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Trans-Fast Launches Online Money Transfer Service to the Philippines

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Trans-Fast


New York, NY (PRWEB) February 06, 2012

Trans-Fast Remittance, a leading global money transfer company, announced today the launch of their new online service to the Philippines. The service to the Philippines allows customers to send money online directly to any bank account in Philippines and to over 10,000 cash pick up locations throughout the country. Trans-Fast also provides home cash delivery within 24 hours to key cities, as well as a cash card that can be credited in real time.

To commence the new service to the Philippines, Trans-Fast is giving away an iPad 2 every week for a limited time. Customers can win by simply making a money transfer to the Philippines using a coupon code available on the TransFast.com. All remittances online are automatically entered into the weekly drawing.

“We are unbelievably excited to offer the Filipino community the ability to send money online to their friends and family back home. The combination of our value, service, and convenience makes our service the most economical way to send money to the Philippines,” said Therese Gamboa, Director of Business Development

Trans-Fast’s service is unique in that they provide Filipinos with highest exchange rate for online money transfers to the Philippines, and a dedicated 24×7 customer support over the phone & web chat, Trans-Fast’s mission is to be the most secure, fast, affordable and convenient way of sending money to the Philippines, anytime of the day or night. Trans-Fast will soon be providing their customers the ability to send money online to many more countries.

About Trans-Fast

Trans-Fast Remittances LLC is a worldwide money transmitter & payment solutions company. Trans-Fast was founded in 1988 & is headquartered in New York city. Current footprint includes North America (U.S.A and Canada), Latin America, Europe, Philippines, India and the GCC.

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Cool IPad images

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Check out these iPad images:

Japan – Cherry Blossoms 2
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Simply save this full sized image to your iPad, it will appear in ‘Saved Photos’ and you can make it your homescreen, lockscreen or both.

Afterwards . . .
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Image by Shakespearesmonkey
Based on an earlier attempt for the DPG which I had abandoned. This time done entirely with the iPad Brushes app

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Tectura Retail Expert Randy Davidson Recommends that Retailers Need to Better Consider Social Media Implications to Ensure Cross-Channel Balance

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Randy Davidson


San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) February 22, 2012

In a new blog entry on retail thought leadership site WhatsNextRetail.com today, Tectura Senior Retail Consultant Randy Davidson said that there are new integration issues that have emerged as social media grows and matures, as a sales channel. Davidson said that with Facebook specifically emerging as a large retail opportunity, retailers are challenged with a new emerging channel to support, from a marketing and technology perspective. The challenge of building and supporting the one customer 360 degree view as they engage with all of the retailer’s different channels will continue to grow.

Davidson said every retailer faces this challenge since every customer is looking at Facebook and Twitter feeds for information as well, frequently as they prepare to make a purchase. Often, his advice starts with taking the first step in better engagement with the customer by getting more information into the hands of the stores so they know how to engage with the specific customer.

“This challenge may also lead to the need to invest in new technologies because the consumer is using those new technologies as well.” said Davidson. “With the explosion of iPads and smartphones and how consumers are engaging with those devices, retailers need to be able to at least keep up with their consumers. And it’s really been a problem that consumers are far more ahead of the retailers in many aspects.”

Davidson said he’s optimistic, though, for a lot of reasons. “Many of the retailers we meet with are finally asking the right questions…about how to most effectively get data from these social media outlets into their systems and then back out to store to take action. It’ll be an exciting year as more and more retailers begin to move down this path.”

Randy Davidson is the Senior Retail Industry Analyst at Tectura. and a regular contributor to

WhatsNextRetail.com, a thought leadership site led by members of the Retail Industry Partner Community, a network of Microsoft Dynamics partners.

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How do I keep my iPad2 from cracking in my backpack?

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Question by : How do I keep my iPad2 from cracking in my backpack?
I go to a high school that requires iPads. I want a cute case and not a bulky, overprotective one, but don’t want the screen to crack! How do it keep it intact?!

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Answer by spacemissing
Don’t jam too much else into the pack.

Place the iPad between other items its size or larger.

Don’t drop the pack or bump it against things.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

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LiveAreaLabs Develops iPhone App for World Vision

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World Vision Mobile iOS App by LiveAreaLabs

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) February 21, 2012

LiveAreaLabs, a creative marketing and technology agency is pleased to announce the launch of World Vision Now, an iPhone app that publishes information about international humanitarian issues to a user’s iPhone, iPad, or iTouch.

Designed as a “personal passport” to global news, World Vision Now is an effective mobile platform for humanitarian organization World Vision to publish inspiring news and information that rarely makes mainstream news. With its easy-to-use layout, the app includes stories about the struggles and triumphs of children and their families in developing nations, award-winning documentary photography, and videos that capture the organization’s work in action. Full integration with social networking sites allows users to share stories and videos with others.

“We are thrilled with World Vision Now because it gives us a simple way to publish the stories of people we are helping and create awareness around global issues,” says Roger Flessing, Vice President of Communications at World Vision. “We are looking forward to working with LiveAreaLabs on other initiatives to expand our presence on other mobile platforms.”

The World Vision Now app is available free of charge at the iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/world-vision-now/id476094433?mt=8

About World Vision

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. The organization serves the world’s poor—regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. For more information, visit: http://www.WorldVision.org

About LiveAreaLabs

LiveAreaLabs® is a creative marketing and technology agency. We create brands people love and activate them across all digital media. We believe brands can elevate themselves through the LiveAreas® they create—places where people and brands connect through experiences people choose, share in, and promote.

We partner with clients throughout North America to deliver branding, ecommerce, mobile, consumer applications, and digital marketing solutions. Clients include Brooks Sports, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Fila, Lifetime Brands, London Drugs, Lush, Meredith Wendell, Moving Comfort, Urban Decay, and Virgin HealthMiles. For more information, visit: http://www.livearealabs.com.

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Karl Oskar Lööw, Fredhäll, Uppland, Sweden

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Some cool iPad images:

Karl Oskar Lööw, Fredhäll, Uppland, Sweden
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Image by Blue Sky Day
Painted on an iPad using the art app Paintbook Pro. After the photo on the Flickr photostream of the Swedish National Heritage Board

Digital Darkroom: DSLR + Snapseed
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I’ve been trying out this app by Nik software called Snapseed.

The selective adjustment feature is a standout for photo editing on a touchscreen. What you do is touch the point you want to adjust. The software creates a resizable circular mask anchored around the point you selected and automatically limits the editing area to the object – probably using some sort of colour and luminance matching eg. A symbol or underexposed shadow. You can then adjust the exposure, contrast an saturation of the selected object in quite a natural way without affecting other parts of the photo. It’s like the old darkroom techniques of spotting and dodging, but done with digital precision. It’s hard to explain in words so here’s the demo video

On my last trip I also tried pairing my DSLR with my iPad to backup and process photos on the fly. All I needed was an iPad USB adapter and USB cable to hook it up directly to any digital camera. I usually lug around a MacBook + hard drive.

The workflow from camera to publishing is still a little clunky:
1. Use the standard iOS Photo app to import photos from the camera. It would be really helpful if they made the previews larger so you can actually choose the best shots to import. Instead you get small thumbnails that don’t show you much detail.
2. Open Snapseed and of the photos you did import, try guessing the best one to edit from the small thumbnails. You end up opening and closing photos several times to get the right shot to edit.
3. Use the Snapseed touchscreen editing tools – which are great!
4. Save back to the iOS Gallery.
5. Use whatever it is you do to share photos. With the Flickr app you can tag and upload up to 10 at a time.

It would be great if there was a way to sync all your work back onto a desktop when you finally get home to view and continue editing via a bigger screen so that you can continue on with the editing.

However, I’ve never used a more efficient tool for the editing part. The touchscreen enables me to apply delicate exposure and contrast adjustments and I didn’t have to wait till I got home to get my photos off my DSLR and onto the web. Lookin forward to the next version of this app.

Pros
– selective adjustment for fine and precise image control
– ambience adjustment is a good alternative look to vignette
– great natural adjustments and effects
– brilliant value for AUD.49

Cons
– each edit is burnt in each time you use one of Snapseed’s tools with no undo button
– you can’t batch process
– no end-to-end workflow. It would be greatly improved with better import and export/sharing tools

Comments and links please!
I was keen to try and see if I can do everything I need to on my iPad without having to sit in front of my desktop… seems like we’re not quite there yet. At the moment I can only really use Snapseed for ad-hoc editing but what I’d like to do is pair my camera with my iPad for most of the edits and relegate the Desktop to backups and high detail edits in Photoshop.

If anyone has a better way to process images from their DSLR on their iPad, do tell!
Discussion Thread over on the Snapseed Group

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Ipad 2 users: Have you ever encountered a video in a webpage that you cannot see due to the lack of flash?

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Question by : Ipad 2 users: Have you ever encountered a video in a webpage that you cannot see due to the lack of flash?
Which tablet should I get? Galaxy tab 10.1 or Ipad 2? Is the killing of flash player letting me know that I should get an IPAD 2? My friend tells me that I should still get the Galaxy Tab because it is a better tablet, but I find that there must be a reson why Ipad 2 is the best selling tablet so far. Please help.

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TO READ THIS ANSWER PLEASE INSTALL FLASH

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Apple – iPad 2 – App – AirPlay

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AirPlay lets you use your iPad to stream music, movies, photos, and video to an Apple TV or AirPlay-enabled speakers. That way, if you have something you want to show off, you can share it with everyone in the room in just a few taps.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Parody of the New Promotional Campaign by Apple for the New iPad 2. Directed by Dan Dobi Written by Steve Rogowskey Starring Charlie Capen, Terence Hines, Dan Dobi, Steve Rogowskey Co-Producer: Charlie Capen follow me on ‘dat twit-tar @dandobi This is a parody… we obviously love apple… don’t sue us please!!!
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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