Archive for July, 2008

Is My Starbucks Closing? The Starbucks Store Closing List

Posted by metroxing in Saturday, July 19th 2008   
Topics: Advertising, Financial, Food, General, Internet, Marketing, Media, Retail, Uncategorized    Tags: , ,
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Do you need to save your Starbucks? Here is the official list so far … Click on the link to access an interactive map courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: Or you can view and/or download the official PDF of Store Closings from Starbucks. Google search link to SAVE OUR STARBUCK’s online petitions though I [...]

Apple iPhone Software 2.0 – Two More Features & Tips

Posted by metroxing in Wednesday, July 16th 2008   
Topics: Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, Internet, Marketing, Retail, iPhone    Tags:
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The APP STORE will let you know if there’s an update to one of the apps you bought/loaded with a numeric note – nice. (In this case, it’s EVERNOTE – not shown on page 1) And when you press UPDATE, you even get a nice ‘uploading’ bar – very thoughtful. I even did it over [...]

Apple iPhone V1 & iPhone Software 2.0 – Updating, Adding Apps & Syncing

Posted by metroxing in Saturday, July 12th 2008   
Topics: Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, Gadgets, Internet, Mobile, Retail, Uncategorized, iPhone    Tags:
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While there might’ve been some problems for people on Thursday trying to buy, activate, load software AND sync everything – it all went pretty smoothly for me – 24 hours later on Friday. First, make sure you are running 10.4.11 for Tiger users (PPC or Intel chip) and the latest Leopard 10.5.4 (I always prefer [...]

Creepiest Candy EVER

Posted by metroxing in Friday, July 11th 2008   
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Okay, this photo doesn’t do justice to how creepy it is but then I would have to buy the candy – encouraging them to make more. No, they are not brown fuzzy cotton balls … they are brown fuzzy candy with antenna & covered in white spores (er – sugar dust?). Kids, what you want [...]