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8Mansions Fengshui

8Mansions Fengshui for the iPhone makes authentic Chinese FengShui simple and practical for everyday life. Every time you walk into a meeting and are not sure where to sit, use this application to determine your best facing direction and grab that chair! Whether having dinner with friends, engaged in yoga or doing meditation at home, studying or simply resting/sleeping, use 8Mansions Fengshui to ensure you always receive auspicious Qi energy by facing your good directions and avoid getting bad Qi energy from your unfavorable directions.

How it Works?

In the Eight Mansions school of Chinese Fengshui or Geomancy, each person is assigned a Kua number that is calculated using his/her date of birth and gender. Based on that Kua number, there are eight magnetic compass directions that bring different Qi energies which affect a person's life in different ways. These eight directions are different for each Kua number.

Of the eight directions, four of them bring auspicious Qi energy and should be tapped into, while the other four bring unfavorable Qi and should be avoided. 8Mansions Fengshui for the iPhone first computes your personal Kua number using your date of birth and your gender. After that, the app uses the iPhone's built-in compass to determine whether the current direction will bring good auspicious Qi energy luck or negative unfavorable Qi energy.

It is meant for iPhone 3GS as it needs to made use of the Compass to determine your direction.

Price: US$0.99

How to install Applications?

You must have setup an iTunes account in order for you to start to download applications from the App Store or the iTunes Store. Credit/Debit Card is needed to setup the account. Free Apps that you download will not be charge to your card. Apps that has a price on it will be chargable if you download the apps.

There are two ways to download Apps to your iPhone or iPod Touch

1st way, via iTunes
1) Open your iTunes
2) Go to iTunes Store by clicking on the left menu
3) Click on the “Sign In” button on the top right corner
4) Enter your login details to sign in
5) Go to the Appstore via iTunes and download the applications you want
6) Sync the iPhone with your iTunes, ensure the Apps are checked to be synced.

2nd way, connect via WiFi, or using 3G/GPRS if you have data plan
1) Open Appstore via the icon on your iPhone
2) Sign In to the store if required
3) Search/Browse through the apps you wish to install
4) Click on the INSTALL button to add it to your iPhone
5) The Application will start installing on your Home Screen

*Note that you need an iTunes Store account to download applications, a credit/debit card will be required.
**Note that some apps will require a fee which can range from $0.99 onwards

Unable to download Apps?

Are you unable to download free games and apps in App Store? Please take note that your iPod Touch and iPhone are Country Based. Your iPod will prompt you that it is available  for purchase in your country iTunes App Store. For example, a Singapore bought iPhone or ipod Touch can download free games and apps using the Singapore iTunes Store.

The default iTunes Store in iTunes will be set to United States. You need to change to your Country Store if you are not from the United States. I will change My Store to Singapore as my iPod Touch is bought in Singapore.

How to change My Store Country?
Go to iTunes Store, at the Home page, scroll down to find the country selector.
After editing your country, you should need to sync your iPod Touch with the iTunes application to ‘confirm’ the change on your iPod Touch.

Channel News Asia Application

Following the successful stories of the Straits Times and Today Applications, Channel News Asia is the next to jump onto the bandwagon of the App Store. Channel News Asia offered you news from, Singapore, Asia, World, Business and Sports.

It also offered a Photo Gallery with quick and short news snippets. The best of all is it offered a Video section for catching short news break and the streaming is quite good with your Broadband Wifi or the GPRS 3G Network. 

News are updated every hour and so you will be able to view the latest news as it comes on Channel News Asia. It is compatible with iPhone or iPod Touch and requires iPhone 2.1 Software Update.

Facebook on iPhone & Touch

Facebook is currently the top applications in the Apple App Store since its launch on July 10 2008. Users can download this free application on their iPhone or iPod Touch.
It allowed users to write on their friends wall and check the messages of their Facebook account.

You can also see the mini feed of that your friends has updated. Send a message to them or chat with them if your friends are online. Social networking has now come to the iPhone and the popular iPod Touch. You can now connected to your friends whenever Wifi or GPRS is available.
Download the Facebook at iTunes App Store>>>

In addition, you can also choose to accesss the Facebook on your iPhone or iPod Touch Safari. Just point your Safari Browser to http://iphone.facebook.com