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The Best Package Tracker for iPhone There are plenty of package trackers to choose from on the iPhone, some of which are very good, but nothing really comes close to the ease of Slice. It wins our pick for best-in-class package tracker because you never have to enter you tracking numbers into the app. It pulls them from your email inbox automatically and lets you know when they're out for delivery.

The Best Package Tracker for iPhone

Connect Slice to a Google or Yahoo! email account for automatic purchase detection and shipment notifications
Get push notifications of package shipments and deliveries
Track how much money you're spending online
Easily access a backlog of electronic receipts and check return options
Check out information about anything you purchased, including product specifications

The Best Package Tracker for iPhone

Slice is a great package tracker because it doesn't require any actual effort on your part. All you have to do is connect it with your Yahoo! or Google mail account and it'll import all your receipts. If you order something new, Slice will grab it as well. It will then send you push notifications as packages make their way to you. Basically, you do absolutely nothing and you'll be provided with the information with you want. That's pretty fantastic. Additionally, Slice will offer up a searchable purchase history so you can see what you bought, when you bought it, how much it cost, what the item looks like, what its return policy is, specific information about the product, and more. Slice is an incredibly useful app for frequent online shoppers and a great solution to the ongoing problem of manually entering tracking numbers into your phone.

The Best Package Tracker for iPhone

If you simply want a package tracker, Slice may be too much. When I imported all my receipts from my Gmail account, it pulled in iTunes App Store purchases and even a pizza delivery. (You can, however, turn off iTunes and Netflix purchases in the preferences.) I don't mind this because I love the idea of having easy access to all my receipts. That said, if you're simply looking to track your packages this amount of information might be a little overwhelming. If it is, check out some of the simpler options in the competition section. If it isn't, you'll likely have no issues with the app.

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Delivery Status ($3) is a bit pricier than the rest but the cost gets you an iPhone and iPad hybrid app. It's also one of my personal favorites, as I'd been using it for a few years and it never gave me any trouble. It lets you sync deliveries with its servers and to any iDevices. You can add shipments online through the Delivery Status web app or via a Mac OS X Dashboard widget. The iOS app detects when you have a tracking number stores in the clipboard, too, so you don't even have to bother pasting it. The app just sets up a new delivery automatically. While the ease of using Slice is hard to beat, Delivery Status comes about as close as you're going to get.

iDelivery ($1) has a very cool interface with a virtual representation of the packages you're tracking. It also provides a wealth of tracking information for more shipping services than you knew existed.

My Package (Free) is a standard free option. It doesn't do much more than let you enter your tracking number (manually) and track your package using a few popular services, but it does ofter a nice map view of where your package has traveled and gets the job done.

Lifehacker's App Directory is a new and growing directory of recommendations for the best applications and tools in a number of given categories.

You can follow Adam Dachis, the author of this post, on Twitter, Google+, and Facebook. ?Twitter's the best way to contact him, too.

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A study conducted by Columbia Business School's Prof. Ernesto Reuben, Assistant Professor, Management, alongside Pedro Rey-Biel, Associate Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Paola Sapienza, Associate Professor, Professor of Finance, Northwestern University, and Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, finds men's honest overconfidence ? not overt discrimination ? may play an important role in male domination of the C-suite. The research was recently featured in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Columbia Business School's Ideas at Work. While part of the persistent gender gap in leadership at firms can be attributed to discrimination, the researchers sought to determine if the underlying causes of such selection issues may go beyond simple conscious discrimination. The study discovers how the differences in the way men and women think of themselves and react to incentives may be creating gender differences that lead to leadership gaps, rather than the gap being caused solely by discrimination in the selection process. Specifically men's tendency to exhibit natural overconfidence in their past performances may attribute to the lack of greater female representation in upper management and executive positions.

The experimental design allowed the researchers to isolate the effect of gender differences on women leadership. The experiment consisted of two parts. The study first asked MBA students to complete a set of math problems; both men and women performed about the same. One year later, the researchers brought back the same students, asking them to recall their previous years' performance. The researchers found that when they compared actual with recalled performance, most participants overestimated their performance ? a tendency documented in different forms in different studies. The major difference was that men consistently rated their past performance about 30 percent higher than it really was. Women, on the other hand, consistently rated their past performance only about 15 percent higher than it actually was.

Next, the researchers asked participants to estimate their performance on a task if chosen to represent a group, and were then divided into groups to complete the same math problem. The group was split into 33 groups of two or four members. Each group had to choose a representative and would compete with the other groups, with a generous cash prize awarded to the highest-scoring team. It was, then, in the best interest of the group to choose the person who had performed best on the problem sets in the past. This time the researchers also added an incentive: for some (but not all) groups, the representatives got an additional payment of either $20 or $75. In groups where leaders get no additional cash prize, individual and group incentives were aligned: that is, if a group knew a woman was better, its best interest was to pick her or sacrifice its competitive edge and the financial reward. In the groups whose leaders received a payment simply for being chosen to lead, an individual could then be chosen as a rep if they lied about their performance, and the group would lose while the leader would gain.

The results revealed that, on average, both men and women were willing to lie about their performance. When participants had an incentive to lie, they lied more, and the incidence of lying increased as the monetary award for being chosen as leader increased. While women kept pace with men on how frequently they lied, women did not exaggerate their performance to the same degree. As a result, women were selected 1/3 less often than their abilities would otherwise indicate. In other words, while there is no gender differential when it comes to lying, there is a significant gender differential when it comes to "honest" overconfidence: the main difference in women not being selected as leaders appears to be attributable to men's overconfidence in their abilities.

The study suggests an important takeaway for firms: recruiters should consider overconfidence when considering male candidates' claims about past performance. Employers who are not aware of the tendency for men to unconsciously inflate their performance could mistake that overconfidence for true performance, and overlook better female candidates. Furthermore, the researchers find this aspect of gender difference is hard to correct. Columbia Business School Professor Ernesto Reuben explains, "It's not just a matter of telling men not to lie ? because they honestly believe their performance is 30 percent better than it really is. Similarly, it's not as if you can simply tell women they should inflate their own sense of overconfidence to be on par with that of men."

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Beggars cannot be choosers, it seems. Once the singular darling of the enterprise market, Research In Motion has resorted to creating proprietary security system for the iPhone and Android handsets, which have rapidly begun to replace the BlackBerry as the serious smartphone of choice. The Web-based system, named Mobile Fusion, will be available in late March of next year, according to the official announcement.

In short, Mobile Fusion will bring BlackBerry-level security to other brands of smartphones. This has become a necessity of the enterprise market, which has begun allowing (read: requiring) employees to use their personal handsets for work purposes, as a way to cut costs.

Mobile Fusion is not simply an app. Instead, the software will be based entirely on RIM?s BlackBerry Enterprise servers, which until now have been used exclusively to support its BlackBerry devices. Mobile Fusion will allow IT departments to perform remote wipe, remote lock and other intrusive functions on devices connected to the system.

?What our enterprise customers are looking for, and the opportunity for us, is to become the de facto platform,? said Alan Panezic, vice president of enterprise product management, in an interview with Reuters. ?We will take full advantage of whatever security capabilities are provided by the core operating system. We?re not going to hold that back in any way, shape or form.?

That said, RIM points out in the Mobile Fusion press release that ?Device security, manageability and controls will continue to vary according to the inherent capabilities of the individual device operating systems,? which means there?s still some work to do before Mobile Fusion will provide the same level of security as an actual BlackBerry.

This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) ? A U.N. Security Council committee has imposed sanctions on a Congolese militia leader allegedly implicated in a highly publicized mass rape case last year, the committee said in a statement issued Tuesday.

Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, 35, is commander-in-chief of the political wing of the Mai Mai Sheka, one of several armed groups active in the lawless east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He reportedly is running for parliament in the country's current elections.

The Congo sanctions committee statement said the group had carried out attacks on mines in the mineral-rich region and had also committed "serious violations of international law involving the targeting of children," including rape.

In a joint statement, the U.N. missions of the United States, Britain and France called on the Kinshasa government to carry out an existing arrest warrant for Sheka.

The adding of Sheka to the committee's sanctions list means he is subject to a worldwide travel ban and asset freeze. Twenty-five other individuals and six firms and organizations already are on the list for activities related to Congo's history of factional warfare and illicit trade in metals.

More than 5 million people are thought to have died in a 1998-2003 civil war in the vast African country. While the war is officially considered over, militias still are active and violence continues, especially in the east.

The committee statement said Sheka had planned and ordered a series of attacks in the Walikale area in July and August 2010 to punish local people accused of collaborating with Congolese government forces.

"Children were raped and were abducted, subjected to forced labor and subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," it said, adding that the Mai Mai Sheka "forcibly recruits boys and holds children in their ranks from recruitment drives."

A U.N. report issued in July of this year said at least 387 civilians -- mainly women but also including men, girls and boys -- were raped a year earlier in 13 villages in Walikale. It said Mai Mai Sheka was one of three armed groups responsible and that Sheka himself was one of those in command.

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a November 2 statement demanding Sheka's arrest, called it "one of the largest documented cases of mass rape in eastern Congo in recent years."

Last week, Congo's army said Sheka had turned himself in for his own protection following violent clashes with another rebel group. But media reports since then have said he is again at large and campaigning in the election.

"Sheka's campaigning for office despite a warrant for his arrest demonstrates the Congolese government's failure to act against those most responsible for sexual violence and other mass atrocities," HRW Africa researcher Anneke Van Woudenberg said in the November 2 statement.

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Stand Up For Cancer has collaborated with Lucasfilm to bring celebrity Star Wars enthusiasts together in the cancer awareness campaign, Stand Up And Use The Force For Good. The Star Wars tribute video associated with the campaign features many comedic stars who recreate scenes from the original film. The campaign was chosen by Lucasfilm to celebrate the release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-Ray discs. Be sure to also check out the behind-the-scenes video.

Stand Up To Cancer Celebrity Ambassadors Aziz Ansari, Zach Galifianakis, Bill Hader, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, Jaime King, Seth Rogen, Andy Samberg and Emma Stone ? along with Star Wars alum Samuel L. Jackson ? each Use the Force for Good as they recreate classic Star Wars scenes to raise awareness for cancer research.

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ROME ? Officials say an Italian cargo ship and 21-member crew are now free, seven months after pirates seized the vessel in the waters off Somalia.

President Giorgio Napolitano hailed the release of the Rosalia D'Amato, along with its crew of six Italians and 15 Filipinos.

Napolitano expressed hope Saturday that another Italian vessel, the oil tanker Savina Caylyn with its crew of 22, would be soon released. The tanker was seized in February.

Italian news agency ANSA quoted Adm. Gualtiero Mattesi, who commands a NATO anti-piracy mission, as saying the Rosalia D'Amato had refueled after being released by pirates Friday. The admiral said an Italian navy ship nearby will escort the cargo vessel.

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Laura Umfer, a psychologist from Tampa, Fla., recently upgraded her LinkedIn photo.

By Eve Tahmincioglu

Do you still have a drawing of an egg as your Twitter profile photo?

It?s the default option if you don?t upload an image yourself. And if you have it on your profile you may be missing out on an opportunity to get more followers on the micro-blogging site.

Turns out, having a photograph may improve your chances of getting noticed on social media sites, such as Twitter and LinkedIn, and that may in turn help you land a job, or boost your career.

?People like to see a picture of you,? said Miriam Salpeter, a career coach and author of ?Social Networking for Career Success.?

By adding a photo you make yourself look hip and willing to really engage in social media, she added. Indeed, some statistics suggest that adding a photo to your profile does make a difference, according to Krista Canfield, a spokeswoman for LinkedIn.

?We do know that folks who have a photo are seven times more likely to have their profile viewed in general than folks who don?t have a photo,? Canfield said.

And Dan Zarrella, social media scientist for marketing software firm Hubspot, found that people on Twitter who use a profile photo have more than six times the followers of those who don?t. ?If you?re walking around a cocktail party and you have a brown paper bag on your head some people wouldn?t talk to you,? he joked.

Just having a photo, however, is no guarantee you?ll become a social media darling. A bad photo of you could have the opposite impact, stressed career coach Salpeter:

?I encourage my clients to use a professional photo, in color.?

Less than a year ago, Laura Umfer, a clinical psychologist from Tampa, Fla., decided to change her LinkedIn photo.

?I had a photo that I took myself with a digital camera,? she said. But the image wasn?t professional looking, so Umfer arranged for her picture to be taken by a professional photographer.

Umfer, who refuses to even share the old photo, isn?t sure how the new one has impacted her business, but she has received many compliments on it.

?Looks do make a difference, whether people want to admit it or not, so I?m sure it has an impact at times,? she said. ?People make judgments based on pictures. It?s human nature. Not everyone is willing to look beyond it, and I decided it was worth getting a professional picture knowing this about people.?

Looks can matter when it comes to how hiring managers perceive applicants, according to recent research done by professors at the University of Houston and Rice University.

Things like facial disfigurements, scars, and birthmarks can draw away from an applicant?s true potential, said Juan Madera a professor who focuses on human resource management at the University of Houston and was co-author of the study.

?People have a negative reaction, and that?s human nature,? he maintained.

The research also found that the more people get to know individuals with such facial issues, the more they forget about the imperfections. Unfortunately, he added, if a photo puts off a hiring manager, you won?t have the luxury of having that person get to know who you really are.

But University of Texas at Austin Economist Daniel Hamermesh, who is author of ?Beauty Pays,? notes that it?s now difficult not to include a photo of yourself, given how common profile pictures are becoming on social media sites.

?Who would be the first job-seeker to include his or her picture? Answer:? A gorgeous person,? he explained. ?Then the rest of the job-seekers notice this and think:? ?Aha, if I don?t put my picture on, employers or onlookers will think I?m one of the ugliest without a picture included.??

So the bottom line, he said is ?unless you are incredibly ugly, don?t bypass it if most of the other people are posting photos.?

There could also be legal problems for hiring managers who see the photos of job applicants. Images allow them to see a person?s race, disability, or age, said Rosemary Gousman, managing partner at employment law firm Fisher & Phillips.

Most employers, she continued, don?t discriminate based on an individual?s looks, but there are managers out there who pick candidates not based on qualifications, but on attractiveness. That reality, she added, could pose legal issues for an employer.

?You, as an employer, are better off not knowing,? she stressed.

Steve Langerud -- a workplace consultant who is also the director of professional opportunities at DePauw University -- said there are pros and cons when deciding whether to use a photo.

On the plus side, people remember pictures, he said, noting that the image becomes ?part of your brand.? On the other hand, you could be disqualified because of a photo, he added.

And even if you decide not to include a photo of yourself on a social media site, unless you have intentionally worked to keep your picture out of all electronic searches, any employer can find a picture of you with a simple Internet search, Langerud said.

If you want the best avatar, Salpeter offers the following tips:

Look friendly and approachable. Sometimes, when taking a ?serious? picture, people forget to smile. The resulting photo lacks personality or the subject appears mean and inaccessible. Look at your picture and ask yourself: ?Would I want to go to lunch with this person??
Be natural. Your picture should look like you on a good day. When someone sees it, he or she should be able to focus on you, and not your makeup, jewelry, unbuttoned shirt, or loud tie. Choose solid colors, subtle accessories, and clothing appropriate for your industry.
Consider having a professional photo taken, but at the very least make sure your picture is not blurry or too dark to really make out your features once it is uploaded and sized.

In the end a photo is very subjective, she stressed:

?Some people think they look fabulous when cleavage is showing.?

The key is to find someone who can give you honest feedback before you post that new photo.

Source: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/23/8979155-want-to-get-stand-out-in-a-job-search-upload-a-photo

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