EZ Places will allow you to customize the Places in the ‘Open’ and ‘Save As’ dialog boxes across many programs at once including Microsoft Office programs. Places are the shortcut folders that you see in the Placebar (left side) portion of the Open and Save As dialog windows of many of the programs that you use. You can not only customize the Places, but you can group them and change them on the fly.

EZ Places is easy to setup and runs very efficiently in the tray where you can change whole groups of places with a right-click on the thumbtack icon and a click on the group of your choice. You can close the program at any time and you can restore the original Places at any time. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

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Internet users are not at a loss for services that automatically back up photos and provide access to them on any device. There’s Dropbox, OneDrive, Amazon Photos, and iCloud, just to start. But Google Photos has grown fast since its launch in 2015.

The news about Google Photos lately hasn’t been rosy, though. It once offered truly unlimited backup of all the photos (and videos) you take for free, even if it did downgrade any pics over 16 megapixels. Not anymore. Now, every picture you upload, no matter the size, counts against your allotted 15GB of free online storage with Google, which is shared with Gmail, Google Drive, and other Google services.

Google Photos came about by salvaging the best part of the Google+ social network that no one wanted to use—the photo storage and sharing. Google Photos also replaced our former Editors’ Choice pick for photo software, Picasa, the desktop program Google acquired in 2004. You can still use the Picasa desktop software, but it’ll never get an update. It’s time to let it go.

You may be so mad at Google that you want to switch after its bait-and-switch, and we can’t blame you. If so, there are plenty of alternatives. But if you’re with Google for the long haul, maybe even willing to pay that $1.99 a month for 100GB, read on for how to get the most out of it. (Note: The stuff you uploaded before June 1, 2021, doesn’t count against your 15GB.)