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	<title>The K Unit &#187; Gizmodoodats</title>
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		<title>Location Based Services and Tracking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember coming across a blog entry shared by Louis Gray that kick started a number of thoughts on the topic of check-ins. The point that stood out the most was the idea that check-ins are like coupons and that eventually you'd have to pay people to check in. I strongly believe that the hype around LBS will die down a little but check-ins will still happen. The reality is that check-ins really are the geospatial version of tweets, reviews and wiki articles. There are lot of pragmatic use cases for LBS services especially in the social setting. A check-in is a lot like the "what did you do on the weekend" question except that you can do it in real time. Often times, it'd be interesting to see where people had lunch and it serves as a recommendation of sorts. One of the bigger dilemmas for LBS will be privacy. I don't always want everyone to know where I am. For example, when my mum was not well, it would have been nice to be able to check in to the hospital as a means of letting my siblings know that I was with her but given that I'm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slacker and mSpot &#8211; Music on the Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I'm back on transit, finding applications that work offline is quite critical. The ADD part of me will go nuts without anything to do. Like many people, music is a must-have for me. My applications of choice are mSpot and Slacker Radio. MSpot is starting to be a must-have app for me especially after I ran into a hard drive corruption issue a few months ago. MSpot gives you the ability to sync your music to the cloud from and between a desktop, laptop or android device. I haven't figured out how to upload from my phone yet. The service is still really rough still. For one, it doesn't seem to sync updated tag information back to the cloud and synchronization seems quite manual. I do like that I don't have to hook up my Android to the desktop to sync my music and that I can always access my playlist from the web. mSpot offers the 2GB service for free and then offers much larger storage options for a fee.&#160; I use Slacker Radio when I don't know what I want. I've never used satellite radio but imagine what it'd be like. Slacker Radio has a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Voice</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2010/07/25/google-voice/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=google-voice</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The other app that I absolutely fell in love with while I was in Hawaii was Google Voice for Android. Google Voice is the re-brand of Grand Central which Google purchased a while ago. What I love about it is that it is such a pragmatic and usable implementation of VOIP and mobile. Google Voice comes with all of the basic VOIP features such as call forwarding, dedicated phone number, cheap long distance and voice mail that can be forwarded to your email. It also comes with other premium features such as the ability to send SMS and transcribing voice mail to text. All for the whopping price of free. &#160; What makes Google Voice, however is how it's implemented. Google Voice gives you the option to override your current phone number. For instance, I have a Boston area code as my Google Voice number. When I was in Hawaii, my Google Voice number would be forwarded to the Hawaii number. When I call out from my phone, it shows my Boston number. The reason why this is great is because I typically get a new SIM card on most of my trips to the US. This allows me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting rid of our landline</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2010/07/14/getting-rid-of-our-landline/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=getting-rid-of-our-landline</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've finally done it. We've finally gotten rid of our landline. Even though we rarely use our home phones, there is the mental dependency of knowing that the landline always works. After years of paying for a home line that was rather expensive for calls that we rarely get other than marketers, we finally decided to get rid of our landline altogether. We wanted to come up with a solution that would be cheaper for us in the long run but wouldn't really change the way we live our lives. There were two things that we had to work around. 1) Our mobile plan The good thing about our mobile plan was that all incoming minutes are free. It's one of those "legacy" Rogers Wireless features that we kept. We rarely call out from the mobile phone and if we made calls, we'd make it from our landline. Even so, most of our communications tend to be either IM anyway. However, we had to consider how we dealt with the outgoing calls to family and friends. 2) Not convenient carrying a mobile phone around the house There is a reason why we have a cordless phone in every room. That's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Navigation comes to Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2010/06/30/google-navigation-comes-to-canada/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=google-navigation-comes-to-canada</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of waiting, Google Navigation finally comes to Canada. I was lucky enough to have been able to play with it in my trip to Hawai earlier this year and have to say that I fell in love with it. I first dabbled with navigation on the Android with first MotoNav which I found quite confusing and CoPilot which I found better. After all the hype with Google navigation, I couldn't help but be tempted to try it out. The way I use Google Navigation is really an extension of Google Maps. In fact, that's how I typically start my search. I typically try finding the location by address or by name. Once the location is found, one of the options on any point is "Navigate" Things I like about Google Navigation: Simple interface. As per Google's trademark design, the interface is to the point. You have very limited options to what you can do with the screen that doesn't deal with navigating to a point. If it can't pinpoint your location via GPS, it keeps you in the route view which then allows you to figure out where you are visually. Close integration with Google Maps. Let's face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gestures make the Macs oh so much better</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons why I fell in love with the Macs at Zoocasa was because of the gestures. Frankly I thought the whole concept was gimicky at first never thinking it would be useful outside of mobile devices. After using it for a few weeks, it became a very intuitive way of accessing functions of the Mac. I became so enamored with the idea that I bought the Magic Mouse when it came out. Gestures become an even more powerful tool when you can do custom configurations with it and my favorite tool to do that is Better Touch Tool. Better Touch Tool is great because you can customize both your TouchPad as well as the Magic Mouse. You can also customize gestures globally as well as by application. Lately, I've been doing some customizations and decided that it'd be nice to share it with people who are looking into customizing gestures on their Macs as well. Here are some of my customizations Global Magic Mouse Show Spaces --&#62; Three Finger Click Application Expose --&#62; Two Finger Swipe Down Expose --&#62; Two Finger Swipe Up Touch Pad Launch ScreenSaver --&#62; Five Finger Click Firefox and Chrome Magic Mouse Move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tungle me this</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2010/03/15/tungle-me-this/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tungle-me-this</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tungle has been one of the most powerful tools that I've come across in a long while. One of the biggest challenge for me as someone who is constantly working with people inside and outside my organization is the ability to schedule meetings. Tungle solves this issue for me. Tungle is essentially a public free/busy on steroids and crack at the same time. It allows you to publish all of your calendars (work, personal, fun, etc) and allows others to book time with you. It is not, however, a calendar server. Tungle gives you multiple ways to publish your availability to its servers. You can download an iCal client, Outlook client or sync it with a service like Google Apps. I primarily use it with integration to Google Apps. The one thing I like about it with this feature is that it automatically updates to my calendar on my mobile devices as well. If you are using Tungle to schedule a meeting with others who are also on Tungle, a really efficient way of managing schedules is with the iPhone app. It allows you to see the availability of people that have made their information available to you and schedule [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoompass Tags</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2010/03/11/zoompass-tags/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=zoompass-tags</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was quite honoured when I was selected as "one of the first Canadians" to receive my Zoompass Tag. To incent or reward the use of this new idea, I was also zoomed an additional $15 into my account. It was definitely a nice gesture. The Zoompass Tag is essentially a sticker that is intended to be put on your phone. I suspect it is embedded with an RFID chip of sorts inside it. Zoompass is geared to be a mobile payment tool and this is a logical step in it's evolution. It allows the account holder to be able to use the Zoompass site or mobile app on the phone before and now you can physically use your phone to swipe at a pay station. All in all, quite clever. When I used it at the Tim Horton's yesterday morning, the attendant was quite impresses and quickly jotted down the name of the product. There are a few issues for me personally. The first is that I have at least 3 phones that I use and I use them interchangably. It's not a major issue as I am quite unique in that regard. The other issue I have is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changes coming to Canadian Maps from Waze</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2010/02/09/changes-coming-to-canadian-maps-from-waze/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=changes-coming-to-canadian-maps-from-waze</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was quite excited to receive this email from Waze yesterday. Waze has been one of my favorite mobile apps of late. My major complaint was of course that there were very no Canadian maps available. With new Canadian maps, this could very well be a killer navigation tool while still providing real time information that you'd have to pay for from other providers like Tom Tom for instance. Hello Canadian mappers, Some great news - we have acquired a base map for all of Canada (thank you Canadian government!) and we will start loading them to the cartouche. While this change is great, we realize this brings a few concerns to all the hard work you've put into creating the waze maps so far, so we wanted to explain how this process will be carried out which is why we're sending this email. Before we start, you should know that you can take a break for the next 2 days. Any changes made after we start the process will not make it to the final version of the map, and we don't want you to waste your time. We will also put a big red pop-up on the cartouche [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waze &#8211; Twitter for navigation</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2010/01/08/Waze-Twitter-for-navigation/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=Waze-Twitter-for-navigation</link>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I've been addicted to a pretty neat application called Waze. It brands itself as a social navigation app and has apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian. I actually played with both the iPhone and Windows Mobile app and both work pretty decently. The app is pretty addictive. You essentially get points for numerous activities such as simply driving around, sharing event such as speed trap, recording new roads and yes, even editing the map. The mobile app works like it's supposed to although I surprisingly had more problems connecting to the GPS with the iPhone than I did with the Windows Mobile which is quite rare. The web application is simplistic. You have a dashboard that shows you your previous trips and then you can choose to click them to view those trips. You could also choose to use those trips to enhance a current map by filling out roads that are missing and so on. I like the idea of editing my maps but I find the experience quite frustrating at times. Hopefully over time, they will continue to improve on it. The mobile app also integrates with both Twitter and foursquare. Although maps are [...]]]></description>
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