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Friday, September 28, 2012
Pre-caffeine tech: Facebook gifts, ?Apple apologies!?
2 hrs.
Our?pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.
After a week filled with complaints about the new Maps app found in iOS 6, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, the?company's CEO, Tim Cook, has issued an apology to customers along with a list of alternative apps.
Facebook unveiled a new program Thursday that lets users give real gifts ? from $5 Starbucks cards to more expensive treasures, like Jawbone's Jambox wireless speaker ($200) ? and can be done instantly, from an Android phone, and in coming weeks, the iPhone.
Speaking of Facebook, an accused Facebook stalker just got busted for terrorizing women.?
Meanwhile, the feds are accessing private phone call records at a skyrocketing rate.?
And cameras now collect millions of travel records via license plate tracking every single day.?
Plus,?Occupy Wall Street protester has lost his latest bid to prevent the Manhattan district attorney's office from using his tweets against him,?clearing the way for the judge overseeing the case to unseal the tweets and give them to prosecutors.
At least?California schools and employers are now legally banned from demanding user names and passwords on?social media sites such as Twitter,?Facebook and the like.?
Neil Young just unveiled his Pono music player.?
Meanwhile,?according to a study?by Keele University, violent video games help increase your pain tolerance by as?much as 65 percent.?
There's a short film from 2004?starring Robert Downey Jr. that's getting new life on Tumblr...sure it's an ad for Volvo, but still ... Robert Downey Jr.!?
Halloween is just around the corner ... and "Breaking Bad" is big again with kids this year!?
Compiled?by?Helen A.S. Popkin,?who invites you to?join her on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.?
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/pre-caffeine-tech-facebook-gifts-apple-apologies-6151204
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AT&T's new MiFi Liberate is LTE-capable, 'world's first' with touchscreen display
We'll have to give it to AT&T for going with something a wee bit different than what we're accustomed to seeing in the world of handy MiFis -- but with touchscreens apparently being a thing nowadays, it also shouldn't surprise us that the company chose to go this route. Either way, the newly introduced MiFi Liberate will surely be of help to those who need to stay connected while on the go, offering features such as LTE connectivity (provided the network's live in the area, of course), simultaneous pairing of up to 10 WiFi devices, 11-hour battery life, a microSD slot, DLNA capabilities and, as you can see above, a 2.8-inch touchscreen display. Unfortunately, the carrier didn't say when we can expect the Liberate to be up for grabs (or for how much), with a company representative only telling us that it'll be at some point "in the coming months." While we wait for those details, however, feel free to check out the extra pic located just past the break.
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Remote Controlled Plane Repair Part III (Chunks)
The problem with flying is gravity. Gravity most often wins and you are left with a plane that will not fly any more. You may have rudder or aeileron damage that can be easily fixed. But what about any Chunks that missing from your plane. They will affect the aerodynamics of flight. You have to repair these.
You may have further damage from a crash beyond aeilerons and rudders. You can repair these with balsa wood or a combination of fill and clear packing tape.
Let us focus on ?Chunks?. These would be large parts of your Styrofoam plane that might be missing due to the crash you must have experienced. These too are repairable. The basic theory of flight is that you have an aerodynamic craft that will fly. When chunks are missing, simply fill them with some type of cloth or excess Styrofoam and then cover this section with clear packaging tape that will fill the gap to the original shape of the damaged section. As long as the air flowing over the surface can?t tell that there is something missing, then it really does not matter what it looks like. If you are sensitive to appearance, then get some spray paint and have at it. Aerodynamics does not care about appearance. If the plane meets the requirements of this simple equation then it will fly, if not, it will not.
If you have completed all the obvious repairs to the plane using the techniques explained above, then you are ready to attempt flight once more. Put the plane on the flight line and do some touch and go landings to see if the plane flies true. If it does not, then make slight adjustments until it conforms to your expectations.
If you have damaged your plane severely you obviously have had some serious damage due to a crash. There is a limit to what can be salvaged and if you have are at the end of your rope, now with this shell of an airplane, then you may not be able to salvage it.
There is a time when you call in your chips and simply accept that you have done all that you can. IE: it?s time to buy a new plane. If you still think you want to salvage the existing plane, then I can not offer you more advise or techniques than have been offered. You will now have to solve your own problems and you will become the teacher. Let me know what you do to get her back in the air. Any day that you don?t learn something from others is a lost day indeed.
The teacher becomes the student.
Source: http://toddsblogs.com/recreationandsports/2012/09/27/remote-controlled-plane-repair-part-iii-chunks/
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International Conference on Leadership in Business and ...
International Conference on Leadership in Business and Management for Sustainable Global Economy (LBMSGE-12)
3rd to 4th November 2012
3rd to 4th November 2012
Venue: Dept. of Management Studies, I.I.T. Delhi, New Delhi, India
The Organizers cordially invites abstracts and full research papers from all over the world to participate in the International Conference on "Leadership in Business and Management for Sustainable Global Economy" (LBMSGE-2012) at I.I.T. Delhi.
THEMES
Leadership Management
Training and Development
Performance Management
Economics Management
Economic Development
Administration, Public Finance, Social Policy, Pricing
Distribution Channels
Contemporary Economics Systems
Financial Institutions Trade
Social Marketing
Theoretical Papers in Business Management
E-Commerce
Cost Accounting
Marketing Communication Risk Management
Financial Management in Information Technology
International Marketing
Business Research Methodologies
Consumer and Personal Selling
Consumer Buying Behavior
Selling and Marketing Areas Banking
Public Policy
Public Insurance
Compensation Management
Accounting for Decision Making
Financial Reporting
Fundamentals of Microeconomics
Database Management Systems in Business
Management Information Econometric
Corporate Finance
Investment and Portfolio Management
International Finance, Banking and Lending Decisions
Derivatives, Risk Management
Business Law, Computer-based Information System
Principles of Management, Marketing
Accounting for Corporate Structures
Managerial Costing and Control
Advanced Corporate Law, Income Tax Law
Business Information Systems, Systems Analysis and Design
Marketing, Conceptual and Logistics / Supply Chain Management
Marketing Islamic Banking
Engineering Management
Emerging issues in Finance, Management, Ethics, Entrepreneurship
Global Business Processes
Online Macroeconomics, Quantitative Data and Information Management
Electronic Commerce
Cost management, Financial management
Capital Markets, Empirical Finance
Asset Pricing, Contemporary Issues in Commerce Research
Public Management Areas
Health Management
Service Marketing, Marketing Strategic Issue
Marketing and Enterprises Resource Accounting reforms
Risk Management
Organizational Development
Strategic Management
Economic and Business Analysis
External Reporting Issues
Management Accounting
Issues, Consumer Behavior
Training and Development
Performance Management
Human Resource Management
Psychology, Advertising
Organizational Politics
Information Management
Auditing and Public Practice
Financial Management
Natural Resource Management.
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Bizarre tumor case may lead to custom cancer care
This 2008 picture provided by Georgetown University shows Richard Schlegel, M.D., Ph.D., left, and research associate Aleksandra Dakic, Ph.D., in his laboratory at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington. A discovery allows doctors to grow "mini tumors" from each patient's cancer in a lab dish, then test various drugs or combinations on them to see which works best. Although the approach needs much more testing, researchers think it could offer a cheap, simple way to personalize treatment without having to analyze each patient's genes. "We see a lot of potential for it," said Schlegel, one of the study leaders. "Almost everyone could do it easily." (AP Photo/Georgetown University)
This 2008 picture provided by Georgetown University shows Richard Schlegel, M.D., Ph.D., left, and research associate Aleksandra Dakic, Ph.D., in his laboratory at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington. A discovery allows doctors to grow "mini tumors" from each patient's cancer in a lab dish, then test various drugs or combinations on them to see which works best. Although the approach needs much more testing, researchers think it could offer a cheap, simple way to personalize treatment without having to analyze each patient's genes. "We see a lot of potential for it," said Schlegel, one of the study leaders. "Almost everyone could do it easily." (AP Photo/Georgetown University)
It's a medical nightmare: a 24-year-old man endures 350 surgeries since childhood to remove growths that keep coming back in his throat and have spread to his lungs, threatening his life. Now doctors have found a way to help him by way of a scientific coup that holds promise for millions of cancer patients.
The bizarre case is the first use in a patient of a new discovery: how to keep ordinary and cancerous cells alive indefinitely in the lab.
The discovery allows doctors to grow "mini tumors" from each patient's cancer in a lab dish, then test various drugs or combinations on them to see which works best. It takes only a few cells from a biopsy and less than two weeks to do, with materials and methods common in most hospitals.
Although the approach needs much more testing against many different types of cancer, researchers think it could offer a cheap, simple way to personalize treatment without having to analyze each patient's genes.
"We see a lot of potential for it," said one study leader, Dr. Richard Schlegel, pathology chief at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington. "Almost everyone could do it easily."
An independent expert agreed.
For infections, it's routine to grow bacteria from a patient in lab dishes to see which antibiotics work best, Dr. George Q. Daley of Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute said in an email. "But this has never been possible with cancer cells because they don't easily grow in culture," he said.
The new technique may reveal in advance whether a person would be helped by a specific chemotherapy, without risking side effects and lost time if the drug doesn't work. "Pretty nifty," Daley wrote.
In the case of the 24-year-old, described in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, lab-dish tests suggested that a drug used to treat a type of blood cancer and some other unrelated conditions might help.
It's not a drug that doctors would have thought to try, because the man technically does not have cancer. But his lung tumor shrank after a few months of treatment, and he has been stable for more than a year. He still has to have operations to remove throat growths that keep coming back, but only about once every five months.
The man, an information technology specialist in suburban Washington who asked to remain anonymous to protect his privacy, has recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, or RRP. It's usually due to infection at birth with certain types of a virus, HPV, that causes genital warts.
The condition causes wartlike growths in the throat, usually around the voice box. These growths usually are noncancerous but can turn malignant, and even benign ones can prove fatal if they spread to the lungs. The main treatment is surgery, usually with lasers to vaporize the growths and keep them from choking off the airway or making it hard to talk.
About 10,000 or more people in the U.S. have the disease, said Jennifer Woo, president of the RRP Foundation. Woo, 29, is a medical student at Georgetown and one of the researchers on the study. She also has the condition but said it is confined to her throat and has required only about 20 surgeries so far.
The man in the study has a much more serious case.
"I was diagnosed when I was 3 or 4. At first, I had to have surgery every 7 to 10 days," the man said in a phone interview. "I get short of breath and my voice will get more hoarse."
Two years ago, the growths to his lungs became extensive and life-threatening, and his physician, Dr. Scott Myers, described the condition at a meeting of Georgetown hospital specialists. "It's crushing the airway," Myers said.
Doctors suggested that the new lab method pioneered by Schlegel and others might help. It borrows an idea from stem cell researchers: adding mouse cells for nourishment, plus a chemical that prevents cell death to an ordinary lab culture medium. That enabled healthy and cancerous cells to keep growing indefinitely.
Researchers grew "mini tumors" from the man's lung mass and from healthy tissue and screened various drugs against them. One proved ineffective. Another worked against the tumor but at too high a dose to be safe. The third did the trick.
A similar approach could let doctors screen drugs for cancer patients.
"What could be more personalized than taking this person's cell, growing it in culture, finding a drug to treat them and then treat them?" said Doug Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. The Georgetown method gives an answer quickly enough that it could save lives, he said.
Tyler Jacks, a cancer researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former president of the American Association for Cancer Research, said the next step is to show that this could work for many different cancers and that it leads to better outcomes in patients.
"It seems to have worked in this one instance, but other tumors might prove to be more challenging," he said.
The National Institutes of Health paid for much of this work and has already sent research teams to Georgetown to learn the method. About a dozen other universities have done the same, Schlegel said.
So far, his lab has grown prostate, breast, lung and colon cancer cells.
Georgetown University is seeking a patent on the method.
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AP Science Writer Malcolm Ritter contributed to this report from New York.
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Online:
Medical journal: http://www.nejm.org
Throat disease: http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/pages/laryngeal.aspx
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Marilynn Marchione can be followed at http://twitter.com/MMarchioneAP
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Superior Replacements to the Boring Stock iPhone Apps [IPhone Downloads]
The design and function of many of Apple's apps is beginning to feel a bit stale, and many people are growing dissatisified with the experience as a whole. On top of that, many of the apps lock you into Apple's data ecosystem and iCloud. However, plenty of superior replacements exist for Apple's stock apps. From Maps to Notes, we've got you covered regardless of where you're looking for better options.
Indictment: Apple's new Maps app has been getting its fair share of bad press lately for numerous mistakes ranging from poorly updated maps, to badly implemented search. Thankfully, you have a few really solid alternative choices.
Superior Alternative(s): Waze, MapQuest, Google Maps (in browser).
Notes: Replacing Apple's Maps app really depends on what you're looking for in a maps app. If turn-by-turn navigation is your thing, then Waze is the best of the free apps that provides it.
However, Waze isn't that great as a simple map. For that, we like Mapquest. Even though the ads in the app are rather annoying, it's a simple way to get a top-down view of an area you might already know so you can become more self-reliant in your city. If you'd rather just return to Google, the mobile version of Google Maps works just fine.
Indictment: On its own, Safari is by no means a bad browser. However, to get its best feature, iCloud syncing, you have to use Safari on your Mac. Not everyone wants to do that. Safari also has it's fair share of usability issues, like the inability to quickly swap to private browsing, and a limited amount of tabs you can keep open at a time.
Superior Alternative(s): Chrome, Dolphin
Notes: Picking the perfect browser for your phone really depends on what you use on your computer. If you're a Chrome user on your desktop, then Chrome is the logical choice on your iPhone or iPad. It syncs up your history, bookmarks, autofill settings, and everything else across every single device.
If you'd like a browsing experience geared specifically to mobile, Dolphin is a gesture-based browser that offers a fun alternative way to browse the web.
Indictment: Apple's default camera is pretty boring. You can't really tweak your photos, and you don't get standard options like a timer or burst mode. As a straightforward point-and-shoot camera it works fine, but if you want more precision you need to dig deeper.
Superior Alternative(s): Camera+, Camera Awesome.
Notes: Camera+ is easily the most full featured of the iPhone camera apps. Not only does it replicate everything the iPhone's default camera does, it also offers a ton of built-in photo editing tools, filters, and features. You can also lock the focus, set up timers, and shoot in a burst mode for action shots.
For another similar option, we like Camera Awesome, which offers many of the same features as Camera+, but also includes a number of guides to help you take better pictures. Both are great camera apps that supercharge everything great about the iPhone's camera. However, neither do HDR photography, so if HDR is your thing, you'll want to keep the stock camera on hand.
Indictment: Much like the Camera app, Calendar is pretty barebones in its functionality. It's not hard to use, but you can't customize the look of it to really suit your specific needs, and overall it's a bit hard to see what's really going on with your calendar.
Superior Alternative(s): Week Cal, Cue, Agenda Calendar.
Notes: You have a ton of options for calendar apps on the iPhone. For a full-featured replacement, we like Week Cal because it does pretty much everything you'd ever want in a calendar. However, for a completely different experience, Cue makes your calendar more of a social experience and works great for people with more social dates than work ones. For a minimalist experience, Agenda Calendar is a simple, but still useful alternative to Calendar.
Indictment: Mail is made to work well with Apple addresses, but if you're using Gmail it doesn't have a lot of the very simple, but much needed capabilities built directly into Google's email app.
Superior Alternative(s): Sparrow
Notes: If you use Gmail for your email, then the Apple Mail app is pretty lackluster. Sparrow gives you control over your Gmail with access to labels, starred emails, and plenty more. The newest version of Mail in iOS 6 isn't bad if you're not using Gmail, but if you are, Sparrow's the right choice.
Indictment: On its own, the Contacts app isn't much more than a digital replacement for pen and paper. You get basic information, and the new Facebook integration helps keep that information up to date, but that's about it.
Superior Alternative(s): Smartr Contacts
Notes: Smartr turns all of your social contacts into an address book. Instead of simply seeing a phone number or email, you get recent Facebook or Twitter updates. This way, you can see a complete history of your contact with someone, which provides welcome context for those people you don't talk to often.
Indictment: For the bulk of iPhone users, Messages and Phone are perfectly fine and works as well as Phone and SMS apps possibly could. However, not everyone wants to use their carrier's phone and messages services.
Superior Alternative(s): Google Voice, biteSMS.
Notes: If you don't have a lot of minutes through your cell phone carrier, then Google Voice provides a great replacement. With a few tweaks you can make the experience as seamless as the standard Phone and Messages apps.
For jailbreakers, we like biteSMS because it makes sending and receiving text messages a heck of a lot easier. It offers a lot of great features like Quick Reply, contact pictures, and tons more.
Indictment: Okay, so iCloud isn't an app as much as it's a service, but it's built into every Apple app (and many third-party apps) and comes stock with every device. iCloud is great if you happen to use all Apple products. However, the fact that it's difficult to pull documents from it, and you can't share easily them, makes it a pain to use for anything more than a simple backup.
Superior Alternative(s): Dropbox and Google.
Notes: We love Dropbox for storing all your files, and since most productivity apps (and plenty others) support Dropbox directly it's an obvious choice as an iCloud replacement for transferring files. Dropbox gives you direct access to every file you make across any device (including photos), and you're not restricted to Apple's apps. While iCloud is great to backup your phone, it's not good for much else.
As for keeping everything else in sync (like contacts, email, calendars, etc) you can set up everything to sync with your Google account easily. The benefit is that you have access to your data regardless of where you are (or if you're on a Mac). You can push that integration further with all your files with the Google Drive app as well.
Indictment: As we learned with Mat Honan's hack earlier this year, the helpful features of the Find My iPhone app can easily be used for evil.
Superior Alternative(s): Prey.
Notes: Prey doesn't have all the same features of Find My iPhone, but that's also part of the appeal. It'll help you find your phone, but you won't be able to erase data, or change any settings. If the Mat Honan hack makes you a little wary to use Find My iPhone, then Prey is an excellent alternative.
Indictment: Out of all of Apple's iPhone apps, iBooks is the biggest offender of skeuomorphic design. It makes reading look like a book, and that just feels weird on a digital device.
Superior Alternative(s): Kindle.
Notes: The Kindle app is very simple, but it works really well for reading. You get all types of settings for brightness and fonts to make the reading experience better. Also, your bookmarks are synced across every device you can access the Kindle on. The nice part is you get text on a page and that's it. No weird formatting, and no book-style overlay.
Indictment: YouTube isn't packed into iOS 6, but if you're not upgrading to the new operating system, then you're stuck with a pretty ancient YouTube player that doesn't do much but play videos.
Superior Alternative(s): Jasmine, YouTube.
Notes: The official YouTube app is just fine for most people who want to watch a video now and again, but Jasmine really nails the experience. Jasmine is easy to use, and you can do everything you can on a desktop from within the app.
Indictment: Voice Memos is an incredibly simple app that can record audio, and then share that audio over Email, Messages, or in iTunes. While it works okay, its functionality stops there.
Superior Alternative(s): Audio Memos, Evernote.
Notes: Audio Memos is great because it syncs up across Dropbox, Evernote, and FTP. It also has handy features like a lock code, the ability to link recordings together, and more. If you're a hardcore Evernote user, the Evernote app also features recording options that link directly into your Evernote account.
Indictment: Notes is about as simple as it gets. It's a writing pad that syncs with iCloud. Not everyone likes iCloud, and a lot of people aren't fans of the ruled notebook appearance of Notes.
Superior Alternative(s): Simplenote, Drafts,
Notes: Depending on what you use Notes for, you have a couple of solid options. We're huge fans of Simplenote because it makes syncing your notes across a variety of devices simple. It's also a nice, minimalist writing environment with just a blank page and a spot for text. If you want the ability to organize those notes into different services, Drafts speeds up the process and lets you quickly jot down a note, and then send it off to a variety of different services.
Indictment: Reminders is an exceptionally cool to-do list app that uses geo-fencing to remind you to do tasks when you're in a specific location. Unfortunately, they're not particularly easy to set up and the Reminders app doesn't come with a lot of options.
Superior Alternative(s): Checkmark
Notes: The nice thing about Checkmark is that it's dead simple to use. Three taps and you have a location-based reminder. You don't need to futz about in menus or anything else. Checkmark also works just like Apple's Reminders app. When you're in a certain area, you'll get a notification reminding you to do something. As a trigger to get things done, it works remarkably well and is much easier to use than Reminders.
Indictment: Until iOS 6, the Music app hadn't been updated or changed since it first launched. Now, it's a little slicker looking, but it's still the same experience.
Superior Alternative(s): Panamp, Groove 2, Track 8.
Notes: Depending on what you want from a music player, you have a few different choices. Panamp is a much faster experience than Music, and even though it hasn't been updated in a while it's still a slick, easy-to-use experience. Track 8 is another visual overhaul, but it's definitely a better option for anyone looking for a more visual player. If you're not happy with Music's boring playlist creation, then Groove 2 does it all for you automatically. Groove 2 creates smart, interesting playlists on the fly, and does a much better job of choosing music than Music.
Indictment: When Apple released its Podcasts app, it pulled those podcasts out of the default Music app and stuffed them inside an ill-fitting, counter-intuitive container. The Podcasts app's best feature is the fact it auto-downloads new podcasts, but it's not very easy to use, has an overly-complicated menu, and isn't the prettiest thing to look at.
Superior Alternative(s): Downcast, Podcaster.
Notes: Downcast does everything the Podcasts app does, and it does it much better. You can also use it to create customized playlists, and turn your podcasts into your own radio station. If you'd prefer a podcast app that functions about the same as the old Music app, then Podcaster does the trick.
Indictment: Stocks is great for quickly glancing at a few stock prices, but it doesn't have enough options to fully track your portfolios, or take an in-depth look at the stocks you're investing in.
Superior Alternative(s): Stockwatch, Bloomberg
Notes: If you need more than just a glancing info at your stocks, then both Stockwatch and the Bloomberg app provide all types of customizable information. You can create your own tickers, track stocks, and plenty more. You don't get the option for the stock ticker in Notification Center, but at least you'll get more useful information.
Indictment: The default Weather app is fine for quickly glancing at the current temperature and looking at the upcoming forecast, but its usefulness stops there. You can't get an in-depth look at incoming weather, nor can you see otherwise common calculations like wind, or "feels like."
Superior Alternative(s): The Weather Channel, AccuWeather, Weather Underground.
Notes: It's not hard to find a weather app in the App Store, but the big ones made by the Weather Channel, AccuWeather, and Weather Underground are the most feature-rich for most people. All of these apps give you access to full five day forecasts, up to the minute data, and pretty much everything else you'll ever need.
Indictment: For most people, the default Calculator app is perfect for a quick calculation, and the added scientific calculator in landscape mode fills in the gaps for most people. But if you need features like graphing, you'll have to head into the App Store.
Superior Alternative(s): QuickGraph.
Notes: You have a lot of options for graphing calculators in the App Store, but QuickGraph is on the coolest of the free options. On top of normal calculator functions, you also get 2D and 3D plotting, a library of equations, photo library saving, and plenty more.
Indictment: The only real problem with the Videos app is that its playback is limited to just a few different formats. If you download a lot of videos in a variety of formats, Videos simply doesn't do the trick.
Superior Alternative(s): GoodPlayer
Notes: GoodPlayer can handle a ton of different formats (way too many to list here). It's also a perfectly functional video player that does everything you'd expect, including subtitles, cropping, mirroring, and more. That said, the stock Videos app has access to decoders the other video apps don't and can often play in higher definition.
Obviously you don't need to go through and replace every stock Apple app on your homescreen, but if you're looking for more function out of your phone, you'll need to replace at least a few of them.
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