If you have already signed up for Google Play Music’s Family Plan, then you might have noticed a new option within the My Account section. This option lets you set a single payment method for everyone in your Family Plan. Users in this family plan can then pay for apps, movies, books and music with this payment method that you designate for the family.
Google has just announced an upcoming update to Google Drive that will be hitting Android, iOS and the web. The bulk of this update will be in the way that you locate your files. You can click in the search field to quickly get to the More Search Tools option, which is an advanced search feature that lets you narrow down your search results.
Frequent readers may be aware that we recently went through a breakup with Dev-Host. To celebrate moving on and new horizons, we have teamed up with Android File Host to give away a dozen one year premium dev accounts and a 2nd gen Chromecast!
Premium Devs accounts come with all these benefits:
These usually cost $39.99 per year but for a lucky 12 of our readers you can have them free! Now the competition is open to anyone, so no matter where you live feel free to enter and we will announce the winners on the 7th of December.
And the winner of the 2nd gen Chromecast is:
Congratulations to everyone who won, we’ll be in touch via Twitter!
As promised, the Pebble team is aiming to release the Timeline interface to older watches, namely the Pebble Classic and Pebble Steel. For this, the team is inviting owners to apply to beta test the new software on their devices, with full public release aimed for in this month. The new software brings the Timeline interface along with removing the eight app restriction on the watches. Read the blog for more info!
The team behind Google’s Pixel C is holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) right now over at Reddit’s AMA subreddit. For a limited time, the team will attempt to answer questions asked by the public. If you have something to ask, head on over quick and drop your question in the reddit thread!
The Google Play Music Family Plan has finally been announced and it includes up to 6 people for only $14.99 per month. So you’ll have unlimited and ad-free access to over 35 million songs, and the whole family can stream simultaneously. This will be launching in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, France and Germany at first, with more countries said to be “coming soon”.
A few folks around the forums have noticed that they are having trouble adding or modifying files within the system partition in Android 6.0/6.0.1 Marshmallow. While Titanium Backup reports that /system has 15.6MB free, Chainfire suspects these few MBs are actually reserved. He continues and says “this issue is a magnet for file corruption and bootloops” and to be careful when modifying anything on /system.
