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Apple's Safari for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac and PC!
What is Safari?
"It renders web pages at lightning speed. It shows you your favorite sites at a glance and it's so smart, it even checks you grammar and spelling. Safari is a browser unlike any you have ever seen!"I downloaded Safari on my PC and I love it!! It's almost like a control panel that displays 12 of your favorite web sites. With just a click or tap on the screen, the web site pops up instantly.
My favorite highlight is:
Your personal Reading List.
When you come across an article, a website, or something else you find interesting, save the link to your Reading List. It’s a handy place to keep everything you want to read, watch, or browse whenever you have the time. Reading List shows you the name of the web page, the website it appeared on, and a preview of the first few lines. And it’s easy to add web pages as you browse.
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Holiday Gift Guide
Holiday Gift Guide #1
Sony NWZ-W260 Walkman in-earsPMP? Who needs one? Not anyone rocking this set of in-ears from Sony. These Walkman-branded 'buds come with a choice of two or four gigs of storage for your tunes, leaving behind any worries about pocket space. Better yet, the water-resistant design should hold up to a fair amount of sweat, appeasing fitness buffs and marathon runners alike -- you'll have eight hours between charges to put that durability to the test.
Key specs: 2 or 4GB of built-in storage, water-resistant, eight-hour battery.
Price: $60 - $80
Contributing author Joe Pollicino
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Motorola Corvair 6-inch Android 2.3 tablet outed, destined for the home automation set?
There are plenty of WiFi-connected remote control apps for tablets, dongles for IR control and even an IR blaster built into Vizio's tablet, but here's a Motorola slab purpose-built for the
coffee table. The Verge has received several pics of the Motorola Corvair (and its packaging), a "dedicated controller for the connected" ...something, which is apparently in testing with unnamed
cable companies right now. It's a 6-inch tablet running Android 2.3, that the box shows working as a remote control and apparently mirroring its display on the TV screen. Other notes indicate it's
optimized for low cost, packs a healthy 4,000mAh battery, and can communicate with other devices via IR or Zigbee's RF4CE spec (where's Android@Home?). That would line it up perfectly to tie in with
home automation systems like the one Motorola and Verizon just launched, as well as potentially provide a sweet platform for content discovery. The only downside? Unless Moto goes against type, this
will probably never see retail and we'll have to wait on our cable company to figure out a way to charge extra for one and slap their own ugly software on it -- here's hoping that's not the
case.
Source: The Verge
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Digital Strategies
Western North Carolina IT Support - Digital Strategies
In the fields of strategic management...
marketing strategy and operational strategy, a digital strategy is the process of specifying your vision, goals, opportunities and initiatives in order to maximize the benefits of digital
investments.
Your digital investments in a marketing and customer-focused strategy include such items as web sites, mobile sites, eCommerce, social sites, search engine optimization, and integrated off line
advertising.
Digital Strategy vs. Being OnLine
This is not to be confused with ‘being online”. Simply having a website or blog is not adequate. A digital strategy encompasses all the online assets to be sure, but it includes off line
processes as well – local computer resources, data storage, image libraries, marketing databases, etc.
The digital strategy must also include your print efforts too. Bottom Line: Your Digital Strategy is an all encompassing program that maximizes your digital assets in order to maximize your
ROI.
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Facebook For iPad: Key Screens, First Impressions
Facebook For iPad: Key Screens, First Impressions
For anyone suffering from the visual overload of Facebook’s web iteration—rife with font chaos
and real-time Ticker updates that transform our “friends” into agents of distraction—the new Facebook app for iPad offers immediate relief. Our gut first impression? We like it. This despite the fact
that it did crash on us (once) during a status update maneuver, and other sources are reporting bugs.
A beta build of the app was leaked inside an iPhone update, so this final live version isn’t
necessarily a surprising build. Nonetheless, it offers a much tighter, more Facebook-familiar information design than apps like Friendly, which, until yesterday, was one of your only options for
navigating through a native, 1024x768 Facebook experience on the iPad.
In total, Facebook for iPad reminds us why so many browser-based services really begin to sing
when iterated in app form: They right-size fonts, subjugate or fully strip away seldom used product features, and hook into Apple’s standardized user interface elements for more pleasing
navigation.
Of course this initial version of Facebook for iPad doesn’t include the upcoming Timeline
feature, which is currently in beta, but could eventually muck up a currently pleasing user interface. For now, we’re happy to enjoy the winning app features, which we showcase
here.
The main interface (screenshot above) is split into two panes, with features on the left and
sliding active windows on the right (for example, swiping left on the news feed reveals all your chat buddies). We appreciate the clean, orderly layout of the left-hand navigation
bar.
Amazon Launches Kindle Fire Tablet
Kindle Fire Tablet
The Kindle Fire could be the first truly successful Android tablet. It touts a very reasonable $200 price tag, a well-curated app store, easy access to Amazon’s cloud-based services, brand trust and recognition. It’s Amazon’s most ambitious foray into hardware since the original Kindle’s debut.
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Great App for iPad!!
Great app for iPad...recently downloaded and love it!! If you’re looking for an application that really is like Google Chrome for iPad, consider downloading Diigo Browser.
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"First of all...about the sharing. From the share button on the top Diigo Browser toolbar, you can instantly send a link to your Diigo bookmarks (of course), but also to Twitter, Facebook,
Tumblr, Evernote, Instapaper, and Read It Later—in short, to just about any social network you want. Try doing that with the current version of the Safari iPad browser (you can, actually, but it
requires Javascript bookmarklets, which are a pain to set up)."
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Why Verizon just launched a $99 LTE phone??
I just read the article below, which I found very interesting, especially since I recently purchased the pricier HTC Thunderbolt...which I love!! Might have gone with this $99 LTE phone had it been
available at the time though!
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Why Verizon just launched a $99 LTE phone?
By Kevin C. Tofel
Verizon introduced a new Android smartphone on Monday. The Pantech Breakout runs on Verizon’s fast 4G network but will only cost $99 after rebate when it appears in stores on Thursday. The low
purchase price requires a two-year contract with a minimum 2 GB data plan and is far less than the initial price of Verizon’s other LTE phones, which have typically cost $249 or more at launch.
Pantech’s Breakout is more of a mid-tier handset when compared to prior LTE phones, but phones like this will help push consumers on Verizon’s new network.
The Breakout uses a 1 GHz single-core processor to drive Android 2.3, can record 720p high-definition video, and provides a 4-inch touchscreen with 800×480 resolution. Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11
b/g/n Wi-Fi and GPS round out the wireless connections and the phone can share its LTE connection with up to 10 devices using Wi-Fi. A front-facing camera supports video chat and the handset comes
preloaded with Swype’s software keyboard for fast text entry. And of course, the phone has access to the many software applications found in the Android Market.
Managed Internet Marketing
Managed Internet Marketing
Twitter, a Blog, Website Updates, YouTube! To be really effective at getting your message out and to capture that customer, you need to cast a broad net!.
According to several recent studies, about 10 percent of small and medium-sized businesses currently use Twitter to market their businesses.
In addition, about 35 percent of SMBs indicated they plan to include social media in their marketing mix in the next 12 months by using a page on a social site such as Facebook, LinkedIn or
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Free Movies on the Internet, Mobile Device and Tablet
Have you heard of Crackle?? "Crackle is the place to experience pure entertainment: full-length movies, TV shows, and original
series from genres that embody cool -- all uncut, uncensored, and unbelievably free. We've had enough of “disposable entertainment” that is as relevant as a laughing/dancing baby -- we are here
to watch and talk about the videos that really matter.
Crackle is one of the fastest growing entertainment destinations today, featuring only the genres you love -- comedy, action, drama, sci-fi, horror -- anywhere you are. We know the Internet is a
big place, so Crackle’s vast distribution network ensures that you have access to Crackle everywhere: on your favorite video site, your television and your mobile device."
I watched Reign Over Me last night on my iPad...Love it!! The movie choices are good, not recent, but a very wide selection, such as The Patriot, Men in Black, Stand by Me, etc. There are very
brief commercials, but didn't bother me at all.
Crackle also offers some of your favorite old TV Episodes....Seinfeld, The Dana Carvey Show, Bewitched and more! This is a great place to go for
free entertainment!! I definitely recommend this app for iPad, but you can watch via the internet as well!!
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