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What do you get for your money? Thats the question everyone looking to buy a piece of tech asks themselves. It also happens to be the question this recurring feature will try to answer. Is it worth spending extra on high-end gear, or do you get what you need with cheaper models? Every month, well look at some of the cheapest and most expensive products in a given category, testing each to see what their limits are and to help you figure out when you can cheap it out, and when to plunk down some extra cash to get what you need.

I wandered lonely as a cloud, William Wordsworth once wrote, perhaps while pondering the dearth of cloud storage options available in 1802. Today, of course, these services keep our data floating high oer vales and hills on a mesh of connected computers. Because he died in 1850, Wordsworth never had to deal with choosing a cloud storage solution for his collection of musings on daffodils. The rest of us arent so lucky.

Modern hunters of cloud-related bliss have an overwhelming number of solutions, ranging from basic and cheap to feature-rich and expensive. We chose two to look at here: the open-source system ownCloud, and the commercial service Dropbox. We tested ownCloud running on a cheap PC connected to a domestic broadband connection as our free solution. As an open-source project, the software is completely free. Dropbox is also free for most users, but offers a Pro service costing between $10 and $50 per month. This Pro service offers more space (100, 200, or 500GB) for an additional fee.

Both ownClould and Dropbox offer ample space for you to store your stuff. Dropbox starts you off with 2GB, but its easy to get more. They give you, for instance, an additional 250MB for following a simple tutorial, 125MB for each social media account you connect, and 500MB for each friend you refer. With a mixture of these and other bonuses, its easy to get anywhere from 10 to 20 gigabytes of free space, which is enough to store your most vital documents. If you need more, you can also buy space. The upper limit for the Pro version is 500GB for $499 a year, which works out to about a dollar a Gigabyte.

For ownCloud, the limiting factor is the disk space available on the computer it runs on. You can use all of the free space available or just some of it. With hard drive space costing less than 5 cents/GB, that makes it incredibly cheap to build a high-capacity ownCloud server. OwnCloud also doesnt need a lot of processing power to run: You can use anything from a $35 Raspberry Pi up to a multi-core server.

Both services aspire to be much more than places to stash your files; they want to be platforms where you can work with this data as well. Dropbox does this by integrating with other programs through an API (Application Programmers Interface) that allows programmers to integrate Dropbox into their own software. If you use the password manager 1Password, for instance, it can save your password file directly to Dropbox to share between other devices without you having to install the Dropbox software. The simple text editor Writebox allows you to create documents directly in Dropbox, then load and edit them in any web browser. There are also a couple of very basic apps built into the Dropbox site: a photo galley and link manager.

OwnCloud includes a number of built-in plugins like a text editor, calendar, PDF viewer, and contact manager, as well as a large number of apps that add functions like a video streaming server and a music player. These work a little differently than those on Dropbox, though. Most run on the server itself in order to provide the same functions on any web browser. Most of the apps we tried worked adequately, but lacked the polish of the Dropbox apps.

You can upload or download files from a web browser with both services using a client app, synching your essential files in the background while you work. Again, both Dropbox and ownCloud offer a decent selection of clients, supporting Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. Dropbox has the wider selection, though, with additional support for Blackberry and a number of third-party clients that add extra features, like Boxie.

We found the official clients for both services to be easy to use, automatically uploading files to the cloud as they are created in a designated folder. Dropbox was generally quicker overall, though, because it splits files into chunks and only uploads changed chunks of a file. In contrast, ownCloud has to re-upload the entire file when it is changed, even if only a small part of the file has changed. Adding what the programmers call a delta sync is on the to-do list for the ownCloud development team, but there is no timeline for when this feature will be added. This could be a significant issue if you want to save lots of larger files that change frequently. For people like graphic designers and Photoshop users, Dropbox may be the better option here.

The cloud can be a dangerous place, and Dropbox is not without its flaws in this area. There have been incidents where user data was compromised or left unprotected on the service, and it has had extended outages. Not that ownCloud is exactly perfect here, either. When you run your own server, you are more open to security breaches caused by unpatched problems in other programs, or outages caused by a lost connection. Both services encrypt the data as it is transferred and stored on the server, but Dropbox doesnt allow you to manage this process yourself. OwnCloud does. Its worth noting that self-managed encryption can be added to Dropbox with a third-party app such as BoxCryptor, though.

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Lady Gaga has played in front of every kind of crowd imaginable over the past five-plus years. From dingy New York piano bars to huge festivals and everything in between. But the one thing on her bucket list she's never done is play the annual musical rugby scrum that is the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.

But in a video to Little Monsters, Gaga announced that she would be performing on the Born This Way night next Thursday to help kick off the festival.

"I believe being an individual and speaking your mind is one of the boldest things you can do," said Gaga of the gig that will benefit her nonprofit foundation. "And I will be celebrating that with Doritos on Thursday night."

Of course, there's a hitch. As part of the product placement pitch to score tickets to the intimate 2,000-person gig, Monsters have to complete one of the Doritos Bold Mission challenges, which includes #BoldBravery.

In that challenge, interested fans have to upload a picture or video that expresses their individuality through a bold action. "What bold thing have you done that makes you stand out?" Gaga challenged. The singer will pick one winner to be a VIP at the show.

The other challenges include: #BoldLeap, which requires jumping from a 30-foot platform to grab a golden ticket, the #BoldPerformer, in which you need to play a busking set using Doritos-provided instruments and earn $10 in less than 10 minutes and #BoldHaircut, in which the Doritos barber (wait what?) gives you an "electrifying haircut" in front of a crowd.

If those are too wacky, you can also opt for the #BoldSuitcase, in which you turn in your luggage for a Doritos valise and wear whatever is inside to the show, and the #BoldDerby, where you skate one lap against roller derby pros and snatch the flag from the lead jammer ... while wearing an inflatable sumo wrestler suit.

You can enter by either taking on the Bravery challenge, for which Gaga and Doritos will pick the winning entry, or try your hand at one of the other missions on the ground in Austin, because that's only way to score a ticket to the show.

The snack attack gig will serve as a warm-up for the May 4 kick-off of Gaga' upcoming ARTRAVE tour.

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The last date is March 9, 2014. HURRY!

First-time voters or those who don't have their names on the voters' list or electoral rolls yet, you have time till March 9, 2014 to register yourself with the Election Commission of India and exercise your right to vote in the forthcoming general and assembly elections that begin April 7, 2014.

A step-by-step guide to register as a first time general voter as mentioned on the Election Commission of India Web site.

While you can opt for the traditional offline method of registering as a voter, the Election Commission of India now also offers you an opportunity to register online.

How to register online

You can now register online here: http://eci-citizenservices.nic.in/frmmobileverification.aspx?type=FORM6

Once you proceed with details like your mobile number and e-mail ID, you get a verification code on your mobile phone. After you submit the code you go to Form 6 (see here to get an idea: http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/forms/FORM6.pdf), fill it up online and submit it.

Form 6 answers all the questions first-time voters would have along with a list of documents required you need to scan and upload.

Once you file and upload Form 6 online along with a scanned copy of your photographs, necessary documents to prove your birth date and residential address, the Election Registration Officer will send a booth level officer to check and verify the authenticity of your documents.

After this verification id done without any hitch your name will get registered as a voter in the electoral list.

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Are you a student or working in academia? Do you have to tackle loads of research papers? The Internet is full of tools that try to make this arduous task somewhat easier, and Paperpile is the newest addition to the gang. If youre hooked on Mendeley, Zotero or ReadCube, dont look now, but a better and slicker solution could be just around the corner.

Paperpile is a reference manager that resides entirely on the Web. Theres nothing to download except a Chrome add-on, and no account is needed aside from your existing Google account. Unlike reference managers that charge you extra to cloud-host your PDF files, Paperpile makes use of cloud storage you already haveGoogle Driveand with 15GB of free storage, you wont run out of space quickly. This means that once you upload your PDFs to Google Drive via Paperpile, you can access them from anywhere. But lets not get ahead of ourselves.

To start using Paperpile, you first need to add some papers. Do this by adding PDF files you already have, searching for papers on the Web, or importing your library from your current manager. You can also add papers directly from search results on websites such as Google Scholar or PubMed.

Paperpile analyzes your papers and acquires all the necessary metadata by itself. When it cant find it, its easy to manually add it on your own. When you find a new paper online and add it, Paperpile will automatically download the PDF for you, and all your PDFs can be synced to Google Drive with one click. Paperpile supports folders, subfolders and labels, and organizing your papers into them is a matter of dragging and dropping.

Paerpile makes it easy to organize and view papers, without overly complicating the process.

Going through your library is a breeze. The search function is instant, and the abundance of filtering options makes it easy to view papers by certain authors or from certain journals and sort them any way you want. For better organization, you can add notes to your papers or star them for even quicker access. All this browsing and editing is easily done with your mouse or using keyboard shortcuts.

Paperpile makes it unbelievably easy to view PDFs from your library, copy citations (simply mark one or more articles and press Ctrl+C), view who cited an article, and share articles with colleagues or friends. You can also set up shared folders to collaborate on a reference list with others, even if they dont use Paperpile themselvesgreat for journal clubs and lab meetings.

Click insert citation in a Google Doc and start typing to locate articles from your library or the Web.

All this, however, is just scratching the surface of what Paperpile can do. Remember the Google Drive integration I mentioned earlier? It's not just for cloud storageyou can also use it to write and collaborate on manuscripts, papers, or even your entire thesis. The Google Drive plugin (which you will need to authorize separately the first time you use it) lets you add citations of any format to a document youre working on. These can come from your library or the Websimply type in some keywords and pick the right result from the list. The bibliography will be automatically added to the bottom of the document and will adhere to your chosen citation style. You can change this style at any time and have Paperpile re-format accordingly.

Sounds too good to be true? It did to me too, but except for a very minor and rare glitch in adding notes to articles, the only issue I encountered happened when I was signed into two Google accounts at the same time. Logging out of both and signing in again to the one associated with Paperpile solved this completely, and the services help files are thorough, clear, and pretty much solve any problem that may arise.

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There are certain things in life that are hard to measure; things like how successful you are, how much trust you can give or how much hope you can share. These are just some of the intangible things in life that we often do and think about but just cant seem to find the absolute measurement to quantify them; much like broadband data. Impalpable as it may seem, not all have a clear picture of how data actually looks or how big or small it really is. One thing is certain, we need it in order to appreciate our mobile devices full potential. Smartphones, in particular, do make our lives easier; but sadly, sustaining them becomes a bit financially complicated because in order to appreciate what they can do, one has to connect to the internet and this would only mean additional costs. Just like our appliances that need electricity to run, smartphones need data connectivity to bring out their smartness. But how much data does one really need?

Not all data users are created equal. Each individual has his/her own needs and preferences and so before asking how much data one would really need, it would probably be best to differentiate first the type of user one is. In reality, there are free and easy users and there are heavy users. If you are the type who every so often browses the web, views and sends email, checks Facebook and Twitter; but seldom stream music and videos every day and does little to no upload and download then consider yourself a light to moderate user. However, if it seems that you are the type who just cant, definitely cant, help but tweet, post, upload, and download the slightest movement there is every minute that passes you by or would just have to check emails and download every bit of attachment there is or maybe someone who streams and downloads music and videos more often than the commercials on prime time TV then you are indeed a heavy user.

So, which one are you? As mentioned previously, not all data users are created equal; and so is data. Not all data are the same. Smartphone activities that require broadband connection vary from small bits to large chunks of data. Small bits of data will include text only emails, social network tweets, status updates, and text only instant messaging. Uploading, downloading, and streaming high quality music and videos, and playing online games are precisely the activities that suck large chunks of data.

While we are all certain that a minute is equal to 60 seconds and that an hour is 60 minutes, unlike time that has a definite measurement, data remains a bit vague. The best we could probably do for now is to give estimates. To start, for the purpose of identifying unit of measurement for data, we will use KB for kilobytes, MB for megabytes and GB for gigabytes. 1 MB is equivalent to 1,000 KB.

A plain text only email would roughly consume 3 50KB. This however greatly increases to about 300KB if a document is attached and approximately 350KB if there is a photo attachment. Browsing through a single web page will cost you about 150KB 1.5MB; while a minute of music streaming will devour you 500KB. Data consumption greatly increases to 1MB if you download or upload hi-resolution photos. A minute of video streaming is about 2 to 5MB and for a single app, game or song downloaded will roughly feast on 3 to 4MB. Five minutes of YouTube at 720p will cost you about 37.5MB.

Lately, instant messaging apps that allow VOIP calls are getting much attention. A Skype to Skype call will cost you about 3MB per minute while video calls between mobile phones is roughly 500KB per second and between phone and computer, 600KB per second. A Viber call will consume you about 240KB per minute. Being visible on the mobile scene has its hype, too. Foursquare check-ins will cost you about 180KB while map searches and navigation will gobble up about 150-200KB. Again, all these are just approximations.

You see, different smartphone activities eat up different amounts of data. Comparing them to our appliances at home, the energy consumption of one appliance is different from the other. A window-type AC and a split type AC have varying energy consumptions although both can cool the same room using the same type of electricity. The same is true with an energy efficient refrigerator that consumes minimal electricity, but drastically changes once it is left opened. For sure, a lot more energy is consumed. Talking about email, a text-only email eats up very minimal data; but once you download an attachment it gobbles up more data.

Telcos have tiered services or set of services that has increasing price points depending on what best suits the needs of the sbscriber. Tiered services are offered because telcos know that there is no one size fits all even in data consumption. In order for subscribers to appreciate and maximize these services, one has to evaluate his/her own data behaviour. Knowing how much one actually consumes in a months time is vital and if used wisely would actually benefit them more than they know. Who knows, they mightve been subscribing to 1GB data plan but have been consuming less than what they thought theyve been consuming.

Data consumption on a particular activity as mentioned above varies. Once you have identified what kind of data user you are, you can now sum up all these activities in order to determine how much data you actually consume. Keep in mind 1GB is equivalent to 1,024MB.

So, what are your possibilities with 1 GB of data? A lot! With 1GB of data you can send 100 emails with attachment, browse through 100 web pages, upload a post and a photo 50 times, stream music for 90 minutes, stream videos for 90 minutes, map navigation for 60 minutes and download 17 games or other apps. All these you can do with 1GB of data.

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Her explores the romantic relationship between Samantha, a computer program, and Theodore Twombly, a human being/NYTSET in the not-too-distant future, Spike Jonzes film Her explores the romantic relationship between Samantha, a computer program, and Theodore Twombly, a human being. Though Samantha is not human, she feels the pangs of heartbreak, intermittently longs for a body and is bewildered by her own evolution. She has a rich inner life, complete with experiences and sensations.

Her raises two questions that have long preoccupied philosophers. Are nonbiological creatures like Samantha capable of consciousness at least in theory, if not yet in practice? And if so, does that mean that we humans might one day be able to upload our own minds to computers, perhaps to join Samantha in being untethered from a body thats inevitably going to die?

This is not mere speculation. The Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University has released a report on the technological requirements for uploading a mind to a machine. A Defense Department agency has funded a program, Synapse, that is trying to develop a computer that resembles a brain in form and function. The futurist Ray Kurzweil, now a director of engineering at Google, has even discussed the potential advantages of forming friendships, Her-style, with personalized artificial intelligence systems. He and others contend that we are fast approaching the technological singularity, a point at which artificial intelligence, or A.I., surpasses human intelligence, with unpredictable consequences for civilization and human nature.

Is all of this really possible? Not everyone thinks so. Some people argue that the capacity to be conscious is unique to biological organisms, so that even superintelligent A.I. programs would be devoid of conscious experience. If this view is correct, then a relationship between a human being and a program like Samantha, however intelligent she might be, would be hopelessly one-sided. Moreover, few humans would want to join Samantha, for to upload your brain to a computer would be to forfeit your consciousness.

This view, however, has been steadily losing ground. Its opponents point out that our best empirical theory of the brain holds that it is an information-processing system and that all mental functions are computations. If this is right, then creatures like Samantha can be conscious, for they have the same kind of minds as ours: computational ones. Just as a phone call and a smoke signal can convey the same information, thought can have both silicon- and carbon-based substrates. Indeed, scientists have produced silicon-based artificial neurons that can exchange information with real neurons. The neural code increasingly seems to be a computational one.

You might worry that we could never be certain that programs like Samantha were conscious. This concern is akin to the longstanding philosophical conundrum known as the problem of other minds. The problem is that although you can know that you yourself are conscious, you cannot know for sure that other people are. You might, after all, be witnessing behavior with no accompanying conscious component.

In the face of the problem of other minds, all you can do is note that other people have brains that are structurally similar to your own and conclude that since you yourself are conscious, others are likely to be conscious as well. When confronted with a high-level A.I. program like Samantha, your predicament wouldnt be all that different, especially if that program had been engineered to work like the human brain. While we couldnt be certain that an A.I. program genuinely felt anything, we cant be certain that other humans do, either. But it would seem probable in both cases.

If the Samanthas of the future will have inner lives like ours, however, I suspect that we will not be able to upload ourselves to computers to join them in the digital universe. To see why, imagine that Theodore wants to upload himself. Imagine, furthermore, that uploading involves (a) scanning a human brain in such exacting detail that it destroys the original and (b) creating a software model that thinks and behaves in precisely the same way as the original did. If Theodore were to undergo this procedure, would he succeed in transferring himself into the digital realm? Or would he, as I suspect, succeed only in killing himself, leaving behind a computational copy of his mind one that, adding insult to injury, would date his girlfriend?

Olivia Wilde in Spike Jonze's "Her"/Google ImagesOrdinary physical objects follow a continuous path through space over time. For Theodore to transfer his mind into a computer program, however, his mind would not follow a continuous trajectory. His brain would be destroyed when the scan was made, and the information about his precise brain configuration would be sent to a computer, which could be miles away.

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It is a mistake if your phone will take photos the same quality, as it is the case with cameras. However, you can learn to make the best out of it and make the perfect photos with your smartphone.

The number one problem that smartphones have is with the flash, because it cannot live up to the one that cameras have. That is why you need to learn how to do it without the help of the flash. Here are some of the tips for taking better photos with your smartphone:

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Gaming peripheral maker Razer has added a new feature to its GameBooster software suite that allows users to store their PC game saves in the cloud, according to IGN.

While still in beta, Razer's Save Game Manager supports "over 2,000 existing PC titles," while also allowing players to manually add other games to the cloud storage queue. Currently, saves are stored to a user's Dropbox folder, though Razer hopes to expand the service to include other cloud-based storage solutions in the near future. In addition, Save Game Manager can upload PC settings to the cloud for easy access in the future.

Those interested in putting Save Game Manager through its paces can download the GameBooster software suite, free of charge, from Razer's website. Keep in mind, this is beta software, so if something goes wrong and you lose a save, you'll have no recourse. As with all important data, multiple backups are your only safe bet.

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Its a common scenario: you have a document on which you need to get input from a team. After circulating it via email or the cloud, you gather comments piecemeal from various email threads, copy revisions, and maybe even phone calls. By the end you need a flowchart to keep it all straight.

ReVu.Me, a new cloud app from the web-based project management service Volerro, makes it easy to gather feedback on all sorts of documents from stakeholders while they chat or converse via an integrated teleconferencing service. Its a potentially useful tool for people who need inputbut not actual edits or changesfrom multiple team members.

Free for single documents (a Pro version supporting multiple documents in a single session, useful for complex projects, costs $3.99), ReVu.Me is a snap to set up on the fly. Simply upload a document (by dragging and dropping it or navigating to it), enter your email address and the addresses of collaborators, and youre in business. You can also simply email a document. ReVu.Mes invitation to collaborators includes a link to the document within the service.

ReVu.Me enables collaborators to provide feedback on a document in real time.

The service supports not only Microsoft Office and Adobe documents, but popular image and video formats. Creating a note is as easy as highlighting text or dragging the cursor to outline an area in red. Both actions produce a pop-up window in which you type a comment.

Comments are then saved in a right-hand pane, and links underneath a comment allow the comment creator to edit or remove the note. Other links support replying to a note (creating a thread underneath it) or assigning tasks based on the notea reminder of ReVu.Me parent Volerros robust project management service, a paid offering with calendars, screen sharing, a dashboard for accessing ReVu.Me documents, and other features.

A toolbar above the document and notes panes has buttons that let you zoom in or out of the document or fit it to the window size. Other buttons let you hide (or unhide) notes, print or email the document with notes, download the annotated document, or replace it by uploading a new version. The service supports versioning so you can see earlier incarnations of documents.

Collaboratorsanyone invited to create notesappear in small circular icons above the document and note panes; hovering over an icon shows whether the individual is online or not. Other buttons let you create chat windows or set up a conference bridge line, also free.

What you cant do in ReVu.Me is actually edit a document. The documents author must make any changes offline and then upload the revised document if further feedback is required. Thiscan be annoying if youre dealing with a lot of small edits that could be dealt with on the spot.

There are, of course, many situations in which document authors dont want others to be able to make changes, they just want or require feedback and/or signoff. For these scenariosmarketing teams come to mindReVu.Me provides a great, feature-rich platform for gathering input from a large number of concerned parties. That its free is the icing on the cake.

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MANILA There are a lot of things YouTube users can do to maximize their own channels.

This is what the speakers from the popular video-hosting website YouTube said during a workshop held at the Mind Museum in Bonifacio Global City on Thursday.

The first ever Philippine YouTube Pop-Up Workshop aims to explain to YouTube users how they can effectively attract more subscribers and make a living just by uploading videos on their channels.

YouTube Philippines Content Partnerships Manger Trixie Canivel said that YouTube is a great platform for Filipinos because it is accessible to everyone.

Anyone can be on YouTube. A lot of people get on Youtube because they want to create videos about doing stuff that they love, she said.

Canivel cited the story of now-popular YouTuber Lloyd Cadena, whose series of video blogs online has attracted more than 175,000 subscribers. Cadenas videos prominently tackle topics related to romance, schooling and the local lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender community, among others.

She also said that what YouTube users do not know is that they can actually make profit just by posting videos on their channels.

What a lot of people dont know is that actually, you can turn that [your videos] into a business by turning ads on and monetizing your videos and working with sponsors to be able to really turn it to a viable opportunity for you, Canivel said.

An example of YouTube users who have enjoyed the monetizing feature of the website is real-life couple Jamvhille Sebastian and Paolinne Michelle Liggayu or more popularly known as Jamich. During the workshop, the couple admitted that during a one-month period, they are able to make a six-digit revenue out of the videos they upload.

Canivel, meanwhile, stressed that in order for YouTubers to attract more subscribers, they must work on developing their channels. For starters, YouTubers must establish authentic and unique channels which should be maintained on a regular basis. This, according to Canivel, is a sure way to build a strong fan base.

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Heres a transcript of Fran McCafferys postgame news conference. The questions are paraphrased but the quotes are direct.

How would you describe the defense right now?

We need some work, and well keep working on it.

Is the defensive performance puzzling because of the strides youve made?

I think we played against a team that was inspired that was really working, sharing the ball. They have good shooters. They havent been shooting well. It doesnt mean theyre not good shooters. Austin Hollins has always been a good shooter. Hes been off. (Malik) Smith has been off. They have a lot of guys who have been off. Tonight they were making them.

What specifically do you need to work on?

I think we just have to stay in our stance, stay engaged, stay after them. Whether its ball screens or drive and kicks or transition defense. It came easy for us early; we were up nine and we didnt lock in defensively then like I think we should have. All the sudden you look and youre down 10.

Now they were on fire. I get that and the crowd got into it and stuff. Youve got to adjust when (Charles) Buggs is hitting or (Austin) Hollins is hitting. They were on fire in the first half. I dont know that Ive coached against a team that made nine in a half. But this team has the potential to do that. Theyre a good 3-point shooting team.

How much of it was not getting back in transition or do you just tip your cap to your opponent?

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I clearly remember when I was young and in those more laid back days, a mobile phone was practically unheard of. Sure, I saw some men in suits carrying a small attache case-like portable phone and most of the time, these sharp looking men tend to drive an imported German marque.

Meeting up with friends used to be a rather linear affair as a gentlemen's agreement was drawn up prior to the appointment - with date, time and venue already set in stone, verbally at least. At the appointed rendezvous point and time, the earlier person tends to pace around, or at least settle down with a good book while waiting for the other person to show up. Last minute changes were practically unheard of, as we were unable to reach one another.

Fast forward to this day, and how things have changed. Mobile phone penetration in developed and even developing countries has grown to such a level that it is nigh impossible to find someone without a handset, never mind if it is high-end, mid-range or entry level. Leaving the house used to mean remembering the wallet or handbag and the essential bunch of keys. These days, the mobile phone is absolutely essential. Which brings us to the topic of nomophobia, an abbreviation for "no-mobile-phone phobia". This particular word was coined after a study by the UK Post Office on how mobile phone users suffered from higher anxiety levels when they did not have any mobile phone contact.

Nomophobia is an interesting topic as it really depends on what constitutes nomophobia. I am quite sure that we would not want to live or work in an area where it is nearly impossible to receive a signal on the handset, although a small minority of us might find ourselves in such a situation. For most of us, we tend to move within areas that have network coverage and never mind the wallet when we leave home, do not ever forget to bring your mobile phone with you!

The advent of smartphones as well as cloud services on a mobile platform has also increased our dependency on the smartphone which no longer just carries our contacts list but also our cache of emails and allows us to conduct online transactions.

To add another selling point - the ever more affordable mobile data plans and the explosive popularity of mobile versions of social networks like Facebook, VoIP service such as Skype and micro blogging site Twitter, and thus you have quite an indispensable modern-day tool for homo sapiens. The ever increasing quality of cameras inside smartphones also help increase the value of carrying a handset around with you at all times - after all, you can never quite tell when you need to snap a photo and upload it on your Facebook for all and sundry to see. With some countries introducing NFC (Near Field Communications) technology in mobile phones that come in handy for monetary transactions, you might no longer need to carry your wallet in the future.

Nomophobia can also occur under different circumstances, i.e. running out of battery, not having enough credit or even losing one's handset.

I have suffered the loss of three mobile phones to date, due to carelessness as well as theft. Those couple of days spent without a handset in my pocket raised my anxiety levels so much I thought I was going through a mid-life crisis a couple of decades earlier than expected. It was rather hard to concentrate on work until I had gotten my new SIM card and smartphone, and going out with friends was a whole lot more inconvenient as there was no room to negotiate last minute changes in plans. That would be my personal brush with nomophobia, and I am not ashamed to say that these days, the smartphone goes into my pocket before the wallet and house keys prior to heading out for an appointment.

Just how do you feel when you do not have your mobile phone with you? Do you tend to fidget uncomfortably, always wondering whether anyone is trying to reach you, or are you in possession of the mental fortitude that pushes all thoughts of your handset to a separate compartment in your mind, only to focus on the task at hand until you reach home? After all, there is no point worrying about something that you have no power over.

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24 February 2014| last updated at 09:18PM

I CLEARLY remember when I was young and in those more laid back days, a mobile phone was practically unheard of. Sure, I saw some men in suits carrying a small attache case-like portable phone and most of the time, these sharp looking men tend to drive an imported German marque.

Meeting up with friends used to be a rather linear affair as a gentlemens agreement was drawn up prior to the appointment with date, time and venue already set in stone, verbally at least. At the appointed rendezvous point and time, the earlier person tends to pace around, or at least settle down with a good book while waiting for the other person to show up. Last minute changes were practically unheard of, as we were unable to reach one another.

Fast forward to this day, and how things have changed. Mobile phone penetration in developed and even developing countries has grown to such a level that it is nigh impossible to find someone without a handset, never mind if it is high-end, mid-range or entry level. Leaving the house used to mean remembering the wallet or handbag and the essential bunch of keys. These days, the mobile phone is absolutely essential. Which brings us to the topic of nomophobia, an abbreviation for no-mobile-phone phobia. This particular word was coined after a study by the UK Post Office on how mobile phone users suffered from higher anxiety levels when they did not have any mobile phone contact.

Nomophobia is an interesting topic as it really depends on what constitutes nomophobia. I am quite sure that we would not want to live or work in an area where it is nearly impossible to receive a signal on the handset, although a small minority of us might find ourselves in such a situation. For most of us, we tend to move within areas that have network coverage and never mind the wallet when we leave home, do not ever forget to bring your mobile phone with you!

The advent of smartphones as well as cloud services on a mobile platform has also increased our dependency on the smartphone which no longer just carries our contacts list but also our cache of emails and allows us to conduct online transactions.

To add another selling point the ever more affordable mobile data plans and the explosive popularity of mobile versions of social networks like Facebook, VoIP service such as Skype and micro blogging site Twitter, and thus you have quite an indispensable modern-day tool for homo sapiens.

The ever increasing quality of cameras inside smartphones also help increase the value of carrying a handset around with you at all times after all, you can never quite tell when you need to snap a photo and upload it on your Facebook for all and sundry to see. With some countries introducing NFC (Near Field Communications) technology in mobile phones that come in handy for monetary transactions, you might no longer need to carry your wallet in the future.

Nomophobia can also occur under different circumstances, i.e. running out of battery, not having enough credit or even losing ones handset.

I have suffered the loss of three mobile phones to date, due to carelessness as well as theft. Those couple of days spent without a handset in my pocket raised my anxiety levels so much I thought I was going through a mid-life crisis a couple of decades earlier than expected. It was rather hard to concentrate on work until I had gotten my new SIM card and smartphone, and going out with friends was a whole lot more inconvenient as there was no room to negotiate last minute changes in plans. That would be my personal brush with nomophobia, and I am not ashamed to say that these days, the smartphone goes into my pocket before the wallet and house keys prior to heading out for an appointment.

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Australian electronic band Cut Copy paired with another creative group when it came time to create a video for the band's "We Are Explorers," off of last year's well-regarded album Free Your Mind-- Tokyo- and New York-based creative lab/supergroup Party.

The result is a fun video in which a pair of little 3-D printed characters run around city streets at night, collecting disposable artifacts (cigarette butts, CDs, etc) that might have different value if you're just a couple of inches tall.

"The idea started with 'What if we 3-D printed a music video,'" co-director Aramique Krauthamer explains. "Both [co-director] Masa [Kawamura] and I have done different kinds of stop-motion, and we had been discussing the possibility of creating a narrative where every frame of movement was 3-D printed and shot in the street. When we heard 'We Are Explorers,' we immediately began imagining this story of tiny 3-D printed characters running through the streets of a major city on an epic journey."

The video's concept began with storyboards, and then the design of the two characters in Cinema4D by Mau Morgo. Technical director Qanta Shimizu then determined that the project would require "roughly 200 figurines," which were used in groups of eight, for each type of movement--that is, running sequences used eight figurines, looped, to create the effect. The figurines were printed with a yellow, UV-reactive filament, and shot at night under black light flashlights, lit by the project's DP, Sesse Lind.

The "how to" aspect of the video is important, because in addition to being an impressive creative project, it's also fully remixable: That is, the team worked directly with BitTorrent to distribute a bundle that contains the music, the video, and all the 3-D printing files, and encourages fans to re-create the process to tell, upload, and share their own stories.

"We hope people enjoy the film, the music, the figurines, and the process that went into making it," Kawamura says. "Hopefully people print the figurines, play with them, shoot them, make new storylines we didn't think of, take them to places we couldn't, and share whatever they do with everyone--so we can enjoy the process together."

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Four London bus drivers attacked every day, reveal GLA Conservatives

9:36am Monday 17th February 2014 in News By Omar Oakes, Digital Editor

Nearly 5,000 incidents of bus drivers being attacked have been revealed by Conservatives on the Greater London Assembly.

Figures uncovered by the City Hall Tory group's police and crime spokesman, Roger Evans, show 4,967 incidents were reported between 2010 and 2013.

Four in 10 (38 per cent) of these incidents involve bus drivers being either physically assaulted or threatened with a weapon.

Mr Evans said: The number of bus drivers facing physical attack or verbal abuse on Londons bus network is alarming.

"Nobody should have to put up with threats or violence while doing their job. I fully appreciate that money has been invested in patrols on our buses by the police however we need to go further."

Mr Evans has called for a full review of policing across public transport in London and "well-publicised sting operations" to deter further abuses.

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MANILA - Remember Amalayer?

Paula Salvosa, the girl who was cyberbullied for berating a female security guard, is no longer interested in the Supreme Court decision to uphold the online libel provision of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

After all, she said she has no interest in filing cases against those who bullied her online. Asked why, she said she has already forgiven her detractors "because I myself am also forgiven."

One reason for her change of heart is that she has found peace in her newfound relationship with Christ.

"I don't want to sound too churchy but when I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart, nawala na lahat ng galit. It is really all about forgiveness. Yung law wala na siyang impact. Getting back at all those people is not on my mind," she said in an interview with ABS-CBNnews.com.

Salvosa's outlook wasn't always like this. In 2012, a video of Salvosa berating a female guard at the Light Rail Transit went viral on Facebook and YouTube.

Her retort against guard Sharon Mae Casinas earned her the nickname "Amalayer" and made her the butt of online bullying in social media.

Salvosa said the cyberbullying was a nightmare for her. She lost weight, stopped going to school and felt threatened by strangers.

She also wanted to file a case against the lady guard and the person who uploaded the video but that no law tackled online libel.

"It changed my whole life drastically. I wanted to change my name, run away to a faraway place and never come back. I wanted to cut my hair. Meron akong takot sa paglabas ng bahay," she said.

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Bridge Banter: If Chelsea beat Man City in FA Cup, the league title could follow

2:27pm Friday 14th February 2014 in Sport By Theo Lee Ray

A little horse that lacks personality Jose Mourinho isnt very complimentary of his Chelsea side considering they are top of the Premier League.

It has to be said, however, their last four results do boggle the mind.

Arguably Chelseas two best performances of the season 1-0 at Man City and 3-0 over Newcastle have been sandwiched between two lacklustre draws against West Ham and West Brom.

There is no denying Mourinhos new-look Chelsea are a work in progress and will undoubtedly be stronger next season.

But this Premier League season has been like no other.

And while Manchester United continue to wallow in mid-table mediocrity, Arsenal continue to look vulnerable against the top teams, and Manchester City seemingly reeling after defeat at home to Mourinhos side, anything is possible.

Indeed there is little I have seen this season to suggest Mourinho couldnt add a third Premier League title and a second FA Cup to his CV.

As the war of words between Mourinho and Man City manager Manuel Pellegrini looks to be reaching boiling point, the Portuguese mastermind will look to get another one over his Chilean opponent this weekend.

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