Ditch iTunes Once and For All

UPDATE: Use any cloud storage service you wish, including Google Drive.
So, I just achieved Super Dad status with my 9yr old daughter;-)

She has both, an iPod Touch and iPad Mini, and putting music onto them is a complete P.I.T.A. due to the fact you have to use iTunes.  For over a year, it's been hit or miss trying to sync the kid some stinking tunes onto her iPod but I vowed to figure out a solution to this B.S.  I use Google Play Music exclusively on all my stuff (Android user) and everything's so much easier to do on an Android device; why does everything have to be so complicated & require a workaround on iOS??

It came to me recently, while browsing through the Appstore on her iPad that there were generic Google Play Music apps available. So after a bit of dwelling on the issue, I figured out a way to beat the system...

HOW TO SET UP GOOGLE PLAY MUSIC ON iPAD / iPOD / iPHONE

1. Create a google account for my daughter. (which I had done prior...)
2. Open Google Music Manager on my PC, click Advanced, sign out and sign in under her email and password.
3. Move all the tunes/artists she likes into a folder named "Google Play Music-PC-<insert name here>.
4. In Google Music Manager, click Add Folder and select the folder created in Step 3, click Apply then Upload.
5. Go to the Appstore and install gMusic: A Google Music Player ($1.99) and sign in to her Google account.
6. To stream, merely tap Play. To sync (make available offline), choose Offline for each desired Artist/Track.

Hope this helps anyone who has been trying to figure out an easy workaround to this issue. Anybody who already uses Google Play Music is familiar with this process.

Steve Jobs Calls It A Day

Today, news of Steve Jobs' resignation chirped out across PCs & mobile devices seemingly all at once. My Tweetdeck notifications were popping up at such a rapid pace, one could almost mistake it for a small cartoon playing on towards the bottom right-hand part of my laptop's screen.  Would've been easy to mistake for a nest of small birds; chirp...chirp...chirp, chirp, CHIRP.
So, Mr. Apple himself, finally handed the reigns over to someone else after so many years of building not only a brand but a culture at Apple that will be missed by many, I'm sure.  Love Apple or hate'em, the fact that the man who brought that lowly company back (with some monetary help from Microsoft, of course...) can't be denied especially after the recent news of Apple's becoming the wealthiest company in America.
So Cook's gonna take over as the new CEO of the company, having been formerly employed  with Compaq not too long ago.  Does anybody else see the irony in that tidbit of info?  If not, do let me explain: Compaq is owned by HP. HP is selling off crap left & right in hopes of possibly getting out of the computer hardware business altogether after posting some large losses over the last few years.  Ever hear of the Touchpad? Anybody? Anybody....
The timing couldn't come at a better time for Jobs to step down, as the iPhone 5 is merely a blink or two away & Apple's as strong as ever.  I bid him farewell, despite the lawsuits & locked-downedness of their products.  The fact still remains that both Apple (under Jobs) & Microsoft (under Gates) pioneered an era of computing & communications the likes of which, no other generation has ever seen.  I'm proud to have witnessed it: GREATNESS.  At the end of the day he's human.  I think I am, too:)

God bless you Steve.

Why Google Buying RIM (Blackberry) Would Rock!

  Heard any new rumors lately?  If you follow tech news at all, then of course you have.  However, the rumor that has me most excited right now is about the possibility of Google purchasing Research In Motion (RIM).  RIM makes Blackberry devices.  RIM is having an increasingly tough time competing with Google Android & Apple iOS (iPhone).  Lately, the question is being asked more & more:  Should Google Buy RIM?
 I personally would love to see this happen.  Why?  Because unlike Apple, which owns iOS as well as their own hardware for it (the iPhone), Google only has an operating system- Android.  The problem with this scenario is that while Android is an awesome platform, it's used on many different devices, made by many different manufacturers, whom of which seem to love to tweak Android each time they release a new device, which in turn interferes with consistent updates & the overall uniformity of the operating system.  I've thought this over & I can't see any downside to the acquisition.  It would make Google a manufacturer.  Now, they would not only own their operating system (Android) but they would also have way more control of  how Android would be used on their devices.  It would put a stop to the bleeding called "fragmentation", which is what happens when Android is spread out across so many different devices & tainted, changed, & modified to death on each one.  For example: Your Android phone isn't the same as my Android phone.  Yours acts a bit different than mine because, say, yours was built by Samsung & mine was built by Motorola.  Google building their own devices would eliminate this, moving forward.
So what do you think?  Any other ideas why Google should or shouldn't take over RIM?  Share your thoughts.

Will You Switch To Google+ ?

Hey guys, so now Google has (sorta) unveiled Google+, their all new social networking site (beast) that may very well be the most competition Facebook has seen in at least 2 years.  My question is do you plan on making the leap over?

It's something of an understatement to say that Google doesn't have what it takes to (eventually) overtake rival Facebook, being as how they've built up a very healthy & productive portfolio of services over the last 10+ years & now seem poised & determined to pull all of these "weapons" together to concoct a super-social networking site.  Only time will tell.  But, till the site actually opens for business (it's still in invitation-only beta stage) to all potential users, let's take a look at one other shell in the barrel that no serious social networking site considering going head-to-head with the Great Facebook should forget: the mobile app.

Can you guess which mobile platform will receive the app first?? Yup... ANDROID:)

Surely you didn't think the iPhone was gonna win yet another app rolled out for it first, did you?  Yes, Android has this app exclusively but I suspect that Google will eventually roll out more apps for the "other" guys very shortly.  They will if they wanna compete, that is.

Click the link to check out the details thus far about Google+ for Android.