Social Media Smack Down

 

TripAdvisor 

This great site is perfect for travelers and adventurers! TripAdvisor offers a unique opportunity for people (such as myself) to plan the perfect getaway trip. It's not like other sites where you can book a hotel or flight and not know what your true experience will be like. The reason that this social Media site is so popular is because you can actually plan your trip from the time you leave your home to your desired destination. 

These plans can be a restaurant, a car rental, an excursion, museums, landmarks, or even your hotel of your preference.

The stats for the site are:  "TripAdvisor branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, reaching 350 million unique monthly visitors**, and more than 290 million reviews and opinions covering more than 5.3 million accommodations, restaurants and attractions. The sites operate in 47 countries worldwide."-TripAdvisor

I have personally used this site for many of my vacations. The great thing about it is that people who go there give their insight into reviews and they will rate the experience which is very helpful for me. Trust me you don't want to be that person to go somewhere new and unfamiliar and not do your research! Its the worst to go to restaurant and not like your meal or had a restless sleep in uncomfortable place.  I frequently use this site and find it helpful when I want to experience a new place and meet new people and experience a life changing trip. 

Tech blog 6 CleanUp Dupes App

This week I went through a traumatic experience that I think we all go through often....Yes, I did say traumatic! And yes I lost my iPhone. The great thing about apple products is that the software on it comes with a "Find iPhone' app and you can locate your phone. So I went ahead and went into the app with another apple product except instead of tapping on the "Lost Mode" option, I tapped on "Erase iPhone". So I did find my phone but when I got it back my photos and contacts were all erased.  Once I synced my contacts back unto my phone, I had 1500 contacts that were mostly duplicates. Yes I had like 15 Carlos's and 10 Kim's, 30 Jessica's and 20 Mom's on my contact lists! It would have taken forever to fix that! So after searching for an app I found one! I thought I would share with everyone in case this ever happens to you.

Needless to say this blog is will touch base on an awesome app called Cleanup Dupes. It isn't a free app but its pretty reasonable for the price of $0.99. I got my sanity back and it took care of the dupes quickly. The app literally took 45 seconds to load my contacts and erase the dupes.
The app will scan your contacts and you will configure the merge level by 100% matches. After that it will run a scan in the dupes. It will present you with the results.  You can choose to remove the matches or merge only some of the selection of dupes. the cool thing about this app is that it works with Gmail and iCloud to keep all dupes contacts from showing on your actual phone.

Again this app can be very beneficial as it was for me!

Tech Blog #5 Zombies Run

So regardless of the reason, Zombies seem to be everywhere and are worth millions of dollars! The Zombie genre has grown to captivate the minds of video gamers, series/movies watchers,  comic books/magazines readers, and conventions goers. I am not quite sure when it all happened but one day this week, my coworkers and I were talking about the Walking Dead episode this week. Mostly about all of the "Glen Lovers" on our news feed. Somehow, this app was mentioned in our conversation. 

I thought it was the idea and worth checking out.  I have been really wanting to get back into running and I found this app to really be a twist. I really wanted to share it with all of you! This app is part game and part exercise. It allows a runner to be immersed in a post apocalyptic zombie world. So for those you who are Walking Dead lovers this would app will definitely be of interest to you.

Its really a great way tool that allows the runner to immerse your everyday running into a game. Its a great to see that the game does involve you in a virtual way. There have been great reviews to it:

BBC NEWS - “The only way to save yourself is to run for real.”
WIRED - “In the style of Runkeeper, with an exciting undead twist.”
LIFEHACKER - “A really cool way to get outside and exercise.”
CNN - “Turns exercise into a game - a terrifying, terrifying game.”
TIME - "Takes all the fun of a zombie game and funnels it into a fitness app.

I am really intrigued to try it out!