Acer C7 Chromebook pops up on Google Play Store in Canada

Acer C7 Chromebook

Ok, I know this isn't technically "Android" news, but since many of you are Googlephiles, this seemed appropriate.   Back in March, Google announced that us Canadians would also be getting our hands on the Chromebooks, as long as you rushed in to your local Bestbuy or Futureshop (or HP's website). That was all well and good, but nothing popped up in the play store, like with our southern brethren. Fast Forward to today.

Google TV adoption Poll Results

It's no secret that it's hard to be a true Google fan here in Canada.  Many services that others gets, we're left out of:

• Google Music (including All Acess... but we have ways around it)
• Google Voice
• Shopper
• Wallet
• etc...

One item that sits in the 'quasi' category is Google TV.  Sure we can buy the Sony GTV box, and even buy the items outside of Canada and bring them in, but using them is limited.  We're missing some of the best parts, like universal (read cable guide) search, etc...

Despite that neglected experience, some of you had bought in... here's the results of the poll

#AppColiseum Picks from Friday Night Hangout #29

After watching the video, don't forget to throw your support behind the apps you liked from our #AppColiseum

Cass

  My Fitness Pal - #appcoliseum post

Ryan

  Solid Explorer (check his review here) - #appcoliseum post

Mark

  DigiCal+ Pro - #appcoliseum post

Mike

  Dev Drawer - #appcoliseum post

Sivan

  Icomania - #appcoliseum post

Sylvain

  ApkRenamer Pro (check his review here) - #appcoliseum post

Tom

  Google Play Music (check his review here) - #appcoliseum post

Friday Night Hangout #29 Video

Did you get a chance to watch our hangout from last Friday yet?

We had a great time with guest +Mike Wallace giving his take on the Google IO (as he's a developer and all)

Watch the video and follow along!

Don't forget we have offline files for your downloading at the hangout tab above.

How to get the new Google Play Music All Access free trial month in Canada.

When Google announced the new Play Music All Access service at Google I/O last week, I got extremely excited, but this feeling didn't last long.. I suddenly remembered that it is not available yet,

for us Canadians. But getting the free trial month is possible. Here's how.

Google Music Gets the White Carpet Treatment

I did a very quick video review during our Friday Night Hangout yesterday on Google Music's new color and layout, I still haven't decided if it's something I'm welcoming with open arms or not.

Keeping track of your files (local and cloud)

So the other day I posted a review on apps that let you watch your storage space on your device (then I had  to post a second article as that app wasn't in the store anymore).

What I didn't really talk about was how to work with those files (well I did, but briefly).

With that in mind, I want to show off a couple tools to manage the files you have, whether they're in the cloud (you know me, I'm a cloud storage guy) or on the device locally (can we call non-cloud files, ground files?)

I'll take a look at some 'ground file' management, and then launch into some 'cloud file' management.

Field Trip is now available in Canada

So after a day of yesterday of cool things and not a word of "available in Canada" parts of me were thinking that Google hates Canada...

pauvre nous

But, I just got notice today that one app in particular which was geofenced off to us before is now available.

Field Trip

It's not Google Music, or Voice... but it's something, and it's telling us that things ARE moving forward.

Niantic allowing it in is a no-brainer, as we've been using the other Niantic app, Ingress, for some time (and some of us just decided to pull out from the game for a while).

So, no more having to sideload the apk.

They wanted me to mention that they also have a community to join for explorers as well:  https://plus.google.com/communities/117942297771911833999

Google IO 2013 - let's compare notes

I've never claimed to be a great guesser at these things... which is probably why I shy away from all things rumour ...

But let's see how I did.

For a good rundown of the day's activities I recommend reading over at Android Authority.  I'm not about to duplicate what's already been hashed over and over (you have no idea how huge my feedly unread count is right now).

(and I'm just keeping it to the Android realm only)

Friday Night Hangout #29 - event

So yesterday was a hell of a day... lots announced, and in someways not a lot either.

This gives us plenty to talk about during tomorrow night's hangout.

Friday Night Hangout #29

Friday, May 17, 2013

11PM EST

Join the event on Google+ to keep it in your calendar so you can be ready to watch!

Take a look at our agenda so you can know what we'll talk about, and you can even comment on it to have your say (you can see it embedded below).