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<title><![CDATA[How to back up your Gmail account (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hotmail's recent message loss hiccup explained]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pearlinekl</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A service bug that left a group of Windows Live Hotmail users without access to new messages and entire folders for days has been explained and remedied against future instances. Writing on the Windows Team Blog, Mike Schackwitz of the Hotmail team says the problem stemmed from an error with an automated script that Microsoft uses to test the service for errors in every day usage. Part of the script's function is to clean its tracks once it's done creating test accounts, but this time around the testing jumped the test group and went to real user accounts.The good news, at least, is that the data is still there. &quot;Please note that the email messages and folders of impacted users were not deleted' only their inbox location in the directory servers was removed,&quot; Schackwitz said. The empty mailboxes those who were affected saw when logging in were made to compensate for the fact that their account didn't match up with Hotmail's database. &quot;This is why the accounts received the 'Welcome to Hotmail' message,&quot; Schackwitz explained.That bad news is for anyone who was affected by the bug and didn't log in during the time it was being fixed, Schackwitz said. For those people, any messages sent would bounce back to the senders as if the account was shut down. The script bug affected 17,355 users--16,035 of which Schackwitz said had their accounts fixed a day after the company first began addressing the issue. The other 1,320 took another three days to get sorted out. In order to keep a bug like this from happening again, Microsoft is splitting up its service testing accounts from the set of normal user accounts, as well as adding a service status to its support forums and bug reporting tools.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gain Fitness wants to start your gym resolution early]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pearlinekl</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[As my Facebook friends and coworkers are tired of hearing, I&amp;'ve been on a serious fitness kick over the past year and a half, having lost 83 pounds. But I now have a new problem, and I admit it&amp;'s a pretty good one to have: My current set of fitness apps, geared around watching calories and tracking workouts, don&amp;'t seem ready to take me to the next level.That&amp;'s why I was pretty pumped to hear about Gain Fitness, a new workout-recommendation site from former Google and YouTube employee Nick Gammell. Currently, the site offers randomized but scientific workouts that you can customize based on your experience level and available equipment.The fitness industry is a $120 billion-a-year business. So there&amp;'s money to be made in the margins by making it more efficient, social, and data-driven. Gain&amp;'s service is aimed at regular exercisers who already hit the gym two to five times a week, but get frustrated at their lack of progress and the time it takes to both plan and track workouts. The notion of the site&amp;'s Quick Workout is that Gain Fitness can take out the time it takes to think through and plan a workout, while using principles of exercise science to design a sensible routine.Gammell estimates this demographic includes 50- 60 million people in the United States alone.I certainly fit in that group: I&amp;'ve taught myself a fair bit about exercise and work out with a personal trainer but don&amp;'t consider myself an expert. When I clicked through Gain&amp;'s Quick Workout generator to show a workout I could do at home, what I saw both felt familiar and in my range of capabilities, yet seemed appropriately challenging &amp;8212' decline pushups, bodyweight squats, planks, and so on. (Gammell&amp;'s cofounder, Sam Morrell, is a certified personal trainer, while Gammell is a former college football player.)There&amp;'s a host of fitness apps and websites out there, from DailyBurn and LoseIt to two personal favorites, MyFitnessPal and GymGoal. But Gammell hopes to harness his quantitative background &amp;8212' he was a financial data analyst at Google &amp;8212' and today&amp;'s sophisticated social networks to take online fitness to the next level. His plans for the site include public profiles, workout sharing, and social challenges. (Another site I&amp;'ve started using recently, Social Workout, already lets people create and join challenges and share them on Facebook, but doesn&amp;'t have Gain&amp;'s workout-generating function.)What I&amp;'d really like to see is a way to tie more of these sites together. Just as location-based services have started to cooperate on place databases and check-in data, fitness sites should be able to share food diaries, calorie expenditures, and workout plans among themselves. Gammell agrees and said he&amp;'d like to be part of that move.Gain Fitness, formerly known as eFitPlan, has raised $80,000 from friends and family members. Google executive Ben Ling, who&amp;'s well-known inside the tech business for his brutal workout regime, is an advisor to the company.Gammell&amp;'s not just CEO of the company, he also uses the product &amp;8212' and offered this before-and-after photo as proof. As I joked with him, most people would consider themselves lucky if his before was their after, but it shows there&amp;'s an opportunity for fitness apps that go beyond the basics.And here&amp;'s a presentation Morrell and Gammell gave at the Quantified Self, a workshop for fitness-tracking aficionados:Next Story: VentureBeat on the prowl for DEMO startups in New York, Toronto Previous Story: Projects in 2010 took aim at cleantech&amp;'s chicken-and-egg dilemmaPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: fitness startups, online workouts, social fitness, workoutsCompanies: Gain Fitness, MyFitnessPal, Social WorkoutPeople: Ben Ling, Nick Gammell, Sam Morrell          Tags: fitness startups, online workouts, social fitness, workoutsCompanies: Gain Fitness, MyFitnessPal, Social WorkoutPeople: Ben Ling, Nick Gammell, Sam MorrellOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Phocabulary helps improve your vocabulary with powerful images]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pearlinekl</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[If you&amp;'re preparing for a major test like the SAT or GRE, or simply want to improve your everyday vocabulary, Phocabulary for the iPhone and Android is a must-have tool.The app features 500 handpicked words and combines them with memorable imagery that will help you recall them. Other apps feature a higher count of words, but Phocabulary&amp;'s focus on word retention makes it stand out from the crowd. That&amp;'s why we&amp;'re selecting Phocabulary for VentureBeat&amp;'s Mobile App Spotlight, where we highlight innovative new apps.Phocabulary is available in a free ad-support version that only offers &amp;''Easy&amp;'' words, and a full version that costs $1.99 on the iTunes Store and Android Market. The paid version of the app contains more difficult word selection.The app offers several ways of interacting with the words. Flash Card mode is the simplest method, allowing you to quickly move between words, look up synonyms and antonyms, and favorite them. The Photo Quiz mode displays a word and asks you to choose an image that best describes it. Finally, the Word Quiz mode asks you to choose from several words to best describe an image.In my testing of the app, I found that it generally did a good job of making me aware of new words. And as the developers theorized, pairing the words with imagery definitely helped me remember them better.Phocabulary was developed by Nashville, Tennessee-based Inventive Gadget. The group is spearheaded by Tom Nguyen, who cut his teeth in programming by creating gadgets for Google&amp;'s personalized homepage, iGoogle. The developers are currently working on iPad and Android tablet versions of Phocabulary.Want to have your mobile app featured like Phocabulary Then submit to our Mobile App Spotlight!The Intel AppUp developer program is sponsoring VentureBeata4a4s Mobile App Spotlight. However,    VentureBeata4a4s editorial staff selects apps for the program according to  its customary editorial standards, without input from Intel.Next Story: MyLikes raises $5.6 million for social endorsements Previous Story: DEMO: V3 Systems launches solution that makes virtual machines faster than local desktopsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, apps, iOS, iPhone, Mobile App Spotlight, Phocabulary, vocabularyCompanies: Inventive GadgetPeople: Tom Nguyen          Tags: Android, apps, iOS, iPhone, Mobile App Spotlight, Phocabulary, vocabularyCompanies: Inventive GadgetPeople: Tom NguyenDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon grabs exclusive on Angry Birds Rio for Android phones]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pearlinekl</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Amazon Appstore will offer exclusive downloads for the upcoming Angry Birds Rio game for Android phones.The new game from Rovio will be released in conjunction with the animated film Rio from Twentieth Century Fox. The deal with Amazon is another extension for Rovio to make money from the world&amp;'s hottest mobile game.The original Angry Birds mobile game has been a smash hit on the iPhone and Android platforms, with users playing the games for more than 200 million minutes a day. Peter Vesterbacka, head of business development at Rovio, said over the weekend that Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 100 million times and that 30 million of those are on the Android platform.On the Amazon Appstore, users will also be able to buy ad-free Android versions of Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons.As we noted with the iPhone version of the game, the deal with Twentieth Century Fox means the Angry Birds game  will be promoted along with the movie in TV commercials and other  marketing. And the bird character Rio will also appear in the new  version of the Angry Birds game. The movie releases on April 15.The Angry Birds Rio game will be released around the world in March.  In the game, the original Angry Birds are kidnapped and taken to the  magical city of Rio, where they escape their captors and set out to save  their friends, Blu and Jewel, two rare macaws who are the stars of the  Rio film. There will be hours of game play, physics-based demolition  challenges, and twists related to the film. It will have 60 dedicated  levels, more than a usual update to the Angry Birds game. It will be  available on smartphones and tablets.Rio itself is a comedy about a rare birda4a4s search for another of his  kind in the rainforests of Brazil. He finds one, but they&amp;'re beset by would-be animal smugglers and have to escape. Vesterbacka said that his company is doing other deals  as well. It has created Angry Birds plush toys and clothing. A board  game is coming out in May.And Rovio is still talking about doing television shows and movies  based on Angry Birds. But he said it takes four years to make a movie.  With the Rio deal, Rovio gets the benefit of movie promotion without  having to wait a long time.a4AThe Android platform has seen phenomenal growth, and ita4a4s great that new avenues for app distribution are opening up,a4 said Mikael Hed, chief executive of Rovio. Previously, Rovio gave a 24-hour exclusive to mobile app store GetJar for the launch of the ad-based version of Angry Birds on Android. But the traffic crashed the GetJar store.Next Story: Analyst: iPad 2 launch sales close to 1 million Previous Story: Intel buys Egyptian 4G LTE firm SySDSoftPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio, iPhoneCompanies: Amazon, Rovio, Twentieth Century FoxPeople: Mikael Hed          Tags: Android, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio, iPhoneCompanies: Amazon, Rovio, Twentieth Century FoxPeople: Mikael HedDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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