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Dec 03

GoMusic masters Google Music on the iPhone

Though the app GoMusic is certainly not the first to bring Google Music‘s cloud of tunes to the iOS platform, we’re certain that it’s currently the best solution on the market. This lovely little app takes what you’ve got on Android as well as the mobile web and slaps it on over to iOS where neither Apple nor Google have dared yet to venture. It’s not that they can’t, it’s just that, well, Google Music is made to be an Android music service – but what do you know? It works here on the iPhone as well!

You’ll find that without one of a very few apps currently on the iTunes Appstore, you’ll be relegated to the mobile web if you want to use the Google Play cloud of tunes. If you purchase a song via Google Play, you can easily play that song in the cloud or download it to your device for offline play if you’re working with Android, right? With GoMusic, that’s just as simple here on iOS.

GoMusic offers a simple user interface as well as a single rather snappy-looking search screen that, even if you’ve only got a couple Google Music songs of your own, looks fabulous with its moving map of album covers from all across the beat spectrum. From that start screen you can also search both tunes on your device and tunes in the cloud at will. Then it comes time to explore your library of music with a collection of entrance points.

You can see your artists, albums, a giant list of all songs, playlists made on-the-fly and by you, Last Added music, Thumbs Up favorites, and all of this able to be seen either in Cloud mode or Device mode. This will come in extremely handy when you’re seeking to reserve the amount of data you use on the fly – this along with the ability to keep all of your music on the device for offline listening.

Always up in the right-hand corner is a Play button that leads you back to what’s currently playing, and the app cleverly utilizes the entirety of your iPhone 5 display (this slightly larger-than-iPhone 4S display, that is) with a re-sizing album cover image. Tap once on the cover and you’ve got a full-size (left to right) album cover, tap again and you’ve got the ability to see which number you’re at in the playlist or album, replay, shuffle, and thumbs up and down buttons.

Have a peek at the app on the iTunes Appstore and let us know what you think – and don’t forget to suggest any other Google Music alternatives for iOS as well!

GoMusic masters Google Music on the iPhone is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Dec 03

Watch These Italians Almost Get Killed By a Gigantic Tornado

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Italians. Good at pizza. Not so good at tornadoes. Just watch this video and judge by yourself. More »

Dec 03

Verizon Video service fading to black, final screenings air on December 15th

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After a near seven year run, Verizon will be pulling the plug on its mobile video service on December 15th. The decision to shelve its in-house media platform lines up with the company’s recent decision to deep-six its app store at the beginning of next year — due to the recent influx of modern third-party software solutions. Hoping to fill the void for V Cast Video castaways, Verizon will continue to push its Viewdini platform, which sniffs out content across multiple services, such as Hulu Plus, ABC, Netflix and mSpot. For those of you looking to maintain your mobile football fix, Big Red will provide coverage through its NFL Mobile service at a cost of $5 per month. The soon to be defunct video service is currently a part of the carrier’s paid smartphone App Pack bundle, which will continue operating after the program’s demise. For more information about Verizon’s post-V Cast plans, visit the source link below.

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Dec 03

Air Jordan XX8 First Look: HAHAHA These Are the New Air Jordans, Suckas!

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Here they are, ladies and gentlemen. The Jordan XX8 aka the new freaking Air Jordans that acclaimed movie director Spike Lee and legendary Nike designer Tinker Hatfield just unveiled in New York. Here’s a first look at the kicks sneakerheads worldwide will be dying to get their hands on. More »

Dec 03

Must See HDTV (December 3rd – 9th)

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We’re finally ready to see the latest Batman flick on Blu-ray, and while a lack of pro hockey is leaving a hole in TV schedules, there a few other viewing options. Pixar is also sending out Finding Nemo and Up on Blu-ray 3D, while special events like the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and VGAs fill out the slate. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.

The Dark Knight Rises
The final movie in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy comes home this week. As with every blockbuster flick in 2012, beyond the multiple types of releases there’s also a deep second screen experience available, flashing extra information for fans to see while and after they watch the movie. Will it make Bane easier to understand? We can’t say for sure, but this flick will probably still continue the series’ trend of smashing Blu-ray sales records.
($18.99 on Amazon)

VGA Ten
Somehow, the Video Game awards have made it ten years, and they’re celebrating it later this week on Spike TV. As part of the festivities, previous hosts like Snoop, Neil Patrick Harris and Zachary Levi will be returning to the stage. As always, there will also be promos for several new games aired during the event, check after the break for an early peek at clips for Gears of War: Judgement and The Last of Us.
(December 7th, Spike TV, 9PM)

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Dec 03

9 Insanely Clever Sticky Notes

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When you’re trapped in a boring nine-to-five job you’ll embrace anything that helps make the work week slightly less awful. Colorful staplers, video games on your calculator, and sticky notes shaped like anything and everything but a boring yellow square. Here’s some of the best. More »

Dec 03

PlayStation Vita YouTube app gets major update, still contains cat videos

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PlayStation Vita YouTube app now features closed captions and subscription support, still contains cat videos

Though we’re not sure why anyone would want to watch anything else, we’re told that YouTube features much more than just animals being adorable and this video of DMX singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Perhaps you could use your just updated PlayStation Vita YouTube app to tell us — you can even do so while watching the aforementioned rendition of Rudolph’s Christmas classic, as the new update includes the ability to explore YouTube while watching a video. Other additions include the ability to both use and manage channel subscriptions, control video playback using the Vita’s buttons rather than its 5-inch touchscreen, enable closed captions (when available), and more. Head past the break for the full list of updates.

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Source: US PlayStation Blog

Dec 03

Facebook privacy policy now open to public vote

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Learn how to vote on Facebook’s privacy policies and you can make the social network your own – wouldn’t that be amazing? In reality, Facebook will be opening up a collection of privacy policy changing votes that will be open to the public (so long as you’ve got a Facebook profile) from now until December 10th. This vote is being relegated by an independent auditor and may – or may not – actually have an effect on the way those inside Facebook make their decisions regarding said privacy policies – sound like a square deal to you?

The proposed policy changes work with how Facebook handles your data, Instagram bits and pieces, and the possibility of nixing the ability of users like you to vote in this manner in the first place. Each of the changes up for vote this week were proposed just over a week ago and were quickly the subject of controversy at the hands of privacy groups asking Facebook to halt everything top to bottom. Facebook has instead decided, again, to put it all up to a vote.

The rules being voted on are outlined in a rather simple way by Facebook’s Vice President of Public Policy and Marketing Elliot Schrage. The policy changes proposed are outlined as follows:

Ownership of your content. A number of the comments suggested that we were changing ownership of your content on Facebook. We’re not. This is not true and has never been the case. Anyone who uses Facebook owns and controls the content and information they post, as stated in our SRR. They control how that content and information is shared. That is our policy, and it always has been. We’re not proposing to change this key aspect of how Facebook works.
Privacy controls. In our latest set of updates, we proposed to add language reminding you of the difference between privacy settings (which let you decide who can see what you post anywhere on Facebook) and timeline visibility preferences (which impact how things show up on your timeline but don’t impact other parts of Facebook, like news feed, relationship pages, or search results). Some people asked if this means we’re removing controls you currently have over who can see the things you post. We are not. We simply added this language to further explain how these privacy settings and timeline preferences work. In response to your feedback, however, we’re adding additional language to remind you that you can delete things you post or change the audience at any time.
Advertising policies. We’ve always been clear that we are able to provide free services by showing you ads that are relevant to your interests, and we use your posts – including pages you like – to help show these ads. We proposed new language to make it clearer that those likes and posts include topics like religion or political views. This language does not mean that we are changing our Advertising Guidelines, which prohibit advertisers from running ads that assert or imply sensitive personal characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. We’ve added additional language, including a link to our guidelines, to this proposal to make that clearer.

The proposed change that would get rid of user voting was suggested recently because of the utter massiveness of the social network and the quickness with which it’s grown since the democratic process was put in place back in 2009. Back then Facebook had closer to 200 million users and the first vote like the one going on now was just 665,654 votes strong – just that many people decided to participate, that is.

The second large vote such as this happened in June with 900 million possible voters turning up as 342,632 actual voters in the end. Now with that total number of Facebook users in all ramping up faster than ever – more than a billion exist amongst Facebook’s ranks – a binding vote would have to be beastly. The rule notes that for a vote to become “binding” – that is, considered by the council that makes the rules – a Facebook rules vote would require “more than 30 percent of all active registered users” to participate. Think you can get 300 million voters to turn out inside Facebook?

[via Facebook]

Dec 03

Nebula 12 Indoor Weather Station Makes Clouds: No Need to Look Out the Window

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Here in the Philippines, we have no real need for a weather app. It’s this simple: the weather here is great. If you’re a plant. I’m not a plant, so I just accept that the weather sucks. That in the middle of a sweltering hot day it’s perfectly normal if it suddenly rains for 6 seconds. But I’d totally buy a weather-telling indoor cloud anyhow.

nebula 12 weather station indoor cloud by micasa lab

That’s the Nebula 12, a concept for a lamp that doubles as a weather station. It’s being developed by the Micasa Lab, the same crazy folks who came up with the iRock chair. Like today’s weather apps, the Nebula 12 is designed to provide a visual representation of the forecast, but in a more tangible way.

The device connects to an online source for weather reports. If it’s sunny, the lamp will shine a bright yellow light, but as you can see the fun starts when it’s cloudy. The device will use a controlled combination of liquid nitrogen and hot water to create an indoor cloud. The light can then change the color and brightness of the cloud. Fortunately it won’t create rain or lightning even if that’s the forecast. Below is a short video demonstrating the prototype: