Pretty cool card trick to show your friends

This commercial is for all the couples out there thinking about have a kid:)

Only in Japan would you see a prank like this.I could not stop laughing watching this. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

We are all working and investing our precious time on our jobs because of one main thing, that’s being happy (no bull please). Seriously, we are striving to earn, and get our pay checks periodically for the service that we rendered. That may be the idea that Foursquare have in mind when they establish their place exploration inspired mobile app.

Foursquare may had been hanging around with big shots like Starbucks and Jimmy Choo, but for those who would like to ask for alternatives, then there were others who might over the same usefulness and functions. These next 5 apps might be well suited for your small business’ needs.

SCVNGR is actually a game app related to the specific location. It gives out different challenges where you check in and gives out rewards based on particular actions or attainments. Challenges may include snagging a photo and posting some comments on different locations. Challenges that may promote your business can be in-tune with this app since you can customize the rewards and the time span for your targeted participants.

Loopt is a collection of apps namely Loopt, Loopt Mix, Loopt Pulse for iPad and Facebook game Loopt Star. What’s great about this suite is that you can be well connected with your friends in sharing your location, asking help in finding new ones and keeping you in the loop of what’s latest about your buds. It incorporates with other apps and information sources like TastingTable, Zvents, Sonicliving, Metromix, Zagat, Citysearch and Bing. You get all of the goodness from these apps to make every event that you will organize and get the bandwidth increase without complications. There is no limit in enticing your audience since everything both virtual and real world prizes. It is just for you to decide which niche of people you will focus and the date of execution.

Gowalla is what they said to be top match for Foursquare. Basically it is like earning miles or points on every travel that you make in exchange for points or virtual goods which you can later buy back into real world equivalents. It can be a travel agency’s friend since this app allows business owners in creating exciting trips with different stops where participants can checkin and earn their reward or stamp and move to the next one. Just imagine along the way, restaurants and hotels can be your partners in driving revenue while making individuals enjoy what you have arranged for them.

Brightkite is an app that knows how to utilize business’ key factors; time, location, scope and targeted market. It gives the business personnel to freely create a winning query on people in different places, of different walks of life, with variety of interest, language, age bracket and interest. Very interactive which lets users share comments and postings, it even included a chat feature which gives it an extra edge than Foursquare.  Knowing your precise target customers will give really give the venture a great advantage.

Whrrl is all about socialization. Knowing where you belong and who your peers are is will get you liking their paramount service called Societies. It can be considered as a real world group representation online wherein members of the group can contribute ideas and suggestions. Based on suggestions made, and its popularity can earn the person virtual points that are equivalent to specific rewards. Companies may be involved in different to offers that pertain to the interest of specific groups within Societies.

There might be key players within the location based application arena but one thing is for sure, not all those whose name is popular would mean their best on what they do. Do you know other apps that may not be that popular but has the edge to be compared against well-liked ones?

If you break it, it buy it. That’s the ever famous sign we see on supermarkets which gives us a caution in handling breakable items on their shelf. On the flip side, Apple can have their slogan which can read “Jailbreak at your own risk”, that can go along their new patent on their gadgets.

Focusing on iPhone, Apple submitted a motion of exclusive rights that is against Jailbreaking or cracking into their device’s software which enables restrictions in installing and downloading files that were not officially from the company. In-short, they are considering your iPhone’s warranty invalid if the device was proven to be cracked or jailbroken.

Apple has a very valid reason for the claim. This is to protect their consumer’s private information and files once their iPhone is stolen or lost. Upon reporting that the device has been lost or stolen, then Apple can upload or copy all of the data from the owner’s phone to the company’s distant file servers. After successfully duplicating the files to their storage, data from source will be deleted automatically to ensure further safety of the phone owner’s sensitive info.

Going deeper to what was included on Apple’s submitted patent is their capability of shutting down remotely diagnosed iPhones which passed the jailbreaking process.  They surely have the capability of monitoring activities from their devices, e.g. sim card removal, memory ramp and usage. If Apple can extract data from an out-of-the-box gadget, then there is no doubt that they can also do this even if an iPhone has been unlocked or has been reprogrammed. Their partner AT&T can also be part of the process and can hold back certain services once the culprit device has been detected.

Along with Apples proposition, jailbreaking was given freedom by the U.S government. That means that this process can be performed not only specific to iPhones but also with other products for educational purposes. Even official statics wouldn’t show up, reality is that there is an increasing number of jailbroken iPhones not only within U.S and UK but also around the world.

Apart from earning more money with its app store and controlled content, Apple’s reason for the implementation is to ensure that user’s privacy and security will not be at risk. After that being said, are you in favour of this new disclaimer/warranty statement from Apple?

While tubing, I found this great video showing how the search results in Google updates as you key in on the search box. Amazing?

Being the first to implement the suggested search keywords, now the video was showing leading to another milestone that this search goliath wants to go. Currently, you punch some keys on its search box and suggestion of keywords will appear along with the number of search results it has. That’s the true sense of technology, to make things simpler and effective.

For now all that we know is the video is for real but not implemented yet.  That net vid teaser shows an experiment that every development in the web should take to ensure bug free working capability when unveiled to the public. As the video showed, it ran smoothly and showed renewed resulted every key filled in the search box.

Google dev team usually select a group of people to test their new innovations. It is the same thing they did when they unveiled Google Wave, where they gave initial accounts to all who attended their beta release.  Their dev team also stated is not specific to a specific location, it can be random which means that your office mate next to your desk may be looking at a beta function and you   were still using the old one.

There is an article on their blog site which was posted by their Search User Experience and Product Manager Ambar Pansari and Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience which was talking about testing new additions to their ever popular search engine. This means that on their end, assessments on every analysis data are very crucial to help them improve their user’s search experience.

About the new search feature that updates every keystroke punched in, it is obvious that it uses the same technology behind their search keyword suggestion. AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is what is responsible for letting keywords shows automatically when you type.  Programmers understand it better, but for not so techie guys out there, it just means that AJAX allows you to see updates and processing on the web page without the page re-opening or refreshing.

User search experience is really important to Google that’s why it always considers the user’s preference things that users might want implemented. Just like a customer service rep doing things just even before the customer ask for it. So don’t be surprised if one time you are one of the individuals out of the 50 to 200 search experiments that Google is doing which was announced by Google Spokesperson, Gabriel Stricker.

Have you ever wondered what’s hot on Twitter’s nest? I may not be hooked and in-love with the blue bird but I would like to share what’s fresh and what’s on the top 10.

What The Trend’s site showed a top 10 list of topics which dominates the Twitter fever.  I would like to start with group on the bottom part of the list which was grabbed by Jonas Brothers and Canadian wonder talent, Justin Drew Bieber.

Indonesia who just celebrated their day of independence last August 17, 2010 gained its top 8 place. It can be also one of the reasons why Twitter’s activity gained bits in the Southeast Asian region. Still in Asia, Korea’s Super Junior ranked 7^th who’s fans might be screaming and singing along while writing their tweets.

All star cast movie The Expendables who gathered Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Bruce Willis and the gang. The $35M weekend earning, it is now on the 6^th place. A contrast to a star studded movie is at number 5, Dona Delma Hoax made it to every end of people’s tweet.

The sport which made Spain really famous was pinned the 3^rd place, the 2010 Copa Libertadores which ended August 18 could have been the reason for the fame. Right below, we have another film, Leonardo DiCarpio’s Inception which was released back in July really deserved to be on the higher half, not to mention the 564 million dollars international box office gross.

Saving the sweet 2^nd spot is for Brazilian Politics, yet dirty as always, their presidency candidates Dilma Rousseff and José Serra has made it to the point where they became as talk of the town and the net. Going to the top of the list, is another movie ladies and gentlemen. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World starring Michael Cera is Twitter’s number 1 trend. Even if it is only worth 14 million starting August 13 when it was released, then this fantasy slash Sci-fi movie have really gained popularity.

That completes our list and for the upcoming weeks, I am sure that this catalogue will surely have a lot of modification, some may be making their way fresh or some can sit relax on where they’re currently seated.

I know, I know, my last post about T-Mobile G2 with Google may have been letting you search for what it could look like. Pictures are all around trying to match it with the shape that was posted on T-Mobile’s site to rag our eyes.

Another image again had surfaced the web which was posted first by Engadget can be the G2 or can be another wrong prediction. What the pictures is an HTC Vision, carrying a 1 Ghz processor, a full QWERTY Keypad that shows when you slide the body from the side, and runs the Android Éclair (2.1) operating system. The stated specifications were all preliminary as of this moment, but will let you know once the accurate details show up.

The image showed was really eye-catching. How it slide and show its keypad and the stylish keypad. It may be a dream come true for all who were on the waiting list, but not a soul outside T-Mobile can really tell what’s to come next.

Curiosity is at its peek with this new device to be T-Mobile’s pet to handle their swanked HSPA+ connection which is said to level benchmarks with the 4G. A teaser page was showed and now gizmo freaks and gadget gurus were all out for the hunt, but the waiting will soon be over since the big surprise may happen next month for the device’s unveiling. That might be the time to add 1 to your G1 and let your upgrade decision sum up to G2.

I hate the waiting game and I know a lot of you guys are really feeling the same way. My own idea is that G2 will not be just a phone but a bar raiser. It can’t be worth of the teaser page, the image guessing, the soon to be announced debut and the speed of network that it will run if it will just be a second best. After all of this, I want to write an article on how good this phone is, but I don’t want to expect much and would advice you the same.

An idea had crossed my mind but not the model of phone G2 is going to be like. Don’t you think that it is more worth the wait if T-Mobile will run a contest like ‘What could G2 look like?’ and have the phone as their prize, sweet!

No more copy and paste for your favorite links for tweeting. That is what the new Twitter share button is all about.This simple innovation makes link tweeting simple and the good thing is that you go straight to their site to do it. A lot of clients functions the same and offer the same convenience, but using Tweeter’s own is more trustworthy.

For fishing and malware issues, every link is being abbreviated using the t.co scheme which is a Twitter’s way of shortening the links. This is feature offers the same results that were aligned with microblogging sites standard. If ever you encountered this particular scenario, then you don’t really have to worry since the original link that you tweeted has been wrapped in a t.co link.

Understanding the security measure behind it, then it is now time for you to try. It is really simple, just go to Tweeter and search “Share Bookmarklet” then go to the page and add the “Share on Twitter” shortcut on your bookmark or favorites and behold, you will be link tweeting in no time. Once it’s there, click it and it will prompt you to login and the rest is tweetstory.

Techies out there will surely know how this thing works, but just for some who would like to know, behind this addition to your favorite’s bar will run a JavaScript when clicked. Just don’t ask me further on the scripting part, for all I know is that it will also let you write some text along with the link that you were about to post.

Some would think that this move from Twitter is just a mediocre of other sites or clients ingenuity. Maybe so simple that Twitter might have overlook at it before or the company’s developers were just so busy making backups, coding new improvements and maintaining the sites uptime for your tweets to be available for your followers. Right after the release of their Twitter Button, now you have a shortcut that clips to your browser.

Since every tweet is about letting others know, you might want to try using the Share Bookmarklet then try it while reading this article. Just a thought that your followers might be interested, what you think?

I don’t use the TV a lot since I always watch on the fly, while surfing, updating my status, coding and fooling around the net. Just stick that Hulu window on there then I am all good.

However, there were times that I just let my player’s full view on my screen and I will be that famous couch potato there is, sit back, relax and watch. I know that some but not all are like so tired sometime to walk back to the computer just to click on the next show or adjust the volume, but being the networm that I am, then I will share this iPhone app turned to be a saviour to us.

Teevox is the answer to a never ending and no standing net TV experience. Turn on your laptop or your computer then sit on your couch and get your iPhone with Teevox out.  Your iPhone with this app will now be an instant net TV remote control, it will let you choose the show that you want and control the volume without touching your computer’s pointing device again.

Funded by YCombinator, MIT produced Joong-Moon Kim and Andrew Sugaya’s talent are behind this app. Teevox will give you the capability of controlling Netflix and Hulu on your computer which is a sure can to other programs like PlayOn, but the possibilities makes the big distinction. Creators of Teevox said that what is the app doing for now is just for a start and what’s next will be infinite.

For now, you will get to enjoy the functionalities of the teevoxRemote app on your iPhone and iPad. Just go to App Store, search for Teevox, select free then tap on install and then what’s next is all convenience.

It is not only the viewing experience that will change with this app. It also adds Facebook and Twitter interaction as if you were just in the same movie house with friends. You can share your favourite shows and have a synchronized viewing. Soon, this backend technology will grow that’s a sure promise by Joong-Moon Kim a.k.a Jiggity. The duo’s vision is clear that Teevox will soon expand its horizon to different podiums other than iPhone and iPad and will give more capabilities for end-users to interact with sites less the hustle of downloading extra applications and plugins to enjoy their features.

Right now, their team is keeping the mum about the specifics but who knows, we might be enjoying more of other sites to offer at our own hands with our own precious handhelds.