google Maps. We went over Waze which is W-A-Z-E.
And, we went over the Apple Maps. All three of them serve great purposes. They
have very similar services as well. Again I make my decision on which map app I'm
going to use based on the type of drive I plan to make. So if I want to get from
point A to point B in the fastest route, I'm going to use Waze. If there's traffic
ahead of me, I'm going to look into Waze to see what another driver has reported.
If I'm looking to find out more information about a place I'm going to, I
do prefer using Google Maps because it has so much information in there and so
much to see. And if I need my assistant, Siri, if you're on an iPhone or some
Apple device - this is on the tablets as well, I will use Apple maps because I can
bring up Siri. Where is the nearest Starbucks? Okay Johnna, here's what I
found. My beloved assistant Siri has looked up the nearest Starbucks for me.
And she's given me the information I need such as the directions, the hours,
and the phone number should I need to call ahead. Again with Siri there is a
difference between saying where is the nearest Starbucks versus give me
directions to the nearest Starbucks where she would jump into navigation
mode. I'd like to thank you very much for joining us today. Please comment below.
Send us messages. Let us know if there's future apps that you'd like us to speak
about. If you have a different app that you're using for your maps to get around
please let us know we'd love to know about it. And if you have any other
favorite features, comment. Let us know. We'd love to hear it. When you have some
time, check out the BridgingApps.org website to find out more about other
apps that we know and love. If you have suggestions reach out, we'd love to hear
them. Stay safe. Drive safe. Be careful when you're using
your maps. If you have a passenger to help you out, that's always preferred. If
not, my best recommendation is have a holder for your device to help you keep
your eyes on the road and staying focused. Have a great day everyone.
Thank you. See you next time.
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