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Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Video Spotlight: J/P HRO Help Haiti Home PSA

J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO) is proud to unveil a special new PSA campaign entitled “Help Haiti Home” featuring actors and artists such as Sean Penn, Edward Norton, Miley Cyrus, Zooey Deschanel, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, LL Cool J, Eric Dane and Pras describing what home means to them, connecting the dots to the struggles many Haitian people still face.

Los Angeles Lakers: 5 Pleasant Surprises of Early NBA Season

The Los Angeles Lakers are 6-4 after 10 games, a record fairly indicative of their up-and-down start to the young season.

While it's clear that Mike Brown is still searching for answers in terms of his rotations and personnel, we've witnessed some positive trends beginning to emerge as well.

Let's take a look at some of the pleasant surprises thus far in the early season.

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Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1019159-los-angeles-lakers-5-pleasant-surprises-of-early-nba-season

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Deadly gun attack on Nigerian bar

Suspected Islamic militants open fire in a bar in the north of Nigeria, killing eight people including several police officers.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-16499659

Bird-feeding pensioners get Asbos

Two Wiltshire pensioners are given Asbos ordering them not to feed pigeons for five years or buy more than three loaves of bread a day.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-wiltshire-16488207

Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/01/10/hipgeo-for-iphone-keeps-track-of-your-when-and-where/

HipGeo for iPhone keeps track of your when and where

HipGeo is a free app that can create a sort of travel blog on the fly with as much or as little user input as you like.

It tracks your location, allows you to add comments and photos, and can even playback an animated map of your travels.

You can keep your travel info to yourself as sort of a diary, or share your adventures via Facebook, Twitter or email. Alternatively, publish your info to the world through a web page or using the app itself.

HipGeo also shows posts from people nearby who've elected to make their locations public. I didn't see a lot of activity near me, but I did see some public posts from the bigger nearby cities, and a lot of activity at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The app works well, and gives you granular control of your privacy ranging from 'keep my travels to myself' or 'let the whole world know where I am and what I am doing.' The app has some safeguards to protect your battery life, because it runs in the background when you activate it. One setting (places) saves your battery by only uploading a new location, while another setting (places and routes) tracks you from moment to moment. It's better to use the latter setting selectively or only if you're plugged in.

HipGeo is an interesting take on location broadcasting, blogging, navigation and social integration. It seems to work as advertised, and is a really effortless way to create a blog of a vacation, or even your daily activities. I think users should take care about publishing photos and locations to the whole world, but if you limit your followers I find HipGeo to be worthwhile for travelers with a preference for sharing.

HipGeo requires iOS 4.0 or greater. It is a 6 MB download. You can see some screenshots in the gallery below.

Gallery: HipGeo travel blog app

HipGeo for iPhone keeps track of your when and where originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Acer AcerCloud promo images look just like iCloud

Wow, what a surprising turn of events! Yet another consumer electronics manufacturer has unveiled something "new" that appears to be a blatant copy of something that Apple created. In this case, the guilty party is Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer. When they're not jumping on the "Ultrabook" bandwagon along with other manufacturers who are designing MacBook Air clones, they're busy parroting Apple's iCloud service.

The Verge published images from Acer (above) and Apple (below) presentations of their respective cloud services. As you can see, they're remarkably similar. Sure, the clouds are shaped differently, but both contain exactly 20 images. Both images contain a laptop, a tablet, and a smartphone. Acer has even named their photo sharing element "PicStream," which sounds remarkably similar to Photo Stream. The only major changes are the location of the devices, the location of the phrase "30 days," and the addition of a tacky Wi-Fi signal indicator. Both slides are done on a gradient background, although the colors are different.

As Acer fans are likely to point out in the comments, Apple didn't invent the concept of cloud computing. SugarSync's old ads even used to show three devices being fed media from a cloud. But when a major manufacturer is so desperate to be like Apple that they do their best to even mimic presentation slides, it shows an amazing lack of imagination and taste. It's just surprising that Acer didn't have a Steve Jobs lookalike make the presentation at CES 2012...

[Images via The Verge]

Acer AcerCloud promo images look just like iCloud originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Henry return a 'dream' for Wenger

Arsene Wenger believes Thierry Henry has added to his legendary status at Arsenal with his late winner in the FA Cup third-round tie against Leeds United.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/sport1/hi/football/16479170.stm

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Spotlight: Justin Bieber's Charity Work

Justin Bieber is known for his 2009 debut album My World.

He took part in recording “We Are The World 25” in 2010.

Some of the proceeds from his 2011 Christmas album are going to charity.

Charities & foundations supported

Justin Bieber has supported the following charities:

Read more about Justin Bieber's charity work and events.

Find out more about contributing, or how to contact celebrities.

Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1017762-bcs-swag-nike-killed-it-with-their-clothing-campaign

BCS Swag: Nike Killed It with Its Clothing Campaign

It's been a great start to 2012 for Nike, Inc. as swoosh-sponsored schools ran the table, finishing 5-0 in the Bowl Championship Series.

True to its tradition as one of the great outfitters in sports, Nike presented limited-edition T-shirts to the winners of the big games—and it just might be the company's greatest apparel collection of recent memory.

Seriously, so much swag.

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Microsoft's Sesame Street team-up

Interactive episodes of Sesame Street are being developed by its creators in conjunction with Microsoft.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-16482779

SoundHound's most ID'd songs in 2011

SoundHound is a music search and discovery tool for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The app has 50 million worldwide users and boasts of over four million music searches per day. The company recently released its Top Ten Identified songs and at the top of the charts was Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People. The sleeper hit from the Indie band mixes sullen lyrics about teenage homicide with an upbeat, bouncy music track. Following behind Pumped Up Kicks is Someone Like You by Adele, a ballad about a broken relationship from the English singer-songwriter.

You can check out the remaining top ten in the press release below, and grab SoundHound's free app or ad-free paid version (US$6.99) from the iOS App store to start contributing to the best of 2012 list.

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SoundHound's Top 10 Most ID'd Songs in 2011

As we welcome 2012 and all the fantastic new music it will bring, we at SoundHound thought we'd take a moment to reflect on the musical highlights of 2011-by compiling a list of the top 10 songs that you, our users, most frequently identified using SoundHound's blazing fast music recognition. SoundHound users ID'd well over 1 billion songs in 2011! The most ID'd song was-drum roll, please-"Pumped Up Kicks," by indie pop band Foster the People. This track alone was ID'd 1.25 million times in 2011.

Here's the Top 10:

1. "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People

2. "Someone Like You" by Adele

3. "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO

4. "Just Can't Get Enough" by Black Eyed Peas

5. "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele

6. "Mr. Saxobeat" by Alexandra Stan

7. "Danza Kuduro" by Don Omar & Lucenzo

8. "The Lazy Song" by Bruno Mars

9. "Hello" (Single Edit) by Martin Solveig & Dragonette

10. "Down On Me" (featuring 50 Cent) by Jeremih

Thank you to our users who ID'd these and millions of other great songs in 2011. We look forward to helping you ID many, many more in 2012.

SoundHound's most ID'd songs in 2011 originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Monday, 9 January 2012

Arsenal 1-0 Leeds

Thierry Henry scores the winner in his first game back for Arsenal to beat Leeds in the FA Cup third-round tie at Emirates Stadium.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/sport1/hi/football/16381242.stm

Detox

I just finished medical detox I had to go due to my seizures. It was a very positive experience. But now here comes the hard part I'm deciding on what program I want to do I think I'm going to try a...

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New lead in Queen estate murder

Detectives investigate a possible new sighting of a young woman found murdered on the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-norfolk-16469866

VIDEO: House of Commons

From phone-hacking to the Arab Spring, and from the eurozone to Hillsborough it has been a momentous year in the House of Commons. Democracy Live has some of 2011's parliamentary highlights.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_9665000/9665387.stm

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US ME: Doubts Heard About Medical Marijuana Operation

Kennebec Journal, 09 Jan 2012 - AUGUSTA -- As Maine's largest medical marijuana nonprofit organization plans to open its dispensaries, the man originally tapped to run its growing operation says the organization does not have enough space to grow the product its patients need. Meanwhile, leading state patient advocates say those who have signed up to receive medical marijuana from a Wellness Connection of Maine dispensary in Thomaston have run up against difficulty setting up appointments and stringent product limits that are well below the amounts allowed by state law.

Source: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n025/a05.html