Tag: Google

Google Music Makes its (Beta) Debut

This might have flown under the radar for a lot of people but Google has released its cloud music service (potentially in response to Amazon which released its fully functioning service recently). As you might know, Amazon caused a bit of an upset upon launching its service and delivering songs bought through its online store …

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The Highlights of the Panasonic 2011 Launch Event

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to read yesterday’s blog on my adventure to the Panasonic 2011 launch event and I covered a bit of what happened during the evening. Today, I’m going to flesh out some of the highlights and what Panasonic will be rolling out to the masses this year. One major initiative from …

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Cloud Music: The Next Big Thing?

The tech heads amongst us would be aware of the rumours of cloud music services from Apple and Google making the rounds at the moment especially after Amazon fired the first shot in the last couple of weeks (and may have upset the record companies in the process over licensing agreements). Apple already has the …

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Live Closer to the Bleeding Edge with Firefox Aurora Builds

There will always be people who want to live right on the bleeding edge when it comes to trying out the latest software and seeing how it performs on their system. Of course, there are people who are not as adventurous as they worry about bugs disrupting their daily routine or breaking some of the …

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Oracle Kills OpenOffice.org – Long Live LibreOffice!

In an announcement today, Oracle announced that it would be discontinuing the well known OpenOffice suite which has been well known for being an open source alternative to Microsoft Office. This comes after a number of the more prominent members of the OpenOffice team forked the project in the form of LibreOffice with some major …

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Huge Security Hole in Skype for Android

A quick heads up for tonight. If you use Skype for Android (like myself) then you should probably be made aware of a major security hole that can reveal a significant amount of personal information from Skype, including: Username, E-mail address, Gender, Contact List and their information. I have included a video sourced from YouTube …

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Push Content to Android Devices with Chrome to Phone

Pushing a Phone Number to Your Phone via Chrome to Phone

Sometimes it can be a pain having to e-mail URLs or finding cross-platform bookmark syncing solutions when you just want to be able to quickly look at a webpage you are currently viewing on a mobile device. Perhaps you want to have the ability to copy and paste text from a webpage in Chrome on …

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Sometimes Other Android Devices Have Better Apps

Google AOSP Alarm Clock App

For a while I’ve been looking for a decent weather app for my Samsung Galaxy S and had last week selected GO Weather which has a pretty good widget and a very attractive app complete with video backgrounds and detailed three day forecast. However, I have had a slight yearning to move toward a pure Google Android experience as you would expect using an untouched Android Open Source Project (AOSP) ROM.

A Faster Way to Install Apps on Your Android Device

Android Market in Google Chrome

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Sometimes, browsing the Android Market from your device can be a pain and, depending on the version of the Android Market you have installed, it can be slow and difficult to find what you want quickly. Luckily, there’s a fast and easy way to rapidly fire a stack of …

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Install Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) on Samsung Galaxy S

There’s been quite a buzz lately about an official release of Gingerbread (Android 2.3) from Samsung and, in true style, there have been many leaked ROMs for the Samsung Galaxy S that have been gracing the web. Over the weekend, I decided to bite the bullet and put Gingerbread on my phone. To be specific, …

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