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SnapTell at The New York Mobile Marketing Forum

SnapTell will be at the New York Mobile Marketing Forum on June 10th & 11th, 2008, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel.

The Mobile Marketing Forum is the place to learn about all things mobile; how to launch a mobile marketing campaign, how to define strategic objectives to ensure optimal engagement with the consumer and how to leverage all of the options in mobile effectively.

If you are interested in mobile marketing, this is the conference for you. And if you'd like to meet with SnapTell at the Forum, please contact us.  We look forward to seeing you in New York City!

Join The Mob

Here's yet another cool way to use your cellphone's camera; join the Big Art Mob.

The Big Art Mob is an effort to create a comprehensive survey of public art in the form of a mobile blog. The project has just launched in the UK, and everyone is encouraged to contribute by snapping some public art and uploading a photo.

The ultimate plan is to use a mashup of Google Maps, a geo-coding facility, and tags to create an interactive map that will be both a guide to and a way to preserve sometimes transient public art.

Big Art Mob is also the precursor to a new UK television series called Big Art Project.

'Tis the Season

The annual family and friends computer fixathon is about to start. Anyone who knows anything about computers is invariably asked at least once, when he or she heads home for the holidays, "hey, can you take a look at my computer? It's been running really slow lately."

 In anticipation of the festive fixit season Lifehacker has put together a first aid kit of essential utilities to download and burn onto a disk. Their picks include Ad-Aware to purge spyware, open source antivirus program ClamWin, Spybot Search and Destroy to purge all those sneaky, snoopy, speedkilling apps,  SpywareBlaster to prevent spyware from installing itself on the PC in the future and CCleaner to remove unnessary junk like  temporary files, cookies, system logs and programs set to start up with your computer automatically. Check the article for links to these programs.

To their gaggle of tools we'd add PageDefrag, which lets you defrag paging and registry files, and for severely traumatized computers, the Ultimate Boot CD, which can boot up virtually any Windows computer (even one that refuses to boot into Safe Mode), includes a bunch of troubleshooting/fix utilities, and if nothing else will let you copy files off the affected machine before you reformat it to reinstall Windows.

Not going home for the holidays? Then perhaps you'd like to tinker with your wireless setup, and get it running a little faster and better.