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Google Is Making a Home Entertainment System, Complete with Streaming Music and Smartphone Remote Control

February 10, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Lifehacker:

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google—usually a software creator—is putting together an entertainment system, for which they’ve designed both the hardware and the software. It would stream music from Google’s online store and send it either to wireless speakers or other networked computer, using smartphones or tablets as a remote control. We don’t know much else yet, besides the fact that they’re aiming for a release later this year. It’s a pretty big step for Google, though, who usually only makes the software for such devices—see Android and Google TV, both of which exist on devices manufactured by other companies. This approach is much more Apple-like than we’ve seen from Google, so it will be interesting to see how this works for them going forward—with any luck, it’ll get rid of that horrible fragmentation problem.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203824904577213430617644196.html | Wall Street Journal via Computerworld

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How to Make Google Music Your Secondary Media Player (and Why You Should)

February 7, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Lifehacker:

Even if you don’t want to use Google Music as your full-time music player, it’s become one of the best ways to back up and access your music library from anywhere. It doesn’t need to be your main player; you can still reap the benefits of Google’s free music backup and on-the-go streaming service. Here’s everything you need to know about setting it up as a secondary player and getting around its few quirks.

Google Music started off as a cool service, but it wasn’t without some pretty big annoyances. Since then, Google has slowly improved it to the point where it’s one of the best music webapps out there—not to mention a great way to sync your library to the cloud and get access on your mobile device (for free, no less). While it isn’t as easy as set-and-forget, it doesn’t take a ton of work to set up, as long as you know its limitations and quirks out of the gate. Even if your using Google Music as your go-to music player now, you might still want to peruse this—I can almost guarantee you’ll learn something new.

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Get the Most Out of Your iPhone’s Notification Center, from Beginner to Jailbreaker

February 7, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Lifehacker:

The Notification Center feature on iPhone’s is a powerful tool to keep track of everything happening in your life, but it’s not transparent how to use it to its full extent. We’ll guide you through the basics of getting started with Notification Center and show you how to make it more useful with a few tweaks.

Notification Center is the central hub where your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch keeps you updated on all your app notifications and it’s accessed by sliding down on your screen. The key to getting the most use out of it is limiting which apps have access and what type of notifications you get from them. For instance, if you’re constantly checking Facebook, don’t bother setting a notification for it. Use it for the apps you need to remind you of things, say, Dataman to track your cellular data usage or a to-do list, add them to Notification Center. Don’t waste space on anything you don’t need.

Let’s start by going over the basics of setting up and choosing the right apps before moving on to how you can supercharge the experience on both a jailbroken and non-jailbroken device.

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Site-blocking law dubbed ‘Ireland’s Sopa’ to pass without parliamentary vote (Wired UK)

January 31, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Wired:

Ireland is soon to have a law similar to Sopa passed that would give music and movie companies the power to force Irish ISPs to block access to sites suspected of having copyright infringing material on them.

Irish citizens won’t have a chance to lobby their democratic representatives because there won’t be a vote on the law — snappily named “S.I. No. of 2011 European Communities (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2011″ – in the Irish Parliament. Instead the law is being enacted by ministerial order because it is being prepared in the form of a Statutory Instrument.

The law could mean that judges can order Irish ISPs — such as Eircom and UPC — as well as mobile networks to block access to social networking sites where an individual user has shared infringing material.

The legislation was prepared in response to a court decision that ruled that although the rights of EMI were being breached by internet providers letting its copyrighted works be shared for free, the law didn’t have any way of addressing the situation — something that European law requires. It was hoped that the legislation might appease rights holders, but that hasn’t stopped therecord label from filing a lawsuit against the Irish government for failing to clamp down on music piracy.

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Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship | TorrentFreak

January 30, 2012 / admin / No comments

From TorrentFreak:

At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites.

It’s no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works. Just last month, the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting from piracy, while putting up barriers to make life difficult for rightsholders.

If the copyright industry had their way, Google and other search engines would no longer link to sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt. In a detailed proposal handed out during a meeting with Google, Yahoo and Bing, various copyright holders made their demands clear.

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