From the Kindle Fire home screen tap Music. Tap Playlists then Create New Playlist. Type in a name for the playlist you’re creating and tap Save. Now scroll through your music and click the plus icon to add songs to the playlist. A verification message pops up at the bottom of your screen for each song you add. If you have a lot of music, it lets you search through your collection....

Mint.com has put together a nice chart explaining why you should never buy an expensive HDMI cable. As it turns out, there isn’t any difference between a $300 cable and a $3 one. Sure, all that gold plating can make the cable look shiny but, it doesn’t make your HD picture any more HD than it already is. See the chart from MintTrends below. Like the chart says, go for the cheapest cable you can find!...

If you read groovyPost with any degree of regularity, you already know that we’re huge huge fans of Dropbox—we all use it personally and collaboratively and it works like a dream. So you can imagine my excitement this morning MrGroove shot me an email outlining his “discovery” that Dropbox is now offering Dropbox Teams for the business as an early access release. Update: This review is old! We’ve since taken another look at Dropbox for Teams new features, including more storage, Active Directory integration and phone support....

Winners: Facebook – No matter how you spin it, Facebook just raised a ton of cash that it can now use to begin the next phase of its world domination. By this measure, and it’s the only measure likely to matter to Zuckerberg and friends, the IPO was a huge success. Skeptics – Were you one of the people looking at Facebook’s price to earnings ratio and trying to tell everyone willing to listen that $40 per share was an absolutely crazy price?...

Download Prime Videos for Offline Viewing You Can Stop Auto-Play One of the biggest annoyances of any video service is auto-play. When you’re at the end of an episode or movie, you’ll see a “Next Up” window, and it will automatically start playing the next show. Or, in the case of movies, it will start playing something that its algorithm thinks you’ll like. If you’re not a fan of the option, you can turn it off....

Upgrading to Windows 10 Pro On systems that came preinstalled with Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a new mechanism for product activation. Instead of using the old OEM SLP (System Lock Protection) key method, which allowed major brands such as Dell, HP, and Lenovo to install Windows in bulk, a unique product key is embedded in the computer’s firmware. This also removed the need for the Certificate of Authenticity stickers you would see attached to a PC running Windows 7 or earlier versions....

Just came across a free offer from Microsoft Press. It looks like they are trying to get out the word it seems. Today the App-V Team Blog announced Microsoft would be giving away a free copy of the eBook Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions by Mitch Tulloch. Here is the: Download Link Here’s is a summary of the Chapters: It looks like I have some reading for tonight… Comment Name * Email *...

To be clear, not everything is shown. Many old exhibits are too frail to see the light of day, and there may be other reasons that an exhibit cannot be photographed and shown online. But with the advent of highly advanced scanners and 3D printers, digitized collections are becoming easier and more cost-effective to do. 8 Libraries & Museums That Now Have Digitized Collections Online There are countless examples of digitized collections online, but here are eight which I personally love the most....

Reduce Brightness to Improve Battery Life One could argue that I’m mentioning the obvious, but reducing the brightness of your laptop screen actually has a lot of hidden benefits. It’s a good idea to turn down the screen backlight whenever you’re running games and applications that require a lot of system resources. This will reduce the generated heat and improve the lifespan of your display. If you’re a photographer or video editor you’re also probably aware of the fact that using a laptop screens aren’t far form awful in terms of quality....

Step 1 Log in to Google+ and create a new circle called “VIP” or “Favorites.” Step 2 Add people to your Favorites circle. You can also do this in Step 1. For me, my Favorites circle is a combination of the colleagues, friends and family whom I’m most interested in. For this reason, a simple Family, or Friends circle doesn’t really suffice. Step 3 Pull up your Favorites circle in your stream....

With so much already published, you would think there wasn’t much more to review… Well, that all changed earlier this week when Google released a TON of new groovy updates to Google+. The largest of these updates… No more Google Invites needed! Google+ has hit Beta status and is now available to everyone! We’ve not had time to write about all the new groovy feature however, last night we did talk about all the groovy updates to Google+ Hangouts....

Now Google Maps got a feature which is almost like a blatant copy of Bing Maps’ Birds Eye View. I guess I can’t blame them; it was only a matter of time before Google added the technology to their famous Map site. Google decided to get even with Microsoft and this Friday they announced the release of a new Google Maps feature – the overhead 45-degree view. This feature started out as an experimental feature that Google began developing all the way back in December 2009....

Google’s reasoning behind the change refers publicly to security concerns with malicious extensions. In particular, one of the main reasons is that it will block the installation of bundled crapware that comes with installers from places like CNET or Sourceforge. More information on the Chromium Blog. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post.

Google recently released an early access preview to Android Studio, the next iteration of the Android SDK. A lot of changes are still being put in, and while the project is being finished users are encouraged to continue using the current version for the time being, but be prepared to migrate soon. What’s new so far? Good question! The best piece of news is that Eclipse is being left in the dust and the entire development environment is being moved over to IntelliJ....

The new website allows travelers to quickly search for hotels, compare them against others in the area and determine if they are getting a good rate vs. historical prices. The User Interface is VERY simple to use and intuitive. I spent about 3 minutes playing with the different settings. I also really liked the option to highlight popular areas. Once you choose the area, dates and hotel class etc… Google displays the list of hotels that match your search....

Google must have got a lot of sleep over the weekend because since Monday, they have been releasing 1 update after the other across their online service product line. Below are a few which caught my eye as fairly significant. If I missed one, feel free to drop me a note in the comments or shoot me a mail at tips@groovypost.com Google notifies hundreds of thousands of users they might have Malware Google’s Security Blog on Tuesday confirmed a fast spreading virus which is infecting PC’s across the globe....

Q: Hot dog! How much cash do we get? A: None. Not a cent. El zilcho. Wait, do you run an “organization focused on Internet privacy policy or privacy education?” Q: …uhh, nothing? A: Yeah, then you get nothing. Sorry, dude. Q: What?! Then who’s going to pay the attorneys? A: Google’s got that one. They are putting $8.5 million into a Common Fund that will pay for court costs and legal fees....

According to the announcement, Google Chrome, Search and Ads have all been updated to either block or warn users before taking them to a site which Google has flagged for either installing software without the users permission or tricking them into installing malware. As in the past, webmasters who are encouraged to register their sites with Google’s Webmaster tools so Google can notify them when their sites have been flagged under this new update....

If you haven’t yet, go grab the 30-day free trial of Snagit 10 for Windows right now. We guarantee that you’ll love it as much as we do. And while the full license is worth every single penny, we know that you’d love it even more if it were free. That’s why we’re pumped to be able to give away five (5) full Snagit 10 licenses, courtesy of the fine folks at TechSmith....

You’ve probably heard “The more megapixels a camera has, the better the pictures it will capture.” For the most part, this is a myth. Generally speaking, once you hit the 5 MP mark, there are far more important things to consider. For example, you have the lens, the aperture, sensors, zoom, focus, and tons of other things that when combined will determine the quality of a photo. But what about when it comes to Printing said photos?...