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November 14th, 2008

WWF India: Polluted river water

Polluted river water kills as many people as a nuclear explosion. Advertising Agency: Everest Brand Solutions, Gurgaon, India National Creative Director: N Padmakumar Creative Directors: Satish Kirodian, Sumant Bhattacharya Art Directors: Satish Kirodian, Hasnain Waris Visualizer: Mitesh Sajwan Copywriter: Sumant Bhattacharya Illustrators: Avinash Mahadik, Surender Published: November 2008 Source: www.holgerappel.com

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Reborn to be alive – Organ Donor Foundation

Becoming a donar is probably the only way you could get inside her. Belgium the law concerning organ donation is very confusing. Everyone thinks he or she is automatically considered as a donor, but in fact you have to register to be a donor. Reborn to be alive is campaigning to make everyone aware of the fact he or she has to sign up. Also with the male target audience. That’s why we placed the following ad in P-magazine, Belgium’s leading male magazine. reborntobealive.be Advertising Agency: Duval Guillaume, Brussels Executive Creative Director: Katrien Bottez, Peter Ampe Creative
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Smoking is the stupidest way to commit suicide

“Smoking is the stupidest way to commit suicide. Quit stupidity.” INEN Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades NeoplГЎsicas Advertiser: Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades NeoplГЎsicas Advertising Agency: Pragma DDB, Lima, Peru Source: www.holgerappel.com

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November 2nd, 2008

Reborn to be alive: Obituary

“One organ donor can save 8 lives.” Register now at www.reborntobealive.be Advertising Agency: Duval Guillaume, Brussels, Belgium Creative Directors: Katrien Bottez, Peter Ampe Art Director: Yigit Unan Copywriter: Robin Stam Source: www.holgerappel.com

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Not content with Android, the Google Mobile team has pulled another trick out of their sleeve: Gmail for mobile 2.0. Really, this is Gmail for mobile 2.0.6, but why quibble with details.BlackBerry users got the bulk of the updates last month, with the Google Mobile App for BlackBerry, but now Gmail 2.0 has been pushed out to all J2ME phones.Here are the highlights:Offline support: This is big. You can read recent e-mail and compose messages, even if you don’t have a signal. Messages you compose offline will be put in the outbox and sent as soon as you have a signal. Multiple account support:
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Brightkite for iPhone is the best BrightKite yet
BrightKite was already the Cadillac of location-based social networking, but it just got even better with the release of an iPhone app. Checking in is a breeze using the iPhone’s GPS, and the app is pumped up with new features that make it a dramatic improvement over the old web version. There’s been a buzz around Brightkite for iPhone for some time now, and it totally lives up to the hype.The ability to message nearby users in an iChat-like interface is definitely a plus, and helps to make the service more social. “Place snapping” quickly attaches a name to your location, giving you a
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Android Marketplace gets a ‘kill switch’
Remember back in August when Steve Jobs confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that a “kill switch” existed within the iPhone API, allowing Apple to remotely disable malicious third-party applications distributed through the App Store? A big brouhaha ensued with lots of hand-wringing about how a closed marketplace wasn’t acting like purely free market (shocker). Nevermind that the “kill switch” hasn’t actually been used to remove apps from user phones and is actually just a security precaution to protect users against programs that might do actual harm to software devices (or I guess,
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Google Labs introduces advanced IMAP controls for Gmail
Gmail has been supporting IMAP for almost exactly a year now, and they’re celebrating by fixing the only thing I don’t like about it! One of the latest brilliant ideas to come out of Google Labs is an advanced IMAP controls option that lets you mark messages for deletion without actually deleting them, and send your deleted messages to the trash instead of archiving them, Most importantly, you can hide individual Gmail mailboxes from your IMAP mail client. That sounds like a picky thing, and not really a big deal, but it’s actually huge for me. You may have noticed that Gmail has a mailbox
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Ubuntu tip: Use Startup Manager to edit your boot menu
So you’ve decided to install Ubuntu on your computer, but you’re not ready to give up Windows altogether. No problem. During the install process, just take care not to overwrite Windows and you can have a dual boot setup in under an hour. But what’s this? The GRUB bootloader adds 10 seconds to your startup time if you don’t hit the key to skip the countdown. And it automatically assumes Ubuntu should be your default operating system. It’s relatively simple to tweak your GRUB menu by editing the menu.lst file hanging out in the grub directory of your Ubuntu file system’s boot folder. You can
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IP Casino: Mammograms & Margaritas

Mammograms & Margaritas. Making strides against breast cancer one margarita at a time. IP Casino proudly supports breast cancer awareness month. Advertising Agency: Red Square Agency, Mobile, USA Creative Directors: Rich Sullivan, Matt Whitfield Art Directors: Matt Whitfield, Stephean Grimes, Daryl Evans Copywriter: Chris Stoltz Photographer: Miller Mobley Published: October 2008 Source: www.holgerappel.com