Yesterday at BlackBerry World 2011 we were fortunate to sit down and chat with Chris Smith, Senior Director of the BlackBerry Developer Platform, along with Rasmus and Karl from The Astonishing Tribe. One of RIM’s recent acquisitions, TAT is known for some rather, well… astonishing user interface designs, and for infusing a bit of magic into some of the PlayBook’s apps, such as the bundled picture viewer and calculator. We were shown a number of demos, including the downloadable Scrapbook app, a rather nifty contact list, and a location-aware news reader. Over the years, TAT has built an engine and framework that make it easy for developers to create powerful and attractive UIs, and some of this will be making its way into the PlayBook’s native software development kit sometime this summer. Along with support for Open GL ES 2.0, SQLite, cURL, and POSIX (amongst others), this NDK will provide API’s to control the audio system, the cameras, and the sensors — possibly even code to enable stereoscopic 3D output over HDMI, as demonstrated before. We know that’s a lot of exciting stuff to sink your teeth into, so be sure to get a taste of it by watching our video.

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Yesterday at BlackBerry World 2011 we were fortunate to sit down and chat with Chris Smith, Senior Director of the BlackBerry Developer Platform, along with Rasmus and Karl from The Astonishing Tribe. One of RIM’s recent acquisitions, TAT is known for some rather, well… astonishing user interface designs, and for infusing a bit of magic into some of the PlayBook’s apps, such as the bundled picture viewer and calculator. We were shown a number of demos, including the downloadable Scrapbook app, a rather nifty contact list, and a location-aware news reader. Over the years, TAT has built an engine and framework that make it easy for developers to create powerful and attractive UIs, and some of this will be making its way into the PlayBook’s native software development kit sometime this summer. Along with support for Open GL ES 2.0, SQLite, cURL, and POSIX (amongst others), this NDK will provide API’s to control the audio system, the cameras, and the sensors — possibly even code to enable stereoscopic 3D output over HDMI, as demonstrated before. We know that’s a lot of exciting stuff to sink your teeth into, so be sure to get a taste of it by watching our video.

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An iPAQ GPS unit is a great tool for personal navigation on the highway or in crowded urban areas. With an iPAQ GPS, the coordinates are easy to get and follow, and traveling becomes really stress free. iPAQ has a photo viewing application that allows one to add coordinates to pictures and then store them for later applications. The real photos can be displayed against the geographic coordinates on the map. The iPAQ technology makes it possible for users to create personal mapping systems according to personal and business needs. The device comes with marketing tools, access to web portals and the possibility to transfer land and property data for improved business productivity.

The iPAQ GPS provides visual and vocal guidance for the access to the shortest routes that save time and money. The iPAQ GPS model is considered an HP success in terms of computer compatibility too. The prices for the most advanced packages are a bit spicy as not everyone will invest more than $330 in an iPAQ GPS system, no matter how high tech it may be. Complete maps of the US and Canada are provided together with a Bluetooth receiver. iPAQ owners will be pleased with the travel quality that this kit brings.

If you check the online reviews for iPAQ GPS device, you’ll see that there are good bits and bad bits about this HP product. Considered a bit bulky according to some critics, the receiver makes a good match with the dashboard by its anti-slip features. The more secure alternative is the mounting of the iPAQ GPS on the air vent. It comes with a built-in Bluetooth technology that makes the wireless connection and the data transfer possible to another hardware such as thermal transfer printer or portable printer, and you can perform the map installation upload according to the radius segments that you see fit. When you’ve got the maps you can navigate by contact list, by favorite destinations, by specific address and by intersection.

With iPAQ GPS, you can choose the device features; thus, you can alternative roads over highways or you can select the shortest route to the destination. There are some competitive products that are less comprehensive in terms of features but the turn by turn directions are impeccable and so is real-time information. Thus, you can find out the remaining distance or the estimated time of arrival and also learn about restaurants, gas stations, ATMs and hotels. The accuracy of the device is very high and even if you miss a turn, the device performs a rerouting to get you back on the right track.

While there’s certainly nothing wrong with making your own videos and releasing them on YouTube – in fact I utterly counsel that you do – there’s a very potent way to get thousands of visitors, either to your own videos, your band’s website, or even better a promotional offer like “sign up to our contact list to get our new single for free”, or some other such thing, by simply paying other YouTube users to include a link to your site within their outline box.

*Tip* For more sound advice on Music selling go to Promote Your Music Online or Promote Your Music Squidoo

If you do not quite know what I’m talking about go to Youtube and search the most viewed videos. You need to find a few examples of videos with the link in the outline box.

To the right of the video you must see a link. This is an instance of what I’m talking about.

To try this you simply take the following steps.

Search YouTube with keywords that relate in some way to your song or your band. For instance, if you had done a cover of smells like teen Spirit you may search words like Nirvana, smells like teen Spirit, Grunge, and so on.

Next, sort the results by “view count”. You’re looking for videos with hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions of perspectives. Disregard any videos that are posted by the artist themselves or any videos that already have a link in the outline box.

Then all you have to do is send the users of applicable videos a message explaining that you want to pay them on a once a month bases to put your link in there outline box.

You will possibly only find that one in each ten or 20 folks have an interest in your offer, but if even one link on a very viewed video can suggest thousands of new visitors, and potential new fans each month.

This is just the top of the iceberg.

*Note* I would recommend that you use this strategy with 2nd tier record companies at first and then try your hand with he bigger boys once you have some singles and a good sales previous record under your belt. Maybe even try and get a music publishing contract first.

Most famous labels want to see that you have had some success on your own before taking the danger and offering you a huge advance.

But to be absolutely honest with you for an instant, the concept of getting a record deal for me is a real turn off these days. I have discovered an easy system to create a list of fans and sell my music that’s completely new to the music biz.

This stuff is actually cool and you must definitely check it out below.

With that acknowledged I do hope you enjoyed learning how to get a recording contract and if you have any feedback or questions please make me aware. You will be getting tons more free music selling guides form me over the approaching months.

There are a tremendous amount of features accessible for you to use on the iPhone. In explicit, your iPhone contains a two megapixel, high quality digital camera. This is nice news for shutterbugs, as you are doing not have to take a camera and a mobile phone with you. All you would like is your iPhone. Digital photography together with your iPhone has never been easier. Instead of using your telephone to talk, just point and “click” actually tap your finger,  to get nice high resolution pictures that you’ll be able to immediately send to everyone on your contact list. If you’re even remotely curious about digital photography along with your iPhone, you should give it a strive to see how easy it very is. Even a beginner will take excellent images with the iPhone’s designed in camera.

With your Apple iPhone close at hand, you never have to stress missing a probability to snap a great photograph. It’s terribly simple to store and display all your special photos. Just a tap of your finger will reveal all of the photos you have saved on your iPhone. In addition, when you’re taking your pictures you have got the option of posting them straight into a Mac Photo Gallery. This phone is an amateur photographer’s dream return true. Along with your iPhone, you’re invariably ready to capture the proper photo opportunity. See news or traffic happening, many news stations can pay for photos and short videos taken at a scene, even if you are an amateur. Would not or not it’s nice to earn some dollars along with your telephone?

The iPhone makes showing off your photos fast and easy as a result of you’ll be able to share them virtually instantaneously after taking the pictures. You’ll be able to also easily synchronize your Apple iPhone to your PC or Mac, therefore permitting for more distribution and printing of your pictures. Worries about missing great photo opportunities are a factor of the past after you carry a camera in your cell phone. The Apple iPhone’s camera is well on top of the typical mobile phone standard of 1.5 megapixels. Your iPhone boasts a high resolution, two megapixel camera that is ready to use whenever you want to take a picture. If you are acquainted with camera phones, you will realize that photography together with your iPhone results in picture quality that rivals those from the next priced digital camera. Even in less than ideal things such as poor lighting, the iPhone’s camera automatically adjusts to create each {photograph} you are taking look fabulous. With the Apple iPhone as your camera you are only limited by creativity and obtainable house on your phone. 

Photography with your iPhone is just one of the many capabilities of this cell phone. It’s more like a all in one device that it’s a cell phone. Combining a camera, telephone, MP3 player, furthermore the power to search the web and send texts and emails, you have got a device that will it all. The iPhone by Apple could be a piece of technology combines type, fashion, and productivity into one device. They have place a lot of functionality into the iPhone and the flexibility to require and share top quality, digital photographs wasn’t overlooked. This is often not stunning, as they need been in the pc and peripheral market for a long time.

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What’s the solution to Apple’s stinginess about Google getting an official Google Voice app on the iPhone App Store? A webapp that has about all the functionality, but usable on any HTML5-capable smartphone.

The webapp mimics the functionality of hitting up Google Voice on your desktop. You can make calls, send texts, listen to voicemails, change your settings and access your contacts all from your phone’s browser. It syncs up with your Google account’s contact list—not your iPhone’s contact list—so you’ll have to make sure to sync your contacts to Google first. The Pre however, if you already have your GV account as one of your contacts, should have a more transparent process.

Unlike the Google Voice app now, which calls your phone first and then connects the other party, you actually dial out directly into the Google Voice service, which then hooks you up with who you’re trying to reach. It’s going to be like the 406 numbers that Google Voice users are used to using for shortcuts to their contacts, but possibly not 406, since Google has a pool of numbers they are using.

Google also tells us that you can add dialing credits directly from the phone if you want to make overseas calls, saving you the trouble of having to get on a computer.

All in all, the experience is solid and fluid, mimicking an iPhone app as best as possible on a web interface. If we had any gripes, it would be that when you’re texting someone from your contacts list, it only grabs the phone number and doesn’t display the name after it. Also, that you can’t text multiple recipients. But calling from your contact list is fluid and takes only one more step than regular dialing from your iPhone.

It’s not as good as a native app, but it’s more than adequate. [Google Voice]