Nest Hub Max will soon work with Duo and Meet
The Nest Hub devices (originally Home Hub) were a leap forward for home automation and smart home control. They bring a visual and touch interface to tasks otherwise requiring you to use your phone. So it's interesting...
Swiping on album art to change songs coming to YouTube Music
Google are continuing to improve YouTube Music with what seems like weekly feature releases ahead of the shuttering of Google Play Music by the end of the year. Today a new feature has been spotted by an eagle-eyed...
Fearing bill-shock in the YouTube Music move? Relax, your billing will continue as...
We've seen a lot of coverage over the last few weeks regarding YouTube Music. First, it was about if users would be able to transfer libraries over from GPM, which turned into when? Then we got the...
Skype adds Android Auto functionality to its app — text messages only
Microsoft's approach to the mobile space in recent years has seen it become ever more popular to those users. Having given up on it's own OS on mobile hardware their focus on bringing their software to popular mobile...
Google Play Music transfers to YouTube Music are live and official for Australian users...
It's been a long, slow and shaky road, but Google is finally accelerating the transfer from Google Play Music to YouTube Music, and the library transfer feature is now live and functioning in Australia. You no longer need a...
Chris Lacy sells Action Dash, allowing him to focus on an upcoming app launch
Chris Lacy is a genuinely nice bloke so it's such a treat to see a major announcement about one of his apps in these strange times. In a blog post, he has announced that one of his recent...
Spotify set to follow YouTube Music into tabbed browsing, including video
Spotify is the biggest streaming music provider around and has a very loyal client base. That being said, it's hardly surprising that when one of their competitors has a great feature that Spotify don't - it makes its...
There’s a .new way to start a new video call in Meet
Following the integration with Gmail this week, Google has introduced a new way to start a Meet video call with the meet.new URL - confirmed by Googler Javier Soltero.
https://twitter.com/jsoltero/status/1273686386567045121
The URL is a shortcut to creating a new meeting that...
Plex no longer requires an account to access free streaming media
With perfect timing, Plex dropped the ability to stream free -- ad-supported -- media to their users. The catch was that you had to have an account, but not the paid Plex Pass to access the service.
That requirement has...
Twitter is looking to enable voice clip tweeting… what could go wrong?
Twitter can be an amazing source of information, it can also be a cesspool of vial and abhorrent behaviour. These risks make it important to pick who you follow wisely, and to take what you read with a bit...
G Pay is now fixed on Android 11 Beta for you early adopters
Let's start this out with the usual disclaimer, like any other, Android 11 Beta isn't finished so sometimes features aren't polished, sometimes are unfinished or even broken.
For this, and many other reasons, it is recommended -- even by Google...
Need to Chromecast / Screen Mirror from iOS? Try Replica
Perhaps you live in a mixed household of Android and iOS users, or perhaps you have set yourself up in the Android ecosystem and decided to jump ship. It’s also possible – and very true – that some of...
Google brings Meet to the Gmail mobile platform
The impact of COVID-19 will be seen across the globe for years to come, one of those impacts is the prevalence of video meetings. Headlined in the early stages of the pandemic by Zoom, Google Meet followed shortly...
YouTube Music continues to develop as Google Play Music fades into the sunset
As we march steadily towards YouTube Music becoming Google's one and only music app, the improvements and features continue to get delivered. The most recent changed are bringing playlist collaboration and a related music tab while listening to...
Voice match coming to Google Assistant on Android TV
It seems that this year we will see a new Google Android TV device, codenamed Sabrina, at the Made by Google event -- or somewhere there-abouts (it is 2020 and the entire year has been flipped upside down several...