Tech Johnson

Apple has finally reduced the estimated shipping time for all six models of its famous iPad to ship within 24 hours. When the iPad was first released in the US, it was on high demand and thousands of people were purchasing it. People were purchasing this product so fast that the manufacture couldn’t keep up with producing the iPad.

Within the first 28 days, 1 million iPads were purchased, 2 million within two months, and 3 million by the end of the third month. Just within three months, 3 MILLION iPads were purchased. If you ask me, that’s a huge number in such a short period of time. With that being said, Apple had to catch up for production.

The shipping numbers said 7-10 days, down to 3-5 business days, to finally catching up to within 24 hours. Because of the huge push back, Apple had to make the difficult decision to postpone the International Launch day of the iPad by one month.

I’m sure everyone has heard of extreme branding and advertising, but what about lighting up the city streets of New York City? Foursquare pretty much conquers the streets of Time Square with a humongous advertisement. This massive billboard is a multi-lever and multi-angle display which is practically screaming about their services to everyone who walks the streets of Times Square.

“Check in, find your friends, unlock your city,” is what the ad reads. Many people might recognize this billboard of the American Eagle board because, as you may or may not know, they own the board. Tristan Walker confirms that American Eagle is behind the ad and claims that this is the “largest digital billboard in Times Square.”

With this kind of advertisement, the service Foursquare has a huge possibility of a massive spike in users.

I have come to realization, that every guy will have to come across shaving at least once in their life time. It’s apart of growing up and becoming a man. Many men around the world like to use the natural hand razor with shaving cream while many other men like to use an electric razor. This blog post is going to be my views on each of the razors and I’m going to tell you which one I would prefer.

Electric Razors:

Many guys love using the electric razor, but why? Well, it’s a fast solution if you keep one in your car and shave on the way to work in the morning. You don’t need to get your face wet and you don’t have to put on shaving cream. You just turn the razor on and away you go.

Standard Razors:

Many of the guys that use the electric razor also love to use the standard hand held razor, but why? Most will say it gives you a closer shave and stays smooth longer this way.

My Opinion:

I have shaved numerous amounts of times during my lifespan of 18 years and going. I learned how to originally shave with a hand held razor with the shaving cream. I loved doing it that way, it always made me feel more grown up then I really was, until I got my first cut! Man, I was a wimp, it wouldn’t stop bleeding and it felt like an oversized paper cut. After that, I begged for my parents to purchase me an electric razor, in hopes to eliminate the cutting problem that I had. Finally, I received my electric razor. I loved it, it was awesome, well, for the first day. The next morning I was using it and it brought so much pain. It was pulling my hair and made my skin irritate. Not only that, it took forever to get a close, clean, and smooth shave. I resorted back to shaving with a hand held razor. Yes, I know, you need to actually put stuff on your face, but in my opinion, it’s faster to shave that way and you get a closer shave. Not only that, it doesn’t irritate my skin. So, if I was to suggest a razor, I would be suggesting a hand held razor over the electric razor. I hope everyone was able to follow this post, my thoughts were jumping all over the place.

For many months on many different versions of iPod Touch’s and iPhones, jailbreaking was very difficult to do on these devices. Not only that, it was illegal to do this, “hacking” to the devises. Now, after many years and months, it is finally legal to jailbreak your iPod Touch, iPhone, and even your iPad. Not only is it legal, it’s extremely easy to do now.

You can head over to www.jailbreakme.com with your Safari Browser on your device and initiate the, “Slide to Jailbreak”. It’s seriously that easy now. You can do it in about a minute, if that! The great thing about jailbreaking this way, is that you can do it completely on the device instead of downloading things on your computer.

YouTube is known to be one of the most visited websites on the web. Many people have a YouTube account as well as posting videos. For many years, YouTube had a limit of only 10 minutes per video. Without question, the number one requested feature by the members is to be able to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. Well, YouTube finally listened to our requests and increased the upload time by five minutes. Now, thanks to Google, you can upload videos up to 15 minutes long. I know this will be a huge help for me when it comes to making some videos.

This isn’t the only cool thing that YouTube is doing. YouTube is doing a little contest thing called the “15 Minutes of Fame.” Imagine that this video is all the world will ever know about you: What would you want to communicate? What will be the enduring stamp you’ve left on us all? Create this video and tag it “yt15minutes,” and upload it by Wednesday, August 4, 2010 and you might get selected to be featured on the homepage of YouTube.

One final note: if you’re uploading a video that was previously rejected for being too long, you’ll have to go into “My Videos” and delete it before attempting to upload it again. Thanks and happy uploading!