iPhone app of the week

I just can't get enough of this NYtimes application for the iphone. If you are addicted to US happenings and would always up to know the latest, freshest news on what's happening all around the United States, then this app is for you.

NYTIMES 

This is no ordinary news outlet that you can hang out with, the articles are exquisitely written by non other than nyTimes journalists. Juicy and beefy in nature, full of vibrance and collective journalism is at its best. Go ahead and DL it. Don't be the last to know on what's happening with Barack O.

Along with my top 2 pick this week is the NEWSER application. Trust me, you'll end up checking newser every hour on what's happening around the world. This app just definitely serves its purpose in its head banner "READ LESS. KNOW MORE".

NEWSER

Gone are the days when you seat during breakfast along with your newspaper, flipping the pages, and hassling the longitude of the paper itself to touch the table. With this NEWSER app, you can directly check what's hot real time on the latest current events mainly in the US and around the world. What's intriguing about this app and what's making you want for more about this is the fact that it offers squeezed in update/breaking news for a specific topic. So, you can really know more...and read less.

~mAC

Incognito of Chrome

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. "

John Steinbeck 

Incognito mode of Google Chrome has been up back in the days of it's old beta version. And since its birth i've been using its prowess in overmining capabilities of handling cookies, auto-fills, history etc. Well that's an understatement, incognito is the private browsing version of Chrome in contrast to IE and Mozilla.

I wont discuss the benefits of private browsing but i want to share how to open google chrome via incognito mode immediately after you click the chrome icon.

and  here's how:

Locate your Google Chrome shortcut, Right click it then click on properties.

You must get to see this window after that, then type -ingcognito at the end of the line.

After you hit apply and ok, voila! when you click on your Chrome shortcut icon, it will default to incognito mode.

Happy surfing!!!, mind your back though, someone's watching ;-)







~mAc

Don't Overcomplicate

"Heroism exist not only on the battlefield, or in public but also inside the head, in the ability to face unpleasant thoughts"

-NYTimes

Neither lose nor
triumph for fight
For to walk off the plank
doesn't mean to give up

Fierceness of passion
as conquered by solitude
Vanquishing temptation
to kill thy being crude

Dreamless nights
are soon be over
But deep inside
it yearns to stay forever

Grow up!
and don't overcomplicate
Resist to fall in nowhere
but seek for peace a shelter






˜Mac

Heal the world

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

~William Shakespeare

'tis my first time to watch this video. The message is so profound, leaving me an enormous feeling of grief and inspiration. I can't help but to smile when i thought of the receding troops of the US going home from Iraq. Nowhere is the war to end but that step would significantly make a difference.

Look around what's happening all around us, it's as if love has vanished so sudden giving the world to succumb in a wounded state.

With the intensifying recession hitting all over the world, it seems a hopeless journey. Why do all good things come to an end? Like happiness always gone too soon. It's a fact of life, i reckon.

But humming the song of the great Michael Jackson somehow brings me back to a sane reality that each human beings' love can make a difference. That the light of a single candle is not only serving itself but creates a bridge, a way, a connection to light the other so many candles unlit. Paving the way to a brighter atmosphere, illuminating chaos and darkness that seem to envelope this ever changing world of ours.

Come August 29th marks the birthday of Michael, it has been more than a year since his passing but reminiscing his history never faltered me to get a lump in my throat especially when i listen to his songs. "Heal the world, make it a better place.. for you and for me and the entire human race..."

Each day that passes, may our candles of light shine... with empathy, with compassion, with hope, and with love. Make a lil' space, make a better place...












~mAc

Top 2 free iPhone app of the week

Beginning today, i'm going to blog weekly about my top 2 pick of free iPhone app of the week. This will include my own personal perception of the picked iPhone app, how did it go through while using it, personal comments and raves, but most of all, you'd expect a positive recommendation. My choices would be uncategorized, could be in the range of games, entertainment, utilities, social networking, music, productivity, lifestyle, reference, travel, sports, navigation, healthcare and fitness, news, photography, business, education, weather, books and medical. (Whoa! that was a long list!)


So, check out this fresh batch of my top 2 picks!


NINJUMP

One of the best way to kill time is indulging yourself in an absorbing game on your iPhone, absorbing in the sense, it creates a "time flies" effect while playing it.
Take the case of NINJUMP. I had my ringer turned on highest vol when i first launched this app. It has immediately captured my likeness of its background music. Playing this game is just by tapping the screen and the cute lil' ninja will jump from one wall to another. Not complicated eh? Quite simple, but there are more in to it that would make you ask for more. (ie) hitting/killing three same obstacles in a row will have your ninja levitate further in heights. Did i forget to say that the goal of this game is to achieve greater heights? (think about doodlejump...). One thing i don't like about it is the one (1) life per game, yep! you have to start over again once you die. And i guess that was the reason why this game is somewhat addicting, it bars you down to beat what  you have achieved by going back to square one, keeping your momentum to go on further unnoticing that you've spent an hour already toying around the app. Trust me, you gotta try it!!!



SIXPACKAPP

In relation to my regimen of a healthy lifestyle, i got this app back in June or prolly May... but only this time i was able to appreciate what it has to offer. For those who could not afford to enroll in a gym due to time or budget constraints, well this app is a timing. The categories its offering are A+, with the how-to's, info, steps, tips and its best catch are the descriptive photos, take note, it's not illustrations, but real-life photos in executing those exercises.
My routinary push-ups and crunches and tricep-bicep moves got flavoured through the instructions of this wonderful app. I recommend this because it's direct to the point and the how-to's are visually easy to follow esp if you have only a mattress, a gymball and dumb bells to use. Oh yeah! you can use this app without wifi. It serves like a database on the go whenever you wanna check out some tips and positions in doing a work-out.







~mAC