The Apple Watch is an incredible piece of technology that brings numerous functionalities to your wrist. However, like any piece of technology, it might occasionally present you with unexpected or repetitive prompts, like the location services prompt, which can be a bit of an inconvenience. Even after choosing to “allow” location services, some users find the prompt still appearing. If you’re one of them, don’t worry – this tutorial will guide you through steps to permanently turn off these location requests on your Apple Watch.

TLDR (Too long didn’t read) Solution:

Go to:

• Privacy
• Location Services
• Location Alerts
• Uncheck “Show Map in Location Alerts”

Say goodbye to the annoying Apple watch location prompts and keep location services on still. If this didn’t work, read on!

Preliminary Checks

Before proceeding, ensure your iPhone and Apple Watch are both updated to the latest version of their respective operating systems. This action can eliminate any software glitches causing the persistent location services prompt.

Step 1: Verify Settings on Your iPhone

Your Apple Watch mirrors many of the settings on your paired iPhone, including location services. As such, the first thing to check is your iPhone’s location services settings:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Scroll down and tap on Privacy.
3. Tap on Location Services. Make sure it is turned on.
4. Scroll down and find the specific app causing the prompt.
5. After selecting the app, ensure that its location access is set to While Using the App or Always.

Step 2: Adjust Apple Watch Location Services

Now, head to the settings on your Apple Watch to ensure everything is in order:

1. On your Apple Watch, press the Digital Crown to open the app view.
2. Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.
3. Tap on General.
4. Scroll down and tap on Location Services.
5. Ensure that the Location Services is On.
6. Below, you’ll see a list of apps. Confirm that the app causing the prompts is allowed to access your location.

Step 3: Reset Location & Privacy

If the issue persists, you might need to reset your location and privacy settings. This action will reset all your location permissions to their defaults, meaning you’ll need to grant location access to apps again:

1. On your iPhone, go to the Settings app.
2. Tap on General.
3. Scroll down and tap on Reset.
4. Tap on Reset Location & Privacy.

Now, check to see if the prompt still appears on your Apple Watch.

Step 4: Unpair and Repair Your Apple Watch

If the problem still persists, the final step is to unpair and then re-pair your Apple Watch to your iPhone. Unpairing the watch will reset it to factory settings, so please make sure to back up any important data before proceeding:

1. Keep your Apple Watch and iPhone close together.
2. Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
3. Go to the My Watch tab and tap on the watch at the top of the screen.
4. Tap on i next to the watch you want to unpair.
5. Tap on Unpair Apple Watch.
6. After the watch has been unpaired, you can set it up again using the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.

Remember, during the setup process, make sure to allow the app causing the prompt to access your location services when asked.

Following these steps should solve the persistent location services prompt on your Apple Watch. If none of the above solutions work, it may be time to contact Apple Support for further assistance. Enjoy a seamless Apple Watch experience, free from recurring prompts!

Google’s professional SEO ranking system has likely confused almost anyone who runs a website or blog. It can be extremely confusing to try to figure out what will make your post rank higher than the competition.

With Google’s recent move toward AI machine learning through RankBrain, website owners only got more confused. Rankbrain aims to make the user experience better, but SEO specialists will have a more difficult time learning how to succeed within the parameters of the new algorithm.

Professional SEO Ranking

Search engine optimization refers to the practice of utilizing keywords, links, and content to rank higher on search engines.

Millions of websites are competing for the same clicks and the pages that effectively use SEO will get a higher ranking.

RankBrain

RankBrain seeks to drastically improve the results users get when they search specific questions or words. It can direct a user to the site they want with more obscure searches, as well as guess far better than human algorithms can. This AI and machine learning process will change the way internet marketing services do business.

Before RankBrain, the prevalent SEO strategy was to use keywords that matched a user’s common search. If you used your keywords effectively (no stuffing and unnatural uses), your site would naturally achieve a higher ranking.

Now, keywords are only a piece of the puzzle. RankBrain can direct users to websites that don’t necessarily include the exact phrase for which they searched. The AI behind it will make an educated guess on which webpage will be the most helpful, and send the user there.

Are Keywords Dead?

Keywords are still important, but they aren’t as important as they used to be. Before Google implemented RankBrain, you could manipulate the SEO system using keywords to show your page first, even if it wasn’t the most useful page to users.

Now, Google prefers pages that are easier to view and more user-friendly. Keywords are still relevant, but you can’t sacrifice readability in the name of keyword stuffing.

To rank higher on Google, you need to have a website that’s easy to read on both mobile and desktop, incorporates keywords naturally, and gives the reader the information they wanted in the first place. Many websites were doing this all along, and they’ll be rewarded for it.

You can’t cheat the system anymore. Your outdated SEO tactics won’t work with the new algorithm. If you’ve dedicated your website to user experience, however, you should be in a great place going forward.

The Future of SEO

Machine learning like RankBrain is the future of SEO. Google shouldn’t reward websites for stuffing keywords and sacrifice readability, and RankBrain seeks to solve some of these problems.

It may take some getting used to, but professional SEO will be in a better place in the future.

Want more SEO tips for your business? Take a look at our blog! We have SEO and marketing tips for all kinds of industries.

When Apple marks any product obsolete, it means that customers cannot ask for a repair at Apple’s retail stores and authorized service providers.

Within almost 30 days from now, Apple will stop supporting MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2011), MacBook Air (13-inch, mid 2011, 13-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch), MacBook Pro models, 17-inch mid 2009 MacBook Pro.

The news was first reported by 9to5Mac. The source cited an “internal document” which detailed the devices and Apple’s plans.

Apple will also remove first-gen 802.11n AirPort Express from its supported product line. This device was launched in 2008, and had a wall-socket design.

Apple will also mark iPhone 3GS 16GB and 32GB as obsolete by the end of June. iPhone 3GS was a massively successful product in the early days of the smartphone boom. The device was released in 2009.

Google Photos app lets you save videos and photos on the Cloud for free. You can save all the photos and videos without any limitation of space. You could also manage your photos from mobile and web from anywhere in the world for free.

Google Photos app doesn’t contain the nuisance of making a Google Plus account first. You can share your photos from Google Photos to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, email.

Google Photos uses some pretty useful mechanisms to organize the photos across the Cloud. If you want to search a photo, it will give you three options: People, Things, Places.

You can also make Stories and impressive collage for your photos on the Cloud.

]]> https://socialmediaseo.net/2015/06/02/google-photos-save-manage-share-high-resolution-photos-and-videos-on-the-cloud-for-free/feed/ 0 https://socialmediaseo.net/2015/05/19/apple-launches-15-inch-retina-display-macbook-27-inch-imac-with-improved-specs/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apple-launches-15-inch-retina-display-macbook-27-inch-imac-with-improved-specs https://socialmediaseo.net/2015/05/19/apple-launches-15-inch-retina-display-macbook-27-inch-imac-with-improved-specs/#respond Tue, 19 May 2015 16:40:04 +0000 http://preview.socialmediaseo.net/?p=32188 Apple has refreshed its 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. The company also announced upgrades to its 27 inch iMac by adding Intel processors. The MacBook also got a deeper click, forced touch trackpad with the ‘taptic’ feedback.

The 15 inch MacBook with Retina display also got a new PCIe-based flash storage, which will double the memory performance as compared to the previous model.

The new iMac starts from $1,999. It also has a retina display, 3.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, AMD Radeon R9 M290 graphics card. With 8GB of RAM and 1TB base storage, iMac is got the perfect changes.

The new MacBook also got improved GPU, which was demanded by thousands of users.

The refreshed models of MacBook and iMac are now available from the Apple store.

Alex King, a computer science student installed Windows 10 Boot Camp in his new 12-inch MacBook, and used it for a month.

King found out that Windows 10 is much faster than OS X on the new MacBook. It renders 60 FPS, the animations are cool and smooth. When the transparency Aero mode is turned on, the Mission Control works smoothly, unlike in OS X, which perform sloppily when the transparency is turned on.

According to King, the gaming experience on Windows 10 run Apple MacBook is great. He was able to play heavy games like Left 4 Dead with 60FPS. He says that that hardware also worked optimally, with less heat generation.

Alexa King didn’t use the Virtual Box to use Windows 10 on Apple MacBook. He rather opted for Windows 10 Boot Camp version and installed it natively so that the Apple MacBook runs the Windows 10 by default.

If companies start making customized Apple laptops inbuilt with Windows OS, we could see a complete revolution in the PC industry.

Alex King explains complete testing and explanation of the benchmarks of the Windows 10 rundown on MacBook on his blog.

In a statement, Activision said that Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will have “a new momentum-based, chained-movement system that allows players to move fluidly through custom-built environments with finesse…”. The game will support 4 online multiplayer friends. It will have new weapons, campaign missions in different parts of the world.

The game is expected to roll out for sale on November 6^th.

It is highly likely that Apple will release iOS 9. It will be a refresh to its mobile OS line for iPhones, iPad and iPod. There are already a lot of rumors swirling around regarding the release of iOS 9. An article on Macworld said that many sources have spotted iOS 9 in web analytics months ago and it can be said that Apple is in the testing phase for iOS 9.

It is also expected that Apple will launch the new version of its OS X for Mac line. Currently, the Macs are powered by Mac OS X Yosemite. The new version, which will be Mac OS X 10.11 will have some game-changing features. But still, nothing could be said with surety about the plans of Apple.

Regarding iPhones and iPads, you won’t hear any good news because the new iPhones (iPhone 6S, iPhone 7) are slated to be launched in September this year and it will be pointless to shatter the suspense.

It’s been a long time since Apple revealed its Thunderbolt display. The company could launch a new Thunderbolt display supporting 4K or Retina technology.

Google has announced a new tool that will let the Android developers to run the Android apps in Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The tool is called App Runtime for Chrome (ARC). This is a huge step by Google because currently, the developers had to use Android emulators like BlueStacks to run the apps. ARC will allow the developers to run and test any Android app directly in Google Chrome.

The news was first reported by Ars Technia. The ARC Welder in the new app lets the developers to convert any .apk file in the system and run it directly in the computer. This process is called ‘mobile to desktop’ conversion. The latest step from Google will boost the Android app development and speed up the development process.

One drawback of the new tool is that it does not support the Android 5.0 Lollipop version and only run apps that are developed for Android KitKat. Google may resolve this problem in the upcoming versions of the tool. Google’s new tool also supports all the Google services, Google Cloud, app patches and Google+ social media platform. This is also a great feature as most of the developers need the Cloud and social functionality to test any Android app in their computer or the testing environment.

Microsoft is about to release its Windows 10 platform. This OS will support one-in-all feature, where all the apps would run in the same style for mobile, desktop and tablet. Couple this with Google’s new tool, the app developers in the coming days would be able to produce responsive designs and apps from their Windows computer and all the problems regarding cross-platform development will be solved.

]]> https://socialmediaseo.net/2015/04/03/run-android-apps-in-windows-mac-and-linux-using-googles-new-arc-tool/feed/ 0 https://socialmediaseo.net/2015/03/05/apple-to-launch-macbook-air-with-retina-display-this-year/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apple-to-launch-macbook-air-with-retina-display-this-year https://socialmediaseo.net/2015/03/05/apple-to-launch-macbook-air-with-retina-display-this-year/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:43:49 +0000 http://preview.socialmediaseo.net/?p=32001 The wait is now almost over for the Apple fans as the Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple may launch the much awaited MacBook Air with Retina Display. It quoted some sources who requested not to be named and said that earlier this year, the manufacturers of Apple started making 12-inch MacBook Air with improved display. These sources also say that a mass shipping of these new MacBook will start anytime in the second quarter of 2015. This is a great news for Apple fans. People have been waiting for 12-inch retina display refresh in the MacBook Air line.

Apple has given Retina display in its MacBook Pro line, which has a hefty cost. Therefore, people always wanted to get the spectacular 2,560×1,600 pixels in MacBook Air. Apple MacBook pro offers 2,560×1,600 pixels for the 13.3-inch version and 2,880×1,800 pixels for the 15-inch model. Apple touts that the Retina display gives refined pixel quality. Retina display combines the pixels in the same areas four times efficiently as compared to the normal display.

Apple MacBook Air has 1,366×768 for the 11-inch model and 1,440×900 for the 13-inch version. The latest OS X Yosemite versions are developed to support high resolution, improved viewing angle, deep black and color schemes.

Experts think that Apple will have to give Retina display in lower costs because of the increasing competition. Microsoft’s vendors are already rolling out ultra-books and laptops with high resolution display. Customers who cannot afford hefty price tags of Apple could easily get away towards Apple rivals.

Apple’s new MacBook Air with Retina display is coming in summer this year. Meanwhile, get ready for the Monday event by Apple, in which the tech giant will reveal the stunning Apple Watch.

At the start of February 2015, Microsoft announced that only the students of New York can avail the free subscription of 365 but now, surprisingly, Microsoft has made it available for all the students around the world. However there are specific countries and areas who can avail this service.

There are some terms and conditions to avail this service, school will have to qualify for this benefit by buying the subscription. Once bought, it will be available for teachers and students. Students will then be able to enroll directly with Microsoft. Active or part time students are eligible after meeting the following requirements:-

• Needs to have a school specific email address provided by the school to receive external emails.
• Legal age to sign up for it which is 13 years old.
• Should have an internet access.

Students can avail this offer until they are graduated or they are no longer enrolled with the school. Student’s eligibility can be re-verified at any time. When this plan is expired Office applications will work in a reduced functionality i.e. documents can be viewed but it cannot be edited or created also Office online and One Drive will not work.

One Drive account will be managed by school’s IT administrator to make sure that it is being used specifically for home works and school works. Permissions and access will be controlled by schools’ IT administrators. This plan cannot be shared with anyone outside school.

A school can avail two pricing options which are:-

• Office 365 Education E1:-

It is a free version with limited features, it includes unlimited amount of users. It does not   include full installed office applications.

• Office 365 education E3:-

For this package Schools will have to pay $2.50 per month per student and $4.50 per faculty   member per month. All the users will have complete access to all the features offered.

If a school cannot qualify for this plan then Microsoft has asked students to avail other options they are offering which includes Office 365 home, Office 365 University, Office Online etc.

Superfish helps users find and discover products visually, it instantly analyze the images on the website and offer the similar products in lower prices. Lenovo claims that it was unaware of this software which can grant hackers to have access to a user’s secure browser data, allowing third parties to potentially collect passwords, bank details and other sensitive information. Even the CTO of the Lenovo company, Peter Hortensius, said in an interview that they have made a mistake.

This software was included in some models of laptops which were sold worldwide between September and December. After receiving complaints from the users it they discontinued to pre-install it on to the laptops. This software is developed by the company named Superfish (same name as of its software) with base in Tel Aviv and Palo Alto and was also recently ranked 4^th on a list of fastest growing companies in US.

This software actually installs its own self-signed certificate which is a malicious technique known as man-in-middle attack, where the certificate allows the software to decrypt secure requests. The biggest threat in the security point of view is that hackers could use Superfish encryption methods and mistreat them to intercept other people’s traffic. For example, if someone is sitting in a coffee shop and is using public Wi-Fi then the owner could easily spy on any Lenovo user on network, collecting any password entered during the session.

Meanwhile, Lenovo is not pre-installing the software in the Lenovo machines. As some machines still have this software so they have asked the users to post on their forum in case of any concerns and they have also released full instructions on how to fully remove Superfish from their machines. A developer has also made a website which helps Lenovo users to know that if they are affected by security certificate and helps them on how to resolve those issues.

Check if you are affected by this malware by clicking this link

Apple has recently posted a job opening for “Apple Search” expert. While there is quite a possibility that this job posting is for Apple’s internal search engines used in its vast repositories and connected data servers, the chance of an upcoming new project related to search cannot be ignored.

The job posting clearly states that program manager is needed to manage the back-end servers of a search program that is designed for “hundreds of millions of users”. Big Data is also listed as a preferable skill for this job.

The source added that Steve Jobs in his life clearly rejected the notion that Apple might want to tap into the search domain. Jobs said that “others”(read: Google) do it better and Apple is not deeply interested in Search space.

The source also said that the other explanation to this job posting is that Apple is going to revamp its search of devices. iPhone, Mac uses Spotlight search and other search algorithms and Apple is keen to optimize the search in devices and OS X for its users.

Google has been the search juggernaut for years. Apple cannot replace Google in search space and that is quite evident from the recent history.

Photos app inculcates iCloud and perhaps this is the most important and new feature introduced in this app. Users will be able to store their photos in the iCloud services. Sources say that this might create problems for the users who are using 5GB space for iCloud because the new Photos app will eat this space quickly, forcing the uses to buy 20GB or above iCloud space, which starts from $11.88 annually.

Photos app is similar to the iPhotos app of iPhone. The app has four tabs: Photos, Shared, Albums and Projects.

Photos app for OS X is extremely fast, easy to use and user-friendly. Albums tab shows the most recently imported photos, with easy options to navigate and edit. Unfortunately, social media integration is still not added in the Photos app. That means Photos app for OS X doesn’t directly import photos from Facebook, Instagram or other photo outlets.

Photos for OS X works perfect on iCloud. If you are editing a photo, a single edit will make it to multiple devices across the Cloud in less than 15 seconds.

Photos for all the Mac users will be free and slated to come this spring.

The update to Mavericks include the following:

• Adds the ability to make and receive FaceTime audio calls
• Adds call waiting support for FaceTime audio and video calls
• Adds the ability to block incoming iMessages from individual senders
• Improves the accuracy of unread counts in Mail
• Resolves an issue that prevented Mail from receiving new messages from certain providers
• Improves AutoFill compatibility in Safari
• Fixes an issue that may cause audio distortion on certain Macs
• Improves reliability when connecting to a file server using SMB2
• Fixes an issue that may cause VPN connections to disconnect
• Improves VoiceOver navigation in Mail and Finder

These nasty acts could be committed by a criminal gang who had dug a hole for trapping innocent people through infections in computers. The criminals might be using botnet that contains a network of machines that is installed on computers without administrative rights. Through botnet, the criminals can also access the private information from your computers without your knowledge and then they can sell to others easily. The website which displayed the usernames and passwords was in Russian language. It contained the information about various accounts on internet like Facebook, Yahoo, and Google etc. Total 318121 accounts’ information of Facebook was present on that site. Trustwave has informed the websites and services controlling them before posting on the blogs about this incident.

Facebook claimed that its security is quite strong and fault is at part of the affected machines of users. Hackers are using innovative ways that cannot be detected by beginners in the world of computers. Even experts may fall trap to their malicious acts.

Facebook users can be saved from this undesired situation by activating the feature of logging approvals and adding facility of logging notification in privacy settings. This strategy will generate a notification on the user’s mobile when anyone else tries to login on different browser. It will ask the pass-code before logging in. Facebook users whose passwords were leaked, have been provided with password reset option ot change their log in information immediately.

Yann LeCun, a professor of computer and neural sciences from the New York University claimed about this new development in Facebook and surprisingly Google+ too!  According to Mr. LeCun, collaboration has been setup between the popular social networking website and the NYU’s center for data science. The function of this joint venture is to carry out cutting edge research in AI, media sciences and machine learning. Mark Zuckerberg has given the go ahead for this inauguration of this project on Dec 9, sounds too good to be true eh?

The new task group will have locations in Menlo Park, CA in London, UK and the Facebook’s new facility in New York itself. This event may seem to be a response to Google’s own venture into the AI field with the popular search engine also stepping up its efforts in the AI business. They have already convinced top AI research scientist Ray Kurzveil to head its AI and deep learning efforts. So it is time that the mighty Facebook responds right? With the opening of its own AI research organization, Facebook has flexed its muscles in the field. Many believe that these advancements in AI might lead to an “arms race” in the global tech companies to have sole control over the growing AI demands of more complex markets and users.

This, however isn’t Facebook’s first venture into the AI field as the group was actually formed according to the comments made by Mark Zuckerberg during recent earning’s call of Facebook. The main focus will be to research and study the approaches to the AI and apply them to understand the whole lot of content that people share so new insights into the human preferences, likes and dislikes can be found out which actually is what social networking is all about. Cool right?

You Can Fit a Small Town in Your Bugout Home

Some preppers go so far as to buy a separate property far from civilization, to be used as a home base once society collapses, as can be learned about on MissileBases.com. The most intense of these preppers are buying entire decommissioned missile bases including underground homes and entire silos designed to become housing for hundreds of people.

Everything Looks Like a Prepper Item

When you see a Macy’s sale and all you can conjure up in your mind are ways that you can use those goods to prep your home, you know you’ve gone down the prepper rabbit hole. From kitchenware to jewelry, you could use anything in an emergency.

The MRE Sellers Call You

The government changes flavors and ingredients in their Meals Ready to Eat, or MREs, each year, according to MREInfo.com. The meals are good for years when stored correctly, and many of the favorite flavors are repeated year after year. Some folks are obsessed with getting the newest flavors every single year, just like collecting baseball cards. If your MRE dealer calls you to let you know new flavors are coming in, you might be a little too invested in the process.

You Know 9 Ways to Start a Fire

Learning new skills is half the work of being a prepper, and knowing how to start a fire without a match or lighter can be one of the most basic skills of all. All those 9 methods are going to be useless, though, unless you also know how to find items to burn and how to filter water to boil. It’s much better to learn the basics for many different skills than to become an expert at one. Stock books that instruct on more elaborate skills and save specialization for when you’ve hooked up with a larger permanent group.

You’ll Have the Ingredients for Your 90th Birthday Cake

Stocking up every time you find a sale on a storeable food item is a good idea, and a great way to begin the prepping process. However, buying enough of one food to last 25 years is another. The average commercially canned food is good for no more than 5 years, and even military MREs shouldn’t be eaten after 10 years at most, according to a study from Utah State University. It makes no sense to create a giant bunker filled with jars of peanut butter and cans of beans when you could use the space for something more sustainable, such as seeds and gardening tools. You’ll have to produce your own food eventually in a total collapse, and you’ll never need tons of food in a shorter emergency, so diversifying is a much smarter use of your time and money.

If you own a Mac 10.6 Snow Leopard, or an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch running iOS 3.0 or above, then at 10:00 a.m. PST (1:00 p.m. EST) go to this URL to watch Apple’s conference via livestreaming:

www.apple.com/uk

Apple is hosting another one of their exciting conferences today where they will make major announcements about current and future product developments. Apple has decided to live stream the conference today, which is cool thing. But the live stream will only be available to compatible iOS devices and Macs running 10.4 Snow Leapard. The live event will kick off at 10:00 a.m. PDT today. And for those of you with a PC, I’m sure you’ll be able to find some hacked up version of the live stream somewhere on the web.

Apple compatible devices for the live stream:

• OX 10.6 Mac running Safari
• iPhone running iOS 3.0
• iPod touch running iOS 3.0
• iPad

Here’s Apple’s official announcement of the live streaming event:

Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of Today’s Event

What: Live video stream of Apple’s October 20 event

When: Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 10:00 a.m. PDT

Where: www.apple.com/uk

Live Video Streaming

Apple® will broadcast its October 20 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on October 20, 2010 at www.apple.com/uk.

This broadcast is the property of Apple and is protected by US copyright law and international treaties. Any reproduction or distribution is strictly prohibited without prior written approval from Apple. Please contact Apple Public Relations with any questions.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

via CrunchGear

For those of you into Whrrl and who have an Android powered smartphone or tablet device, might be excited to know there is now a Whrrl Android app. Whrrl bring the popular location aware social network straight to your Android mobile device and is available for free in the Android marketplace. Here’s what the Whrrl developers had to say about the new Android app today:

We’ve been hearing from our community for months about how bad they’ve wanted an Android app; we’ve been hard at work creating it, and the day has finally arrived! This launch represents a major step toward our mission of ending “social rut” by opening up Whrrl to a wider set of users.

Here’s a video of the Whrrl Android app:

You can get Whrrl by visiting the Android marketplace from your device.

via Pelago

Here’s the images indicating that Wal Mart will be selling the iPad:

via MacRumors

The Wall Street Journal has taken a survey asking if current iPhone users (those with AT&T) would switch to Verizon once the new Verizon iPhone was released. Over 14,000 people responded to the Wall Street Journal survey and the overwhelming response was yes – we will switch to Verizon – the actual number came in at 73% saying “Yes” and 27% saying “No”, the wouldn’t switch. So much for the theory that iPhone users are happy with AT&T. It looks like no sooner will the Verizon iPhone hit (which is expected sometime beginning in 2011), and iPhone users will jump the AT&T boat.

Thoughts?

Citizen Tube has launched another interview of a President, this time it’s former President Bill Clinton. Previously, YouTube, through the Citizen Tube channel, interviewed President Barack Obama.

This interview of President Clinton comes directly on the heels of Clinton’s Global Initiative annual meeting in New York.

You can view the entire 24 minute interview below where President Clinton takes questions submitted via video from all over the world:

In Herriman, Utah, a wild fire was ignited by what some believe was a stray bullet from a gun that hit dry brush. The wild fire has caused massive burning in Salt Lake county and nearly 1400 homes are being, or have been evacuated.

According to Salt Lake County sheriff Lt. Don Hutson, “the situation is chaos” as he and others stand by watching homes burn.

Here’s a video someone took of the Herriman fire:

A round tablet discussion was held earlier this week with U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk with Silicon Valley companies (i.e. Google, Facebook, and other major tech giants) to discuss the impact of online censorship, and how it creates trade barriers for US tech companies.

The biggest issue, of course, is that any online censorship policy enacted by the US can have a direct negative impact on US tech companies. And in fact, any online censorship policy in the US would more than likely create a trade barrier for US tech companies and put them at a direct disadvantage to other tech companies globally.

If you’re interested in the topic of online censorship and it’s impact on US tech companies by creating trade barriers, then check out this 1 hour plus video below:

via Google Public Policy

Check out the video of Sonya Thomas devouring 181 chicken wings below and setting a new world record in total pounds of chicken wings eaten in 12 minutes.

Sonya Thomas is the new national chicken wing eating champion. Yesterday (Sunday) Thomas decided to show up strong at the ninth annual National Buffalo Wing Festival in none other than Buffalo, New York. Thomas mowed down 181 spicy fried chicken wings in a matter of 12 minutes and earned herself the new national chicken wing eating title. The 181 chicken wings equated to 4.86 pounds of chicken. Sonya Thomas is not your A-typical chicken wing champion either – she is 43 years old, stands 5 feet tall and weighs only 105 pounds.

There has been another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

12 people were reported to have fallen into the water and only 1 injury is being reported.

The explosion site is west of the site of the BP oil rig explosion that was the start of the worst oil leak in the history of the US.

The blast that just happened was reported by a commercial helicopter company at approximately 9:30am CDT Thursday.

Seven helicopters, two planes, and four boats were all in route to the explosion site which is about 80 miles south of the Vermilion Bay in the center of the Louisiana coast.

Within the next 24 hours or so, Tropical Storm Danielle is expected to reach hurricane level status, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center’s report released early this morning.

The movement of Hurricane Danielle is expected to be west-northwest toward Bermuda. The storm is currently located in the Central Atlantic.

Here’s the AP video about Tropical Storm Danielle 2010:

via HuffingtonPost

Have you ever seen David Blaine drown himself? In the video below you’ll David Blaine descend into a bubble filled with water, remove his oxygen mask, and then minutes later get snatched up by some rescuers.

David Blaine is most notorious for his street magic. However, lately he’s been trying to pull off stunts that would otherwise defy human, natural strength and endurance > i.e. drowning yourself.

So here’s the video of David Blaine getting drowned alive (note: this video is from May 2006):

via MomsWorld