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Blue jellybeans or Red jellybeans?

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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Level 3, an I am your guest host for the day, Mr. Charles. Let me bring you on a journey, where Syprux’s Taco News will present to you a world which you would have only 15 minutes (or translated into 3 hours of Level 3 time) to explore this projected designer realm where implied and planted ideas of the current Technological world trends would be placed into your mind, and that when you awaken, you would be entirely sure that you yourself has devised such great ideas! Or would you?

To all you iPhone, iPod, iPad or Apple device users (that has not broken out of jail) and still rely on the App Store for your supply of applications, I bet that the biggest issue that you have is if the apps would be worth purchasing. Naturally, reviews and ratings can only do so much but ultimately, I would boil down to personal preference: 99 cents for Zit Picker or Drunk Dialer. How tough it might be to choose.

How about both?

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Rejoice then! Apple recently introduced a brand new segment in their App Store aptly entitled: “Try Before You Buy”. And as the section name implies, it’s supposed to enable users to try out various apps before actually deciding if they like it enough to purchase them.

Wait. Before you start taking off your shirt and running onto the streets in celebration of Apple’s generosity and due consideration, here’s the catch. (Yes, there IS a catch. Now put back on your shirt, and finish reading the article.)

Darn. Too Late

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What they mean by downloading a “demo” to try, is that you’re actually downloading a “Lite” sister of the actual App. “Lite” versions are either free or ad-ridden (ad-supported as some call it) counterparts of paid versions of the App – which in other words, means that if there isn’t a free version of the App available, then you’re not gonna be able to “try” it. Ironic?

Close enough

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Now before bashing Apple, many parties are suggesting that Apple is introducing such a concept in order to encourage users not to break out of jail in order to enjoy “questionably acquired” apps and also deprive Apple (and App developers) of their income. It’s still your call.

Know what is a stalker?

Yours only for 125 minerals, 50 gas and 2 units of food.

No, I’m not referring to that awesome thing above.

Very soon, stalkers and anti-privacy activists will celebrate another milestone in their quest to make life miserable to the unsuspecting public. Why so? Facebook has a new feature that is highly expected to debut within a few weeks. This feature would be a geo-location “check in” on Facebook, where users can automatically have their position (where they are logging onto Facebook) posted for all to see. Something perhaps slightly similar to the Twitter function where you are able to post the location your twits are coming from.

Imagine this: Colonel Saunders has just logged into Facebook from Evil Golden Arches @ NYC. Scandalous.

Could be worse

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Plus, there are talks that Facebook will try to integrate their “Like” button into the geo-location services so that people can like where other people are logging onto Facebook from such as: Darren has logged onto Facebook from Sleazy-Seedy-Motel. “Like”. Oh, and also so that people can continue to get into lots of trouble with that button!

Now, the above is still speculation, and nothing concrete can be known until Facebook actually unveils the above feature in due time. Perhaps it would turn out to be another avenue for advertising or promoting business? However, considering recent events where Facebook has been in trouble with privacy issues, who knows if us users would be more wary of revealing more private information with this feature. (Probably nobody would care)

Thus ends our little walk of Level 3. We’re out of time! We need to get kicked! Kick me Auron! Kick me!