FP Tech Desk: New PayPal app lets users transfer money with fist bump, Obama-style

PayPal wants to make the process of money changing hands as easy as bumping fists. Now, PayPal users who download the company's new Send Money iPhone application can transfer money Obama-style simply by bumping their devices together. As smart phone users increasingly look to the devices they carry with them to help manage their finances, PayPal is moving to expand its online payment and money transfer services beyond the PC and onto iPhones, BlackBerrys and other mobile devices. PayPal's application is by no means the first app that allows users to bump fists to transfer information. Other applications, including one simply called "Bump" developed by Bump Technologies Inc., allows users to exchange contact information by touching two compatible devices. PayPal's new Send Money application also features Split Check and Collect Money features. The Split Check function enables users to "divide and quickly reimburse each other for the cost of a meal" for up to 20 people, while the Collect Monday function helps people track for people who have chipped in for something like a joint gift or the total cost of a cottage rental. PayPal says that mobile transactions through its applications and mobile browsers have increased six-fold from about US$25-million in 2008 to $141-million in 2009. The company also has similar applications for Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices and phones running Google Inc.'s Android software which allow users to send money via their PayPal accounts. "Today, you leave the house with three critical things: your phone, your wallet and your keys," said Osama Bedier, PayPal's vice president of platform and emerging technology, in a statement. "PayPal Send Money lets consumers access their wallets through their phones. Because with PayPal, the wallet lives in the cloud - the mobile phone is just one device customers can use to access it." Users can download the application via iTunes here.

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OneTravel brings quick airline ticket purchases to your iPhone with "Wanderlust"

Filed under: Gadling Gear ReviewOnline travel agency OneTravel just released their very own iPhone app - Wonderlust. The application brings easy air ticket reservations to your phone, allowing you to find fares from almost any airline in the world. Searching is simple - and if you regularly use the application, you can securely store your travel profile inside the program, making booking a ticket quick and easy. During my review, I did run into a minor glitch - when entering an airport code, the app first matches the letters to countries. This means that AUS turns into a list of all the Australian airports. To actually find Austin, I had to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list. Other than that, the program functioned perfectly - I had a list of all available fares in 10 seconds, and could book a ticket right away. The booking screen allows you to select the number (and type) of passengers, and even lets you pick a premium cabin. Some other apps require you to pay for their premium version to get access to first and business class travel. Once you have booked a ticket, the app also acts as your booking manager, providing quick access to your itineraries. Wanderlust is free of charge, and is available in the App store (iTunes link). Gallery: OneTravel Wanderlust iPhone application OneTravel brings quick airline ticket purchases to your iPhone with "Wanderlust" originally appeared on Gadling on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Five Tips for Staying In Step with Your Kids during the School Year

By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network During the summer months it seems pretty easy to keep in tune with your children. Sports activities, family vacations, and days at the pool help create a strong family bond. But once they leave for that first day of school in the fall, it can be much harder to continue the same level of involvement in their lives. But it is worth it. Many studies have shown that parental involvement helps your kids learn more effectively. Many schools and school groups, like the Parent Teacher Alliance (PTA), work hard to offer parents opportunities to become more involved in their children’s school experience. The following are five tips parents can use to keep involved with their child’s school and help improve their overall educational experience: 1. Ask lots of questions, and listen to the answers. Your child is discovering many new things every day at school. Put aside your grown-up worries for an hour or two and listen to what they have to say. 2.Keep in touch with the teacher. Knowing and keeping in touch with your child’s teacher is the most effective way to keep abreast of your child’s progress and to get a handle on any problems he or she might be having. 3. Join the PTA. The PTA is very involved with what happens at your child’s school. Talking to other parents and keeping abreast of what is going on help you be more involved. 4. Provide encouragement. Report cards only come out a few times a year, but every day is a new opportunity to encourage your child to do their best. 5. Don’t forget about after school activities. Sports teams, music and drama, the YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, and church activities all offer productive and enriching activities for kids after school lets out. Read more details about each of these tips at Good Parents Stay Involved.

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$52.5 - 16% Off on Canon PowerShot SX200IS 12 MP Digital Camera with 12x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.0-inch LCD (Black)

You Save: $52.5(16%) List Price: $329.00 Our Price: $276.50 Creating gorgeous images is more fun than ever with the sleek, impressively equipped PowerShot SX200 IS. Capture close-up, wide-angle shots with stunning 12x optical zoom. Experience the unprecedented image quality and point-and-shoot convenience of Smart Auto, along with enhanced operability and an intuitive new menu. HD shooting at 1280 x 720 pixels with HDMI output lets you see all the beauty of your HD images and movies on your HDTV. Click to read more details | Customer Reviews

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Look Who's Bumpin' - iPhone app that locates parties near you

Look Who's Bumpin' - Discover which events, parties & venues are bumpin' near you with the help of RADAR - Realtime Activity Discovery via Augmented Reality. What this app does is take anonymized data from Bump (an app that exchanges contact info by bumping phones), Foursquare check-in data (an app that lets people know what you're up to), and geo-location data from SimpleGeo. What does all that tech speak mean? Basically you can see what's buzzing around your location at any given time. ... READ MORE >> This article is from our RSS feed - read the full version at: Look Who's Bumpin' - iPhone app that locates parties near you Grooveeffect - Urban Style, Streetwear, and Culture

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(PR) NVIDIA Brings A New Dimension To PC Gaming With NVIDIA 3DTV Play

NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA 3DTV Play, its latest software solution that allows consumers to connect their GeForce GPU-powered desktop or notebook computer to new 3D TVs, for the ultimate in big screen 3D gaming action. For the launch of 3DTV Play, NVIDIA is teaming up with Panasonic on its coast-to-coast 2010 "Panasonic Touch the Future Tour," where consumers can test drive 3DTV Play-based PCs running on the new Panasonic VIERA Full HD 3D TVs, that just launched this month. 3DTV Play software lets you connect any compatible NVIDIA GeForce GPU-powered PC or notebook to 3D TVs for the ultimate, high-definition, big-screen, 3D entertainment experience. By leveraging the processing power of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, 3DTV Play software delivers the best the PC has to offer: play hundreds of standard PC games in stunning 3D environments such as World of Warcraft - Wrath of the Lich King, Battlefield Bad Company 2, and James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. You can also watch upcoming Blu-ray 3D Hollywood blockbusters, view digital 3D photographs, and even watch streaming 3D movies for the ultimate viewing party. The active-shutter glasses bundled with each VIERA full HD 3D TV sold work seamlessly with NVIDIA GPUs and off-the-shelf PC gaming titles and other 3D entertainment content.

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Start your own live internet radio station for free

I’m a wannabe radio star and I’ve already got a few podcasts under my belt. But for a long time I’ve been looking for a way to broadcast a live show over the internet. I lost patience trying to learn how to use Shoutcast and found uBroadcast to be too unstable. Last week I discovered Spreaker, an online application that lets you broadcast live radio for free. Within 10 minutes of signing up to the service I was on air, pumping out my favorite tunes and talking to the listeners. By sharing I managed to get about 50 live listeners too, who were impressed by the quality of the broadcast (if not, my presentation skills). So, here’s a quick guide to how to start your own internet radio station using Spreaker: 1. Visit Spreaker.com and click on the Go on air now link then complete the sign-up process. You’ll receive an account verification email, with a link which you need to click to activate the account. 2. This is the page where all your past and current shows will be displayed. Click Create a new show to do just that. 3. Now you should enter the details of your radio show. Give it a title and enter a description for the show. Then select the language you’re broadcasting in and choose a category from the drop-down menus. 4. In the Create a new episode menu, click on the Live option. Note, there are also options for creating a podcast or uploading an existing podcast to be broadcast. Give the episode a title and select the date and time you want to go on air, then enter the duration of the show. Now click Open the Dee Jay Console to start the fun. 5. Spreaker comes with its own library of songs, loops, jingles and soundtracks, based on what the community has uploaded. You can browse the library using the Explore, Search and Latest tabs. Click Play to preview the audio and then hit Add to add the ones you like to your playlist. 6. You can also use your own songs and other audio, via the Upload tab. Again, make sure you hit the Add button to insert the tracks into your playlist. 7. Hit Close when you’ve added all your audio. You can go back to add more tracks and jingles during the broadcast if you need to. Spreaker also features a range of fun sound effects that you can play at any time during your broadcast. Add these to the Sound FX playlist using the Add button next to this window, which appears in the bottom-right of the interface. 8. Now you’re ready to start broadcasting. The main DJ console consists of three faders - one for the mic, and two for audio files, which you can drag in from the Playlist. You can use the Monitor buttons to isolate the audio on a particular track. Don’t forget about the sound effects, which can be played with a single click on the name. As soon as your time slot rolls around, the On Air button will light up and you’re off! Remember to share your broadcast with your Facebook friends using the option at the bottom of the screen. Your show will also be publically available from the Spreaker.com home page.

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ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills

Includes both an ooma Hub and an ooma Scout Free calling to any number in the US All the features you’ve come to depend on, like caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail Voicemail notifications to your email and mobile phone; the flexibility to hear your voicemail and control preferences online in the ooma Lounge The freedom to talk on your existing corded or cordless phones with no PC or headset required Product DescriptionIn a volatile economy, there’s one utility you can save with the aid of VOIP technology – your phone service costs. Smart and stylish, the ooma Hub and ooma Scout partner with your high-speed Internet and your existing home phones to deliver free home phone service. Your one-time purchase eliminates monthly bills for U. S. calling and delivers extremely low rates for international calls. Your one-time purchase of an award-winning ooma Hub device frees your phone service. Call anyone, at any number, anywhere in the U. S. without charge. Think how much you pay the phone company each year. Now imagine what you could do with all the money you save. Ooma is the only company in the history of the telecom industry that lets you own your dialtone. Your one-time ooma purchase eliminates monthly charges for unlimited US calling. Compared to other stand-alone VoIP providers, there are no monthly fees for US calling. Plus, the ooma system has been architected to deliver exceptional voice quality and reliability, giving you the crisp, acoustic performance of a landline, without the associated fees. A number of our customers have reported that ooma delivers “excellent voice quality,” “better than landline. ” Easy-to-read manuals are full of colorful diagrams and simple instructions to make set-up as painless as possible. It takes the average customer less than 20 minutes to activate and install the ooma system. Using the ooma system is even easier! ooma devices have been designed to provide an intuitive out-of-box experience. Ooma can move your number from your current phone provider for a one-time fee of $39. 99. To use the ooma Hub device, you need TWO things: 1. A high-speed Internet connection (cable/DSL/fiber-optic); and 2. A home phone. Try out ooma’s enhanced calling features with a free trial of ooma Premier, which includes a free second phone line, real-time message screening, one-touch Do Not Disturb and Send to Voicemail, a second personal number with private voicemail, and more. ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills Favourite This Page: Related posts: Ooma company's central network system free phone bills monthly phone service Verizon FiOS Phone – Get the Digital Quality Phone Service You Want For Less Broadband Phone Service

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Google Public Data Explorer lets you create dynamic charts and maps

Google's new Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. You can create dynamic, interactive mash-up line graphs, bar graphs, maps and bubble charts that can be embedded in Web pages. The visualizations are dynamic, so you can watch them move over time, change topics, highlight different entries and change the scale. (Source: )

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In Depth: Top 10 best iPhone apps to download today

The App store is jam packed with iPhone apps - we've previously covered our Top 10 best free iPhone apps, our pick of the 10 best free iPhone games on the planet and many more. Our complete guide to the best iPhone apps links to all the best apps you can get your hands on. But what if you just want to know the 10 apps that every iPhone user absolutely must own? Then read on... 01. Tweetie £1.79 Our favourite Twitter client We know that you might not be interested in a client for the microblogging service Twitter, but Tweetie is such an excellent example of how apps make the iPhone great that it takes our top spot nonetheless; Twitter was born for the iPhone. Tweetie lacks only push notifications (though you could add that with an app such as Boxcar) to make it the ultimate Twitter app; it can geotag your tweets, let you view conversations, supports Lists, the new retweet feature and more. Buy from the iTunes Store 02. Documents To Go £8.99 Word, Excel and PowerPoint editing Documents to Go has the best word processor we've seen on iPhone, letting you create and edit Word docs while retaining formatting. It can work with Excel and PowerPoint documents, too, and the Premium edition lets you grab attachments from Gmail or Exchange servers. Buy from the iTunes Store 03. The Guardian £2.39 Get your news on the go! We're often asked why you'd spend money on an app that lets you do something that's free through Safari. This app is a good answer. Not only can you tailor the news that is delivered, but it's simple to use and you can cache stories to read offline when you're on the Tube. Buy from the iTunes Store 04. TomTom UK & Ireland £59.99 Turn-by-turn directions There are cheaper apps that add turn-by-turn navigation to the iPhone 3GS (the £26.99 CoPilot Live app will happily get you from A to B) but it should come as no surprise that the app from TomTom is by far the most polished. It lacks live traffic info, but we hope that's coming soon. Buy from the iTunes Store 05. Facebook £FREE Social networking client The great thing about this app is that it lets you keep in touch with friends and upload photos from the iPhone's camera straight to Facebook. It also offers push notifications too. Now as soon as a friend comments on your status, you'll know. 06. Reeder £1.79 The best RSS reader This little app syncs with Google Reader, a service for reading RSS feeds from your favourite sites. Though the interface looks a little sparse, it's actually stuffed with features, and since there are lots of Google Reader clients for the Mac too, you can keep your feeds in sync. Buy from the iTunes Store 07. Mobile Allowance £0.59 A super billing assistant Whether your iPhone came from O2 or Orange, this is a fantastic app for keeping track of how much of your monthly allocation of minutes and texts you have used, plus any extra charges. We installed the free O2 one, but went back to Mobile Allowance as it's much cleaner. Buy from the iTunes Store 08. Instapaper Pro £2.99 Offline reading You know how you often come across articles on the web that you want to read, just not now? Ping them to the free Instapaper service, then use this app that caches for offline reading for you to read later. There's a free version too, though it lacks the tilt-to-scroll feature. Buy from the iTunes Store 09. RedLaser £1.19 The ultimate price checker This app uses the iPhone's camera to take pictures of barcodes, then looks for the product online to check prices. Amazon results are first, but it also supports Google Product Search to query a huge number of other online stores. Just don't let the staff in HMV catch you! Buy from the iTunes Store 10. National Rail Enquiries £4.99 Rail journey planner Sure, you can use Safari to muddle through the National Rail's website to find times, but, while it's expensive, this app is an essential investment for regular train-users. It helps plan journeys, optionally remembering your favourite stations and even favourite journeys, and shows the live progress of your train. Our favourite feature: tap a button marked 'Next train home' and the iPhone will work out where you are, where your closest station is, and when the next train leaving for your home station departs. Buy from the iTunes Store

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