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Check who near you has flu on Google phone, iPhone

December 2nd, 2008, 3:34 pm by

Maybe it’s because I have a scratchy throat today and a few random sniffles, but the news from Zicam Cold Remedy caught my eye.

Matrixx Initiatives Inc., which makes Zicam, launched the Zicam Cold & Flu Companion mobile application today for the T-Mobile G1, better known as the first Google phone. An iPhone version will be out within the next few weeks at the Apple App store.

With this software, users can check cold and flu activity by zip code. This was inspired by Google, which launched “Flu Trends” on Nov. 11. Flu Trends can estimate flu activity by region. Google gets its data from weekly and historical Center for Disease Control reports plus it own database tracking the number of flu-related searches users type in.

The Zicam tool shows the percentage of sick people in a zip code, symptoms to look for and the latest flu news.  And since this is free (read: marketing tool), the app offers coupons and addresses of nearby stores that sell Zicam products.

To learn more about the app, visit zicam.com/tools/mobile.

Of course if you don’t have an iPhone or G1, you can still track the flu around you at Zicam’s site HERE. Or, download the flu widget to your computer. (Oh snap! Flu levels are moderate here in Santa Ana.)

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Best of free iPhone Apps plus contests

July 20th, 2008, 1:24 am by

Alt+Save: Deals and freebiesLots of news in the deals sector of technology. Microsoft cut the Xbox price to $299, from $350. A new $350 model, out next month, will include a 60 GB hard drive. … Another price cut comes fromthe Ooma internet-based phone service. It’s now $250, from an earlier $400, and it’s available at Best Buy.  … AT&T hinted that it will soon offer all iPhone owners free Wi-Fi at AT&T’s 17,000 hotspots before yanking the deal off the web …

But most of the free news this week comes from the iPhone’s Ap store, which, says Apple, offers 25 percent for free and 90 percent below $10.

Here are some iPhone Apps roundups:Apple iPhone Apps

Samsung Instinct

Contests

Win an HDTV  – and that’s second prize in Quizno’s Las Vegas Dream Weekend Giveaway. Grand prize is a trip to Vegas for the winner and nine friends (air + hotel). Besides the TV, second place also gets a $500 gift card to Quizno’s.Deadline: Oct. 1, 2008. Enter HERE.

Write a clever haiku, win a Samsung Instinct from CrunchGear. It’s a weekly contest with the next one taking entries until noon on Tuesday, July 22. This week’s haiku should focus on sight and be tweeted to UseYourInstinct. (A haiku, by the way, is a short 3-line poem, consisting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables. More details and rules HERE.

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Sonnet cuts price of iPhone battery charger

June 10th, 2008, 5:07 pm by

Sonnet Technologies’ Volta rechargeable iPod battery kitSo… the new iPhone is cheaper than the old one but the monthly fees are higher. You’ve got to save money somewhere.

Sonnet Technologies, an Irvine company that makes upgrade kits for Macs, just cut 25 percent off the price of its Volta rechargeable battery pack for the iPod. It’s now $29.95 (used to be $39.95). I haven’t tried it but Sonnet claims it “extends playback times by up to 300%.”

Plus, Sonnet expects it to be compatible with the new iPhone. It already works with many iPod models and the original iPhone. An interesting note: when the Volta is fully charged, it has enough juice to charge an iPod battery three times. More details at Sonnet’s site.

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.Mac + Leopard = Cool new features

November 16th, 2007, 3:21 pm by

Apple’s .Mac software package that includes e-mail and information sharing just got upgraded thanks to Apple’s Leopard, its latest spotted upgrade to its X operating system.

The new features:

.Mac You can now remotely access your Mac computer information from any other Mac computer (as long as both are running Leopard) in the new Finder application. .Mac locates your remote Mac over the Internet, allowing users to access files or use screen sharing to control your Mac “as though you’re sitting in front of it,” according to the Apple e-mail sent to .Mac customers this afternoon.

In addition to syncing e-mail, bookmarks, contacts and calendars, .Mac will now sync Dashboard widget preferences, Dock items, many application and system preferences, and notes across multiple Mac computers running Leopard.

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Newport Beach company’s software latest to make nice with Leopard

November 14th, 2007, 3:00 pm by

Newport Beach-based LiveTime today announced an update to its Service management software allowing it to work with Safari 3.0 and the Leopard upgrade to Apple’s X operating system.

LiveTime started in 1999 and offers Web support for medium to large enterprise companies and organizations. The software can now be deployed on Leopard in both desktop and server editions with no additional requirements. Also, LiveTime now includes integrated spelling, online chat and RSS feeds.

Apple launched the Leopard upgrade to OS X earlier this month. You can read about the features here; to find Leopard-friendly software, check out this site or this site (but the latter has not been updated for two weeks).

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All new iPods, iTunes store wifi, iTunes partners with Starbucks

September 5th, 2007, 9:55 am by

Steve Jobs played Santa again today, announcing the latest creations from Apple, Inc.

Read my previous posts here and here about the announcements. And, a big thanks to Irvine-based iLounge’s live postings.

UPDATES:

10:04 a.m. Mr. Jobs begins by saying “today we get to talk about music.”

10:06 a.m. A new iTunes will launch tonight – ringtones will be added next week. You can buy a song for 99 cents, and then make it a ringtone for another 99 cents. People make the ringtones themselves by choosing the 30 seconds, fades in and out before buying the ringtone.iPod shuffles.

ProductREDiPods10:13 a.m. Everything will be refreshed or replaced, Jobs said. Shuffle: refresh; product RED version available, holiday colors are purple, light green, light blue, silver and the product RED. Nanos: bigger and brighter display; full metal design; black, product RED, silver, blue and green.

10:24 a.m. New Nanos will be available in 4gb – $149 and 8gb-$199. Both have 24 audio playing hours and five video playing hours. Both will be available at Apple stores by this weekend.iPod Nanos.

10:29 a.m. The video iPods are renamed – iPod Classics. Colors: silver and black. Capacity: 160 gigabytes! Has 40 audio playing hours and seven video playing hours. Price is $349. Should be available in stores by this weekend, Jobs said.

iPod Touch.10:36 a.m. iPod Touch. Has similar features as the iPhone – but no phone. Includes YouTube and Safari that you can access via wifi. Two models: 8gb – $299, 16gb – $399. Will ship everywhere – first iPod with touchscreen to ship overseas. Has 22 audio playing hours, five video playing hours. Expected to ship out and be available in a few weeks.

10:49 a.m. iPod Touch also includes a new application – iTunes wifi – so that you can buy songs by using wifi. You get song previews – then buy and songs download to the device. Songs then are synced into your desktop computer’s iTunes on the next sync.

Starbucks10:57 a.m. The new wifi iTunes will also be available on iPhones. Steve also announces a new partnership with Starbucks. When walking by a Starbucks (when are we not) a Starbucks logo appears and you can see what music is playing in that Starbucks. Users can then with one-click download the song playing in the store.

11:08 a.m. iTunes/Starbucks song partnership launches first in October in Seattle and New York – LA to get it in February 2008, all major metros will be completed by 2009 (a little slow of a rollout, if you ask me).

11:10 a.m. Speech ends.

11:11 a.m. Steve’s back. iPhone prices are being lowered. iPhone 8-gb model now $399, starting today. The 4gb model is eliminated – only 8gb model.

11:16 a.m. Event is over after a performance by KT Tunstall.

iGirl

 

 

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Easy ways to share, view calendars

September 3rd, 2007, 12:00 am by

Want to stay up to date on Memphis Scottish society events? Have a hankering for Harry Potter dates?

iCalShareWell, you can find pretty much any kind of random calendar on iCalShare - one of my favorite sites for wasting time and finding cool calendars to add to my calendar.

The site started in September 2002 and now has 4,561 calendars in 40 different categories. Calendars are all free to download – and you can easily use them in various applications – including iCal, Mozilla Calendar, Novell Evolution, Microsoft Works and Google Calendar.

Have other interesting sites to share? Just e-mail me.

iGirl

 

 

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One, two, three billion iTunes songs and counting

August 2nd, 2007, 12:27 pm by

iTunes.Apple recently announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes.
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And, to do my part on reaching 4 billion, I downloaded the new Common album this morning.

The release also notes that “iTunes recently surpassed Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the U.S.”

Sure I’m a regular iTunes buyer, but sometimes it’s just nice owning the physical album. Even though iTunes finally added automatic-artwork-finding to the program, it’s still oh so nice to buy a CD, unwrap the plastic wrap and flip through the lyrics, photos and artwork provided with the CD.

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. What do you think?

 

iGirl

 

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