one flat top candy = 7 mins of vigorous jumping jacks.

in all of my 27 years i never thought i’d ever turn into one of those people - a calorie counter! but for health reasons (hypothyroid sucks big time) i really need to watch what i eat. so here i am calorie counting - and it’s actually fun. yep, fun. thanks to a little app called myfitnesspal.

it computes your calorie goal for the day based on your target weight, your gender, your daily activities (kind of work), how often you workout plus some other variables. i am so amazed with the extent of the food database - even homecooked Pinoy food are in there! the app is so good that every single person i introduced it to got hooked.

am trying to get as close to my daily calorie goal so lets see if i’ll lose weight. i love that it appeals to my achiever-side. it’s been relatively easy to watch my food. sometimes it gets hilarious when my friends and i see how much exercise is needed to burn off even the smallest food. we should be appalled but we’re not - we find it really funny haha. just the other day a co-worker was convincing me to eat flat top candies and saying just do one jumping jack for every candy and we were laughing like crazy when we checked the app. one flat top is NOT equal to one jumping jacks!

Call of Duty Elite Adds Social Layer to Hit Gaming Series [PICS]

 

Video game company Activision has finally revealed Elite, a new social layer for its wildly popular Call of Duty games. Elite was designed to unite the massive community of Call of Duty players as well as provide tools to help gamers of all levels improve their skills.

Cross-platform services are becoming more popular as video game designers realize their community isn’t console-specific. Web players want to test their mettle against console players and vice versa. Elite goes beyond the game to include social networks like Facebook. Users can link up their Facebook accounts to Elite to pull in Likes and automatically find friends who are also using the service.

Elite also introduces groups and clans, which will play a much larger role in Modern Warfare 3, the next Call of Duty game. Groups are largely open and can be based on anything. Like eating lobster? You can join or create a “Lobster” group. Like playing with machine guns? There’s a group for that. Same with “Yankees” or “Los Angeles.” Groups operate similar to fan pages on Facebook. Users can track and compare themselves to these mini-communities of players. Users can join a total of 64 groups.
Clans are more limited. Users can only belong to one clan and there is a cap on how many players can be in a clan. The Call of Duty folks were tight-lipped about how clans will play into the next iteration but promised they would be key.
We recently sat down with the game’s designers for a demo of Elite. The room, a penthouse hotel room in Manhattan, featured rows of huge black computers with the Elite skull logo. There, they talked about their goals and plans for Elite.
The service is available on web browsers, consoles and mobile apps and will work with all future Call of Duty games, including Black Ops, the most recent game in the series. Elite features four main sections: Career, Connect, Compete and Improve.
The service will launch in full along with Modern Warfare 3 in November, but a beta is already open for use with Black Ops. Elite is largely free, though a premium membership is needed to get full functionality. That membership also includes all downloadable content released in the future, but it still might be a little pricey for the casual user.

 

Source: Mashable

New iPhone 4S Coming

New iPhone 4S Coming

Maybe the hotly anticipated iPhone 5 won't be an iPhone 5 at all.

But it might be available on more carriers.
The emerging theory, based on reports from industry analysts, is that the next model of Apple's smartphone will be called the iPhone 4S and be an update of the current model, not a radical advance.

Multiple sites this weekend were citing a report by Peter Misek, an analyst with Jefferies & Co.
"According to our industry checks, the device should be called iPhone 4S and include minor cosmetic changes, better cameras, A5 dual-core processor, and HSPA+ support," Misek wrote in a report Friday.
Other analysts have offered similar predictions.
But Misek also wrote that Sprint, T-Mobile and China Mobile will be added as iPhone carriers, citing more "industry checks."
The A5 dual-core processor is the same one that's in the iPad 2. A dual-core processor is considered faster at running two programs at once than the single-core A4 processor in the iPhone 4.
The term "HSPA+ is a reference to high-speed processing. The phone reportedly will not utilize long-term evolution (LTE) technology, which is frequently marketed as 4G coverage.
The reports, and speculation, come as Apple's traditional iPhone freshen-up approaches.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference begins June 6. That's been used as Apple's launching pad for the latest iPhone the past few years, but Apple has suggested the event will focus almost exclusively on software this year.

Source: CNN

Remote Control of the iphone

A special module for the iPhone, turning it into the remote control toy helicopter AppToyz. The output will be on sale in April.

Pay by app at Starbucks

Starbucks customers can now use an app to pay for their coffee at thousands of locations nationwide. With a smartphone, an app and a Starbucks card, users can get a barcode they can use to pay. An Android app reportedly is in the works