Joe Garcia

Google Music Now Lets You Download All Your Saved Music

One of our biggest complaints about Google Music was that you couldn’t re-download any songs you’d added to your online library. Google’s now brought this feature for the web interface and the Music Manager app, so you can download your music—whether it’s your entire library or just a few tracks—with the click of a button.

This works for purchased music and songs you’ve uploaded yourself, though you can only download purchased tracks two times from the web interface. To do it, just click the triangle next to a song or group of songs and choose “Download Selected Songs”. If you want to download your whole library, open up the Music Manager app for Windows, OS X, or Linux, go to the Download tab, and click “Export Your Library”. You can do this as many times as you want, regardless of whether you’ve hit the limit for downloading purchased tracks or not. Hit the link to read more.

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via Lifehacker by Whitson Gordon on 1/26/12

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Google Chrome Speed Tests: Faster Than Lightning (Literally!)

Google Chrome, with a little help from the guys who make Mythbusters happen, made an awesome video testing the speed of the new Google Chrome Beta version of their browser against a potato, sound waves, and lightning. They conducted experiments and used a high-speed camera to slow down the results and clearly show who the winner is.

Want more info on the setup used to attain these “lightning fast” speeds? Click the link to the full article from TechCrunch below.

Chrome Now Faster Than A Speeding Potato. Google’s Rube Goldberg-ian Video Proves It. on TechCrunch

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Google, Arcade Fire deliver amazing, HTML5-powered music video from the future

It takes a lot for a music video to grab my attention anymore. Arcade Fire’s HTML5 collaboration with Google, however, does a pretty damn good job.

Head over to The Wilderness Downtown, punch in the address of the home where you grew up, and watch the magic unfold. The “experience” is definitely one of the most interesting demos to come out of Google’s Chrome Experiments thus far. It’s a fantastic showcase of what HTML5 and modern browsers bring to the table.

As director Chris Milk told Wired, “[HTML5] is in its infancy right now, but I think the browser will be the next widely recognized artistic medium.” He continues by adding “It allows such a larger dialog with the viewer. There’s actual two-way communication going on between the art and the observer.” One parting note: is it just me, or was that HTML5 progress indicator every bit as annoying as the ones we’ve grown accustomed to with Flash preloaders? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

[via Wired]

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Google Maps has added bike paths & trails! Now you can search and discover new bike trails and paths in your area and map your next biking adventure!

In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs.

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—	John Herlihy, European Director of Google’s online sales

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Google Buzz Available on Blackberry with Third Party Browser »

Got a Blackberry, but can’t get your Buzz on? Well there is a work-around. The trick is to not use the native Blackberry browser. Instead, use either Opera Mini (I’m using v5 beta 2) or the latest Bolt release as they both handle the javascript correctly. Previously, when you attempted to open the site from a non-supported platform, Google would simply notify and there was nothing more that could be done. At the bottom of the alert, Google now offers an option to ‘Continue on an unsupported device.’ Try it from the native browser and you won’t see much as it can’t handle the javascript and rendering properly. However, use Opera or Bolt and you’re good to go. Assuming you have either of those (2) browsers installed, here are the steps:

1. Navigate to https://m.google.com/app/buzz
2. Click on ‘Continue on an unsupported device’
3. Click on ‘Menu’ in upper left corner.
4. Login using normal Google credentials
5. Follow me on Buzz to test it out.

True, location features will not be working until we get a native Blackberry app, but I suspect we’ll see one soon enough.