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Google Music review: good, but still nothing life-changing

My Google Music invite came through a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure what took so long, since they surely would want an internet superstar like me who has ALMOST A DOZEN RSS SUBSCRIBERS to give it a whirl, but whatever. Google, ammiright? The short story of the pros: it's pretty slick for something that's playing from the cloud. The short story of the cons: it still falls well short of what I'm looking for in a cloud music player, which I could also say about Lala's old player, Amazon's and even what little I've seen of Apple's offering. I'm picky. Interface: The player itself is actually pretty nice. Songs play quickly and the view switches quickly. Usability is good and intuitive. I'm not sure how I feel about the orange overkill, but overall, the player is probably the smoothest that I've seen of any of the cloud music offerings. It's light years better than Lala's now-defunct player, but Amazon's player is pretty quick a...

Tech boiled down: more time on YouTube, Facebook complete kill, and more

The week in a surface review: Facebook looks like it's testing a way to completely delete your account . Finally. Google Music might be having a fire lit under it to get it out by year's end. My prediction is that it'll be nothing to get too excited about. Safari got an update and now has extensions. Welcome to the party, Apple. Lifehacker gives a guide to a few of the extensions. YouTube ups their maximum upload time to 15 minutes. Not that anyone watches anything longer than two minutes anyway. Google adds real-time snow and rain to Google Earth. It's just a start, but just imagine what this has the potential to be like. What did I miss?