Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom smartphone launched with 16-megapixel CMOS Sensor, 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxwZvowcjTtEvuzIfVhSG54DKHg6groNyJhJYv8kTd7hBY2ibrRQJa9LhQg3HQgKncG4S0MRED-G81F0F1PaFs0iwBpMe-JYeuOKg4fWbpVjCJXfpM2rlR3lSeMYVeYNTcrFgQweTZ-9s/s1600/samsung-galaxy-s4+Zoom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxwZvowcjTtEvuzIfVhSG54DKHg6groNyJhJYv8kTd7hBY2ibrRQJa9LhQg3HQgKncG4S0MRED-G81F0F1PaFs0iwBpMe-JYeuOKg4fWbpVjCJXfpM2rlR3lSeMYVeYNTcrFgQweTZ-9s/s320/samsung-galaxy-s4+Zoom.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Samsung has officially announced the<strong><u> Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom</u></strong>. The device is the first camera-focused Android smartphone from the South Korean manufacturer. With a 16-megapixel CMOS Sensor, 16x optical zoom, Optical Image Stabiliser (OIS) and Xenon Flash, the smartphone might be an interesting device for photography enthusiasts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom comes with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display with a resolution of 540x960 pixels. It is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and offers 8GB of internal storage expandable via microSD card. Along with the 16-megapixel rear shooter, the device also comes with a 1.9-megapixel front facing camera. The device runs on the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system with Samsung's TouchWiz UI.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The phone also comes with Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/5GHz (ac), NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 (LE), A-GPS connectivity options and a 2,330mAh battery. On the sensor front, the device has Accelerometer, Geomagnetic, Proximity, Gyroscope and RGB Light sensors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The smartphone camera hybrid comes with a dedicated shutter button. Along with the hardware, Samsung has incorporated various features and modes in the software of the device as well to add to the camera capabilities of the device. The hybrid can be used to click continuous shots at 4fps max with auto focus. The camera also comes with up to 25 smart mode options. These smart modes are namely Beauty face, Best photo, Continuous shot, Best face, Kids shot, Landscape, Dawn, Snow, Macro, Food, Party/Indoor, Action freeze, Rich tone (HDR), Panorama, Waterfall, Animated photo, Drama, Eraser, Sound & Shot, Silhouette, Sunset, Night, Fireworks, Light trace and Smart mode suggest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Samsung has also introduced special functionalities to the 'Zoom Ring'. When you're in the middle of a phone call, a twist of the Zoom Ring will activate the in-call photo share feature. The feature lets you capture and send an image directly via MMS to whoever you are talking to.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With all these features, the phone will also come preloaded with Samsung apps such as Samsung Hub, Samsung Link, Samsung ChatON, S Voice and S Translator.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom Most key specifications:-</u></strong> </span><br /><div align="justify"></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The first camera-focused Android smartphone from the South Korean manufacturer</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="text-align: justify;">4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD touchscreen display</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;"> Resolution of 540x960 pixels</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">Dual-core 1.5GHz processor</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">8 GB internal storage, expandable up to 64GB via microSD card</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">1.5GB RAM</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/5GHz (ac), NFC and Bluetooth 4.0</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">16-megapixel rear camera with Xenon flash, 10X Optical Zoom and 1.9 megapixel front camera</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">Accelerometer, Geomagnetic, Proximity, Gyroscope and RGB light sensors</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">2,330mAh battery</div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;"> Samsung apps such as Samsung Hub, Samsung Link, Samsung ChatON, S Voice and S Translator.</div></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/112865615030946176397" rel="author">Priyanka</a></div>

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Controls engineer - Electrical (Stepper OR servo OR Galil motors | motion control | subsystems) (#109651)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Sr Controls Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Fulltime<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The successful candidate will be a member of a team developing the control electronics subsystem of an advanced wafer inspection system. The subsystem includes multi-axis controllers driving a complex mix of sensors and actuators of various types.  The candidate will be responsible for all design related aspects of the subsystem including cable and PCB design, prototype test and debug, subsystem integration, test and ECO release.  In this role they will work closely with mechanical, manufacturing and reliability engineers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The successful candidate will be experienced in the following areas:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1.Stepper and servo motor control design<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2.Galil (or similar) controller programming<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">3.Cable design<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">4.PCB Design using OrCAD schematic capture<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">5.Prototype PCB test and test fixture set up<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">6.Electrical/Mechanical subsystem integration, test and troubleshooting<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">7.ECO release and documentation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">8.Writing manufacturing/service documentation and provide training<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The successful candidate must also have the following:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1.Strong written and verbal communications skills<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2.Self-motivation with the ability to work independently and with a team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">3.The ability to multi-task<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">4.A desire to expand his/her knowledge through self-study and training<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">5.Strong troubleshooting skills<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Doctorate (Academic) with at least 2 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Master's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kindly send in your resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div></div></div>

Controls engineer - Electrical (Stepper OR servo OR Galil motors | motion control | subsystems) (#109651)

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Oatmeal Cookie Smoothie

<div id="fb-root"></div><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script> I have the hardest time with food right now.  Nothing looks good to me on a daily basis.  I have been absolutely all over the food map with variety during this pregnancy.  One minute I love peanut butter (as I normally would), the next it makes me nauseous   This has been the same pattern with all foods (except, miraculously, milk!) throughout these last 8.5 months.<br /><br />Add to that my issues with preparing food.  Normally, I love cooking.  For most of this pregnancy, cooking has been non existent for me.  I simply cannot do it.  The smells of the food, the texture of raw meat - gag. me. now. <br /><br />Still, as I'm nearing the end of this journey, I know it's time to start getting my mind back into the weight loss game.  I have been eating out during this pregnancy like it's going out of style.  The reason for this is mainly due to the changing tastes.  I could like spaghetti one day, and hate it the next.  I am convinced that all that eating out has certainly played a huge part in the weight gain department. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVm4Rt-f2Ewsg8GSmAimlPyh1BveAnXVmBkXKCAVjwAQxuSJOhgrfCoHfKySNCN6Ie4lBmMVsu8Q6SfzzldjjS86XEtWu9kunDiJ2iwTx9K6hj0ddK1_O7mM9k6UQr28Me72eRj95caq4/s1600/oatmeal+raisin+smoothie+after+1+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVm4Rt-f2Ewsg8GSmAimlPyh1BveAnXVmBkXKCAVjwAQxuSJOhgrfCoHfKySNCN6Ie4lBmMVsu8Q6SfzzldjjS86XEtWu9kunDiJ2iwTx9K6hj0ddK1_O7mM9k6UQr28Me72eRj95caq4/s400/oatmeal+raisin+smoothie+after+1+copy.jpg" width="287" /></a></div>So, I've been indulging in smoothies lately.  One of which is the one I plan to share with you today - the <a href="http://happyherbivore.com/2010/05/oatmeal-cookie-smoothie/" target="_blank">Oatmeal Cookie Smoothie</a>.  I discovered this tantalizing drink on Pinterest Lord knows how long ago.  I made it for the first time last Thursday.  It honestly tasted like an oatmeal raisin cookie, but with far more nutritional benefits.  (I apologize in advance that I cannot give any Weight Watchers Points for this, seeing that I put my membership on a hiatus until postpartum).<br /><br />Have you seen this one floating around on Pinterest?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiju4OLj2AJcT0pP4lKQFGZp9D1Svhuq-dLGdh3Rz807NowKlXOlDP6tUY4fpu4d9pdCJOsin-aZQ8hKkIiIXDHXTF3iWw307yAyUKix3B-oMhykgGgRby07mdP3efjsWoqiJCkurMLgXE/s1600/oatmeal+raisin+smoothie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiju4OLj2AJcT0pP4lKQFGZp9D1Svhuq-dLGdh3Rz807NowKlXOlDP6tUY4fpu4d9pdCJOsin-aZQ8hKkIiIXDHXTF3iWw307yAyUKix3B-oMhykgGgRby07mdP3efjsWoqiJCkurMLgXE/s400/oatmeal+raisin+smoothie.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b>Oatmeal Cookie Smoothie</b><br /><i>adapted from the <a href="http://happyherbivore.com/2010/05/oatmeal-cookie-smoothie/" target="_blank">Happy Herbivore</a></i><br /><br /><i>Ingredients:</i><br /><ul><li>2 whole bananas</li><li>1 c. ice</li><li>1/4 c. rolled oats</li><li>1/4 c. Light Vanilla Silk</li><li>1/2 tsp ground cinnamon</li><li>dash of cardamom</li><li>1 Tbsp raisins</li></ul><i>Notes: The original recipe calls for 2 frozen bananas, for which I did not have.  I added in the cup of ice figuring it would help thicken the consistency, and it did.  Additionally, the cardamom is "optional" but I had some on hand and it added a great flavor to it.  If you are a chai tea lover, then you will love cardamom, since it's once of the main ingredients!</i><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>Step 1:</i></span></b> Be very excited to use your new <a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ninja-XL-Master-Prep-Professional-Blender-NJ600/15436117" target="_blank">Ninja</a>!  Just the other night, I had to go out and buy a new blender because my trusty Hamilton Beach from college decided to burn up during one of my smoothie making festivities.  This puppy had some great reviews on Walmart.com and so I went out and bought her (from Target.. since they had her in stock and Walmart did not).  It wasn't a sad departure - the HB blender was pretty much always awful at blending drinks that involved a lot of frozen goods.  This fine girl though, man did she deliver at all 1000 watts of power in her motor!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoz4I1VfPwo2BZBODM60-rKnrjGOJiceuIHyKZgJsOFr-Gf9kx1egAPcoDkPYo8bFUvUwP63rGXMCrzv_yuyauuE9gySxmyiSUTYhYfFL_U5SaDvJTa4AYtEpwhMJBM9Qx23Ih2OQfoZc/s1600/ninja+ingredients.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoz4I1VfPwo2BZBODM60-rKnrjGOJiceuIHyKZgJsOFr-Gf9kx1egAPcoDkPYo8bFUvUwP63rGXMCrzv_yuyauuE9gySxmyiSUTYhYfFL_U5SaDvJTa4AYtEpwhMJBM9Qx23Ih2OQfoZc/s400/ninja+ingredients.JPG" width="225" /></a></div><br /><br /><i><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Step 2:</span></b> </i> Combine all ingredients in your blender and.... blend!  I had to blend mine for about a minute.  There isn't a ton of liquid in this concoction to formulate a quick blend.  With the oats and raisins, it took some time to puree it all, but it tasted great!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQXZchbEgO2WuiQNe-bl3uRaBCAYYwR91G9uBJ68pFN4LxZUtZ5HAoU82sOyCb0KGrerSV5jfW2dp5alZPAGy3aaXQ31mBC_0_ijCc35TGBOB9DwCOoKiErJxMSG3wJR9GKLcNcHDrGs/s1600/oatmeal+raisin+smoothie+inside+blender.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQXZchbEgO2WuiQNe-bl3uRaBCAYYwR91G9uBJ68pFN4LxZUtZ5HAoU82sOyCb0KGrerSV5jfW2dp5alZPAGy3aaXQ31mBC_0_ijCc35TGBOB9DwCOoKiErJxMSG3wJR9GKLcNcHDrGs/s400/oatmeal+raisin+smoothie+inside+blender.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7niaTRsJ2hwKPwtZFXRmue-cW9E2jgQHpKtuN1fLyhHHDVHaxKtbe0a-jYXPOCnShgpRXMLGmDOTKYq54a9ueNbZ69GvGu7RoPIKVROQbhpWxLjgflOsB4339uyo87hHSae9k7dv2Ug/s1600/oatmeal+raisin+smoothie+after+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7niaTRsJ2hwKPwtZFXRmue-cW9E2jgQHpKtuN1fLyhHHDVHaxKtbe0a-jYXPOCnShgpRXMLGmDOTKYq54a9ueNbZ69GvGu7RoPIKVROQbhpWxLjgflOsB4339uyo87hHSae9k7dv2Ug/s400/oatmeal+raisin+smoothie+after+2.jpg" width="322" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">What are some of your favorite smoothie recipes?</span></b></div><br /><script data-pin-hover="true" src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

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Stormy weather

<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Lots of rain and thunderstorms here in Key West, Florida.<div><br></div><div>There was a half hour break in the weather where we sat by the Community Pool.</div><div><br></div><div>I also took an afternoon nap to get over the jet lag.  Ciaran was on the deck at this time and said it was unbelievably hot!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XavfwQVLi6KRqsfNI7Pcr9vdcJzqgSv_dBJkJ0AFPtpCpKPamB9JlYGrPBrCysCtP-Ogw0uktwwpBdnJFW5lDSLhxxOnZiDp2T5-er91nQDn_86I3RMlNrGlWkXQsuLpoy18tQ_T0eNz/s640/blogger-image-2074174055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XavfwQVLi6KRqsfNI7Pcr9vdcJzqgSv_dBJkJ0AFPtpCpKPamB9JlYGrPBrCysCtP-Ogw0uktwwpBdnJFW5lDSLhxxOnZiDp2T5-er91nQDn_86I3RMlNrGlWkXQsuLpoy18tQ_T0eNz/s640/blogger-image-2074174055.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Check out all the great vehicles I spotted on the walk to the Old Town Bakery this morning.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnK6IsLdTGpxsSbYq7TR_9lGCgDJbj9Z-GqhGsNiJPRDZ_vkR_F3HNRZXAF5UOqiTj0PZOKZv6Ksqt9LH-EHqAtzbZqBHIKP_Ih14VlgWS_XYITgGaAoUozXYn0j1dGZ3oqtzTLq8NJTq-/s640/blogger-image--1889670841.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnK6IsLdTGpxsSbYq7TR_9lGCgDJbj9Z-GqhGsNiJPRDZ_vkR_F3HNRZXAF5UOqiTj0PZOKZv6Ksqt9LH-EHqAtzbZqBHIKP_Ih14VlgWS_XYITgGaAoUozXYn0j1dGZ3oqtzTLq8NJTq-/s640/blogger-image--1889670841.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mTKB2DUWa9TdEk3OyTqd-3sTRZ9fS8YyF4-pWs-ach__Ly2w_Le2qMnDkgnwUzlcBIXbPnb78QmT3YlD5ZJI3Q6OYvLcZh98Q04WFTVWQrQUqu-SxSisNrEIUQkG0z22-cr-pnEsHP2e/s640/blogger-image-1850780594.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mTKB2DUWa9TdEk3OyTqd-3sTRZ9fS8YyF4-pWs-ach__Ly2w_Le2qMnDkgnwUzlcBIXbPnb78QmT3YlD5ZJI3Q6OYvLcZh98Q04WFTVWQrQUqu-SxSisNrEIUQkG0z22-cr-pnEsHP2e/s640/blogger-image-1850780594.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We also called to my parents and sisters on Southard.  My parents rented a house for the month of June.  It's a great traditional Key West Conch house with balconies.  At the top of the house is a huge bar area with large deck off it - perfect for socializing!  My sister will probably blog about it and I will link it when she does.</div><br></div></div>

Stormy weather

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Early Literacy Librarian - Hartford Public Library

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This Is the End: Out with a whimper

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><i>This Is the End</i> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>(2013) • <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/thisistheend/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">View trailer</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Two stars. Rating: R, and quite generously, for pervasive profanity and drug use, violence, gore, relentless crude and sexual content, and impressively graphic nudity (not all of it human)</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>By <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12885694730612878577" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">Derrick Bang</a></b></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The devoutly religious are certain to disagree, but this tiresome vanity production is too stupid to be blasphemous.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtwvrhKvSHVxNU9tbgVW90Vcob0wT3Wqn2i_asP_mqne0L7uHqxd4oZiAOmzyV6It0vDTOPF6RxqzOvR1ZP0lYecqP9fPu8ct_gWvG9GKYmqIRPLfdMTl1N0ip1wVn0q-y8-eFQF6sKpc/s1600/This+Is+the+End+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtwvrhKvSHVxNU9tbgVW90Vcob0wT3Wqn2i_asP_mqne0L7uHqxd4oZiAOmzyV6It0vDTOPF6RxqzOvR1ZP0lYecqP9fPu8ct_gWvG9GKYmqIRPLfdMTl1N0ip1wVn0q-y8-eFQF6sKpc/s400/This+Is+the+End+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">After Emma Watson re-thinks her ill-advised decision to place her safety in the hands of<br />half a dozen self-centered horn dogs, she mounts an escape with the help of a handy<br />axe. Unfortunately, this may be a classic case of leaping from the frying pan and<br />directly into the fire...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s relentlessly vulgar, however, in the arrested adolescent manner that we’ve come to expect when Seth Rogen, James Franco and their homies assemble for “something fun.” In this case, the “fun” comes from playing themselves — no stretch there, since most have been doing that all along — and behaving badly when God proves that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Book of Revelations</i> wasn’t mere biblical filler.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like so many of today’s limp-noodle, man-boy comedies, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This Is the End</i> stretches a mildly amusing concept far beyond the average viewer’s patience. Actually, we know this to be true, since this film is “expanded” from a 9-minute 2007 short titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse</i>. Honestly, beefing up the cast and adding another 98 minutes (!) did nothing to improve the material.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although Rogen and Evan Goldberg uncork an impressively apocalyptic third act — they collaboratively wrote and directed this case study in wasted celluloid — one must wade through nearly an hour of tedious, contrived and self-indulgent “banter” in order to get there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Riffing the stoner culture may have been novel and slightly daring when Cheech & Chong made <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Up in Smoke</i> way back in 1978, but I’d like to think film comedy has progressed a bit since then. Rogen and Goldberg apparently didn’t get that message, since they clearly believe that merely showing a baggie of weed is enough to prompt a belly laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the same toke(n), it’s time to declare a moratorium on the faux homoeroticism that seems to pass for “cool” among some of today’s Hollywood types. When Rogen and his fellow “reality stars” aren’t chortling over how blasted they’ve gotten, they trade barbed comments apparently intended to demonstrate their hip, quasi-gayness, while nonetheless retreating to safer hetero territory whenever the tone threatens to become emasculating.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Safer territory,” in turn, emerges in strained one-liners that make sport of bodily functions: the sort of lowest-common-denominator crudeness that once remained the province of little boys trading bad words behind the woodshed, but now has become something of a badge of pride among today’s lazy comedy writers. It’s apparently shorthand for rugged manhood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This overworked 21st century cliché hits low ebb here during an ejaculation exchange — merely verbal, I’m happy to report — between James Franco and Danny McBride, which goes on and on and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on</i> and on. Constant Companion and I exchanged glances, and the unspoken message was obvious: Seriously? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This</i> is what film comedy has descended to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, this film is quite obsessed with the anatomical male member that still remains mostly taboo in mainstream cinema, although Rogen and Goldberg stretch that envelope quite impressively, from limp dick jokes to the massively erect phallus sported by a particularly nasty demon with nothing good in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey, I guess if you can sucker a major studio into parting with $30 million in order to film little more than an extended party with your best friends, that’s a pretty good gig. Too bad they had to share it with the rest of us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fairness, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This Is the End</i> does manage a few half-hearted stabs at social commentary, as during the opening scene, when Rogen — playing himself, as everybody does here — tries to dodge an intrusive fan with a videocam, who hovers in the hopes of provoking some sort of reaction. That’s life in our world of fame for its own sake, thanks to reality TV “stars” run amok.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It could be said, of course, that this entire film riffs that concept, but I can’t grant much credit for overstating the obvious for 107 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, Rogen’s at the Los Angeles Airport to collect good buddy Jay Baruchel, a Canadian colleague from back in the day, when both were stars of the under-appreciated 2001 TV series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Undeclared</i>. That longstanding bond sets up some “tension” in this limp-noodle script, because Rogen’s “new friends” — Franco, Craig Robinson and Jonah Hill — keep insisting that Baruchel is a drag on Rogen’s blossoming Hollywood career.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which is why Hill doesn’t really “like” Baruchel, while outwardly feigning bonhomie. Such trite, superficial behavior is all this film offers in the way of actual characterization, so don’t set your expectations high.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a debauched day of weed, alcohol, video games and other wild ’n’ crazy hijinks, Rogen hauls a reluctant Baruchel to a massive party at Franco’s upscale, fortress-like mansion. (That latter quality will prove useful.) It’s quite the happening, with a guest list that includes Emma Watson, Michael Cera, Mindy Kaling, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and even Rihanna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it isn’t Baruchel’s bag; he’s not entirely comfortable in this hedonistic scene. (Actually, Cera is the only party guest being truly hedonistic, in an offensively condescending and arrogant manner.) Rosen agreeably joins Baruchel on a trip to the local convenience store, for some cigarettes, at which point All Hell Breaks Loose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quite literally.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baruchel immediately recognizes the significance of the brilliant blue lights that transport numerous folks heavenward, a detail lost on Rogen. They hustle back to Franco’s place, dodging driverless vehicles, spontaneous sink-holes and gouts of fire, only to discover the party proceeding without incident, nobody inside having noticed anything amiss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> moment delivers a well-deserved laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the interior calm doesn’t last long, thanks to foundation-shaking earthquakes and the smoke-laden debris that rains down as the entire Hollywood hillside bursts into flame. Amid mindless panic and a huge express sinkhole to Hell that opens in Franco’s front yard, our cast dwindles to a precious few: Rogen, Baruchel, Franco, Hill and Robinson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Signaling a Monty Python-esque approach to unexpected gore, one of the other party guests perishes in a dramatically gruesome — albeit fully deserved — manner. Accompanied by, yes, a darkly amusing smart phone joke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s the truly frustrating part about this film: Rogen, Goldberg <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">et al</i>do indeed demonstrate an occasional talent for genuine humor. They simply don’t do it often enough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hunkering down in the manner of survivors they’ve watched in end-of-the-world movies and TV shows, our heroes carefully ration their supplies and settle in for ... they know not what. Tension arrives when McBride joins the gang, having slept through the initial horror but now brought up to speed with a fresh burst of über-violence. Trouble is, nobody likes McBride, whose intimidating, alpha-male attitude interferes with the group’s half-hearted efforts to embrace the bigger picture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baruchel also disrupts the uneasy group dynamic, although not intentionally, by citing biblical passages to support his view of what’s actually happening. Nobody wants to hear that stuff, preferring to believe that “rescue” eventually will arrive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bulk of the film then settles into variations on a theme of what Hollywood morons would do, if faced with the apocalypse. Naturally, their efforts to get by, from one day to the next, involve their limited comfort zone. Trouble is, that sort of self-indulgent “what the hell” resignation works as a blackly humorous joke only for a few seconds, as Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard understood when they had Kristen Connolly and Fran Kranz exchange a fatalistic look while lighting a final joint in the penultimate scene of 2011’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2012/04/cabin-in-woods-ghoulish-and-giddy.html">The Cabin in the Woods</a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trying to milk such a moment over an entire act merely prompts tedious scenes where Rogen, Franco and the others improvise banal dialogue while trying to kill time (if not each other). Oh, sure, we get some homages to the likes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mist</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Exorcist</i> and cannibal-culture horror flicks — the latter including a hilariously surprising cameo — but the material is thin, the parodies clumsily forced.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visual effects supervisor Paul Linden and the resourceful team at Modus in Montreal deserve considerable credit for their monster-making; they uncork some truly frightening demons, and a few scenes involving these nasties are well-paced and quite suspenseful. That’s actually one of this film’s few genuine treats: Linden and his crew get <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very</i> impressive results from all their apocalyptic mayhem, on a meager effects budget of $3 million.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of the day, though, <i>This Is the End</i> is little more than an insufferably long-winded inside joke. Rogen and Goldberg really should have paid more attention to <i>Cabin in the Woods</i>, <i>Shaun of the Dead</i>, <i>Zombieland</i> and other far more successful blends of self-referential horror humor. This self-indulgently masturbatory twist on “Hey, kids, let’s put on a show!” is nothing but an insult to patrons who worked hard for the money wasted on a ticket purchase.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><!--EndFragment-->

2013 Craig Robinson Danny McBride Dark Comedy Emma Watson Horror films James Franco Jay Baruchel Jonah Hill Michael Cera Seth Rogen This Is the End: Out with a whimper

This Is the End   (2013) •  View trailer   Two stars. Rating: R, and quite generously, for pervasive profanity and drug use, violence, gore,...

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June 12: My crazy socks in honor of George H.W. Bush's 89th Birthday

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSToztwG0uT06W4mZbws3PXEds924kyqMylEIiL0-hvaOZNga6XtMeqj8btAglKk-3_04uy1uttntLZSBHMp_50uj8EeIgzwoe8BVRYH7diRj3Fy2G6lSQalcixLKZ2ZD8eAADV9vzy1e/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSToztwG0uT06W4mZbws3PXEds924kyqMylEIiL0-hvaOZNga6XtMeqj8btAglKk-3_04uy1uttntLZSBHMp_50uj8EeIgzwoe8BVRYH7diRj3Fy2G6lSQalcixLKZ2ZD8eAADV9vzy1e/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Hahaha! Here are my <a href="http://www.swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/happy-birthday-crazy-socks-day.html">crazy socks in honor of President George H.W. Bush</a> who loves to wear colorful socks with his business suits ... kind of an unexpected burst of silliness in such a staid world. In honor of his 89th birthday, I've adorned my feet with these lovely foot accessories. Happy 89th Birthday, President Bush #41 ... such a gentleman and honorable man. Wishing you many, many more with gratitude for your service to our country.<br /><br />June 12, 2013

Crazy Socks Day George H.W. Bush June 12: My crazy socks in honor of George H.W. Bush's 89th Birthday

Hahaha! Here are my crazy socks in honor of President George H.W. Bush who loves to wear colorful socks with his business suits ... kind of...

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Healing the Overwhelmed Physician - NYTimes.com

<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BOSTON — DURING an 1817 visit to Florence, the French author Marie-Henri Beyle, known by the pen name Stendhal, was seized by palpitations, dizziness and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the abundance of great art surrounding him; an Italian psychiatrist later coined the term<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/15/world/florence-s-art-makes-some-go-to-pieces.html">Stendhal syndrome</a> to describe this phenomenon.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We physicians are susceptible to a kind of medical Stendhal syndrome as we confront the voluminous evidence about the clinical choices we face every day. It would take dozens of hours each week for a conscientious primary care doctor to read everything he or she needed in order to stay current — a dizzying and impractical prospect.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To remedy the problem, many medical groups issue clinical-practice guidelines: experts in a field sort through the reams of clinical research on a medical condition and pore over drug studies, then publish summaries about what treatments work best so that physicians everywhere can offer the most appropriate, up-to-date care to their patients.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While this sounds straightforward, the process can go astray. Take, for example, the recommendations issued recently by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists on caring for patients with diabetes. The A.A.C.E.'s latest<a href="https://www.aace.com/files/algorithm-05-01-2013.pdf">guidelines</a> elevate many second- or third-line drugs to more prominent positions in the prescribing hierarchy, rivaling once uncontested go-to medications like metformin, an inexpensive generic. They also emphasize the riskiness of established treatments like <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/insulin/index.html">insulin</a> and glipizide, which now carry yellow warning labels in the A.A.C.E. summary.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">We've been here before. Several years ago, another set of practice guidelines recommended the aggressive treatment of anemia in kidney-disease patients with the drug erythropoietin, though the higher doses substantially increased the risk of heart attack, stroke and death, with little countervailing benefit. Here, too, the professional society that issued the guidelines, as well as many of the doctors who formulated them, received funding from companies marketing the drug.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several of the now promoted drugs are expensive newcomers that lack the track records of clinical effectiveness and safety held by the older, potentially displaced treatments. The changes were made, ostensibly, to give physicians more treatment choices for their patients. But there is also concern that they could have been influenced by another factor: the manufacturers of some of these new drugs financially supported the development of the guidelines, and many of the authors are paid consultants to some of those companies.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The nation's $325 billion prescription-drug market offers an enormous incentive to develop and disseminate information lauding the presumed virtues of costly new medications, but there is much less muscle behind efforts to encourage the use of established, off-patent drugs, even when the weight of evidence and experience recommends them.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the same time, the medical literature is rich with superbly conducted trials and thoughtful, balanced clinical guidelines. For a physician, trying to process this rush of inputs can feel like drinking from a fire hose into which someone occasionally squirts a stream of arsenic. Imagine Stendhal on acid.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To address this problem, which affects the care of every patient in the nation, several groups — including the Institute of Medicine, the American College of Physicians and the <a href="http://www.cochrane.org/">Cochrane Collaboration</a>, an international network of experts that evaluates clinical research — serve a "curation" role for medical knowledge. As the evidence base becomes ever larger and more contentious, this honest-broker synthesizing function becomes increasingly important.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A 2011 <a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines-We-Can-Trust.aspx">report</a> I helped write for the Institute of Medicine sought to establish guidelines for guidelines — standards to ensure that these recommendations rigorously and fairly depict the best available knowledge and are not tainted by financial ties to the companies that could win or lose based on their content.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Beyond such standards, though, another critical step is needed. That's because even the most superbly assembled evidence doesn't disseminate itself. Like Stendhal, doctors also need a skilled docent to help walk them through all that curated data.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The pharmaceutical industry figured that out decades ago, deploying tens of thousands of sales representatives, or "detailers," to promote their products directly to doctors in their offices. For years, my colleagues and I have been using a similar approach through the nonprofit <a href="http://www.rxfacts.org/">Independent Drug Information Service</a>, now financed by the governments of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. Our "<a href="http://www.narcad.org/">academic detailing</a>" program assesses the medical literature in a non-product-driven way and then deploys a "docent service" of pharmacists and nurses to visit doctors in their own offices and guide them through the resulting therapy recommendations.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few large health systems, including Kaiser Permanente and the nation of Australia, have adopted this curator-docent approach, which has been shown to improve doctors' clinical decision making. The programs can also control costs over time, as they counter the influence of drug companies promoting the most expensive new drugs, whether or not they're an improvement. But to make a significant difference, many more health care systems, both private and public, must adopt them.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Back from Florence, Stendhal ended his life racked by disabilities attributed to his syphilis. It now appears that many of his symptoms were probably adverse effects of the drugs his doctors were using to treat him, following the not-so-scientific treatment guidelines of their time.</span></p><p><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jerry Avorn, a professor of medicine at Harvard, is an internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the author of "Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs."</em></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/opinion/healing-the-overwhelmed-physician.html">http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/opinion/healing-the-overwhelmed-physician.html</a></span>

Healing the Overwhelmed Physician - NYTimes.com

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Happy Birthday "Crazy Socks Day," President George H.W. Bush!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5tPFQfWjGrmLyPv3AqmUS40bY2OgtGjAel7y-NFFZF3XaBxVa3puymb_-fUervL3XAsrZZGDbWxcB8XjeGxRPaFZxCyn-tm-RoOyf6CEbBkNEHMM6R0QzaYPEjUSruaDckeNssJQCHWJ/s1600/George+H.W.+Bush+birthday+Crazy+Socks+Day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5tPFQfWjGrmLyPv3AqmUS40bY2OgtGjAel7y-NFFZF3XaBxVa3puymb_-fUervL3XAsrZZGDbWxcB8XjeGxRPaFZxCyn-tm-RoOyf6CEbBkNEHMM6R0QzaYPEjUSruaDckeNssJQCHWJ/s400/George+H.W.+Bush+birthday+Crazy+Socks+Day.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Got some crazy socks that sit in the drawer? Pull them out and proudly wear them for a good cause and, while you're at it, take a photo and post it on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/552008591504897/">Facebook</a> or Twitter (#41s89th)! <br /><br />Former President George H.W. Bush, commonly known as the dad of President George W. Bush, and as 41, turns 89 years old today, June 12, 2013. Happy Birthday, 41!<br /><br />To help celebrate his birthday, it will be "Wear Crazy Socks" day. Bush 41 is known for wearing his personality on his feet ... that is, mismatched socks and brightly colorful socks -- anything that's different and looks startling to the unsuspecting when they see a gentleman in a business suit suddenly flash colorful ankles.<br /><br />Here's what you can do to help celebrate. From the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/552008591504897/">George Bush Presidential Library Facebook</a> page:<br /><blockquote>The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation will celebrate the 89th Birthday of its' namesake, George Bush, 41st President of the United States, by wearing exuberant socks this Wednesday, June 12. The Foundation encourages others to join us in this celebration of the President's 89th Birthday and post photos of your socks online.<br /><br />President Bush has recently been recognized for his penchant for wearing bright socks. At the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in April, for example, he wore bright pink socks with a hint of blue. In 2012 he told his granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager, that he "likes a good sock."<br /><br />Join us in wishing President Bush a Happy Birthday by wearing your most colorful or outlandish socks. All are invited to submit a photo wearing crazy socks to share in the birthday festivities by:<br /><blockquote>• Post to the George Bush Facebook page: www.facebook.com/georgebush41<br />• Tweet to the George Bush Foundation twitter account: twitter.com/GB41Foundation - Hash tag #41s89th<br />• Email bushfoundation@georgebushfoundation.org</blockquote>Select birthday sock photos will be chosen and given to President Bush for his 89th birthday. Help us celebrate the 89th birthday of George Bush, 41st President of the United States. For more information, visit www.georgebushfoundation.org/socks.<br /><br />The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University will host a birthday celebration in honor of President and Mrs. Bush on June 12. Museum visitors are invited to join for free birthday cake, Blue Bell ice cream and refreshments in the Rotunda of the Bush Library and Museum from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. For more information, visit bushlibrary.tamu.edu.<br /><br />The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation was established in 1991 as a nonprofit educational foundation to design, build and support the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University. In addition to sponsoring its own programs and activities, the George Bush Foundation provides logistical and financial support to the Bush Library and Museum, as well as to The Bush School of Government and Public Service. Through its outreach, the George Bush Foundation is helping make the George Bush Presidential Library Center a leading institution in academic, policy and cultural discussion. Visit www.georgebushfoundation.org for additional information. </blockquote>Happy Crazy Socks Day ... and Happy Birthday, President Bush! Thank you for your service to our country....

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10 most significant new features of iOS 7

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGj3LFbohgaxGSKoG77UVql7q6KuCa9PQDSB42HKfnHPG4crxnWLhqhil7jtybiWwvmhOnhfwU4nDXvKPd-kqEmoiM5vwKLHy0BOSHOGwDK3-jr1xzMLHSnvWq4qbv6D8IehVVoMgTX9I/s1600/iOS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGj3LFbohgaxGSKoG77UVql7q6KuCa9PQDSB42HKfnHPG4crxnWLhqhil7jtybiWwvmhOnhfwU4nDXvKPd-kqEmoiM5vwKLHy0BOSHOGwDK3-jr1xzMLHSnvWq4qbv6D8IehVVoMgTX9I/s320/iOS.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Apple unveiled the much awaited update to its iOS mobile operating system, iOS 7, on Monday at the WWDC 2013. In Apple's words this is<strong><u> "the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone."</u></strong> Not only does the next iteration of the OS bring a completely overhauled user interface design, it also adds many missing features that were being offered by rival mobile platforms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b></b>Nothing we’ve ever created has been designed just to look beautiful. That’s approaching the opportunity from the wrong end. Instead, as we reconsidered iOS, our purpose was to create an experience that was simpler, more useful, and more enjoyable — while building on the things people love about iOS. Ultimately, redesigning the way it works led us to redesign the way it looks. Because good design is design that’s in service of the experience. Here's a look at the 10 most significant new features of iOS 7.</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Notification</strong></span> </span></div></li></ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Apple has updated the Notification Center with a new translucent background replacing the linen like texture. It's now divided into three tabs- today, all and missed. While the today tab summarises your events, appointments, weather and traffic, missed gives a log of all alerts and notifications from apps.The 'all' tab includes all notifications. The Notification Center can be accessed by simply swiping down from the top from your home screen or even lock screen.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIN15FyOsjtp-LjTU0J_ryLjIaHKLejSIz9QDw-Y8TqC8BMGQUOljjiRV0z-jE1bbIHBZoFP_qkLKX3ar7-XAESyd_lcg88D2QbcZPuFVoPV8pvS7yrE9l-Tx4MXTNey88qG8-Le0V5wU/s1600/iOS7+N.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIN15FyOsjtp-LjTU0J_ryLjIaHKLejSIz9QDw-Y8TqC8BMGQUOljjiRV0z-jE1bbIHBZoFP_qkLKX3ar7-XAESyd_lcg88D2QbcZPuFVoPV8pvS7yrE9l-Tx4MXTNey88qG8-Le0V5wU/s320/iOS7+N.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Simplicity is often equated with minimalism. Yet true simplicity is so much more than just the absence of clutter or the removal of decoration. It’s about offering up the right things, in the right place, right when you need them. It’s about bringing order to complexity. And it’s about making something that always seems to “just work.” When you pick something up for the first time and already know how to do the things you want to do, that’s simplicity.</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong> Control Center </strong></span></div></li></ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Control Center gives you quick access to the controls and apps you always seem to need right this second. Just swipe up from any screen — including the Lock screen — to do things like switch to Airplane mode, turn Wi-Fi on or off, or adjust the brightness of your display. You can even shine a light on things with a new flashlight. Never has one swipe given you so much control.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dwLcGA69LHvBlTwTIzmPzA-0W3poUHF78sD7MvkmxRdYxiwHSrEh2jxkSPSuY0Br23PmECD0d-c03l5Im8QS16Wx6H_j02ImBWrs472SuYA9ykmcZn6cxaQ0gcRoaxdcCNye0Q0RfvU/s1600/apple+ios7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dwLcGA69LHvBlTwTIzmPzA-0W3poUHF78sD7MvkmxRdYxiwHSrEh2jxkSPSuY0Br23PmECD0d-c03l5Im8QS16Wx6H_j02ImBWrs472SuYA9ykmcZn6cxaQ0gcRoaxdcCNye0Q0RfvU/s320/apple+ios7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">A lot of users have been complaining about the lack of a central destination that gives them access to the most used settings. Apple addresses that problem with Control Center which can be brought into view by swiping up from the home screen or lock screen. <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">You'd see controls for turning on or off Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb and screen orientation settings. You'd also be able to adjust the screen brightness, play, pause, or skip a song, connect to AirPlay-enabled devices or turn on new Airdrop file transfer feature tom the Control Center. Apple's also put handy shortcuts for flashlight, timer, calculator, and camera.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Multitasking</strong></span></div></li></ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Apple used to offer multitasking for select apps so it was more about switching between recently used apps than accessing a apps simultaneously. With iOS 7 Apple allows all apps to multitask and run in the background. <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIA7TnFOmRBkfcwR7UJlOzHm5wDjmSjNE4ZCVnFfG8XkwuKsD-ZsjDOHPn_W5xMM0B04uyBWPXchbo0ubLZB54BEzDPF9VXRmWliXF3ik4HgM2cEBy2KWP48OtEoVIGCkaKdO9NDlFmOI/s1600/iOS7-Multitasking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIA7TnFOmRBkfcwR7UJlOzHm5wDjmSjNE4ZCVnFfG8XkwuKsD-ZsjDOHPn_W5xMM0B04uyBWPXchbo0ubLZB54BEzDPF9VXRmWliXF3ik4HgM2cEBy2KWP48OtEoVIGCkaKdO9NDlFmOI/s320/iOS7-Multitasking.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It has also majorly overhauled the front end or the multitasking interface visible to the users. Pressing the Home button twice now brings up the preview screens of the apps you have open on your phone rather than their icons at the bottom of the screen. To quit an app, you just need to swipe it up and out of preview. We've seen this before on webOS, PlayBook OS and even on some HTC Android phones but it's a nifty way to handle multitasking. Multitasking is also intelligent as it adapts to your pattern of accessing apps, refreshing content at the same time interval.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Multitasking has always been a smart way to switch between apps. Now it’s even smarter. Because iOS 7 learns when you like to use your apps and can update your content before you launch them. So if you tend to check your favorite social app at 9:00 a.m. every day, your feed will be ready and waiting for you. That’s multitasking in iOS 7. It knows what you want to do before you do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h4 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">A smarter way to multitask.</h4><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Press the Home button twice to see preview screens of the apps you have open. To quit an app, just swipe it up and out of preview.</div><h4 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Intelligently scheduled updates.</h4><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">iOS schedules updates during power-efficient times. Like when your device is on and connected to Wi-Fi. So your battery isn’t drained unnecessarily.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong> AirDrop </strong></span></div></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Sending a photo or a document to someone via text or email is fine. But if that someone is right next to you, a text or an email suddenly feels like too many steps. Enter AirDrop for iOS. It lets you quickly and easily share photos, videos, contacts — and anything else from any app with a Share button. Just tap Share, then select the person you want to share with. AirDrop does the rest using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. No setup required. And transfers are encrypted, so what you share is highly secure.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuQq3ufKwpX8RQDOEWVs1paU90hk1l1YhJOVk1odsy9l0eEFBTcmuXRGoi3d3sA8g1L3s7a9Omwgh62-TbcWipAY6Q7gTvaA_Nzu381wAHS6KQ-vxN77dm2upU_AXmcYf9kKb4Y-GIpt0/s1600/iOS7-airdrop+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuQq3ufKwpX8RQDOEWVs1paU90hk1l1YhJOVk1odsy9l0eEFBTcmuXRGoi3d3sA8g1L3s7a9Omwgh62-TbcWipAY6Q7gTvaA_Nzu381wAHS6KQ-vxN77dm2upU_AXmcYf9kKb4Y-GIpt0/s320/iOS7-airdrop+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><strong>Make yourself available. Or not.</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">You’re automatically visible in AirDrop to your contacts running iOS 7. But you can also make yourself visible to anyone nearby using iOS 7 or to no one at all. One tap in Control Center is all it takes.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /><figcaption class="padded center"><strong> File received.</strong></figcaption></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><strong></strong> Recipients can choose to save whatever you send. When they do, the content is saved right where it should be — a photo in Photos, a pass in Passbook, a contact in Contacts, and so on.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Those who use the Mac know that AirDrop is used for transferring files between two computers on the same network. The same feature now comes to the iPhone. AirDrop lets you quickly share photos, videos, contacts -- and anything else from any app on your phone with a Share button. You can just tap Share, then select the person (another iOS user) you want to share with. AirDrop offers transfers using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and you don't need any additional setup. Transfers are encrypted, so they're secure. All content saved after the transfer is accessible from its respective app. It's worth pointing out that AirDrop is available on iPhone 5, iPad (4th generation), iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation) and requires an iCloud account. <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Camera app</span></strong></div></li></ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><strong></strong>Camera in iOS 7 puts all your shooting formats — still, video, panorama, and now square — front and center. With a swipe, you can capture what you want the way you want Fast. And new filters let you do even more with each image. Give it a retro feel. Dial up the contrast. <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Or go black and white. Artistic license is all yours.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsgRaRsakOQSpUilMgCahMC8_8Q9AM5c2loz1Gz_A0wZCoZZYVWnXCIkVUuVfuYtAtbQ6fO5qU3cHIK-MgQ3ntJCPMAyZCRujSK_HFhv5ZOWp9voJR27yI74KD6rpUhAp1juAsj6Z8qAM/s1600/iOS7-camera1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsgRaRsakOQSpUilMgCahMC8_8Q9AM5c2loz1Gz_A0wZCoZZYVWnXCIkVUuVfuYtAtbQ6fO5qU3cHIK-MgQ3ntJCPMAyZCRujSK_HFhv5ZOWp9voJR27yI74KD6rpUhAp1juAsj6Z8qAM/s320/iOS7-camera1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The iOS 7 camera app offers a new way to switch between camera modes and includes a new 'square' mode. You can switch between all the modes - still, video, pano (Panorama), and square by simply swiping across the screen. The app also brings filters to apply effects to your photos before or after you shoot them in still and square modes. It's worth pointing out that filters in Camera are available on iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation), while filters in Photos are available on iPhone 4 or later, iPad (3rd generation or later), iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation). </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">Filters</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">You can apply filters to still and square photos. Pick a filter and see the effect before you take the picture. Or just take the shot and apply it later. If you ever change your mind and decide no filter is the best filter, you can simply remove it.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Updated Safari web browser</span></strong></div></li></ul><strong></strong><br /><div align="justify"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><strong></strong>Safari has also been overhauled to offer a distraction-free richer browsing experience as buttons and bars stay hidden until you scroll. You can go back and forward using swipe gestures. It now offers a unified search plus URL box, a new tab view that's not restricted to just 8 tabs and a Shared links menu along with the Reading List that lets you access the links shared by people you follow on Twitter from within the browser. It also remembers your password, user names and credit card numbers through the new iCloud Keychain. Safari can enter them automatically whenever you need to sign in to a site across iOS 7 and the new OS X Mavericks desktop OS. It comes with 256-bit AES encryption, for security. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5gbw4O-PEZrhNg0Tfn_iXplCyICKvkpAdz0r3Q2c1fobML_rGSWM8FrlS9UnfXNh_13yPoBb1STJBMQYvhxdULYNhkZ_DzKCeehBhx4iYfjBcrGYSGNWKCPOceyRLeG6rr3bYpG6v8xc/s1600/iOS7-safari+A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5gbw4O-PEZrhNg0Tfn_iXplCyICKvkpAdz0r3Q2c1fobML_rGSWM8FrlS9UnfXNh_13yPoBb1STJBMQYvhxdULYNhkZ_DzKCeehBhx4iYfjBcrGYSGNWKCPOceyRLeG6rr3bYpG6v8xc/s320/iOS7-safari+A.jpg" width="320" /></a><strong> </strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Unified smart search field</strong></div></div><div align="justify">Type a URL or search term in the unified smart search field, and Safari automatically suggests the closest match to what you’re looking for. So you find the right web page fast.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong>New tab view</strong></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">See your open web pages in a consolidated view that lets you scroll effortlessly from tab to tab. To close a page, just swipe it offscreen.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Shared Links</strong></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">See all the URLs in your Twitter timeline, who posted them, and what they had to say about them.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Reading List</strong></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Reading through the articles in your Reading List is quick and easy. Simply scroll seamlessly from one to the next.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>iCloud Keychain</strong></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Lots of things you do on the web require passwords. Now iCloud can remember your account names, passwords, and credit card numbers for you. And Safari can enter them automatically whenever you need to sign in to a site or shop online. It works on all your iOS 7 devices and your Mac computers running OS X Mavericks. And with 256-bit AES encryption, it’s highly secure.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Password Generator</strong></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Every time you create an account, you can have Safari generate a unique, <span class="nowrap">hard-to-guess</span> password. And remember it for you.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Photos app</span></strong></div></li></ul><strong></strong><br /><div align="justify"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><strong></strong>The updated Photos app offers a new way to browse photos through Collections, Moments, and Years, that smartly group of your photos and videos based on the time and place. You can tap Years to see photos taken in that year. Each year holds Collections, based on different events such as trips or commencements. And in the Collection view, there are distinct Moments according to the exact location. It also includes iClod Photo Sharing through which you can share your favorite moments with people by creating a shared photo stream. They can post photos, videos, and comments to your stream, and everything appears on everyone's iOS devices in the Shared tab. <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga6mS9ejRj5OB5TwU2VTIBxSuhLktv59QHNWu6eMgFK27TeTmwjm1HTvxdyGtnAM7HiUGiFTfN8AKM3wEIofXFMhC8FmbDvIg0iFMrTtav95Ipoi-bPc7r2lwxdPh1m8Mxfynu74JxkUg/s1600/iOS7-photos+A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga6mS9ejRj5OB5TwU2VTIBxSuhLktv59QHNWu6eMgFK27TeTmwjm1HTvxdyGtnAM7HiUGiFTfN8AKM3wEIofXFMhC8FmbDvIg0iFMrTtav95Ipoi-bPc7r2lwxdPh1m8Mxfynu74JxkUg/s320/iOS7-photos+A.jpg" unselectable="on" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br /><figcaption class="padded center"><h4 align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">iCloud Photo Sharing.</h4><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_f19F6S7cncmsXLUgVmkaSC003YSTuQG5-DEEpQr9MqmTcYb4m86IN7Nek3LJJP4npI-M3rQ7mMhyphenhyphenWEnHrC7Bz1x8C4q9siVLXcFQarwlpc0hqjZ_Qa0J4Qt25XIfhQFtJJL2ghOkKA/s1600/ios1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_f19F6S7cncmsXLUgVmkaSC003YSTuQG5-DEEpQr9MqmTcYb4m86IN7Nek3LJJP4npI-M3rQ7mMhyphenhyphenWEnHrC7Bz1x8C4q9siVLXcFQarwlpc0hqjZ_Qa0J4Qt25XIfhQFtJJL2ghOkKA/s320/ios1.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">With iCloud, you can share your favorite moments with your favorite people by creating a shared photo stream. They can post photos, videos, and comments to your stream, and it all appears on everyone’s iOS devices — automatically. The new Activity view lets you see the latest updates from all your shared streams in one place.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Updated App Store </span></strong></div></li></ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></figcaption> The new app store not only offers a new clean user interface, it also lists apps relevant to your location. For instance if you're in a new city, it will offer apps that you might find helpful like guides, maps and others. It also offers a new Kids category. But the best feature has to be automatic updates that keeps your apps up to date without your intervention or you seeing the updates badge. <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG12yFaHjzyZTZk6SM0UzxdZZ4CmZ_NfH1drT_qSunVqNNGQnWh-QVt1mup18siKDxGtt1KDNpBWlLoVAXk8HICbgkyLrQgQBblavBrtqTE6ainUVCAa-zCyO0rUfxr3tZmBEuZysviwM/s1600/iOS7-appstore+A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG12yFaHjzyZTZk6SM0UzxdZZ4CmZ_NfH1drT_qSunVqNNGQnWh-QVt1mup18siKDxGtt1KDNpBWlLoVAXk8HICbgkyLrQgQBblavBrtqTE6ainUVCAa-zCyO0rUfxr3tZmBEuZysviwM/s320/iOS7-appstore+A.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> New Siri and Siri Eyes Free</span></strong></span></div></li></ul><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><strong></strong></span><br /><div align="justify"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><strong></strong>The Siri voice assistant sports a new look and new features in iOS 7. The voice behind Siri has been updated to offer a more natural speech pattern -- in a new female or male voice. Siri now has access to more sources, including Bing, Wikipedia, and Twitter. It also performs new tasks like controlling apps and phone settings. Siri is also at the centre of iOS in the Car that lets users make calls, control music and check mails and messages while driving. It will be introduced in select cars in 2014. </span> <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1jcWEA71HSAaPI7XHYjT9jrzMCauDxrQDqthD-zPCOUfy9kpjjySkVm3bwSz4tWScOB6cpoBGxILkPlWQ-a8hpXC199dfvdxzTlGH3Vl_Hssfhhs2QT-OsDDwNhtvl3CqDz8cdwd17DE/s1600/iOS7-siri+A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1jcWEA71HSAaPI7XHYjT9jrzMCauDxrQDqthD-zPCOUfy9kpjjySkVm3bwSz4tWScOB6cpoBGxILkPlWQ-a8hpXC199dfvdxzTlGH3Vl_Hssfhhs2QT-OsDDwNhtvl3CqDz8cdwd17DE/s320/iOS7-siri+A.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Siri searches Wikipedia</strong></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Siri now references Wikipedia to answer your questions.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /><figcaption class="padded center"><strong> Siri searches Twitter, too</strong></figcaption></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Want to know what people are tweeting about a certain topic? Just ask.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Activation lock</span></strong></span></div></li></ul><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><strong></strong></span><br /><div align="justify"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><strong></strong>New security features in iOS 7 will make selling or using your stolen device more difficult. Turning off 'Find My iPhone' or resetting the device requires your Apple ID and password. You are also required to enter your Apple ID and password to reactivate the device.</span> <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuL_jTNgxukfo4e8jSyVhcIS5URuu70_gvVE_zEZBRP_-_7T8m-yM4bZDR2jPOeqypUCaLIzg_OHtD27Lz0ntPTWz6tZQEOUoSVr7Nq85isbJaui3Q1oi1S99zf-_ha2hsXaf80amQSZA/s1600/iOS7-activationlock+A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuL_jTNgxukfo4e8jSyVhcIS5URuu70_gvVE_zEZBRP_-_7T8m-yM4bZDR2jPOeqypUCaLIzg_OHtD27Lz0ntPTWz6tZQEOUoSVr7Nq85isbJaui3Q1oi1S99zf-_ha2hsXaf80amQSZA/s320/iOS7-activationlock+A.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>iTunes Radio </strong></span></span></div></li></ul><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"></span></div><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"></span>  <br /><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">iTunes Radio features streaming radio stations you’ll love from day one — from the best selection of music. The more you listen, the more personalized it becomes. And it’s available on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, and Apple TV for free. It’s radio re-imagined. </span></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><h4 align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvi6Ni9hqOy0Tn2gO0CFK-u-Ooehi8s5CtTqg7sOBitqtlzpjOyo8Gs4GcJRfrn1f5wQ8KlE2JWJuyNcKDQmmKq2YDumCIHNcmmiAiG1JxNILKFHp4IIEPx4tFgsg3h-x2AmC0eqCOaQ/s1600/ios+radio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" cya="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvi6Ni9hqOy0Tn2gO0CFK-u-Ooehi8s5CtTqg7sOBitqtlzpjOyo8Gs4GcJRfrn1f5wQ8KlE2JWJuyNcKDQmmKq2YDumCIHNcmmiAiG1JxNILKFHp4IIEPx4tFgsg3h-x2AmC0eqCOaQ/s320/ios+radio.jpg" width="180" /></a>Go from your music to more music.</h4><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">You can access Featured Stations, stations inspired by music you choose or already listen to, and more than 200 <span class="nowrap">genre-based</span> stations.</div><div align="justify"><br /><figcaption class="padded center"></figcaption></div><h4 align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Edit on the fly.</h4><div align="justify">Build new stations while you listen, and control the balance between playing the hits and discovering less familiar songs.</div><div align="justify"><br /><figcaption class="padded center"></figcaption></div><h4 align="justify">See what you’ve heard.</h4><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">View the History of everything you’ve heard or added to your Wish List. Then tap to download the songs you want from iTunes.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></strong>  <br /><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></strong>  <br /><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bonus </span></strong><br /><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"></span>  </strong><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><strong></strong>New user interface, icons and overhauled native apps - In addition to to the above features, iOS 7 brings in a new design philosophy. iOS 7 features a new Parallax Motion effect on the home screen, so the background wallpaper shifts when you look at the phone from different angles using the phone's accelerometer bringing depth to the interface. The new Weather app features animations to depict the weather conditions. Folders offer multiple pages letting you group more apps. The new Mail app offers swipe gestures to organise your mail. </div></div></div></div><div></div><div align="justify">iOS 7 will also bring FaceTime audio to make high quality voice calls using the Internet. It will also offer Per App VPN allowing users to hook on to a remote network for individual apps <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><div align="justify"></div></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/112865615030946176397" rel="author">Priyanka</a>

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