Tag Archive for music

LG to open cloud service tomorrow: 5GB free, 50GB for 6 months with an LG deviceAndroidGuys

From Android Guys:

LG has announced their plans to release their own cloud-based storage platform. Dubbed “LG Cloud” (Brilliant!), the service streams a plethora of media between your LG Smart TV and your other devices, stores your files in the cloud, and allows for quick, realtime streaming. File types allowed include:

Video : 29 extensions including ASF, AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOV and MKV - Music : 35 extensions including FLAC, MID, MP4, OGG, WMA, RM and WAV
- Photo : 33 extensions including GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PSD
- Document : 60 extensions including DOC, PPT, XLS, TXT, HTML and PSD

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Use Springpad as Your New Personal Assistant: Get Organized, Save Money, and Have Fun Being Productive

From Lifehacker:

Few people actually love organizing their calendars and projects—there’s nothing terribly exciting or sexy about most productivity tools once you actually sit down and start using them. Except for the new Springpad, that is! It’s a fantastic, easy-to-use webapp that helps you organize your life, your ideas, and your projects, and once you get started, it’s also a lot of fun to use. Unlike most tools of its ilk, Springpad thinks for you, working like a personal assistant to cut down on the time you spend on the less enjoyable aspects of organizing information—meaning you’ll spend less time organizing things and more time doing them.

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Live-Stream Old Concerts for Nostalgias Sake

From Gizmodo:

Netflix this week added just under 100 music documentaries and filmed concerts to its streamable content catalog.

The Beatles, Queen, Nirvana, The Sex Pistols, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, the Wu Tang Clan, Marvin Gay and ZZ Top are just some of the artists whose performances and behind the scene footage are available to watch from the comfort of not a sticky concert venue.

It’ll be like live-streaming Coachella, without having to see all your friends’ Facebook photos from actual Coachella popping up to make you jealous. [GigaOm]

Toward a simpler, more beautiful Google | Official Google Blog

From the Google Blog:

More than 170 million people have upgraded to Google+, enjoying new ways to share in Search, Gmail, YouTube and lots of other places. It’s still early days, and there’s plenty left to do, but we’re more excited than ever to build a seamless social experience, all across Google.

A critical piece of this social layer is a design that grows alongside our aspirations. So today we’re introducing a more functional and flexible version of Google+. We think you’ll find it easier to use and nicer to look at, but most importantly, it accelerates our efforts to create a simpler, more beautiful Google.
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Enable Desktop Notifications, HTML5 Audio, and Five Star Rating in Google Music Labs

From Lifehacker:

Google has added a few experimental features to Google Music including the ability to trigger desktop notifications in Chrome, an HTML5 player, and five star rating in place of the thumbs up.

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