1. Google Music Finally Opens In Australia
After years of waiting, Google Music has finally landed in Australia.
It comes alongside a major update for the Google Play store that sees new fonts and designs take centre stage.
Music has been a long time coming for Australians, but Google finally announced the product’s availability in a blog post today.
Google has added a few spotlit a few local artists to kick off the service in Australia, including DJ Havana Brown, Delta Goodrem and Lisa Mitchell. Indie artists can get a fair bit out of Google Music now, however, with the search giant opening up Artist Hub to Australian performers.
Artist Hub lets indie singers and bands put their work up on Google Music for a nominated price, even though they may not be signed to a record label.
You can read the full post below:
If you do a lot of scheduling over email, it's now a little bit easier to create events directly from your Gmail. Starting today, dates and times within emails are lightly underlined: click them to schedule that conference call or lunch date without ever leaving Gmail.
When you click on one of these underlined dates, you’ll be able to preview your schedule for the day and change the title, date or time of the event. Clicking “Add to Calendar” will do exactly that -- add the event to your calendar, and for extra convenience, the calendar event will include a link back to the original email.
This new feature is rolling out over the next week to everyone with the English (US) language. We'll be adding other languages soon, so stay tuned.
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After years of waiting, Google Music has finally landed in Australia.
It comes alongside a major update for the Google Play store that sees new fonts and designs take centre stage.
Music has been a long time coming for Australians, but Google finally announced the product’s availability in a blog post today.
Google has added a few spotlit a few local artists to kick off the service in Australia, including DJ Havana Brown, Delta Goodrem and Lisa Mitchell. Indie artists can get a fair bit out of Google Music now, however, with the search giant opening up Artist Hub to Australian performers.
Artist Hub lets indie singers and bands put their work up on Google Music for a nominated price, even though they may not be signed to a record label.
You can read the full post below:
2. Add events to Google Calendar from GmailFirst, there were apps and games. Then books. Followed by movies and magazines. And now… music!
From today, all Australians can now listen to their favourite artists and download the latest music from Google Play — a digital entertainment destination for Android devices and the web.
Google Play makes it easy for you to buy your favourite songs and albums, and instantly add them to your music library. Our free music locker also means that you can add up to 20,000 songs from your existing music collection to Google Play instantly and listen to them from any computer or Android phone or tablet, even when you’re offline.
On Google Play Music, you can find the latest releases from established Australian artists such as Delta Goodrem, Havana Brown and Lisa Mitchell. For those not signed to a record label, we’re also introducing Google Play artist hub for Australia — a platform for independent artists to sell their music directly to fans. In the artist hub, artists can create a profile, upload their music files, suggest a retail price, and sell their music on Google Play.
If you do a lot of scheduling over email, it's now a little bit easier to create events directly from your Gmail. Starting today, dates and times within emails are lightly underlined: click them to schedule that conference call or lunch date without ever leaving Gmail.
When you click on one of these underlined dates, you’ll be able to preview your schedule for the day and change the title, date or time of the event. Clicking “Add to Calendar” will do exactly that -- add the event to your calendar, and for extra convenience, the calendar event will include a link back to the original email.
This new feature is rolling out over the next week to everyone with the English (US) language. We'll be adding other languages soon, so stay tuned.
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Samsung on Monday announced the Galaxy Tab 3 7-inch mini tablet. The device will come with 8 or 16 MB of internal storage and up to 64 MB of expandable memory. A WiFi-only version of the Galaxy Tab 3 will be available worldwide in May, and a 3G version will be launched in June. Product availability will vary by market in a gradual rollout. "This announcement is for the global version of the Galaxy Tab 3," said Samsung representative Makenzie Blythe. "There have been no announcements for U.S. availability."
5. Status Board Gives You a Stylish Dashboard for Your Life
Executive dashboards are now common in business environments -- graphical interfaces that show managers key metrics about their enterprises like sales activity, inventory or financials. They tick and update in real time, and they require hooks into business data to work. Panic, Inc., has created a simple dashboard for real people. Status Board lets you create a snazzy widget-based iPad screen full of elements that matter to individuals. Clearly, I had to give it a spin.
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