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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Baguio 2wenty 1ne : Run to Restore Greenery

Get ready to run in Baguio this time as we all get ready for another race in the city of Pine trees and ukay-ukay jackets...hehehe. Seriously, this will another run most run fanatics will surely watch out for in March this year.

The event is themed, “RUN TO RESTORE GREENERY” which will support Baguio’s reforestation program. “Feel the hills, feel the cool Baguio morning and most of all Conquer Baguio 2wenty 1ne. Baguio 2wenty 1ne will be offering 3K, 5K, 10K, 21K and even 32K distances.

Ku Ikaika Marathon will start and end at the Kahuna beach in San Juan, La Union. The route would be scenic as part of La Union’s road have views of the sea making this a race that will have your eyes treated to wonderful peeks of the West Philippine Sea. Start refreshed with the splendid view of the beach and then go to several towns in San Juan, San Fernando and San Gabriel before heading back for another scenic look at the beach for the finish. Ku Ikaika means stand strong and with a distance ranging from 3k, 5K, 10K, 21K and 42K only the strong will endure. Be a part of the strong and the brave to conquer this terrains.

Ku Ikaika 2013 Marathon is organized by Render Farm. The same organizer that brought you the annual Baguio 21K Run, which will be offering a 21K distance this year.

After the successful releases of their Future Scheduler and Location Alerts apps, Appsicum has just released another new app they call Photo Album. From the name itself, it is obviously a photo organizer whom they boasts as currently the most unique and advanced photo book and album creating app as of this writing.

With this app you can automatically create albums, based on GPS Location data, Ratings, Tags, EXIF Data, Date etc. It is the only app which also works as a full-fledged photo organization tool! If you don’t want to use albums, you will still find it very useful to manage your photos with folders, tags, EXIF Metadata and so on.

Here are the other features of the Photo Album app:

* Add clipart and shapes to albums

* Text layers to spice up your albums with captions.

* Free drawing tool to add your creativity in albums.

* Export high resolution PDF files for your albums.

* Manage individual layers on album page. Reorder or Edit layers with context sensitive tools.

* EXIF/Metatag support to filter photos easily and create albums on the fly.

* Control shadow, opacity and colors for various elements in album

* Undo/Redo actions for ease of use.

* Borders/Frames to photos.

* Lock individual elements or whole pages.

* Background Image or color for albums.

* Share your creation with world on social media, email or save to library.

* Import photos wirelessly from PC or Mac or add from library/camera

* Create folders to organize photos

* Gesture controlled intuitive interface. Use standard iOS gestures to copy/move your photos in albums, transfer between folders, rotate and so on.

* Filter photos based on tags, EXIF, Meta Tags, rating, size, date range etc.

* Sort photos on multiple parameters at once.

* Show photos on map with location data.

* Slideshow with Music. Duh! (Albums and photos)

Note: When adding photos from library, iOS doesn’t provide date or original name of the photos so the Photo Album app uses a custom naming convention and takes transfer date as creation date.

The Photo Album app is priced at only $ 4.99

Appsicum takes pride in introducing themselves as an expert in mobile software products, catering to the needs of the vastly popular mobile platforms.

For more information about Appsicum and their apps please check on the following links:

iPhone link - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-album-photobook/id586997137?ls=1&mt=8

Website - http://appsicum.com/

Email id - pj@appsicum.com