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My First Thoughts on Google Music

Google Music needs a queue feature for playing music. This could be a formal feature, or it could be done informally via a DJ function similar to iTunes DJ (if you set it to auto add only 1 song, it essentially lets you queue songs to play later.

Google music also needs to add right-click functionality. This could be to easily queue a song as requested above as well as to do the things accessible currently from the drop down menu on the bottom right corner of the song.

Playlist folders would also be nice. This will make it easier to organize playlists when one has a bunch off them.

I like the simple “thumb up” vs. “thumb down” rating methodology a lot though.

The Google Music uploader saved all my playlists from iTunes for me. I’m curious to see if it’ll update them when I change them on my computer later on. Will update when I find out.

Apart from the collective complaints that it’s in flash and that the uploader is super slow, this seems similar to a dumbed down version of Lala. If it’ll be able to handle unicode song titles, that’ll be a major plus.

Find out about some cool nifty things in Chrome you may not have known of and hear what other people dislike about it.

Recently I noticed how annoying it is that Google Docs has so much wasted space in the title bar and decided I should remove it. Thanks to Ben Samuels-Kalow I learned how!

Follow the link to see all the extensions I built. There’s one for Google Docs and one for Google Calendar so far!

Update: I have created a css modification for Gmail to clean up the footer and remove the “Invite to Gmail” suggestion. Also, I would greatly appreciate it if you would star or comment on my extensions to show your support.

As of posting this, it had an average rating of 3 stars.

Thank you Google and Twitter.  This is amazing.

Nice.

Some ex-googlers have created a new website to help you build the perfect workout.  It’s in a public Alpha, so not much out there yet.  I can’t wait to see what’ll become of this site.  Thanks Pek for the link.

I think it’s great when companies do what they can to help soldiers who can’t come home for the holidays.  While I disagree with the war, we can’t forget the soldiers are just trying to survive and do their job.

On China’s attack against Google:

A global computer hacking effort: China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January, one cable reported. The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government. They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said.

A great read on the state of iOS verse Android app marketplace and the differences between them.