Category: Productivity
Released: Nov 19, 2008
Price: Free

Description:
iPhind finds your contacts in a snap. Or tap. As the perfect iPhone companion, iPhind is a quick and easy search program that enhances the power of your iPhone contacts application. With just a couple taps,iPhind will help you find the key people you're looking for and remember everything about them. Just enter a name in your iPhone contact list, assign it some keywords in the Notes section and when you need to find that person, whose name you forgot or may be one of many on your list, you can pull them up based on the keyword search. In just a couple taps, you can find who you want and call, email or text them instantly. The Notes section can also be used as your personal database in remembering things about your contacts that are important to them, what is key about them, what they like to eat, where they live, etc. Whether you're a CEO networking your client list, a salesperson managing your prospects, a parent organizing your doctors or contractors or even a teenager prioritizing your friends, you'll never lose contact with your key contacts ever again. FEATURES � enhances your iPhone Contacts application� simple, fast, accurate. Search by any word or initials of the name� less taps gets you in touch quicker. Call, SMS, Email or go their websites in one tap.� unique keyword search allows you to find any contact instantly� database-driven Notes section allows you to store/find information easily� History and Most recent searches allow you to very quickly find what you need� works with current data, so there's no need to refresh/re-index to find information BENEFITS � saves you time, less taps to find who you're looking for� increases your memory, database driven Notes section remembers every important contact detail� stress-free, avoid sifting through business cards and scrap paper to find contact information What do you think? Since this is a prerelease, we're always looking for ways to improve our iPhind program. So please feel free to download our application for free and give it a tap. All comments are appreciated and can be emailed to support@sookiez.comTo hear from the people will allow us to build a truly helpful application. Notes; Product has been tested with large databases, in the thousands of contacts, and works fine. It will perform searches and matches similar to the Treo, by just using initials of the name of the person you are looking for. Just enter part of their phone number and the contact will be found. You can perform a Basic search and find names, companies, phone numbers, or the Advanced search that searches Basic and by email, website, and the contents of your notes. Once you find your contact their contact information is there so you can send an SMS by taping their name, call them, email them, or go to their website, what ever in 1 tap�..fast, easy, simple.iPhind will keep track of your searches, that you can use as favorites, or frequently contacted individuals even if they are not your favorites. Your session searches will also be there at a tap.iPhind can even remember your last search and start with that one for you. More than a dialer, it�s a memory jogger, a reminder, a stress reliever, and will help you become more efficient if you spend a little bit of time planning what information you add to your contacts. A truly mobile solution..

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/68545?ns=guardianpageName=Media%3A+Trust+condemns+BBC%27s+failures+in+Brand+rowch=Mediac3=The+Guardianc4=BBC%2CJonathan+Ross%2CRussell+Brand%2CRadio+industry+%28Media%29%2CMedia%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CMedia+Weekly%2CComedy%2CRadio+Media%2CTelevision+Media%2CTVc6=Tara+Conlanc7=2008_11_22c8=1122231c9=articlec10=GUc11=Mediac12=BBCc13=c14=h2=GU%2FMedia%2FBBC" width="1" height="1" //divpIt took a single word - "yes" - and a click of her BlackBerry. With that Lesley Douglas, Radio 2 controller, triggered a row that led to the resignation of Russell Brand and the suspension of Jonathan Ross, and ended her own 22-year career at the BBC./ppHer one-word message sanctioned the controversial broadcast of Brand and Ross abusing the elderly actor Andrew Sachs and disparaging his granddaughter Georgina Baillie./ppThis crucial detail was revealed yesterday in a BBC internal report that the corporation hopes will draw a line under one of the most controversial episodes in its recent history. /ppDouglas, the woman credited with saving Radio 2 by modernising the once unfashionable station, quit her post last month and Ross will not broadcast again until the new year./ppThe report by BBC management lays bare a breakdown in communication over the offensive messages left on Sachs' phone answering machine and, in some cases, what the BBC yesterday accepted was a "failure of editorial judgment"./ppIn the first message, the day after the recording on October 15, the producer Nic Philps raised concerns about bad language with Radio 2 head of compliance Dave Barber: "The problem comes when Jonathan says that Russell 'f*cked' Sachs' granddaughter ... I would say take it out, but it forms the crux of the call and is VERY funny."/ppBarber, who also quit this month, subsequently emailed Douglas, repeating the phrase "it's very funny" and telling her: "Having discussed it with [Philps] and listened to the sequence, I think we should keep it in and put a 'strong language' warning at the top of the hour. I think it's editorially justified in this context and certainly within audience expectations for Russell's show and the slot. Andrew Sachs is aware and is happy with the results which were recorded his end for him to hear. Are you happy with this as a plan of action?"/ppThe next day Douglas responded simply: "Yes."/ppIn a separate report yesterday, however, the BBC Trust, which oversees the corporation, disagreed and said the transmission during Brand's late-night show was "grossly offensive" and that there was no justification for broadcasting it./ppThe report reveals that nobody at the BBC realised or checked claims that Sachs had made a complaint, with the result that BBC news bulletins reported press office denials that he had lodged a complaint. His agent had emailed Douglas but she was away from the office and did not receive it until October 26, four days later./ppThat was the day the Mail on Sunday ran its story about the October 18 broadcast, which subsequently led to 42,851 complaints to the corporation. /ppThe BBC's report also revealed that no compliance form was completed by a BBC executive or producer ahead of the transmission of the Brand show./ppDespite the report's conclusion that there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2", the BBC Trust ruled that the sanctions already imposed by BBC management were enough./ppThe BBC Trust also criticised a further incident of bad language involving Ross, but said his three-month suspension without pay was adequate punishment. This means Ross, who is believed to be earning pound;6.9m over three years, will return to the BBC on January 24./ppIt said an episode of Ross's pre-recorded BBC1 chatshow, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, in which the presenter told Hollywood actor Gwyneth Paltrow he "would fuck her" was "gratuitous and unnecessarily offensive"./ppFollowing complaints, BBC management had originally reviewed the show, broadcast in May, and cleared it, as had the regulator Ofcom. However, the trust yesterday said it disagreed with that judgment, adding that the comment was made in an "overly sexual way" and that it had upheld a number of complaints./ppIn addition, the trust said that BBC management should investigate another incident involving Brand on Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles' show. Moyles and Brand had a conversation live on Radio 1 at 8.23am on October 21, three days after the offensive messages were broadcast on Radio 2 - but before the Sachs affair had become a crisis for the BBC./ppBrand told Moyles he had met Baillie and said he had "met her brains out"./ppBBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons said: "None of the breaches the trust is reporting today should have happened. All of them could have been avoided. The issue which links them is a lack of editorial judgment by those in control."/ppTrustee Richard Tait added that in future "this use of such offensive language must be approved at senior level"./ppHe also said the "prime responsibility rests with the BBC and the editorial management responsible"./ppThe Sachs row has led to Ross stepping down as host of this year's British Comedy Awards. Yesterday ITV announced that his place would be taken at the ceremony on December 6 by Angus Deayton. /ppLyons also revealed yesterday that, in the light of the current tough economic climate, the BBC's nine public service executive directors, including Mark Thompson, the corporation's director general, would waive their bonuses next year. Thompson has done so for the past four years./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/bbc"BBC/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/jonathan-ross"Jonathan Ross/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/russell-brand"Russell Brand/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/radio"Radio/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Mediacountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227317660255112201400459684"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Mediacountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227317660255112201400459684" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

I unlocked the iPhone with the first free dev team procedure. It was a lot of manual stuff, and it resulted in a corrupted seczone. Obviously things are a lot cleaner now, but it leaves early adopters like me in the dust.

In the interest of allowing others to learn from my research/trials, I'm posting what I went through (so if you see a similar problem you're having partway through, this might be useful) to finally get to a pwned, 100% functional, 2.0.2 iPhone.

You can probably eliminate or condense a lot of these steps.


(Note, started using iTunes 7.5. You could/should probably start with iTunes 7.7.1.11, but I can't verify that.)

1. Phone was working, at 1.0.2 plus corrupted seczone old-unlock-hack. Because of this, installer wouldn't work right.
Tried manual installs / reinstalls of installer, but nothing worked. I even tried SSHing in and manually running virginizer
scripts. Odd things happened; chmod didn't function correctly. The scripts wouldn't work; even if executed individually.
I concluded I needed to restore to 1.0.2 and start over installing installer on a fresh iphone.

2. This appeared to work. I tried to use iliberty to free my fresh iphone, and it failed. I tried to use winpwn,
and it also failed. At this point I noticed that my phone wasn't booting correctly any more. It was getting the
"BSD root: md0, major2, minor0" error. None of George Zhu's proposed fixes via iliberty, restore, nor DFU restore
helped.

3. I found a post that said to start at step 12 (actually , 11) of this post:
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42046 and after DFU installing firmware 1.1.1, the phone seems to
boot correctly again. I then DFU down to 1.0.2.

4. Attempting to use iLiberty to jailbreak, activate, and cydia the phone causes the purple usb cable --> itunes logo screen and
subsequent boots have the "BSD root: md0, major 2, minor 0" error. This is repaired by DFU restoring to 1.1.1. (SIM card being
present doesn't matter; I checked)

5. This looks promising. I DFU restored to 1.0.2. http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10858
(This didn't actually go anywhere)

6. AppTappInstaller stopped in iPhoneComm.exe Stage 2, (4) Booting iPhone in recovery mode.
(I don't think this helped)

7. So I download iDemocracy: http://www.drakenza.com/Were_Done_Here.html and activate, then jailbreak.
I tried to "refurbish", then use iTunes to restore to 1.1.1 (yes, phone was in DFU mode) but that caused an
itunes "2003" error.

8. Power off the iPhone; restart in DFU mode. Do the same operation: restore 1.1.1. Should work this time.

9. Trying winpwn 2.5beta, I get to the "preparing pwnage DFU restore information", but I always get "Failed to pwn
your device." I never get a countdown, and even trying to put the iphone in DFU mode and then clicking "go"
doesn't seem to work.

10. Found a page saying that winpwn requires the iphone be at 1.1.4. Why do I have to find this out via anecdote?
DFU, restore to 1.1.4.

11. Winpwn won't correctly do it. So I found that the .ipsw image is in "My Documents". Copy to desktop, then try to DFU
restore via iTunes. Doesn't work. Found an anecdote in the older winpwn guide that iTunes 7.7 is required, at minimum.
Installed itunes 7.7. Retried restore, got 1601 error from itunes.

12. Rebooted into DFU again, tried again, 1602 error from itunes.

13. Tried using expert mode on winpwn 2.5beta. Apparently easy mode doesn't actually work; it creates the
restore image, but it never goes into the countdown code to pwn the phone. I upped the root partition to 700mb per
some comments on the winpwn page, and it worked like a charm.

14. Installed iTunes 8.01. Reports are on the web that it works fine.

15. EDGE isn't configured. I find a post that references an apple tool for corporate iphone config:
http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/forums/...9&postcount=23
Install that tool and follow the directions. You may find your APN by looking here:
http://www.webmessenger.com/support/APN.jsp
I emailed the file to myself after connecting the iPhone to my local wifi.

16. Cydia only half-works, popping up a message that says "sub-process bzip2 returned...". This is solved by
allowing Cydia to update all of its source sets (just click "changes" on the bottom and then "upgrade (5)"
in the top right).

pI tripped over a reference to artificial intelligence the other day. I guess I tripped because it's not a term I hear very much any more. Maybe it's because I hang around with a lot of geeky people, but it seems quaint and maybe a little pretentious./p pInstead, I hear about a lot of very specific techniques: Bayesian networks, collaborative filtering and the slope-one algorithm. I guess those fall under the artificial intelligence umbrella, but often it's really a matter of harvesting human intelligence and then acting on the results./p pGoogle has just turned on a change that reportedly has been a href=http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/20/google-makes-major-interface-change-to-search-searchwiki/ in a fairly wide test,/a giving logged-in Google users a chance to vote up/down specific items returned by search queries. /p pThis is a huge change for Google, which made its mark by observation-based harvesting of human intelligence. Both Google Search and Google News observe the results of human decisions and use those observations to recommend items. /p pGoogle Search places a high value on inbound links, which are considered to reflect whether a page is authoritative. If a lot of people link to a page, it must be good. This is why blog spammers prowl the net, posting comments that sneakily embed a link to their websites./p pGoogle News looks at the relative prominence that has been given to a story by editors at thousands of news-related websites, then uses that information to help design its top-level presentation. Rather than reflecting the news judgment of an editor at Google (there isn't one), Google reflects a sort of broad consensus among human editors./p pThe new Google feature -- which it calls SearchWiki -- switches gears and asks people to take an overt action to provide it with information about human judgment./p pLet me bring this home to the world of news sites. This is a good thing because the scale and impact of Google will significantly broaden the pool of people who are in the habit of explicitly evaluating items on the net. This is a habit we can use to our advantage./p pMany news sites are adding rate this item features, then using that to display lists of actively top rated stories, often paired with observationally ranked most emailed and most viewed. That's one way to use the information, but it's a fairly naive way./p pI'm far more interested in how we might use this information to generate personalized recommendations using collaborative-filtering principles and that mysterious slope-one algorithm that I mentioned. /p pAs so often is the case, there's a href=http://drupal.org/project/crealready a Drupal module for that/a, one that originated as a 2006 Google Summer of Code project. As we collect rankings, ratings and other overt evaluations on our websites, I'm looking forward to pointing the recommendation module at that data and seeing what comes out of it./p

via MacNN:

SoccerMate ($3) allows users to keep track of shots, cards, time and even stop of time in an interface that represents a soccer field. The stats can be quickly reviewed during a match or after with friends, family or co-players. Users can view the complied data in a match summary which can then be emailed for storage on a computer or to share with others....


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Xenographic writes "SCO has finally lost to Novell, now that Judge Kimball has entered final judgment against SCO. Of course, this is SCO we're talking about. There's still the litigation in bankruptcy court, which allowed this case to resume so that they could figure out just how much SCO owes, which is $3,506,526, if I calculated the interest properly, $625,486.90 of which will go into a constructive trust. And then there's the possibility that SCO could seek to have the judgment overturned in the appeals courts, or even the Supreme Court when that fails. Of course, they need money to do that and they don't really have much of that any more. Remember how Enderle, O'Gara and company told us that SCO was sure to win? I wonder how many people have emailed them to say, 'I told you so.'"pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/21/1849215amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/21/1849215"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/21/1849215amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6PNAbQY3u0Dw0BlmQNdzZ4iy2yc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6PNAbQY3u0Dw0BlmQNdzZ4iy2yc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/P_4EEZTq6hM" height="1" width="1"/

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Disney Fights Piracy on Site it Funded; 56.com, funded by Steamboat Ventures had bootlegged Disney content like full-length copies of WALL-E up on the site. (The Wall Street Journal)

YouTube Testing HD Videos; video giant stealthily trying out the higher quality 720p format. (Epicenter Blog) CNET teaches how to tweak your YouTube embeds for HD playback.

BitGravity Launches Multi-View, Will Be Used on Diggnation; viewers can choose from five different simultaneous video streams of the show. (emailed release)

BBC’s Local Video Plan Blocked; regulators say the the $100 million project to add video bulletins to 65 local UK web sites would hurt video efforts of struggling local newspapers. (paidContent)

DVD Sales Are Down; sales of the shiny discs off 9 percent during the third quarter, Blu-Ray’s prospects even bleaker. (The New York Times)

Justin Timberlake’s SNL Skit Pulled Because of Music Clearances; embeds of the Single Ladies sketch did disappear, but not because Timberlake wanted more money. (LA Times)

Mr. Internet Wants to Be the “Talk Soup” of Web Culture; created by agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky show will collect all manner of web-based stories and air on Plum TV. (MediaWeek)

Since the game is right around the corner and I'm looking forward to it thought I'd make a thread with some of the news lately.
http://prince-of-persia.us.ubi.com/intro/


Release Date is 12-02-08.

Pre-orders are automatically upgraded to the Limited Edition for free!
Quote: Reserve Prince of Persia and you will automatically be upgraded to receive the FREE Limited Edition upgrade. This is a reservation-only offer. While supplies last. Limited Edition will include:

• An exclusive look at the making of Prince of Persia
• A Prima digital mini-strategy guide
• A digital art book chronicling the game’s journey
• Original soundtrack scored by master composer Inon Zur
• Collectible Limited Edition packaging.

New announced DLC:
Altair Skin: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/932/932434p1.html
Old Prince Skin (free ) if you Pre-order from Gamestop: http://www.gamestop.com/browse/Produ...px?groupid=226

They are supposed to be heavily supporting DLC for this game which should be interesting.

Deals:
Amazon Pre-order price is 56.99 w/ free saver shipping: Amazon.com Exclusive Pre-order Bonus Order your copy of Prince of Persia and receive the Amazon.com Exclusive Prince of Persia Penny Arcade Digital Comic. Limited to products shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Offer valid while supplies last. Instructions on how to download the comic will be emailed 10 business days after the release date.

Pre-order Bonus
Pre-order your copy of Prince of Persia for the Xbox 360 and get $10 off a future video game purchase. Offer valid when shipped and sold by Amazon.com

I'll post more info as I find it. :)

Hey everybody,

New to this forum, but you guys looked pretty helpful...

I Just bought iFlixs to manage my account, especially my "instant queue" account as I have an xbox 360 with the new netflixtastic update. Unfortunately when I sign into the app and click on the "instant queue" button at the top I get a popup note saying this:

"Could not load instant queue. Note: instant queue works only for the primary Netflix login on an account"

Now I only have the one account and definitely only have the one login for it. The weird thing is that it displays my normal queue without a problem and I can even add things to my instant queue as well, I just cant see and manage it.

I have emailed the developer of that app but so far no response, perhaps one of you guys could shed some light or have a fix?

thanks so much

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/24449?ns=guardianpageName=Media%3A+BBC+reveals+catalogue+of+errors+that+led+to+Russell+Brand+and+Jonathan+Ross+rowch=Mediac3=guardian.co.ukc4=Russell+Brand%2CJonathan+Ross%2CBBC%2CRadio+industry+%28Media%29%2CMedia%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CMedia+Weekly%2CComedy%2CRadio+Media%2CTelevision+Media%2CTVc6=Tara+Conlanc7=2008_11_21c8=1121970c9=articlec10=GUc11=Mediac12=Russell+Brandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FMedia%2FRussell+Brand" width="1" height="1" //divpThe a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/bbc"BBC/a has admitted that nobody at Radio 2 listened to the controversial a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/russell-brand"Russell Brand/a show in which he and a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/jonathan-ross"Jonathan Ross/a left offensive remarks on Andrew Sachs' mobile voicemail before it was aired. /ppThis admission is just one of a series of damning revelations revealed today when the BBC published its internal report on the "Sachsgate" affair./ppThe report includes a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/21/russell-brand-jonathan-ross1"a series of revealing emails/a between senior BBC Radio 2 executives and The Russell Brand Show producer Nick Philps prior to the October 18 broadcast that sparked the Sachsgate row./ppThese email exchanges lay bare a breakdown in communication and, in some cases, what the BBC called a "failure of editorial judgment". /ppThe report concludes there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2" Brand's independent production company, Vanity Projects, which made his show for the station./ppAnd it reveals that Ross and Brand had recently been on the BBC's "safeguarding trust" course – set up and designed to ensure no repeat of the breaches of viewers' trust and editorial standards that have dogged the corporation over the last 18 months./ppIn what will be seen as an extraordinary decision, it has also emerged that no compliance form was completed by a BBC executive or producer ahead of the transmission of the Brand show on Saturday October 18./ppThe BBC management report into the affair said the October 18 programme was only "retrospectively approved" for transmission by the Radio 2 head of compliance, Dave Barber./ppLesley Douglas, the Radio 2 controller, told the internal inquiry she believed Barber had a "responsibility to listen to the programme and to sign it off", whereas he "was adamant" it was not part of his job. Douglas and Barber subsequently resigned over the Sachsgate affair, as did Brand./ppBrand's show used to be made in-house by the BBC, but this year was transferred Vanity Projects./ppThe report said Barber "recognised that independent programmes should be listened to inside the BBC but not that it was his responsibility"./pp"We hadn't discussed how this was to happen – perhaps there was an assumption I would do it," he told the BBC Sachsgate inquiry./ppAnother problem highlighted by today's BBC report is the fact that despite the concerns raised about potentially controversial content on Thursday October 16, the editing of the Brand show that aired on Saturday October 18, was not completed until just before transmission. /pp"The producer [Nic Philps] did not complete and submit a compliance form. He said he did not do so because he knew that there was no one at Radio 2 to receive and read the form, therefore he elected to complete the form the following week," the report stated./pp"The Radio 2 head of compliance [Barber] said he recognised that as a result of the situation described above no one in Radio 2 would read the compliance form or listen to the programme before it went to air," it added./pp"It was his judgment that he did not need to see the compliance form or hear the programme ahead of transmission."/ppThe report stated that on Tuesday October 21: "The Russell Brand programme producer completed and submitted an independent production company compliance form for the programme of October 18 which was then loaded into the BBC's Proteus system. Once in the system the Radio 2 head of compliance retrospectively approved transmission."/ppOther breakdowns in communication are highlighted by the investigation, including the fact that because she was not in the office Douglas was not aware for four days that Sachs' agent had emailed her a complaint about his treatment by Brand and Ross on Thursday October 24./ppShe only discovered it had been sent on the evening of Sunday October 26 – after the Mail on Sunday ran a front-page story./ppOn Saturday October 25 Douglas had texted the director of audio and music, Tim Davie, to say: "re tomorrow's Mail regarding last week's Russell Brand Show where he called Andrew Sachs ... I am not around tomorrow morning – for info the programme had language and content warnings at the front as did the online./pp"The producer checked with Andrew Sachs that it could be used before it went out as the show was pre-recorded./pp"We have received no complaint from him or his management as far as we are aware and the show itself received jsu [sic] 2 complaints with one being about Russell sending up Jonathan Ross who was co-hosting with him (for info the Mail often do damning pieces about Russell or Jonathan)."/ppUnfortunately, all through the day on October 26 after the Mail on Sunday splash the BBC press office had been "maintaining Radio 2's line that the BBC was unaware of any complaint and this was included in BBC News' coverage of the story on the day", the report stated./ppAs soon as she saw the email from Sachs' agent that evening, Douglas wanted to send an apology but was advised against it by the BBC's corporate press office./ppAlthough BBC management and the trust have now completed their reports, regulator Ofcom is still investigating the complaints it received about the lewd messages to Sachs./ppOfcom has the power to fine the BBC up to £250,000 per transgression for breaches of its broadcasting code. /ppemstrong·/strong To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email a href="mailto:editor@mediaguardian.co.uk"editor@mediaguardian.co.uk/a or phone 020 7239 9857. 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I have been waiting for the Xroad GPS navigation app to come out ever snce it was announced.

The website still says early November.

I emailed them to see when it would be released and this is the reply I had (I think it is a standard reply)-I don't think they will mind me posting this either.

I hope it is released as it looks good. Interesting on no voice prompting though.

Dear Customer,

Thanks for your interesting in our Gmap application.

It'll be available to download from next week.

With current version any voice prompted turn by turn instruction won't be available based on APPLE's rule.

Best regards,


http://www.xroadgps.com/Maps/GMapfor...3/Default.aspx

SoccerMate ($3) allows users to keep track of shots, cards, time and even stop of time in an interface that represents a soccer field. The stats can be quickly reviewed during a match or after with friends, family or co-players. Users can view the complied data in a match summary which can then be emailed for storage on a computer or to share with others.G FORCE ($3) turns an iPhone or iPod touch ...

SoccerMate ($3) allows users to keep track of shots, cards, time and even stop of time in an interface that represents a soccer field. The stats can be quickly reviewed during a match or after with friends, family or co-players. Users can view the complied data in a match summary which can then be emailed for storage on a computer or to share with others....

I’ve posted about this blog already but I have to come back to it. A Dominican University Journalism class is using a Blogspot blog to report news and more to the campus and beyond. Our Dean of Rosary College, Jeff Carlson, shared the URL with me and I subscribed immediately.

I was rather excited so I emailed the GSLIS Faculty and the Academic IT Committee:

It’s a journalism class - and the content just keeps coming! The voices are human, honest and engaging. I have learned so much about Dominican and student life from this blog - I’ve added it to my news portal. Created simply with Blogger, it seems to be generating many comments and feedback. I have pointed to it once on my blog but will be writing about it again and sharing it with my social tools colleagues.  Good stuff.

I truly believe this is the future of marketing and engagement - a perfect example of social med