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ToutApp: Apple App to Summarizes Your Gmail Activities

By SiliconIndia, Thursday, 29 December 2011, 03:37 Hrs

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Bangalore: ToutApp is the answer to all your questions regarding your mails for the entire year. ToutApp has launched a free app that will keep an eye and account on your number of mails sent, received, and even the rate at which they were replied to, for your Gmail account. This app creates a summary of your email for whole of the year. It shows the frequently used emails and also busiest email month, day of the week and also hour.


ToutApp also monitors the outbound emails with similar contents, which is very helpful professionally for entrepreneurs, investors, and various companies. It keeps record of repetitive emails and copy-and-pasted emails by keepings them in drafts, which can be modified or personalized with a few clicks. All these records are generally shown graphically and are hence quite helpful to keep an eye on your frequently used emails by friends and followers. It allows users to overwrite in the templates by auto-filling the name, company or location. The users can also use CC and BCC or even auto-attach files to a draft.


Interesting side of the ToutApp is that the records can be tracked both for views and clickthroughs, so the user can know when the mail recipient has opened it and is planning a response. By all this, the emailing process can become quicker and accessing the email analytics across your business becomes more comfortable.


Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/si-techproduct/~3/5OaPj_4CPoo/ToutApp_Apple_App_to_Summarizes_Your_Gmail_Activities_-nid-101774.html

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Verizon to charge $2 fee for some methods of bill payment

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We're used to getting nickled-and-dimed by our wireless carriers, but this is just getting ridiculous. Verizon confirmed to PhoneScoop today (update: and issued a press release - link below) that it's set to start charging a $2 "convenieince" fee for paying your bill come Jan. 15. With a few caveats, of course. Here's the breakdown:

You'll be charged the $2 if you:

  • Pay with a credit or debit card online
  • Pay with a credit or debit card via Verizon's call-in channels

Now that's not necessarily a complete stroke of evil by Verizon -- it wouldn't surprise us at all to learn that Verizon's getting charged more for those transactions by whichever service it uses. Passing the buck to the customer isn't new, but nor does it make it any easier to swallow. 

The "good" news here is that there are ways to avoid that $2 fee. You can:

  • Pay by electronic check
  • Use auto-pay -- which allows you to pay via  debit or credit card, or electronic check
  • Direct bill pay via your bank
  • In-store payments
  • Verizon gift, rebate or rewards cards
  • An old-school paper check mailed to Verizon

It's pretty clear that Verizon's looking to push people toward automatic bill payments. But we'd rather see Big Red use a carrot than a stick here. Perhaps discounts for using auto-pay instead of penalties for using completely reasonable and accepted payments might be a better way to go, especially given that Verizon is very much in the doghouse of late.

Source: PhoneScoop; Verizon Wireless

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Over 65 million years North American mammal evolution has tracked with climate change

Over 65 million years North American mammal evolution has tracked with climate change

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

History often seems to happen in waves ? fashion and musical tastes turn over every decade and empires give way to new ones over centuries. A similar pattern characterizes the last 65 million years of natural history in North America, where a novel quantitative analysis has identified six distinct, consecutive waves of mammal species diversity, or "evolutionary faunas." What force of history determined the destiny of these groupings? The numbers say it was typically climate change.

"Although we've always known in a general way that mammals respond to climatic change over time, there has been controversy as to whether this can be demonstrated in a quantitative fashion," said Brown University evolutionary biology Professor Christine Janis. "We show that the rise and fall of these faunas is indeed correlated with climatic change ? the rise or fall of global paleotemperatures ? and also influenced by other more local perturbations such as immigration events."

Specifically, of the six waves of species diversity that Janis and her Spanish collaborators describe online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, four show statistically significant correlations with major changes in temperature. The two transitions that show a weaker but still apparent correlation with the pattern correspond to periods when mammals from other continents happened to invade in large numbers, said Janis, who is the paper's senior and second author.

Previous studies of the potential connection between climate change and mammal species evolution have counted total species diversity in the fossil record over similar time periods. But in this analysis, led by postdoctoral scholar Borja Figueirido, the scientists asked whether there were any patterns within the species diversity that might be significant. They were guided by a similar methodology pioneered in a study of "evolutionary faunas" in marine invertebrates by Janis' late husband Jack Sepkoski, who was a paleontologist at the University of Chicago.

What the authors found is six distinct and consecutive groupings of mammal species that shared a common rise, peak and decline in their numbers. For example, the "Paleocene fauna" had largely given way to the "early-middle Eocene fauna" by about 50 million years ago. Moreover, the authors found that these transfers of dominance correlated with temperature shifts, as reflected in data on past levels of atmospheric oxygen (determined from the isotopes in the fossilized remains of deep sea microorganisms).

By the numbers, the research showed correlations between species diversity and temperature change, but qualitatively, it also provided a narrative of how the traits of typical species within each wave made sense given the changes in vegetation that followed changes in climate. For example, after a warming episode about 20 million years in the early Miocene epoch, the dominant vegetation transitioned from woodland to a savannah-like grassland. It is no surprise, therefore, that many of the herbivores that comprised the accompanying "Miocene fauna" had high-crowned teeth that allowed them to eat the foods from those savannah sources.

To the extent that the study helps clarify scientists' understanding of evolution amid climate changes, it does not do so to the extent that they can make specific predictions about the future, Janis said. But it seems all the clearer that climate change has repeatedly had meaningful effect over millions of years.

"Such perturbations, related to anthropogenic climatic change, are currently challenging the fauna of the world today, emphasizing the importance of the fossil record for our understanding of how past events affected the history of faunal diversification and extinction, and hence how future climactic changes may continue to influence life on earth," the authors wrote in the paper.

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R.I.P. Tarzan's Pal Cheetah

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One of the most famous animal actors in Hollywood history is gone.

Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick from Tarzan films, died of kidney failure over the weekend at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Florida. The Tampa Tribune reports that he was roughly 80 years old.

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Hardly the only primate to take on the iconic role, Cheetah probably received the most exposure. He appeared in the 1932-1934 installments of the franchise, at the beginning of its heyday when Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller took over the title role.

In addition to having the distinction of being famous, Cheetah's longevity was one of his greatest accomplishments. Suncoast outreach director Debbie Cobb noted that chimpanzees generally live between 35 to 45 years in captivity, and only 25 to 35 years in the wild.

She also spoke highly of his character.

"He was very compassionate," Cobb told the Tampa Tribune. "He could tell if I was having a good day or a bad day. He was always trying to get me to laugh if he thought I was having a bad day. He was very in tune to human feelings."

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Cheetah moved to the sanctuary around 1960, where he remained the most famous of its primate residents until his death. His interests included finger-painting, watching football and nondenominational Christian music.

Among Cheetah's Tarzan features were Tarzan and His Mate and Tarzan the Ape Man, where he starred alongside Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, who played "Jane."

O?Sullivan?s daughter, actress Mia Farrow, reacted to Cheetah's passing on her Twitter account, painting a less flattering portrait than Cobb.

"My mom, Tarzan's Jane, referred to Cheetah-the-chimp as 'that bastard,'" she wrote, "saying he bit her at every opportunity."

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1924213/news/1924213/

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Oregon State Beavers rundown: Back to business for OSU as Pac ...

The Oregon State Beavers basketball team returned from a little holiday break on Sunday night with a Christmas Day practice.

It's quickly down to business for the Beavers, who open Pac-12 play Thursday night in Seattle against the Washington Huskies - a matchup of the top two scoring teams in the league (OSU leads at 83.4 points; the Huskies are scoring 79.7).

The Beavers are tied with Stanford at 10-2 and atop the Pac-12 standings, off to their best start in 22 years. You have to go down to ninth place to find the Huskies at 6-5.

Washington is coming off a 23-point win over CSU Northridge, a much-needed bounce-back from a shocking loss to South Dakota State.

The Huskies should have 7-footer Aziz N'Diaye, who played 16 minutes against Northridge in his first action since suffering a sprained his knee in an 86-80 loss to Duke on Dec. 10.

His absence has been very noticeable. Without the eraser inside, Washington is at the bottom of the Pac-12 in scoring defense (74.0 points a game).

And N'Diaye is the biggest pounder of the offensive boards on a team that always does just that. Once again, the Huskies lead the Pac-12 in offensive rebounds (14.4 per game), something that could really hurt the Beavers.

OSU does lead the league in a bunch of categories, heading into conference play: scoring, scoring margin (+18.6), field goal percentage (49.6), assists (18.3), steals (10.4) and turnover margin (+5.4).

Jared Cunningham still leads the Pac-12 in scoring (16.8 points) as Washington has three of the league's top eight scorers in freshman Tony Wroten, Portlander Terrence Ross and C.J. Wilcox.

Angus Brandt (66.7 percent) and Devon Collier (65.7) are 1-2 in field goal percentage. Cunningham (3.0) and Ahmad Starks (2.8) are 1-2 in steals.

None other than Dickie V. lists Oregon State among his top eight surprise teams so far.

The top 10 plays from the non-conference season (Cunningham makes an appearance or two).

Cunningham is the Pac-12 POY so far, at least in the eyes of Huskies beat guy Percy Allen.

OSU doesn't have Chris Brown around anymore.

The Beavers picked up a verbal from a four-star (Rivals) cornerback, Devian Shelton of Inglewood, Calif. The commitment, though, isn't going to keep Shelton from visiting Nebraska and Washington State next month.

The return of Matt Barkley to USC for 2012 is only going to make the Trojans more valuable. Fortunately for Oregon State, USC does not appear on the 2012 schedule.

How much help do the Beavers need at defensive tackle? They obviously need more help on the offensive line and have addressed that. But what new DTs can the Beavers throw into the mix?

And finally, for Oregon State football, 2011 was a year to forget, for a variety of reasons.

- John Hunt

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2011/12/oregon_state_beavers_rundown_39.html

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3.7 million Android devices activated over the Christmas weekend

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With Christmas all said and done for yet another year, it's time for those at Google to start looking at the number of devices that got activated over the Holidays. Luckily, Andy Rubin anticipated our wondering and has given up the goods:

UPDATE: There were 3.7M Android activations on 12/24 and 12/25. Congrats team-android!

Also, as noted on his Google+ account from previously -- "activations" means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service. It does not count devices that have been resold. That's a pretty nice number -- congrats team Android indeed.

Source: Google+

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Cities where home prices are plummeting

The housing bust came late to Boise, Idaho. While home prices in other cities around the U.S. began their drastic descent in 2007, Bosie?s home prices didn?t start feeling a price pinch until the end of 2008. Housing in Idaho?s capital wasn?t hit particularly hard by the subprime mortgage crisis, but it certainly was affected by the economic downturn. High unemployment and a wave of job loss-related foreclosures have caused home prices in the City of Trees and its surrounding suburbs to plunge.

This year alone Boise homes suffered a drastic 13.4 percent loss in value. Next year won?t offer relief either, with prices projected to slip another 2.5 percent. These drops landed Idaho?s capital city on our watch list of Cities Where Home Prices Are Falling Dangerously.

?Prices in Boise proper specifically haven?t come down quite as much as people expect but in other areas around the city, prices have come down as much as 50 percent from where they were a few years ago,? says Cristina Pescaru, a Realtor with Gold Key Real Estate in Boise. ?I think we absolutely haven?t seen the bottom of the market here.?

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The folks at Local Market Monitor, a Cary, N.C.-based real-estate research company, compiled a list of the cities that suffered relatively big home price hits this year with more projected through the next 12 months. LMM sifted through market data for more than 300 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Metropolitan Divisions (MSADs), as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. The company, which releases quarterly housing market reports, crunched home prices from October 2010 through September 2011 and calculated price projections through September of next year. For its projections, LMM took into account job growth and unemployment rates, population growth, sales and rental prices, and something called ?Equilibrium Home Price,? which is a gauge of where the average home price should realistically lie based on economic data versus where it actually is.

Every one of the 13 markets that made our list suffers from a glut of foreclosures. ?Foreclosures are continuing to weigh down home prices in hard-hit foreclosure markets as the average sales prices of foreclosure-related sales drop,? explains Daren Blomquist of RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based foreclosure listing site. Cities that made our list like Arizona?s Phoenix and California?s hard-up hubs Stockton, Fresno and Bakersfield also rank among RealtyTrac?s top 20 metro foreclosure rates. Fifty percent or more of all completed home sales this year in these cities were distressed (either preforeclosure or bank-owned) ? a factor that pulls the prices of non-distressed homes both in terms of appraisals and home seller efforts to compete for buyers.

Not surprisingly, the nation?s foreclosure capital, Las Vegas, experienced the worst price drops of any major metro this year. The Sin City?s home values slid 15.2 percent versus last year and Local Market Monitor expects another 5 percent drop during the next 12 months. More than half of all completed sales were distressed.

Another foreclosure?studded state where home prices continue to get hammered is Florida. Orlando and Jacksonville lost 11 percent and 9 percent of their home values this year, with 9.4 percent and 7.7 percent losses predicted in months to come. The Metropolitan Division that includes West Palm Beach also landed on our list. Despite close proximity to posh Miami Beach and Palm Beach where higher-end sales have been frequent this year, the less expensive West Pam Beach area continues to struggle.

Ingo Winzer, founder and president of Local Market Monitor, says two things are driving the dive in Sunshine State markets: too much inventory and not enough jobs. Construction backstopped a sizeable chunk of Florida?s local economies, as developers built spec homes for an anticipated deluge of Baby Boomer snowbirds that, thanks to the current economy, have yet to retire. ?First, a lot of homes were built, maybe more than should have been built, and second, while population growth in Florida will eventually sop up those properties, right now there?s no work so we have large numbers of homes sitting empty ? causing prices to fall,? he says.

There is some hope to be had by owners located in other cities across the country: the home price hemorrhages nearly every market experienced in the past several years are subsiding. Nationally, prices dropped only about 4.5 percent this year. Compared to the roughly 35 percent loss the U.S. housing market as a whole has taken since the economic downturn, this year?s drop, while agonizing, means the freefall is over. ?A lot of markets are still going to have some problems economically, but overall I think in most of the country?s cities, we are seeing a bottom in home prices,? says Winzer. He cautions that a bottom in no way translates to a speedy price recovery. Rather he expects prices to hover at these lower levels for years.

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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45699069/ns/business-forbes_com/

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