Apple's Co-Founder, Steve Jobs the Visionary dies at 56 years old

"Probably I will just turn up the volume of it. Because, the last few years have reminded me that life is fragile".

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) Co-Founder of Apple Inc (56 years)

It was in the morning of 6 Oct 11, I received a news notification on my iPhone that "Apple's co-founder, Steve Jobs died. One of the greatest person ever lived in our time has passed away peacefully following a long battle with cancer. He died on Wednesday, 5 Oct 11.

The visionary that changed lives by introducing portability with style. In 1976, he started off with his best buddy, Steve Wozniak in a garage. He has transformed that garage into Apple, the most valuable company next to Exxon Mobil.

He was ousted from the Apple Inc's board in 1985. Apple's business declined tremendously since.

It was only until his return in 1997 as CEO brings Apple to a new height that many would not have imagined to be possible at all.

"Today, Apple is going to reinvent... the phone". The exact words he said during the release of Apple iPhone. A smartphone so powerful that changed the lives of many. Bringing convenience and technological brilliance to a level that no one could even imagined. Since iPhone, it was the iPad. "And we called it, the iPad". A tablet PC no one thought would be so widely used and popular.

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The Much Anticipated iPhone 5 Design

It is slimmer, thinner and more powerful. Apple iPhone 5 will be out soon. The images here are from unconfirmed sources. There has also been a video about this very hot Apple product and demonstrated some of its capabilities.

Apple iPhone 5 (Concept) Video

One very interesting selling point about iPhone 5 is the holographic Qwerty keyboard function. It is absolutely brilliant.

New and Cool Social Networking App to sweet talk with your girlfriend or boyfriend [TalkBox]

Description

WHY TEXT?!
TalkBox is sending messages with your voice. It’s an application dedicated to saving you the trouble of typing and to getting your messages across FAST!

 Try out the app during this time-limited free offer!

#1 SOCIAL NETWORKING in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Macau and Hong Kong.
#1 FREE APP in Malaysia.

This is simply an App that allows you to send and receive audio messages. The function is really similar to Walkie-Talkie. All you need to do is just pushed a button to talk and it will be recorded before sending over to the intended receiver.

My personal opinion of TalkBox is this App is really handy and helpful in my life. This App is especially helpful when communicating with your friends when you are driving. This demands lesser attention as compared to texting and phone calls. It allows you to receive the message, understands it before sending yours over.

The design is cool and really easy to understand. And guess what, like many social networking platform, they are all tagged to Facebook. Log in to your Facebook through this App and all the friends there will appear as your friends in TalkBox.

Based on my understanding of Web 2.0 concept and Internet marketing, my opinion is , at this the rate Facebook is going, it will take less than 5 years before Facebook takes over the whole Internet as a centric reference point for networking. This would means that Facebook will be a form of electronic passport for identity verification in the future.

I also feel that this App is especially helpful in the your relationship with your girlfriends or boyfriends. You are able to expressed your tone and sweet words through TalkBox.

For more technical specification, visit official TalkBox Page.

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[News] Apple Launched iPad 2

Personally, I feel that iPad has already been a hit with the Apple Fans out there. This, is outrageously cool. Just by looking at the design would make me wanting to buy it.

Singapore users, please, US is launching the sales on 11 Mar 11. So it will take awhile for it to reach here in Singapore.

For more specification and details, refer to Official Apple iPad 2 site.

The price? I hear you ask. Well, the price starts from US$499. I would say that it is a quite reasonable and affordable price there.

Introduction by Apple -

Once you pick up iPad 2, it’ll be hard to put down. That’s the idea behind the all-new design. It’s 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter, so it feels even more comfortable in your hands.² And it makes surfing the web, checking email, watching movies, and reading books so natural, you might forget there’s incredible technology under your fingers.

With up to nine times the graphics performance, gameplay on iPad is even smoother and more realistic. And faster graphics help apps perform better — especially those with video. You’ll see it when you’re scrolling through your photo library, editing video with iMovie, and viewing animations in Keynote.

An App That Made My Girlfriend Fallen In Love With Me - Words With Friends

This is a wonderful App that I had never regretted after downloading it to my iPhone. In the beginning, I started off playing with my friends. I kept losing and have very little understanding on what are those DL, TW and DW were. There are actually bonus scrabble blocks with bonus points that would be earned if words are being formed using them.

Well, before I started playing words with friends with my girlfriend, we had very little things in common. We tend to talk about common things such as friends and Movies which always tend to be quite dry.

If I am saying that my relationship are built on Words, it is too exaggerating. What I saying is that it helps during the courtship of my girlfriend to quite a substantial extend. It helps to built a sense of togetherness even we are far apart. We could somehow connect each other with the words being played during our respective turns.

Love aside, for those who loves to interact with people, you can randomly play with anyone around the word. And who knows, the person that the system picked as your opponent could even be somewhere near you.

For kids, this is a fun and enjoyable game. And the best part of all, it is educational. Before playing this game, I don't even know 'Qi' is a word.

When I started playing this iPhone game, there were only a couple friends playing this. But as time goes by, almost everyone is holding on to an iPhone, everyone started playing and asking for a challenge on words.

This game is developed by New Toy Inc.

Try it. Who knows? You may even get a girlfriend with this App.

How to Make Your Own Very Own iPhone Ringtone?

Many iPhone users are merely just using the phone as a calling device and a fashion statement. How many of such so-called users are able to use the smartphone as a 'smartphone'? I still encounter many users using default ringtones. All you need to do is some read-up, replacing your ringtones with music clip is as easy as 123. (How to change your iPhone Ringtones?)

Using of default ringtones only show two things: Either the user is too busy or the user is not Tech-Savvy at all.

In this article, I am sharing how do you actually customize your very own original ringtones with fragments of your favorite music or songs.

Instructions

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  First and foremost, all you need to do is to start with a website that provides you with music clip fragment cutting service. One of such site is Audiko. Access the website and get started.

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  After accessing into the website, you will see in the homepage of this website a button right in the middle of the page - 'Upload Track'. Select upload track to upload your favorite music or song to the system to get started.

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  After your favorite track has been selected, it will take around 3 to 5 minutes for the track to upload depending on the track size and data speed your system is on.

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  Thereafter, the system will automatically play the track that you had uploaded. Once started there will be a blue rectangular frame on the general track depicted on a frequency graph chart. Navigate your blue frame to choose your desire fragment to be used as your ringtone.

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How to change your iPhone Ringtones?

Many people are holding on to the most popular smartphone - Apple iPhones. But not many are changing their default Apple Ringtones. It can be rather complex to the average people if you ask me. So I came up with a step-by-step guide on how to change your iPhone ringtone.

I understand from many of my friends who are the proud owners of iPhone and even the latest iPhone 4 are not aware that they can actually synchronize their phone with a computer system such as laptop, netbook or laptop. All they understand about iPhone is at its very primary level. just a phone.

Apple iPhone is not just a phone, it has became a part of many people's life. It is easy to use and cool to have. Almost where I turned, I sees people holding on or engrossing very much with their iPhones.

But the sad part about Apple iPhone is that changing of ringtone is not just an App away. It requires some technical knowledge on how to do it before you are able to give your favorite iPhone a touch of your musical taste and personality.

Here is a step-by-step guide on how you can actually change your ringtone for your iPhone to the latest hit songs like - Love you see you lie, Like a G6, Eenie Menie and so many more.

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  First, you need a PC or a computer system. Go on the web to look for free iPhone ringtone downloads. Well, free sites providing this may not be easy to find as most would require you to pay or subscribe as member. I have made a search and found one good site that provides free iPhone format (.m4r) ringtones. There are 100 over latest hit songs including Chinese hit songs to choose from. Introducing Audiko, one of my favorite site for free iPhone ringtone downloads.

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  After downloading your desired ringtone clips, you would probably be prompt to open this clip with a program. Choose iTune to open these clip and it will automatically be saved in your iTune library under 'ringtone' section.

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  Plug in the provided USB cable (The one you use for charging your iPhone) into the computer system such as laptop or desktop. It will automatically be detected that an iPhone has been connected. Click on your iPhone section to start synchronization.

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  Unless you want to spend a lot of time for your iPhone to be backed-up and synchronisation, you can just start the synchronisation immediately without doing anything. But you would like to save some time, you can unchecked the sync App, pictures and videos and only check the 'sync ringtone'.

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Shocking! Will FaceBook Shut Down on 15 Mar 11?

I have came across this very well written report. By the time you finished reading this report, you would have almost believe the information on it without questioning the integrity. That is because, it was professionally written with emotional angle tackled and addressed to by drawing instances of people protesting and indicating quotes by Mark Zukerberg.

If you have seen the movie "Social Network", you would believe that it is possible that Mark Zukerberg would made such statement.

However, a simple check on the web, you will soon gathered that FaceBook is NOT going to shut on 15 Mar 2011. Its a hoax. FaceBook is planning to IPO, so this piece of news does not make any sense.

Origin of the news - Weekly World News Articles

The hoax report as follows:

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PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful.

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.

“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.”

Zuckerberg said that the decision to shut down Facebook was difficult, but that he does not think people will be upset.

“I personally don’t think it’s a big deal,” he said in a private phone interview. “And to be honest, I think it’s for the better. Without Facebook, people will have to go outside and make real friends. That’s always a good thing.”

Some Facebook users were furious upon hearing the shocking news.

“What am I going to do without Facebook?” said Denise Bradshaw, a high school student from Indiana. “My life revolves around it. I’m on Facebook at least 10 hours a day. Now what am I going to do with all that free time?”

However, parents across the country have been experiencing a long anticipated sense of relief.

“I’m glad the Facebook nightmare is over,” said Jon Guttari, a single parent from Detroit. “Now my teenager’s face won’t be glued to a computer screen all day. Maybe I can even have a conversation with her.”

Those in the financial circuit are criticizing Zuckerberg for walking away from a multibillion dollar franchise. Facebook is currently ranked as one of the wealthiest businesses in the world, with economists estimating its value at around 7.9 billion.

But Zuckerberg remains unruffled by these accusations. He says he will stand by his decision to give Facebook the axe.

“I don’t care about the money,” said Zuckerberg. “I just want my old life back.”

The Facebook Corporation suggests that users remove all of their personal information from the website before March 15th. After that date, all photos, notes, links, and videos will be permanently erased.

[Extract] Your most dangerous possession? Your smartphone

Well, I personally agree with the author of this article on a few key points - Smartphones are getting cheaper, more widely used, a trend, more application for phone payment being introduced and their vulnerability to frauds.

Examples of smartphone - iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry and Android.
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By Blake Ellis, staff reporter
January 11, 2011: 10:44 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Forget what's in your wallet -- beware your smartphone. It's becoming one of your most dangerous possessions.

If your phone was stolen a few years ago, the thief could make prank calls and read your text messages. Today, that person can destroy your social life -- you said what on Facebook?! -- and wreak havoc on your finances.

Now that smartphones double as wallets and bank accounts -- allowing users to manage their finances, transfer money, make payments, deposit checks and swipe their phones as credit cards -- they are very lucrative scores for thieves. And with 30% of phone subscribers owning iPhones, BlackBerrys and Droids, there are a lot of people at risk.

"It's crazy the amount of information on that phone -- it's like carrying a mini-computer around with you, except that more people know the settings on their computer than they do on their phones at this point," said Nikki Junker, social media coordinator and victim advisor at Identity Theft Resource Center. "People are incredibly at risk as technology improves."

And mobile banking use is expected to soar by nearly 55% next year, according to recent data compiled by TowerGroup, a research firm for the financial services industry.

They found that while 17.8 million consumers used mobile banking last year, 27.4 million are expected to use it this year, and 53.1 million consumers are forecast to adopt it by 2013.

"We're now past the early adopters and starting to hit the early maturity phase," said George Peabody, director of emerging technologies at Mercator Advisory Group. "So much of our screen time is shifting from PCs to smartphones, and the banks want to be there and know they have to be there."
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In addition, the volume of mobile payments -- buying boots via Zappos iPhone app, for example, or paying bills -- is expected to climb to $214 billion by 2015, up from $16 billion in 2010, according to Aite Group, another financial services research firm.

And pay-by-phone is only going to get easier as our devices come embedded with Near Field Communication (NFC) devices that allow you to pay for your morning latte by waving your phone at the cash register.

Companies like Blaze Mobile and Bling Nation already let you pay major retailers by swiping your smartphone thanks to a sticker adhered to the outside of your phone. Meanwhile, an app created by mFoundry brings up an image of your Starbuck prepaid card barcode and lets you scan it in lieu of a credit card.

"A lot of players are now pushing to drive the contactless technology," said Gwenn Bezard, research director at Aite Group specializing in banking and payments. "While you're not going to wake up tomorrow and everyone is going to be using mobile payments, it's going to grow over the next years -- and from a very low base."

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