HTC Runnymede Will Be Finally Released as HTC Sensation XL in October 7

HTC has once again changed the name for the hot rumored first huge 4.7-inch Smartphone HTC Runnymede. Just a few days ago, it is said that the phone will be released with a new name HTC Bass. But now, news from official makes it clear that it will be actually called the HTC Sensation XL.

The HTC Sensation XL is a beast of a Smartphone mainly because of its really huge display. Although it has been talked for quite a long time that the new iPhone 5 would upgrade its screen to 4-inch from the 3.5-inch in iPhone 4, the latest news confirms that it is not true and the same 3.5-inch display will be equipped on iPhone 5. So the 4.7-inch screen will once again make the HTC device much bigger than iPhone.

However, it seems that the Sensation XL doesn’t have a strong processor; the single-core 1.5GHz processor is absolutely out of date for Android Smartphones. Compare to the news that Samsung Galaxy S3 would use a quad-core 2.0 GHz processor for the mid 2012 launch, this single-core processor seems too weak! To ensure a fast speed, HTC has upgraded the RAM to 1G.

This handset will come in 2 Beats Audio-themed variants: one with iBeats earbuds and the special edition with over-the-ear Beats Solo headphones. It will run on Android 2.3.4 system with the Sense 3.5 UI which has lots of optimizations to bring simple UI, fast speed and less memory consumption.

Other features like microSD card slot, Bluetooth 3.0, HTC Sync, GPS with A-GPS, 3G connectivity and 1600mAh battery are available on the device.

The HTC Sensation XL is expected to launch next month at the HTC’s October 7th event in London. The 16GB version is said to be at the price of €499.

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Short Scary Stories for Halloween 2011

            Short Scary Stories for Halloween 2011

1.

One night, a few years ago, my parents were at my 15 year old brother’s football practice. Since I was 14, I could stay home alone. While they were gone, I was watching the Children of the Corn. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it is a movie about the devil.

Anyways, I heard growls coming from upstairs. I went upstairs to investigate. I saw nothing, so assuming it was nothing; I went back to watching my movie. I heard it again. I did the exact same thing that I did the last time. It kept happening. After the 5th time, I stopped going upstairs. The growling stopped. I thought that was the end of it.

But no. Near the end of the movie, I heard footsteps on my hardwood floor. Then, my dogs started barking. So I walked into my dining room (where my hardwood floor is). I turned my head and there standing right next to my table was this bloody man just like in the movie. He looked burned. He kept saying something like “I’m from hell” or something like that.

I couldn’t hear over the barking dogs. Just then, my parents walked in the door and the “man from hell” (as I call him) disappeared. I told my parents what happened. Surprisingly they believed me. We sold the house as fast as we could and bought a house as far away as we could. We went from Colorado to New Jersey. We threw away the Children of the Corn.

We learned that watching movies that involve the devil haunt your house with the devil. My mom now bands all devil-related movies from our house. I am now 16 and I will NEVER think of watching a devil related movie again. I am still paralyzed from that scene and probably will be forever.

2.

I was once foolish enough to "play" with one. A couple of years ago my friend got one. He invited me and my brother over to play on Halloween. We did it at midnight. We stated asking simple questions such as whats my age and things like that but quickly out curiosity grew. We asked what its name was and it said "Tansa".

We then asked if it was evil or good, it took a little while to respond but then suddenly the computer turned on and it was satins Wikipedia page. Then the screen flicked to Google and it wrote "I like anagrams." We took little notice of this thinking it was a glitch we kept on playing. We asked can you show yourself. It took a second to realize how stupid we just were.

Suddenly the mirror started making a weird scratching noise and suddenly a figure appeared for a split second in the mirror then the Ouija board stated pointing at letters. It pointed at L U H B D Y O K E I O N D. Then we remembered something about anagrams.
My brother (who's I.Q was 164) worked them out in a flash. Tansa was an anagram on Satan and L U H B D Y O K E I O N D was a anagram of “Look behind you." With blood rushing we turned around only to see a teddy bear. The teddy then walked over to my brother and said “I WUV YOU" and then vanished.

We turned back around to see that my friend was not there. Panicking we rushed out back to our house. A month later we were still traumatized by the incident. I was brushing my hair when I saw my friend in the mirror, in a weak voice he said. "Hell is real, oh how real it is" then he vanished. Long story short Ouija boards spell bad news.

3.

There was a girl named Megan. Megan took a bath twice every day. She took one in the morning and one at night.

One night on Halloween, Megan had just finished passing out candy to trick-or-treaters. She was very tired so she decided to get ready for bed. So she went upstairs to take a bath and brush her teeth. Once she reached the bottom of the staircase, she stopped dead in her tracks. A chill went up her spine.

Standing at the top of the stairs, was a little girl dressed all in white. "Who are you?" Megan asked shakily. The girl just smiled evilly. Then she faded away. After she disappeared, a bone chilling giggle could be heard throughout the whole house. Megan just shook it off as her imagination and continued her way up the stairs.

Once she had the tub filled in the bathroom, she slowly eased into the water and closed her eyes. The warm liquid felt soothing on her aching bones. Suddenly the water started to feel thick and uncomfortable. She looked down and screamed.

The bathtub was filled to the rim with bright red blood. Suddenly, that horrible giggle was heard throughout the house again. Then the little girl appeared beside the tub. The only difference about the girl dressed in white was that her evil grin had changed into a absolutely crazy smile. And the fact that now there was a gleaming silver knife in her small hands. The last words Megan ever heard were "Happy Halloween Megan!" before the little girl plunged the knife through her heart.

The next morning, Megan's parents found Megan lying face down in the tub, a look of pure horror on her face.

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How to View PowerPoint on All Symbian Devices

Only 2 or 3 years ago, the framework in the mobile phone market is totally different from today. The iOS, Android, Windows Mobile Phone were all piece of cake, only the Symbian was the true king for mobile market. With the popularity of the new generation Smartphones with the iPhone and Android Smartphones like HTC and Samsung as the representatives, the iOS and Android surely have become the most welcomed platforms. Symbian has been left behind, so was Nokia who insists on the Symbian platform.

In fact Symbian was created by merging and integrating software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony Ericsson and Symbian Ltd. But now, when we talk about Symbian, we know it is on Nokia mobile phones. Unlike iPhone or Android Smartphones who have millions of useful apps for assistant, Symbian system fails. We can view PowerPoint on iPhone and Android Smartphone like HTC Sensation or Samsung Galaxy S2 using the Office apps, then what about Symbian?

There are few Office apps for Symbian like Quickoffice, but it only works for latest Symbian devices, for the older versions, you still can’t play PowerPoint. In order to play PowerPoint on Symbian, we need to convert the PPT to other formats. Let’s first take a look at what formats are supported by all Symbian devices.

1. Image
Image is supported universally, not only for Symbian, but also for other phones. So we can view PowerPoint on all Symbian as images.


Notice:

A. Create a separate folder for each PowerPoint file so that they won’t mix up.

B. Rename the slide according to numbers so that the output pictures will be in order.

2. Video

All phones support some kinds of video formats. In the past the most common video formats for phones are 3GP or 3G2 due to the limited storage. But now the internal storage has expanded greatly to 8BB – 32GB, so the best video format for Smartphones has changed to MP4. MP4 could storage high-definition videos in quite small size. How to convert PowerPoint to MP4? You can use a PowerPoint to video converter like Moyea PPT to Video Converter http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt-to-video/ to convert your powerpoint file to video format directly.

After imported PowerPoint files to the program, you should choose an output video format for Symbian devices, take MP4 for example. Then you can further adjust the MP4 video parameters like video codec, bit rate, and video size and quality. Al last, start the conversion.

The two methods above enable you to view PowerPoint on all Symbian devices. However, when saving PowerPoint as images, all the original elements like transitions, animations, music and videos will be removed. To view PowerPoint on Symbian with all the original effects, saving PowerPoint to video is the best choice for now.

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Android Smartphone’s 20 Most Useful Apps

Jason Hiner on ZDNet made this list of Android Smartphone’s 20 most useful apps to help Android users to save time for choosing the right apps.

Summary: To help you sort through the deluge of apps, here’s a list of 20 tried-and-true Android Smartphone apps that are worth your time to download.

The Android Market may not have as many apps as the iPhone App Store yet, but there are still more than enough to be overwhelmed, and it continues to grow at a breakneck pace. To help you sort through them all, here is my latest list of the 20 most useful Android apps.


Other: Most useful iPhone apps
            Best iPad 2 Apps 

Remember that I primarily had business professionals in mind when making this list and also keep in mind that this is a snapshot in time. The Android platform is developing so quickly that I guarantee my home screen will look different a month from now.

Still, here’s my list of tried-and-true Android apps that I can highly recommend.

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself. The service gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages from the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like they’re coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS is that you have to manage your apps so that they don’t hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (ATK) is my favorite on Android. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps and you can also set up ATK to kill all apps at periodic intervals. Some people will argue that task managers are irrelevant and unneeded in Android, but I still prefer to use ATK.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files. It allows you to access PDFs, image files, and business documents by simply dragging them to a folder on your computer and then you immediately have access to them from your mobile phone, once you have this app installed.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. Taskos

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I now prefer Taskos because of the clean, easy, Android-friendly user experience. It also has a few extras that give it an advantage over apps. The biggest one is voice recognition, which lets you speak a task that the app turns into a to-do item (you might have to correct a word or two).

6. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesn’t have an official app for Google Analytics (for either Android or iPhone). The best one I’ve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

7. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Microsof Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to be able to create and edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, I’d also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

8. Google Docs

If you mostly work with Google Docs (including uploading Microsoft Office files to your Google Docs repository) then the only app you’ll really need is the Google Docs app. It’s a nice mobile implementation of document management, although the one annoyance is that always open up files in a web browser rather than within the app itself, which would be a little smoother.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app I’ve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers. Or, if you use Gmail, you can even use a plugin to automatically catch confirmation emails and turn them into Tripit trips.

10. Places

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone. It’s also integrated into Google Maps.

11. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if you’re a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system, which is mostly just interesting, but can be handy once in a while.

12. Speed Test

I’m obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G/4G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speed test apps, but my favorite is the Speedtest.net app. It’s generally consistent and it has some of the best graphics and options.

13. Amazon Kindle

I’ve never completely warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but I’m a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released I’ve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it out and read a few pages anytime I’ve got a couple minutes free.

14. Google+

I’ve written a lot about Google+ since it launched in July and I’m pretty active over there (+Jason Hiner). One of the great things that Google did was to release a Google+ Android app at the same time it launched the service as a beta. And, surprisingly, the app was actually pretty good and has been improved since. It immediately became one of my most used mobile apps and definitely stole some of my time away from Android’s Twitter app, mostly because Google+ is a little more interactive.

15. TED Air

The TED conference features a meeting of the minds of some of society’s most influential thinkers. You’ll disagree with some of them since there’s a large diversity of viewpoints, but many talks are worth listening to in order to catch the latest creative thinking on society’s biggest challenges. The cool thing is that they’ve taken the videos from the conference and made them freely available on the Web. The TED Air app provides a great way to access the videos on a mobile device. I hope more conferences follow TED’s lead on this.

16. Google Goggles

This is a fun app that is a little bit ahead of its time. It does visual searches. You can take pictures of things and then the app tries to tell you what they are. It’s limited in its scope but it is pretty cool, and it’s definitely a peek into the future. One of the coolest features is the ability to take pictures of text in a foreign language and let the app translate it for you. In a foreign country, this can help you read street signs and avoid going into the wrong bathroom. :-) On a more practical level, Goggles is a QR code reader.

17. Photoshop Express

Photoshop is, of course, the best known photo editor in the world and its mobile app doesn’t do anything to hurt that reputation. But while the desktop version is known for having a zillion features, the mobile app is distinguished by its simplicity. It’s the best Android (and iPhone) photo editing app for simple crops, brightness adjustments, and sharpens, for example.

18. Audible

As much as I like the Kindle ebooks, I actually consume more books as audiobooks via Audible. With the Audible app you can connect to your Audible library and download over the air. The app also gives you a self-contained player optimized for audiobooks, with a skip-back-30-seconds button and the opportunity to make notes and bookmarks (although I wish the app would store these online so that they could be accessed from the Audible site).

19. Shazam

If you want to impress your friends with a mobile app, show them Shazam. Ever hear a song being played at a store or on the radio and ask yourself, “Oh, what song is that?” That’s where Shazam comes in. Just hit the button and let it listen for 15 seconds, query its database, and then return the name of artist and the song. It has about an 80% success rate. This one isn’t particularly productive, but it is really cool. (You have to live a little, every once in a while.)

20. Google Finance

This is a great little app that regularly gets overlooked. It connects to your Google Finance account, where you can set up a list of stocks and companies to follow and sort them into groups (portfolios). The app provides three simple tabs — a look at the market, a look at your portfolios, and the latest market news. It even does real-time updates when you have the app open.

At Last:

Of course, everyone has his own list of the best something, for all of us have our own specific needs. If you have any great apps, plz share with us!

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12 Best Free Mac Apps in Apple Store

As a user who is accustomed to use free apps or open source software, I tried here to list out the 12 best free Mac apps which cover all of our life and work.

With the rise of the App Store, it's easier than ever to pick up software that you know is safe to use, and is recommended by other Mac users. You can find everything from video compression apps to music makers, invoice creators, photo editors, presentation tools and much more.

Not all of the apps here are from the App Store, but all are guaranteed to be awesome and essential in the day-to-day running of your Mac.

1. BetterTouchTool - FREE

With OS X Lion now on the loose, Multi-Touch is the big thing on Macs, and this handy utility let you make the most of it. It enables you to assign just about any Multi-Touch gesture supported by your Magic Mouse or Trackpad to a set preset action, or to a key combination of your choosing.

Want to be able to create a new folder in Finder with a pinch? You can! Want to split clips in iMovie with a swipe? As long as you know the keyboard shortcut, you can do just about anything. Use it wisely and you'll by flying along using only your Trackpad!

2. BOINC - FREE

In the old days, if scientists wanted to crunch a bunch of numbers, they'd have to build or rent space on a supercomputer, one single, monolithic, terrifyingly expensive cluster of processors. The advent of the internet, however, has given rise to a new kind of computing: distributed computing.

The basic idea may be simple – an organisation parcels up little bundles of work, and sends them out to millions of computers all over the world to do then report back on – but the results can be extraordinary.
Though there are a few different distributed computing frameworks around, BOINC is particularly worthwhile as it enables lots of different research institutes to run their projects on a common system; install BOINC, and you can choose to participate in projects looking for cures for cancer and AIDS, looking for models that will help predict climate change, or even just looking for extraterrestrial life with the venerable SETI@home project.

Install BOINC, sign up for one or more projects, and decide how you want it to run. You could run it constantly in the background or just as a screensaver. Either way, this app offers a great way to put your Mac's spare processor cycles to good use.

3. Delivery Status - FREE

This lovingly crafted little widget for Mac OS X's Dashboard layer tracks deliveries though all the big courier companies, including City Link, FedEx, Parcelforce, the Royal Mail, TNT, UPS and USPS. Delivery Status also ties directly into some stores' order and delivery systems, most notably Amazon and, of course, Apple.
Entering delivery details is easy, and the fact that it's a Dashboard widget means you only have to tap a single key to take a quick glance at how your delivery is coming along. And with Dashboard becoming more prominent in OS X Lion, it's more useful now than ever.

Of course it's only as good as the data the courier provides, but it's undeniably more convenient, especially if you're tracking multiple deliveries. I love, too, that it syncs with a service in the cloud that can also push delivery notifications to a £2.99 iPhone/iPad app.

4. Evernote - FREE

I make a lot of notes. Ideas for features, apps to check out, things I might want to do at the weekend – I want to jot it all down somewhere before I forget. The brilliance of Evernote is that it syncs it all to the cloud, so whatever I make a note of on my iPhone or iPad is there on my Mac when I get to it.

I can arrange things how I want, tag them for future searches, share notebooks with others, and even search text that's in images. It's had an interface overhaul for OS X Lion, with a new fullscreen mode, so new Mac users should pick it up straight away.

5. HandBrake - FREE

Handbrake is basically a transcoder; it converts digital video files into a different format. Sounds dull, but one of its best uses is to convert almost any movie into a file that can play on an iPod, iPhone or iPad.
It comes with a slew of different presets, but it's hugely configurable as well, so that with sufficient experimentation, you can balance quality and compression to suit you. It hooks up with VLC for codec help and some other naughtiness that lets it convert commercial DVDs.

6. iPlayer Desktop -FREE

Yes, it's an AIR app, and yes, its use of Flash for the video player means iPlayer Desktop is really demanding on your CPU, but the ability to download BBC programmes for later watching is terrific.

7. Kindle - FREE

Speaking of ebooks, here's Amazon's Kindle. Though your Mac may not be the ideal place to do some long-form reading, there are plenty of books on the Kindle service that you might want to reference while working, or you might just want to pick up on what you were reading while you're at your desk for ten minutes.

Amazon's servers will sync your place in your ebooks across all your devices, from the Kindle app on your iPad to your actual Kindle device, to the Mac app. You'll never forget where you are, and it's easy to search books and save notes. It could be ideal for students, especially.

8. LogMeIn - FREE

There are lots of VNC apps around now – more so than ever before, mainly thanks to the iPad and the great ideal of accessing your desktop Mac from anywhere. Many of them are excellent, but can be unreliable. LogMeIn works every time, so you'll find yourself worrying about it.

9. Plex - FREE

Those who like to use a Mac as a media centre, like me, will have been disappointed with the sudden demise of Front Row in OS X Lion. The silver lining is that it leaves an opportunity for other developers to fill the gap, and Plex is a superb choice. It's got wide codec support, an appealing interface, and works across many different platforms, including iPad and iPhone.

10. Spotify - FREE

We're banned from usingSpotifyat work, and you can understand why; if hundreds of people were using this free music streaming service, our bandwidth would plummet! At home, though, it's a fantastic way of checking out bands; though the free service is now very limited.

The paid-for premium service offers unlimited listening to an absolutely huge range of artists and albums, however. And the ability to collaborate on playlists is great for parties (or annoying friends!).

11. SugarSync- FREE

I bought a subscription to SugarSync because it acts not just as an offsite backup – copying essential work files to its servers – but because it syncs files across multiple computers, even those running Mac OS X 10.5 or Windows XP and later.

Unlike Dropbox, which currently mandates that you put the files you want to sync into a specific folder, SugarSync just asks you what folders from your existing folder hierarchy you want to sync.

I especially love that if I have to put my MacBook Pro in for repair, I can just use another of my computers; all the files will be there, and any changes I make will be synced back when I open up the laptop again.

12. Transmission- FREE

There are lots of clients for the Mac that hook into the world of BitTorrent, but Transmission is the one I use; it's clean, simple-yet-configurable, and Mac-like. BitTorrent is a system for downloading files that are held not on a central server, but on the hard disks of many thousands of ordinary users like you and me all over the world.

Though it has a murky reputation, BitTorrent can be used for good; Linux distros, for example, many of which work on Intel or even PowerPC Mac hardware, are often distributed using it. I like the web interface, too, which lets me add torrents to my Mac mini at home from my iPhone when I'm away.

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Beautiful HD Halloween Wallpaper and PowerPoint Templates Free Download

The Halloween is near, when people are getting busy to search for Halloween ideas and get ready for the Halloween stuffs like costumes and gifts, it is a good idea to first decorate your computer or iPhone and other devices with these beautiful Halloween wallpapers.

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If you would like to create some Halloween PowerPoint slideshow, these Free Halloween PowerPoint templates would be perfect for you.

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HTC Ruby Again Upgraded with 1.5GHz Dual-core CPU and 42Mbps Speed

After several times of exposure online, you may still have some impression of HTC Ruby, HTC’s new Smartphone model with upgraded hardware and neat design. The main features of this HTC Ruby are its powerful hardware and fast network.

4.3-inch Screen

It seems that HTC really loves huge screen. After it bring the Smartphone into the 4-inch screen era, does it aim at 5-inch Smartphone in the end, after it announced the 4.7-inch huge screen Smartphone HTC Bass a few days ago. However, we see a modest 4.3-inch screen with natively qHD (960x540) resolution on HTC Ruby, which is particularly fit for web users and movie fans. Like other newly released phones such as HTC Raider 4G, it will have the new Sense 3.5 UI, which makes a few optimization of the original Android UI and will occupy less RAM. There will be a quick launch unit in Sense 3.5. It features a minimized weather, clock and 5 shortcuts. Under each shortcut, there is a little drawer, where users can put in certain apps and notifications.

1.5GHz dual-core processor, 8M camera

HTC Ruby will have a major hardware upgrade by adopting the 1.5GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor. The embedded Adreno 220 graphics card has several times performance than previous versions like Andreno 205 and will ensure more standout layout in 3D games and HD movies.

To bring more fluent operating experience, HTC Ruby will be equipped with 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage and two cameras: the 8MP primary camera with dual LED, auto focus and 1080p HD video capturing; and the 2MP front camera for video calling.

42Mbps high speed network

HTC Ruby will be running on Android 2.3 system and support DC-HSPA+ network, which means a theoretically possibility of 42Mbps data transfer speed. That is really fast! According to reports, the other HTC device, HTC Raider 4G will support 4G network, whose speed is as fast as 8Mbps to 10Mbps, proves inferior by comparison. Other features like Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi, GPS and DMB digital TV will be seen on this device. Besides, HTC Watch function is introduced to HTC Ruby, which makes it possible to watch the movie while still downloading.

The HTC Ruby has another name – HTC Amaze 4G, which will also be released in Canada besides T-mobile. Though no official release date is revealed, reports say it will hit the market together with Samsung Galaxy S2 Hercules in October 26.

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Phone-base Digital Payment Google Wallet Opens to Public

Google's Near Field Communications payment solution Google Wallet has officially launched to the public.
The phone-based digital wallet NFC technology, which is currently only in place on the Samsung Nexus S handset, has been extensively tested and is now ready to trial in New York and San Francisco.

Google is only making the Google Wallet app available to Nexus S 4G customers on the Sprint network in the US, so it's still a pretty small sample that are able to use the service.

The app stores your credit card details then allows you to pay for goods or cash-in coupons at stores which are geared-up with NFC reader devices, just by flashing your phone at the sensor.

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America's Got Talent Champion Landau Eugene Murphy

On Wednesday night the host Nick Cannon has finally announced the winner of the sixth season of NBC reality show America’s Got Talent. Landau Eugene Murphy, a jazz singer was entitled the championship after a gorgeous performance of “My Way”, a song by Frank Sinatra.


Landau, 37 years old, lives quite hard and he was one homeless at age 19, as a native in West Virginia. He was a car washer before he attended this show, but now he has won the $1Million prize and his life would change a lot from now on. According to the rules, the winner could choose either to get the money in a 40-year long time or at one time. For a 40-year long annuity, Landau will get $25,000 a year. However, he can only get $300,000 if he chooses to get at one time. So it seems that Landau isn’t an instant millionaire, and life is still hard for him.

The good news is that Landau has got great reputation since the show, and will begin a headlining act in Las Vegas on October 28.

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30+ PowerPoint Templates Free Download

Moyea Software has created 30+ Free PowerPoint Templates for your personal use in such situation like holidays, big event, sports, land scenery, teaching, business, etc.

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Convert PowerPoint to AVI for Mac,Linux,YouTube fro Free

Nowadays we may find out that we cannot live or work without the help of Microsoft PowerPoint. Wherever we are in an office, an organization, a classroom, or at home, Microsoft PowerPoint is indispensable. When you’ve made a presentation with PowerPoint and are about to deliver it to Mac or Linux, or publish it on Internet, or view it on Smartphones or tablets, however, you may find that you can’t. To view PowerPoint with all the original effects, on Mac you can install the Microsoft Office Mac version, while on Linux, many elements will lost with Open Office since no Microsoft Office Linux version is released. Besides, YouTube will reject your PowerPoint due to format incompatibility. Fortunately, you have another method to view PowerPoint on Mac, Linux or YouTube, etc – to convert PowerPoint presentation to AVI for free.

First, let’s take a brief view on the AVI format.

AVI (Audio Video Interleave), first introduced by Microsoft, is a special case of Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) which divides a file's data into blocks or chunks. An .avi file is used to store audio content or video content compressed with various codecs for playing by Windows Media Player on the computer installed with appropriate codecs. AVI files are supported by Microsoft and even by some standalone DVD players.

How to Convert PowerPoint Presentation to AVI for Free?

Since we are talk about converting PowerPoint, so I suppose you already have Microsoft PowerPoint installed. This method can only be Free if you have the PowerPoint 2010 installed. For previous versions like PowerPoint 2007 and 2003, you need to refer to this article.

At first, save PowerPoint as WMV format in PowerPoint 2010.

In PowerPoint 2010 you can output the PowerPoint as 960×720, 640×480 and 320×240 WMV video directly.

Then, download and install the Free AVI Converter.

Leawo Free AVI Converter is a clean and totally free AVI Converter which can easily convert video to AVI format for further use. It can rip and convert MP4 to AVI, MPG to AVI, WMV to AVI, etc.

Input Formats: WMV, WMA, AVI, RMVB, RM, RA, MOV, QT, MP4, M4V, DV, DAT, MPG, MPEG, MP3, AAC, etc.

Output Formats: AVI, MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc.

Key Features:
- Convert MPG, MOV, WMV, MP4 to AVI
- Join video files together.

After the conversion, you can view the PowerPoint AVI on Mac, Linux, Smartphones, tablets, or upload to YouTube easily. Besides, you can also use this method to add one PowerPoint file into another PowerPoint as reference.

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Andy Whitfield, Original Spartacus, Dead at 39

Andy Whitfield, the British actor who starred on the first season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has passed away from non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. He was 39.

Whitfield was diagnosed with treatable Stage 1 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in March of 2010, but determined to be cancer-free two months later.

However, Starz announced in September of that year that Whitfield would not be return for the show's second season because he had to undergo “aggressive treatment” for a recurrence of the disease. Australian actor Liam McIntyre was named Whitfield's successor.

In a statement released to the Associated Press, it was announced that a “beautiful young warrior,” passed away on a “sunny Sydney morning” in the “arms of his loving wife.” Our thoughts go out to his family and loved ones.

It really shocked when I get to know this news about the original Spartacus actor Andy Whitefield passed away on September 11, 2011. I still remember what a huge success it was, the TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Though at first, I don't really like him, but episode after episode, I found out he played the Spartacus so well; the love for his wife, the love for freedom and love for brothers. Ever since Andy leave the team and for the treatment, many of the Spartacus fans are hoping that he would get well soon and return. But now, he has gone...

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10 Free Downloadable PowerPoint Templates Websites

Here is 10 websites that allow you to download High Quality free PowerPoint templates:

1. Art of Office – PowerPoint

Art of Office is for Mac users pushing the boundaries of what can be done in Mac Office. Explore.

2. Presentation Point | Free PowerPoint templates to download

Some high-quality PowerPoint templates, free for downloading.

3. Powered Templates

Free PowerPoint Templates, Free PowerPoint Backgrounds for Your Presentations. Download now!

4. Mactopia

PowerPoint Templates from Microsoft Office for Mac.

5. Chart Chooser

Use the filters to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your data.

6. Presentation Helper

You just follow a three stage process to design your own PowerPoint template.

7. Master Templates

Free PowerPoint Templates, PowerPoint Backgrounds for Business Use.

8. Templates Wise

All templates are free to download and includes 2 or more slides ready-to-use.

9. Brainy Betty Official Site

You will find 100s of free PowerPoint backgrounds, ready to download.

10. DVD-PPT-slideshow | Free PowerPoint templates, background download

Download all kinds of PowerPoint templates and background for free.

Finally, don’t forget the templates on Microsoft Official Website - Microsoft Office Online.

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Toshiba BDX2250 and BDX1250 Release with Low Price and Great Performance

While HTC is busy burst out new Smartphones like HTC Vigor, HTC Titan, etc, Toshiba doesn’t have rest though. Recently, it has released its thinnest AT200 Honeycomb tablet, ‘wallet-friendly’ TL series 3D TV, Toshiba has announced two new Blu-ray players – with the BDX2250 and BDX1250 due to arrive later this year.

Both players are designed to be affordable but provide decent performance and are billed as "offering the ideal step into the world of Full HD entertainment". The BDX2250 and BDX1250 offer 1080p upscaling, Dolby True HD audio, USB connectivity and BD Live 2.0. The more expensive BDZ2250 also brings an Ethernet port which offers connected applications. We may not expect the 3D experiences on these two Blu-ray players for Toshiba will only use it on its high-end product line.

We cannot directly play PowerPoint with BDX2250 or BDX1250, but what should we do if we need to view a PowerPoint slideshow such as a PPT album on a large screen TV set? An alternative solution should be burning PPT to DVD. So today we will take a look at how to display PowerPoint files on the two Toshiba Blu-ray players.

By burning PowerPoint to DVD:

1. It could properly retain all the original PowerPoint elements like fonts, languages, transitions, animations, music and video clips.

2. It enables us to display PowerPoint without a computer.

3. The output DVD will be good for long time preservation or as a gift to send to other people.

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Now let’s follow the guides on how to burn PowerPoint to DVD with Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.

First, free download and install it.

Then, click “Import” to add PowerPoint files. You can add 12 files to this PPT to Toshiba BDX2250, BDX1250 converter at most for burning to DVD at one time.

Next, click “Options” and choose “Create Standard DVD”. You can also choose “Create Blu-ray Disc” or “Convert to Video File”.

Later, you should take some time to customize the output PowerPoint DVD. Click “Menu”, “Music” and “Logo” to create your own menu for the remote control or add music and logo for privacy. Besides using still pictures as DVD/Blu-ray background, you could also add a video as the menu background.

At last, after all the above settings, you can press the “Start” button to begin the PPT to Toshiba DVD conversion process. Just wait for a few minutes and then you could watch the HD PowerPoint on your TV using Toshiba BDX2250, BDX1250 Blu-ray players.

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Must-have iPad 2 Apps (Part 2)

One of the most powerful evidence given by Apple is to say iOS is better than Android is that it has much more apps. Of course it’s true; Apple iOS has so many apps that we users don’t even know which is better. So a lot of these kinds of suggestions are emerging online.

After Steve Jobs announced the iPad 2 in March and release a week later, iPad 2 surely becomes and remains the most popular tablet in the market. In the following few months, all kinds of tablets comes out, some even boast as “iPad killer”, but none of them really matches iPad 2. Here I’d share some must-have iPad 2 apps that I use which I think they could be universally needed by all of you.

1. iMovie

The iMovie should be the equivalence of Windows Movie Maker on iPhone 4, iPod Touch and the amazing iPad 2. It is designed for multi-touch screens, so with iMovie, we could easily make a movie in minutes by adding photos, music, video and effects with our fingers.

2. PhotoBooth

PhotoBooth is originally designed for Mac and now Apple has made if off Mac and embedded in iPad 2. What could it do? Interesting. It could edit or warp the photos to your pleasure. Besides the preset effects, you could also create eight “new” versions of your picture. Use the front-facing camera so that you could see your own photo when taking the headshot.

3. Phototogene

Photogene is about improving your digital photos and having fun while at it. This intuitive, easy to use application offers a comprehensive set of professional editing tools to Crop, straighten and many other features has included.

4. Urbanspoon

Can’t decide where to eat? Urbanspoon can help. Specifically designed for the iPad, Urbanspoon can show you all the restaurants in your city at the same time. You’ve never seen anything like it.

5. Twitter

Another app that has been updated to take advantage of the iPad 2’s cameras. Twitter’s official app is not to everyone’s taste but I think it’s well designed and easy to use. The ability to take a snapshot from within the app is a handy tweak.

6. FaceTime

This app was firstly used on iPhone 4 version. Here you get to add your friends name to your favorites list and then you will be able to video call them. You can also switch between the front and rear-facing cameras during a call.this would be one of the interesting and fresh apps for your iPad2.

Download Free PowerPoint Templates

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Free Labor Day 2011 PowerPoint Templates Download

Labor Day 2011 is on corner, at this final weekend before the summer and back to school season ends, here we collect these Labor Day PowerPoint templates for free download. Hope you have a happy Labor Day 2011 weekend!

Labor Day PowerPoint Template 1

Labor Day PowerPoint Template 2

 Labor Day PowerPoint Template 3

Labor Day PowerPoint Template 4

 Labor Day PowerPoint Template 5

  For more free Labor Day PowerPoint templates, you may download it here:

Free download PowerPoint background:

Download Free PowerPoint Background

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How to Convert PowerPoint to Blackberry Torch 9800

Ever after Blackberry Torch 9800 released on in August last year, it has become one of Blackberry’s most popular Smartphones. Blackberry has quite huge reputation among business users for its gorgeous email support and the revolutionary full QWERTY physical keyboard. Blackberry Torch 9800 again marks a milestone for RIM. It perfectly integrated the full keyboard and the currently popular touch screen together with a slide-out design. This change enables Blackberry Torch 9800 to adopt a bigger 3.2-inch touch screen (The same Smartphone released last year, iPhone 4 has 3.5-inch screen). So it will be awesome to play video on Blackberry Torch 9800 but due to the various formats, users may come across such problem that a certain video format could not be supported. This could be easily solved by converting to a Blackberry Torch 9800 favored video format.

As we said, for business users, you may need to view PowerPoint a lot. How to realize to play PowerPoint on blackberry 9800? Since PowerPoint files are not initially supported, we need to convert it to other formats.

The following 3 methods will enable you to watch PowerPoint on Blackberry Torch 9800.

Method 1: Save PPT as video

The benefit of converting PPT to video is that all the original PowerPoint elements could be preserved, such as animations, transitions, music, video, fonts and languages, etc.

Step 1: Import PowerPoint files. Click “Add” on the interface.

Step 2: Customize the output video format. Click “Settings” to choose a Blackberry Torch 9800 friendly video format and then adjust the video and audio parameters for better effects.

Step 3: Convert. Click “Start” button to convert.

With the shortest time, you could transfer the exported PowerPoint video to Blackberry Torch 9800 for viewing whenever you want.

Method 2: Save PPT as PDF

This is a good way for PDF format is widely supported and a PDF file has small size. However, the dynamic effects of the PowerPoint like animations, transitions, music and video clips will be deleted. This free PPT to PDF converter could help.

Method 3: View PowerPoint online

Although most websites don’t allow users to upload PowerPoint formats but some do. For example, Slideshare.net, you can upload PPT to this website so that you can view PowerPoint on Blackberry Torch 9800 anywhere unless you have network available.

For Android Smartphones, you could also play PowerPoint by installing Office apps. But Blackberry Torch 9800 cannot, for it is running on a different operating system, Blackberry OS 6. Hope that one day Microsoft PowerPoint could be supported by all Smartphones then we don’t need to worry anymore.

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