iPod touch applications are unlike anything you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. The world’s best developers are creating applications to leverage the groundbreaking technology in iPod touch, such as the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio. It’s all part of the iPhone 2.0 Software Update for iPod touch.*
[ Apple - iPod touch - App Store ] Sounds awesome! I can't wait! But wait, the day is here that they announced, so what's the deal? 
I know that iPhone users already are sporting their free upgrade, and have been for days. It's bad enough that I have to pay $10 to upgrade the OS on my iPod that is less than a month old, but now they're just teasing me. I just want to get some Super Monkey Ball action, is that too much to ask?
Dashwire 2.0 Launches: Backup Your Phone and Sync Content To Social Web | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10: ...mobile phone app Dashwire released Dashwire 2.0, a much improved version of their mobile phone backup and sync service. With Dashwire 2.0, you can backup your phone’s content – like photos, videos, text messages, ringtones, bookmarks, speed dials, contacts, and call logs – to Dashwire’s site on the web. This syncing is done automatically, so if you make a change to your phone, that change is reflected on the web, and vice versa. In addition, the app lets you share your content across several social networking sites. You can easily and automatically send photos and video to flickr, Facebook, bebo, and Twitter and you can also update your Twitter and Facebook status from the app.
So far, so good. This will certainly help to organize my phone a bit more, though so far I can't see how to "automatically" post photos to Flickr or Facebook. I've had to manually do the few I've done so far.
And thus we need someone to keep track of our online life. I've already got a Plaxo Pulse (due to me using Plaxo) and it aggregates feeds and crap to one place. I'm not very impressed and wish they would go back to what I signed up for, a service that syncs Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks across every mail system, mobile platform, and what-have-you. It is clear, however, that we all have friends who use this service or that, and you end up subscribing to dozens of these social or services sites to keep track of everyone. I have profiles on dozens of social, blogging, photo, etc. sites just to try and keep up with everyone I know, and some I haven't seen in a long time, but updating my status or avatar on a dozen sites is a pain. Seems like other people have the same issue, because in just a few minutes I found all of these works in progress: And those are all just the ones in invitation-only beta, who knows what is under the wraps elsewhere?
Mash: Mash is currently an invitation-only beta service. The odds are good that one of your friends is in here already. Hit them up for an invite! Already Mashing? Sign in.
If so, send me an invite! Danke.
Islam is an uplifting, ancient religion, rooted in a search for justice on God's Earth. Diversity is both a Muslim's lived reality (Islam is home to everyone from African Americans to Indonesians to Yemenites) and a goal: "O Mankind!" reads the Quran, Sura 49:13, "We created you ... into nations and tribes, that you may know each other, not that you may despise each other. ...I, like the vast majority of my compatriots, find the nihilistic hatred preached by certain Muslims abhorrent and frightening. But as an American, I was raised to believe that we should judge people by the content of their characters, not the acts of others. I was raised to believe that in this country all are equal, everyone is innocent until proved guilty, and differences are to be respected, not despised.
[ Detroit Free Press ] I truly appreciate my fellow Americans who can look past the vile hate mongering of the like who commented on this story. If Islam was even 1/2 as bad as the "Anti-Islam" crowd would have us believe, wouldn't we have been in a massive world war for over 1,000 years already? Isn't it more likely that the "problem Muslims" are a very small percentage of the Muslims in the world, just as the hate-filled peoples of other religions of the world?
What’s the point of traveling if I only eat what I’m used to? [ Dessert Comes First ] Though I certainly don't have the "iron constitution" mentioned in the post, but if you aren't willing to discomfort yourself in some way, you should have just stayed at home.
Applications are coming soon to iPhone and iPod touch.* And they’ll be unlike anything you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. That’s because the world’s best developers are creating applications to leverage the amazing technology in iPhone and iPod touch, such as the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio. It’s all part of the iPhone 2.0 Software Update — coming soon.
I really love my new iPod touch. I hope this upgrade won't be more than $20, or I should have just waited to get my iPod. I just got all excited at the announcement...
I believe that my wife's cultural lens and mine see "Karma" in extremely different lights, which makes me question: What do people think "Karma" means?
karma: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (excerpt):
- The explanation of karma can differ per tradition. Usually it is believed to be a sum of all that an individual has done, is currently doing and will do. The results or "fruits" of actions are called karma-phala. Karma is not about retribution, vengeance, punishment or reward; karma simply deals with what is. The effects of all deeds actively create past, present and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own life, and the pain and joy it brings to others. In religions that incorporate reincarnation, karma extends through one's present life and all past and future lives as well. It is cumulative.
- karma is referred to as karmic dirt, as it consists of very subtle and microscopic particles i.e. pudgala that pervade the entire universe.
Karmas are attracted to the karmic field of a soul on account of vibrations created by activities of mind, speech and body as well as on account of various mental dispositions.
Hence the karmas are the subtle matter surrounding the consciousness of a soul. When these two components i.e. consciousness and karma interact, we experience the life as we know it at present.
- The idea of karma was popularized in the Western world through the work of the Theosophical Society. Kardecist and Western New Age reinterpretations of karma frequently cast it as a sort of luck associated with virtue: if one does good or spiritually valuable acts, one deserves and can expect good luck; conversely, if one does harmful things, one can expect bad luck or unfortunate happenings. In this conception, karma is affiliated with the Neopagan law of return or Threefold Law, the idea that the beneficial or harmful effects one has on the world will return to oneself. Colloquially this may be summed up as 'what goes around comes around.'
Which is your take? Or do you have all together different one? Please think about your answer before reading mine... I think I'm very much in the #3 camp. I think Karma has entered the Western group conciousness as a quick explanation of "what goes around comes around" without placing any emphasis on the force behind that concept: IE: God, Nature, Majik, etc. And that the entire concept of reincarnation is absent in the Western (though possibly just American) basic understanding. Discuss.
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