Google Finance – what have you done to your website? RANT!
Google Finance is under renovation. This is the warning message that has been on the finance website for months. Yesterday the Google Finance website was awesome as it has been since 2006. Today Google Finance totally…
Hey Google, play some rock music and set bedroom light to red.
Hey Google, what is in the box? There are a few coloured, square cards that make up the instructions and below them is the Google Home Mini. Once out of the box, it is the…
£2 (Pounds) free Google Play Credit is a good reason to love Google.
£2 in Google Play Credit is one good reason to love Google. That will go nicely towards my next book or application or movie. There are other reasons to love Google and I recommend you…
Alto’s adventure is a great Android game.
I am not a big gamer when it comes to mobile devices, but once in a while a great game comes along that offers plenty of challenges, is easy to play and has great graphics….
CyanogenMod release a CM13 nightly Marshmallow ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2.
The folks at CyanogenMod have released a Marshmallow Android 6.0.1 ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S2. That is pretty damn amazing considering the smartphone was last seen in 2011. I couldn’t resist giving it…
An Awesome ‘Home New Tab Page’ Chrome Extension.
I stumbled upon an incredibly useful and beautiful new home tab page extension for my Chrome browser. It is called Home – New Tab Page. On my 27-inch Dell monitor it looks incredible while on my…
How to see unread email from your favicon or bookmarks bar?
Do you use Google’s Inbox web client on your PC and get a lot of email? I do and I found a very useful Chrome extension today, which allows me to see an email notification…
How to import Spotify playlist into Google Play Music?
I discovered a comment on a website by Scott Walstead (Web Developer), he has developed a Spotify to YouTube playlist called Playlistbuddy.com and this is where my solution to the problem came about. FYI: I used…
All I wanted to do was export my Spotify playlists to Google Music…
God dammit daddy! Why can’t the world be an easy place? All I am trying to do is export my Spotify playlists to Google Music… A few of the solutions require running scripts via terminal, which…
A possible fix for random reboots, keyboard hanging, slow searches on Resurrection Remix Lollipop 5.1.1
I have experienced some annoying phone issues over the past 3 to 4 weeks, which have stumped me somewhat until now. I have a custom ROM installed on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 called Resurrection Remix, which…
DuOS allows Android Lollipop to run seamlessly on my Surface Pro 3.
I just installed Android Lollipop on my Surface Pro 3. I used a program called AmiDuOS by American Megatrends. They claim on their website “AMIDuOS can run nearly all of the Android applications available in…
Mozilla Labs Weave ideal for Netbooks and Mobile devices.
I stumbled upon this incredible Firefox add-on recently after looking for a simple “open tab” bookmark or history tool, as I usually have a lot of tabs open when surfing the Internet, and often want…
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