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Studying in the noisy library at the University of South Florida – Tampa campus has helped me prepare for the distractions that I might run into. Sometimes, though, I just want to quickly do some studying here at the apartment. the library also does not give me the 5 minute proctor warnings nor the convenience of helping with pacing.

This lead me to searching around the internet for something to remedy my problem. I learned about the LSAT Proctor DVD created by Simugator, but I have spent quite a lot of money on LSAT materials and could not bring myself to spend $25 on a Proctor DVD. I thought to myself, “How hard can it be to make a simple MP3 that does the same work?” From 6:30am this morning until about 8:30am, I sat in my bed and created the following file. I used sound effects from freesound.org licensed under a creative commons agreement, my allergy-ridden voice, my MacBook pro and Soundtrack Pro to create this cacophony without having to purchase any additional materials. Since this didn’t cost me anything other than time, I see no reason to charge anyone for it.

It is only ~35 minutes long with the proctor introduction, 5-minute warning and proctor stop-issue. Between those segments, there are a plethora of sound effects that appear throughout the piece. I’m sure if I spent a little more time on it, I could make a better file and I might make LSAT Cacophony 2.0 and Extreme versions later. for right now, though, I hope this suffices.

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Padawan Law – LSAT Cacophony

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Described as a mishmash of existing services (TwitterTwitter, chat, file sharing) that has only attracted attention because its founder was behind DiggDigg, things didn’t look good for Pownce. we expected the worst: but like the iPhone, Pownce miraculously lives up to the hype. Don’t judge it before you test it.

I have a confession to make. I’ve used Twitter, and I wrote about it a lot, but I never could quite understand why it’s so damn limited. Instant-blogging aside, it’s web based instant messaging – but it’s done in such an impossibly silly way – you can only send messages to everyone, and people won’t engage in conversations because they have other friends and those friends don’t want to hear your private chat. So, it’s just a bunch of mindless, one-way messages.

And, if you already started to write a comment about how Twitter has private messaging, I know about that. but, it isn’t done very conveniently, it doesn’t have much features, and, again, it defeats the purpose of Twitter: it’s just a poor man’s IM.

On the other hand, ever since Twitter first appeared, I wondered why the hell don’t IM clients simply add Twitter-like functionality – it doesn’t seem that hard. Because, as you might know, IM is great for one on one conversation, and you can also chat, but if you want to send one file to three friends, or one link to all the people that are working on some project with you…well, in most cases, it kinda sucks.

Enter Pownce, Kevin Rose’s latest startup, which we were extremely skeptical about when it first arrived on the scene less than 24 hours ago. Who needs yet another IM client, we wondered. well, we still stand by that: it IS just another IM client. but this one simple feature, for an IM-junkie like me, is vital.

Send files to one person, everyone, or a group of people – we’ve been waiting for this feature for all our online lives.

And it is this: on Pownce, you can send a message, or a file, or a song, or an event, to one person; or three of your friends; or only your family; or everyone. That’s right, you can engage in private conversations, you can speak to the world, you can have a group of close friends, and a group of associates, and a group of unknown people you just added to your profile, and you can choose when you want to send stuff to any of these groups. with this simple feature Pownce trounces all over Twitter, and comes close to being more useful than most IM clients.

As far as other options go, Pownce has themes, which are nice for simple pimping of your profile; it also has solid filtering options for your messages, which makes your life much easier (try to find that link someone sent you 6 days ago on Twitter).

Furthermore, it has it’s Adobe AIRadobe AIR desktop based version, which – although still in alpha stage – works without any obvious glitches. It has problems, though – it’s just a simple interface for Pownce and it gives you only a small fraction of its features. This will not be good enough – you’re competing with IM, not only Twitter here, Kevin – it needs to be a full featured desktop client – think Miranda and Gaim.

Pownce Themes – how do you want to look today?

Although seemingly just another IM app, Pownce brings enough cool features to the table to make us want to leave all our IM services behind and switch. but, therein lies a catch – it’s easy for me to switch, but how will I make all my friends and family and business associates to switch? To keep track of all the various protocol people use for messaging, I use Miranda. and I sure as hell hope that Pownce’s protocols are done in such a way to enable Miranda/Gaim/TrillianTrillian support, because without it, it will be much harder for people to become real everyday users.

Want more Internet? the HTC EVO 4G, the nation’s first WiMAX phone, has more Internet than any phone in America today. it has more Internet than the HTC Droid Incredible ($299.99, ), and the iPhone 3GS ($199.99-299.99, ). all that Internet takes a toll on the EVO’s battery, so you’ll need to recharge it often when using 4G. But if you live online, the EVO offers a big, beautiful, and powerful window to the world.

We’ve seen WiMAX handhelds in the U.S. before. But the Samsung Mondi ($449.99, ) and Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition ($449.99, ) weren’t also fully-capable 3G phones, limiting their appeal. the EVO starts with a world-class 3G smartphone and adds 4G as a “turbo boost” option. if you’re an intensive Web user, you’ll like it even without 4G.

Physical Design and Basic Features the EVO is a big black slab, superficially similar to the HTC HD2 ($199.99 – $449.99, ) for T-Mobile. Like the HD2, the EVO has a 4.3-inch, 800-by-480 LCD screen. the screen is terribly reflective; it’s barely usable outdoors. Indoors, though, it’s gorgeous—even better than the 3.7-inch OLED on the HTC Droid incredible and Google Nexus One ($179.99-529.99, ). making the screen slightly bigger makes text more readable and icons more clickable without any visible jagginess.

The phone doesn’t have a physical keyboard, so you’re reliant on HTC’s touch keyboard. While it’s visually attractive and more accurate than the standard Android keyboard, it’s nowhere near as easy or accurate as the iPhone keyboard; I found myself making more errors than I do either on an iPhone or on the physical keyboard of a BlackBerry.

One other neat physical feature: there’s a kickstand on the back. You’re probably going to watch a lot of video on this phone, and the kickstand props it up at a comfortable angle.

The EVO is a 4G phone, but it can’t (yet) make phone calls over 4G. call quality on this phone with Sprint’s 3G CDMA network isn’t that great, either. the sharp top edge of the phone wasn’t very comfortable against my ear, and calls sounded rough and harsh as well. It’s loud, but not clear. the speakerphone is loud but sound is somewhat thready and hollow. Voices from the EVO’s microphone sound harsh and flat on the other end. the phone paired easily with an Aliph Jawbone Prime ($129.99, ) headset, but I couldn’t use voice dialing with the headset. I got 7 hours and 24 minutes of talk time on the EVO in 3G mode. That’s pretty good, but the story is quite different on 4G WiMAX.

The phone runs the Google Android 2.1 OS with HTC’s Sense UI extensions. HTC rewrote the dialer, contact book, calendar, and home screen (among other apps) to make them more usable. most notably, the phone comes pre-populated with a bunch of useful widgets like time, weather, and the music player (you can get rid of them if you like) and ties various social networks into your address book. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and Microsoft Exchange contacts all link together; when you call a friend you’ll see her Facebook photo, and you can jump from her contact card to see her Facebook updates.

There’s a ton of useful software on here. HTC packs desk-clock and car-mode options, along with an FM radio, a Twitter client, two GPS navigation options (Google’s and Sprint’s), a combined social-networking client called “Friend Stream,” Microsoft Office and PDF document readers, and Sprint’s streaming TV, NASCAR, and NFL applications. Third-party apps run quickly on the 1-GHz processor; benchmark scores were on par with the similar Google Nexus One and HTC Droid incredible phones.

The two hottest apps on here, of course, are Qik—which lets you stream video directly to the Internet or, in the future, make video calls using the EVO’s front-facing webcam—and Sprint’s Hotspot app, which lets you use the EVO as a Wi-Fi hotspot for $30 extra per month.

3G vs 4GWith 3G, this is a very good smartphone and if it was a 3G-only phone, it would still be impressive. But when I took it down to Philadelphia, my nearest WiMAX city, things really opened up.

At review time, I couldn’t actually call anyone with 4G. Sprint promises Qik video calling, but it wasn’t ready on my demo model. Truphone VoIP doesn’t work on this phone, and Skype’s deal with Verizon Wireless means they won’t write an app for this phone, for now at least.

Rather, 4G let me do more things on the Internet at once, with improved response times. you can pretty much assume that streaming anything on the phone won’t have to buffer. I streamed Rhapsody music while resolving a Google Earth page and using the phone as a hotspot with my laptop to check my e-mail.

YouTube on the EVO reveals an HD mode when you’re in 4G or Wi-Fi coverage, which gives you smooth, clear, full-screen videos. That’s a huge improvement over the horribly impressionistic, blurry mess of YouTube on 3G.

Web pages loaded anywhere from 40 to 250 percent faster on 4G as opposed to 3G. But an annoying quirk kept reminding me that Android, and the mobile ecosystem, may not be quite ready for 4G: Web sites kept delivering their dumbed-down mobile sites to this huge, fast, high-res device. In many cases I couldn’t figure out how to get to, say, MTV’s main Web site from the Android browser.

That, in turn, reminded me of another annoying issue: 4G isn’t ready for America. the network only covers a few dozen cities; I had to travel 100 miles from my house to use it. In Philadelphia’s city center, I had periodic 4G dropouts, and Sprint execs have publicly disparaged the quality of Clearwire’s WiMAX buildout here. I’ve had very inconsistent experiences in other cities, as well. In Las Vegas, for instance, I’ve seen speeds of 8 megabits down in a residential part of town, but no coverage in major Strip hotels.

In terms of pure speed, I got between 2.2 and 4 megabits down when using the phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot for my MacBook Pro laptop. Doing things on the phone, of course, reduced the bandwidth available for the laptop. Starting with 2.28 megabits down, the laptop dropped to 1.44 megabits when I streamed Rhapsody on the phone, and 1 megabit when I was also watching an HD YouTube video on the phone.

The hotspot feature is great, within reason. While I had no problem streaming HD YouTube videos on the phone, YouTube and Hulu videos both stuttered and buffered on a PC. Less demanding apps, like Twitter and Web browsing, didn’t have any problems on a PC.

4G utterly hoses the EVO’s battery. While I got more than 7 hours of talk time on 3G, I managed to kill the EVO’s battery in three and a half hours of heavy 4G use, including lots of streaming media and hotspot usage (sometimes at the same time.) Fortunately, it’s easy to switch between 3G and 4G, thanks to a convenient home-screen widget. We’d suggest sticking with 3G most of the time, and powering up 4G when you need an extra boost.

Internet, Video Streaming, and MediaEspecially with 4G, the EVO offers a spectacular Web experience. Pages render fast, you can pinch to zoom in the built-in browser, and you can select from several different browsers in the Android Market. with the built-in Android browser, you get Flash Lite 3.1, enough to show some but not all video—BBC is in, Hulu is out—and most interactive menus. That’s more than the iPhone 3GS gives you.

Streaming media seems to be 4G’s calling, for now, and the EVO offers a wide variety of options. Rhapsody, Pandora, and Slacker all streamed music loud and clear, though I wish 4G improved their sound quality. you don’t have Hulu, but Sprint TV nowadays is almost as good, with content from Disney, FOX, USA, ABC, CBS, NBC, Bravo, ESPN, SyFy, and others, including full episodes of top hits like “Lost,” “CSI” and “NCIS.” a separate CBS application called TV.com streams more CBS shows. Sprint TV didn’t always play in full screen, but shows looked smooth and clear. TV.com shows, on the other hand, looked low-res—they appeared to be upscaled from 320-by-240 videos.

The EVO 4G plays your own media, too, of course. the phone comes with an 8GB memory card installed, and my 16GB SanDisk card worked fine. Music and video sound played well over Altec Lansing Backbeat ($99.99-129.99, ) Bluetooth stereo headphones. the phone likes MP4 videos best, and plays VGA-quality videos in full screen mode. H.264, DIVX, and XVID wouldn’t play consistently or at all, which is an Android platform problem. AAC, MP3, and WMA formatted music all played and showed album art. the phone doesn’t come with a way to sync music with your PC, though; we recommend the free program doubleTwist (Free, ). the phone has an HDMI output to play video on TVs, but Sprint couldn’t provide us with an HDMI-compatible cable for this review.

The EVO 4G boasts two cameras. On the front, there’s a basic 1.3-megapixel webcam for taking self-portraits and making Qik videos. the rear camera is an 8-megapixel model with 720p hi-def video recording, but that doesn’t cure it of typical cameraphone ills. Indoor photos have a major problem with soft focus and blur, and outdoor photos look oversharpened. Videos recorded at 720p looked a bit jerky; VGA-resolution videos, on the other hand, were sharp and smooth.

The TeleNav-powered Sprint Navigation, available on most Sprint phones, offers voice prompts, spoken street names, and traffic alerts; you can use Google’s navigation software if you prefer. Both apps displayed routes and locations accurately, but they’re dependent on network coverage, unlike non-free navigation apps.

Like many early media review model phones, my EVO 4G had a few bugs which I assume will be worked out within the first few weeks. sometimes the Internet connection became a bit confused, requiring a reboot, and the “call” button in the dialer appeared shunted off to the right at one point.

ConclusionThe HTC Evo has flaws. I’m rating it a 4 stars rather than a 4.5 because of its harsh voice quality and especially because 4G doesn’t cover many cities yet. I’m also not in love with its touch keyboard. But it’s so far ahead of other Sprint phones in so many ways, it’s in a class that only contains the HTC incredible, Google Nexus One, iPhone 3GS, and itself. the EVO is Sprint’s “super phone,” the ultimate handset for its network. its modern Android 2.1 OS, stunning design, and 4G power easily take the Editor’s choice crown away from the HTC Touch Pro2 ($349.99-449.99, ). Still, there are caveats: Not many cities have 4G yet and the EVO’s design privileges Internet and messaging over voice calling. While the EVO’s groundbreaking speed and power earn it our Editor’s choice, there’s still room for Sprint’s aging Palm Pre ($299.99-549.99, ) and the upcoming BlackBerry Bold 9650 as smaller, simpler devices with better call quality and physical keyboards.

The Sprint EVO 4G is coming out on June 4th, three days before Apple and AT&T are anticipated to release their next iPhone. the EVO will cost $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a two-year contract.

Benchmark Test ResultsContinuous Talk Time: 7 hours 24 minutes

Compare the HTC EVO 4G with several other mobile phones side by side.

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April 15, 2010, 2:06 PM EDT

by Beau Colburn

Most of the mainstream attention surrounding Twitter focuses on the service’s ability to share news and bits of everyday life in real-time with friends and followers. however, a subculture exists where Twitter users also share and track especially funny or interesting tweets.

This is done by “favoriting” or “starring” the tweet. Twitter’s Web interface and almost all third-party Twitter clients, allow you to click the Favorite button (a star) and have the tweet saved to your list of favorites. (For example, you can see my favorites here). Starred tweets can be tallied into a leaderboard where your star is your vote. Viewing the most starred tweets is a fun way to find new people and get some good laughs. You can also see who may have starred something you said that they found helpful, funny or clever. I’m constantly amazed at the humor and description that people manage to fit into 140 characters.

Naturally, a handful of services have popped up over the years that track these favorites, including Favstar.fm and Tweeteorites. both of these sites offer iPhone apps as mobile companions, though each offers different functionality.

Favit, by Favstar.fm is very nicely designed and features a simple layout. You log in to app with your Twitter ID, which allows you to star tweets and add users from within the app from IMS. Favit’s $30 cost is important to note because, at a time when most lighter weight entertainment apps are priced below a few dollars (even most of the best full-featured Twitter apps sell below $5), the price stands out.

When you launch Favit, you’re presented with a large box that contains a popular tweet. Touch the big, gray star below it if you would like to favorite the tweet. (Touching the star turns it yellow.) The author of the tweet is not immediately visible, but if you pull down on the text box, a small window slides up behind it that shows the author’s name and avatar, along with three buttons below that allow you to add the user to your Favstar.FM list, e-mail a link to the tweet, or retweet it. after viewing the tweet, you can swipe to the right to show the next unread tweet. and that’s it.

The Favit interface and design is well done, but the way it pulls in content may not be for everyone. There is no mention of when the tweets you are viewing are from (in fact, I noticed that some are months old). Ideally, it would be nice to know the time period that you are viewing. Are they the most starred tweets in the past 24 hours? The past month? all time? it doesn’t appear to be random, which is frustrating. A Halloween joke is a lot more funny in October than it is in April. Still, if you’re just looking for a quick laugh, even with no context, Favit can be a fun–if expensive–way to spend a few minutes.

Tweeteorites by Planetary Scale takes a much different approach to the content it provides, and many people will find it more familiar. The look and feel of the app is very simple and clean; it reminded of the Birdfeed Twitter client in many ways.

When you launch Tweeteorites, you see three main sections (plus a Settings and about window): Leaderboard, Friends’ Favorites, and Ego Boost. The sections are self-explanatory. Leaderboard lists the tweets that have been starred the most in the last 24 hours or so. Each tweet is time-stamped and shows the author’s name, avatar, and the number of stars received. Click on any individual tweet, and a new window slides over, showing the tweet (with date and time), actions for starring or retweeting, and a list of all people that have starred the tweet. The Friends’ Favorites section shows a list of tweets that have been starred by people you follow. Click on any of the tweets to see which of your Twitter friends has starred the tweet. both the Leaderboard and Friends’ Favorites are fun and easy ways to find other entertaining people that you may be interested in following. The Ego Boost section lists your own tweets that people have starred. (Tweeteorites also has built-in push notifications to alert you when someone has favorited your tweet or you have been added to the Leaderbaord; however, I found the consistency to be spotty at best).

Both Favstar.fm and Tweeteorites require that you connect to their respective services so that they can index your tweets and favorites. This also means that people who favorite your tweets must also be registered with either service for their choices to be recorded.

Retweeting is a slightly more mainstream phenomenon than favoriting in the Twitter world. when someone retweets a message, they are sending it out to all of their followers, while giving credit to the original poster. Unlike favoriting a tweet, which is passive (no one knows you’re doing it unless they care to look), retweeting shows the message in the Twitter stream of everyone that follows you.

Colin Tulloch’s Retweet shows the most popular retweets from certain time periods (30 minutes through 24 hours). In my testing, Retweet had a number of problems, offering almost no value as a result.

When you launch Retweet, a menu on the top of the screen allows you to select the time period you would like to view. From there, a list of the most retweeted items shows up below. You’re supposed to be able to click on any item to view more details, and retweet it to your followers (if you chose). Every time I tried, I got a different tweet when I clicked through than the one that was listed. The avatars were wrong, and I often got a message saying the tweet could not be loaded. The official Twitter retweet API is fairly new, and perhaps that was at the root of the problem. Regardless, Retweet remains a problematic app.

Twitter’s value is different for everyone. Some use it to stay in touch with friends, while others use it to read and share news. One of the aspects of Twitter that I value the most is the sharp, intelligent humor, the plays on words, and the laughs. if you’re looking for an app to follow along with this corner of the Twitter world, both Favit or Tweeteorites offer some chuckles; Retweet only offers frustration.

[Macworld Contributor Beau Colburn lives in Boston. He's not particularly funny, but you can still follow him on Twitter.]

Original story – http://www.macworld.com/article/150509/

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Steve Jobs unveiled sweeping changes to the iPhone OS that powers the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch on Thursday, including one that analysts say will bring the company hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue in advertisements within free software.

Before the announcement, Steve Jobs reportedly told advertising executives that this is Apple’s “next big thing,” and he could be right: Analysts say the ad platform will soon bring the company hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue yearly.

For the first time, developers can serve interactive and video ads within apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad from Apple’s servers, and all they have to do to be included is provide Apple with the files.

Apple will keep 40 percent of revenue from the ads — a significant bump from the 30 percent it collects from app developers, record labels and book publishers — in return for selling the hardware, serving the ads and owning the ecosystem within which they run.

“Steve Jobs believes there will soon be around 100 million Apple devices on the market and that most of people’s mobile activity will be dominated by applications, where they will spend around 30 minutes a day,” said Ovum principal analyst Eden Zoller. “According to Jobs, if 10 ads were to appear on each device per day, this would make for one billion ad impressions daily.”

Much of the platform is believed to be based on Quattro Wireless’ mobile ad platform, which Apple purchased for $275 million about four months ago. Steve Jobs hopes to do something new with the iAd platform, he said yesterday: Combine the immersiveness of television ads with the interactivity of web ads using HTML5 code, which has multimedia capabilities that would make its ancestors blush.

As usual, this concept will spread to Android; Google has also embraced HTML5, and has been trying to purchase Quattro rival AdMob for $750 million since last year, although regulators haven’t yet approved the deal. After Apple’s iAd announcement, they are more likely to do so, because Google now has clear competition within the space.

Apple told Wired.com that it will still permit competing mobile ad networks to serve ads within apps on its platforms; deny them would only draw regulatory scrutiny. however, analysts predict that Apple will serve a large percentage of the advertisements running on its devices.

In addition to giving Apple yet another way to profit from its popular devices, iAd borrows a page from Tom Sawyer’s playbook: getting third parties to enhance its platform for free, and even better, charging them for the right to do so. likewise, Sawyer notoriously convinced his friends to paint a picket fence while he stood idly by — eating an apple, of all things.

All in all, analysts believe the iAd platform will be worth far more than the $275 million the company spent on Quattro Wireless.

“We believe in-application advertising could reach roughly $700 million by 2013, with about 70 percent going to ads within the iPhone platform, or $500 million,” said a Piper Jaffrey analyst, according to the Wall Street Journal. “We estimate Apple could capture $380 million of this market through the iAd platform in gross ad revenues, or 77 percent market share on the iPhone platform for advertising as we expect AdMob and others to continue to compete on the iPhone platform.”

These video and interactive ads will appear on devices you can carry around, so their location awareness is critical to extracting the maximum revenue from each ad served. Mobile smartphone ads have some potential for abuse in this regard, because advertisers know who you are, where you are and, often, what you’re doing.

As one safeguard against privacy-invasive advertising, Apple will only allow apps that have “beneficial uses” of locational data to serve location-based ads. in other words, you’ll only see ads related to a place if you’re trying to do something else with that locational information.

The iAd platform, part of the iPhone OS, will allow users to watch videos, play games and even purchase products within an ad inside of an app and is expected to roll out in the next few months.

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With, Chirp, Twitter’s developer conference coming up next week Twitter has made a huge announcement which could wipeout many Twitter apps from the app store. According to Twitter’s blog entry, Twitter has acquired Atebit’s hugely popular iPhone and Mac Twitter client Tweetie. The blog from Twitter’s CEO stated:

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve entered into an agreement with Atebits (aka Loren Brichter) to acquire Tweetie, a leading iPhone Twitter client. Tweetie will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and made free (currently $2.99) in the iTunes AppStore in the coming weeks. Loren will become a key member of our mobile team that is already having huge impact with device makers and service providers around the world. Loren’s work won the 2009 Apple Design Award and we will eventually launch Twitter for iPad with his help.

Tweetie is one of my absolute favorite Twitter clients for the iPhone and Mac and is also top rated by many users. It will be interesting to see how this news affects the developers attending Chirp next week. I really would like to see the amount of apps that will still be on the app store. well, I wasted $2.99 on Tweetie but, it will be well worth it after Twitter’s ramp up.

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Price: Free, Version: 1.0 -> 1.1 (iTunes)

Description:

With the official Kenny Chesney app, fans can interact with Kenny and each other like never before! This FREE app brings together one of the most successful artists of the last decade and the most cutting edge technology available to give fans an experience that is unique to the iPhone.

No Shoes Radio: get live streaming access to no Shoes Radio, Kenny’s internet (and now mobile) radio station! Fans can access Kenny’s musical world beyond his hits and “capture the vibe at the tailgate parties, the backstage hallways and the unguarded moments on his tour.” no Shoes Radio includes live performances, dressing room jams and tunes from Kenny’s iPod ranging from reggae, classic and contemporary rock and everything in between. With a set of headphones or a cheap audio cord, you’re ready to take no Shoes Radio with you around town, on your stereo, in your car, on your boat… Wherever you roam, your soundtrack on no Shoes Radio is coming too.

Touring: View tour dates, purchase tickets, invite friends to come along, use the iPhone GPS to get directions and even set your own countdown.

Merchandise: Browse official Kenny Chesney items, from t-shirts to stickers and guitar picks, and buy them with ease.

News: get the latest info on all things Kenny, including exclusive updates and links to Kenny’s official Facebook, and MySpace.

Twitter: Track updates to Kenny’s personal Twitter account, access the no Shoes Radio tweets, and read what other Kenny fans are tweeting about. The app comes complete with an integrated Twitter client, so you can tweet directly from the app with your personal account… without interrupting no Shoes Radio. Jump in and join in the conversation!

Media: See the latest photos and videos from Kenny and listen to your favorite Chesney hits. Check out the fan photos and your Kenny cover songs from YouTube. you can also purchase music and videos direct through the iTunes store.

There are many more features and surprises for you to discover in the Official Kenny Chesney app.

As a gift to the incredible fans who make the music possible, we invite you to share Kenny’s favorite music on no Shoes Radio, customize your background to make the app your own, and enjoy the many features and functions on one of the most innovative apps around… all for free.

Internet Connection Recommended:
This app is designed to be updated often. to make sure you have the most recent photos, videos, news, and more, close and open the app to refresh.
First, make sure you are connected to the internetWhat’s New

-Enhanced radio quality

-The ability to listen to NSR outside of the Kenny Chesney Application.

-Improved listening experience
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It was reported on the 17th that SHINee’s Minho was injured during a filming for KBS2TV’s Dream Team Season 2.

It was revealed that during one of the routine game segments, Minho had lost his grip while trying to grab something and fell awkwardly into the styrofoam pool. If you look at the captures and video below, Minho lands awkwardly on his back and doesn’t get up immediately.

Minho was immediately whisked away to a nearby medical facility for treatment and also got an x-ray. Nothing serious was diagnosed by the doctor although a CT scan will be scheduled at a later date, just to make sure Minho is safe and sound. he has now returned to the filming set to finish up the recording.

It was an unfortunate accident for Minho as he has been one of the shining lights on the show with his immense athleticism and is well-liked by viewers.

We wish him a speedy recovery!

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If you have authored, recorded a DVD and you want to reedit or re-author it again then just convert the DVD back to a MPG file for easier editing and authoring; If you wish to get a few minutes worth of mpg videos from commercial DVDs for editing with other movies, there is one program called DVD to mpg converter for Mac can solve all the problems you have.

iOrgSoft DVD to MPG Converter for Mac integrates DVD decrypter, DVD movie decoder and video editor as a simple yet powerful program specifically designed for Mac users, it can rip and compress DVD to MPG/MPEG format with least time while remain high visual-audio quality. Mac DVD to mpg Converter also supports rip only audio from DVD and save file as MP3, AAC,FLAC,M4A and MP2,etc. the MP3 audio is optimized for various devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Creative Zen and Blackberry, etc.

iOrgSoft DVD to MPG Converter for Mac allows you to trim, crop DVD movies and merge separate video clips into one file. Most importantly, you will be able to have full control over the outcome video quality by tuning Resolution, Bit rate, Frame rate. The output destination and output format (video/audio) are all customizable. The program doesn’t require too much computer skill to use, it is definitely user-friendly that suitable for both novice and pro alike Mac users.

.mpg stands for The Moving Pictures Expert Group devised formats for storing both movies and sounds. Both types also utilize lossy compression that is designed to take advantage of the limitations of human vision and hearing. The usually MPEG files are mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-3 and mpeg-4, which are not limited to computers; some digital satellite television transmissions use an MPEG format, and DVDs use an MPEG format.

Mpg Converter for Mac is a great tool that ables to convert mpg to avi, wmv, mpeg, mp4, h.264 and vob video for Mac. it also enables you to convert certain video to .mpg. Whether it is about converting video, or extracting audio or simply acting as a poweful video player, it just does all the work pretty well. there’re more than that….

follow the How-to guide below, you’ll soon find what a awesome app it is.

Step 1. Download and install Mpg converter for Mac
For the first time user of this program, you are going to use an unregisterd version of Mpg converter for Mac. you don’t have to register or purchase it immediately. on the contrary, you are encouraged to evaluate it in a full direction. the unregistered version and registered version has no defference at all regarding it performace and function.

Step 2. load video files
Do you notice the Add File…on the top menu? click it to a video file, if you have more than one file need to be processed, go ahead. The program fully supports that. check out the profile…. pull down list to assign a oput format for the source video.

step 3. Video editing
come on, don’t be shy, this requires no prior computer experience.just few clicks will make your video much more colorful.

Step 4 start conversion
You are set now after all the things. Click Start, the program will run iommediately. the time takes vary with the file size and the various parameters you set.if you don’t want to sit in front of your computer and wait, you can t tick the little box which says shut down the computer while the conversion is done

eBay is restricting pre-sale listings of Apple iPads, which are larger tablet-sized version of the iPhone/iPod Touch and are expected to go on sale in the spring. eBay said “most” sellers would be allowed to list an Apple iPad during the pre-sale period prior to the launch date of March 27th.

eBay’s Presale policy states:

• Apple authorized resellers will be allowed to list up to 50 items per week.
• eBay Top-rated sellers will be allowed to list up to 4 items per week.
• All sellers meeting minimum performance standards will be allowed to list 1 item per week.
• Sellers offering Apple iPad related domain names or email addresses for sale on eBay will be allowed up to 4 listings per week.

Guidelines for Apple iPad listings after the product is available to the market will be announced at a later date. eBay said any selling activity that appears to mislead buyers regarding the authenticity of the item may result in limitations to selling activity, including account suspension.

As AuctionBytes reported last week, eBay is seeking to capitalize on the launch of Apple’s latest gadget by buying paid-search ads that send visitors to a special landing page on eBay that describe the device.