Google Code is officially dead; here’s how to transfer your projects to GitHub

The day has finally come — Google Code is dead. The service, a code repository for developers to host their open-source projects, simply wasn’t able to adapt to the growing needs of developers like GitHub has been able to. Google apparently wasn’t interested in trying to contend, either (in fact, they admitted they’d already moved a significant amount of their own projects to GitHub as they “wanted to be where the developers are”).

Here’s a quick timeline on what’s going down:

• March 12, 2015 – New project creation disabled.


• August 24, 2015 – The site goes read-only. You can still checkout/view project source, issues, and wikis.


• January 25, 2016 – The project hosting service is closed. You will be able to download a tarball of project source, issues, and wikis. These tarballs will be available throughout the rest of 2016.

We suggest that you don’t wait until the final gong tolls — might as well start moving all your digital goods over to GitHub as soon as possible. Thankfully Google has a handy tool to make that as easy as a few clicks.

[via Google]

Pushbullet devs introduce super simple WiFi file transfer app called Portal [VIDEO]

The developers behind Pushbullet are gearing up to bring a big update to the push notification app soon, but first they dropped a brand new app on us. It’s called Portal, and it enables you to transfer files from your computer to your Android phone.

It’s not super exciting or some new concept, but it is simple, and it is fast. It works by transferring files over your local WiFi network, so you don’t have to deal with shoddy connection and server speeds. Files transferred to your phone are easily accessed either within the app or Android’s standard file browser.

It’s different from Pushbullet’s file transfer feature which can work even if your two devices aren’t on the same network. We’re not sure why it couldn’t simply be brought to Pushbullet as a new feature, but we won’t complain — it’s free and it’s awesome.

The developers have plans for big updates soon, including the ability to transfer files from your phone to PC.

And that’s about it. Like we said: simple, but sweet. Give it a go over at Google Play.

[via Pushbullet]