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Mars Images App Allows You To See Latest Mars Pictures From Opportunity Rover

Jan 12, 12 9:18 PM

According to Wired, NASA has released a new app for iPhone and iPad, allowing iOS users to receive latest Mars images directly from NASA’s Opportunity rover.  How directly?  I’m not sure!  Nonetheless, I think this app will be able to excite science geeks.  Unfortunately, the amazing sturdy Opportunity rover (launched in 2003 and made to Mars in 2004) could not send images in color, or else I would be just excited as those science geeks.  I know, I’m asking too much, but it’s a perspective from a non-science geek anyway!  So, the next time you ponder on what is up with Mars, you can always pull out Mars Images app and check out some Mars photos.  Don’t forget to pray for Opportunity rover’s long life, OK?  For your information, Mars Images app can be found on Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad.

Source:  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/mars-photos-app/

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Just A Wild Thought: Electronic Magazine With Bendable Electronic Pages

Jan 4, 12 6:15 PM
English: Covers of backissues of ARMOR magazine

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I have heard some tech companies are working on making bendable electronic devices that are super thin and wide.  If they are able to produce something like that which can be resemblant to a piece of paper, imagining the wide applications this technology can bring about.  Here is one I think of, but I’m not sure how hot or even cool it will be.  We know how old magazines work, right?  You flip it, flip it again, and flip it some more till you flip to the very end of a magazine.  Well, won’t it be cool if you buy an electronic magazine once, and the magazine company has to try to figure out how to fill those electronic magazine pages with their contents.  If this idea/technology ever makes debut, I wonder will you and I will be flipping electronic magazine pages with joy?  Of course, the whole idea is to allow magazine companies to update their magazine contents wirelessly and periodically without your interventions.  It’s obviously that you have to subscribe to a magazine company for your electronic magazine to work.  In fact, one electronic magazine should be able to display contents from multiple magazine companies that you have subscribed to.  Just a thought really — this technology might never happen!

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You Should Use Find iPhone App To Remote Lock, Wipe, Locate, Send Sound and Message To Your iOS Devices

Dec 10, 11 12:58 PM

Find iPhone is an Apple app which allows you to remote wipe and remote lock your iOS devices.  It can also allow you to play sound and send message to your iOS devices.  Unfortunately, you can’t use this application on a Mac, otherwise it would be a must have app for people who do not have an extra iOS device.  This Find iPhone app works for only people who do have more than one iOS device, because you have to install Find iPhone app on all iOS devices for it to work.  Also, you must turn Find My iPhone feature to ON inside iCloud setting for this app to work.

Once you got all the elements in place, it is easy as pie to locate your missing iOS devices virtually; you can then remote wipe your iOS devices if you feel your data are at risk, remote lock your iOS devices if you think some stupid thieves won’t be able to hack your easy passcodes.  How about remote lock first and then keep sending remote sounds and messages to annoy the thieves?  Remote wipe your iOS devices with Find iPhone app will prevent you from locating your iOS devices virtually.

Once log into the Find iPhone app, you can actually see the physical addresses on Google map that your iOS devices currently reside.  In the case of stolen iOS devices, you obviously have the knowledge of where your devices are on Google map.

Smart thieves definitely are going to delete Find iPhone app in case you try to locate them with your iOS devices.  Of course, they can’t do so if you have strong passcodes that lock your iOS devices from prying eyes.  Even though the app is known as Find iPhone, it actually works for all iOS devices.  This means if you install Find iPhone iPad app on your iPad, you will be able to locate your iPhone with your iPad (make sure the iPhone does have Find iPhone app installed, or else it won’t work).  To find your iPad, you need to install Find iPhone app on iPad and on iPhone, then use your iPhone to find your iPad in seconds.

I think this app is using the Internet and some sort of GPS capability, therefore the distances between iOS devices might not matter much.  If it’s in fact just that, no matter where the thieves who stole your iOS devices currently hide, as long they won’t be able to delete the Find iPhone app on the iOS devices, you will be able to sneak up on them and demand your iOS devices back.  Of course, don’t fight them if they have more than just iOS devices in their hands, OK?  Call the police instead!

To see if Find iPhone app actually does work for you, try sending a sound and text message to an iOS device.  You can also try unlocking an iOS device first, then using the remote lock feature of Find iPhone on another iOS device to see if the feature does actually lock the targeted iOS device.  Don’t use the remote wipe feature just yet, because once testing this feature out, you actually really wipe all your data on an iOS device, therefore this feature is for an emergency usage only and not for testing purpose.  So, you have been warned!

You do have to know your Apple ID and password before you can log into Find iPhone app and use it.  If you haven’t had an Apple account, you definitely have to sign up for one before this app can be any used to you.

In summary, with Find iPhone app installed on all of my iOS devices, I think I’m a tad safer in term of protecting my data.  At least, I know it’s easy as pie to locate my iOS devices and remote wipe or remote lock them.  You should try this app out to protect whatever important data you have on your iOS devices.  Have fun with it!

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