Hey guys,
What is going on Mark here back from a long break publishing in English. But all in all I came back with great news for those who were thinking about booking a flight to somewhere.
As not any other airline, but WizzAir has announced, that today they provide 20% discount on all bookings made today.
As you can see it on the picture.
Well, what can I say, that this is again a great opportunity to be able to book another great holiday for yourselves. As with this discount you’ll be able to get a ticket for lets say the beginning of next year for about £15.
*20% discount applies to fares including taxes, non-optional charges and small cabin bag (max: 42 x 32 x 25 cm) but excluding administration fee. This promotion applies on 5 October from 00.00 to 23.59 CET. Discount is only valid for new bookings up to 10 passengers. The price applies only to bookings made on wizzair.com and on WIZZ mobile app.
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Is this all possible? Or is it one of those things again, which is beneficial only for the eye? We shall find out today. Or should I say, today is the last day of a research, which was going on for roughly a month now. Using the e-rewards.co.uk, and the Rewards for Thoughts webistes.
I have found e-rewards.co.uk, through my British Airways frequent flyer account, with an offer, that I can fill out surveys and receive avios in return. Which is a good offer as far as I can see, as these surveys are normally about clicking in one box or another, or maybe typing down an answer. And in about 15-20 minutes it is all done, and you get a certain amount of points towards your e-rewards account.
Of course you can ask, what is the business in this for the airline, and to be completely honest, I would be struggling to give an answer for that, as I have no idea, why is this such a huge business for them.
Although I would like to point out here, that it is not just British Airways, it is actually avios as well, who do have a similar programme, so all in all with about 30-40 minutes of doing this, you can be on your way to a return ticket.
Which gave me an idea.
As if I can do 30-40 minutes of clicking in a day, and receive a relatively high amount of miles wouldn’t be bad. Considering, roughly how much I would be able to get with the combined services of the two websites.
Rewards for Thoughs:
1 survey a day x 50 avios x 30 days is = : 1.500 miles / avios
e-rewards:
1 survey a day x average 450 points x 30 days, az 13.500 points, which in the exchange system of e-rewards is about: 4.000 miles / avios.
Which isn’t even enough for a single domestic ticket in the United Kingdom. Or at least not for the “free” ride. But than again I have started to use both of the services, as the potential 5.500 miles / avios a month, is could fly me quite close to discounts, or to those destinations which I have not considered previously, due to the expensiveness of the tickets.
So how does it work? Well they send you an email, if a survey has become available, and if yes they normally have a direct link in the email as well.
The direct link would get you to the survey itself, where you’ll see this (or a very similar) picture.
The main advantage of e-rewards, that even in the case we wouldn’t be eligible for the survey, we still get point to our account.
After this you would get a wide variety of topics. I have done a ‘response’ for Red Bull’s new advertisement campaign, in 25 minutes. But there has been an occasion where they have asked me about my recent flight as well. Which was great as it would be almost impossible, not to qualify for that, as I have been on-board.
What happens if you’re not the one for the surveyors?
Well, nothing. You’ll receive a message, that they’re sorry, but they either have the needed amount of answers, or according to the screening questions, you’re not in the correctage group, or your gender is not the one required for the survey, etc. etc.
As it is shown on the picture above, one of the main advantages of e-rewards, is that even in this case you’ll receive a compensation. Though not too much, but still more than nothing. And yes, yes I know, that the 600 points and the 25 points at the moment doesn’t give you too much information, and I admit that it is quite hard to tell from the picture if this is something you might want to deal with or not.
Well the exchange system, which could be reached from the ‘My Account’ part of the e-Rewards website, will show you exactly if it is worth it.
(Disclaimer: The current 375 point on my account are the ones which are left, from the points of a survey done on the day of this article being published, and from a compensation of not being eligible for another one, and I have made a few conversions already in this month)
As you can see with two of the 600 points worth of questionnaires, you can be 250 miles closer to the destination of your dreams. Which is almost exactly the same amount of avios what you will receive on a booked domestic flight, with British Airways.
And I would say the system is smart, as the longer you accumulate point, the better the conversion rate is going to be. Though we can argue to the point, that in a day you won’t be able to get 6.500 point, especially not under 15 minutes, as mentioned in the title.
But my opinion is the following, the first option is just not worth it, as even with just a little effort, I could easily double to point on my e-rewards account, and earn double the avios as well. And to reach 6.500, well that is not an easy task to do.
Also I would like to point out, that the e-Rewards system converts the point into avios immediately, though until you’ll be able to see or use them, could take up to 35 working days. So it would be beneficial to plan well ahead, and exchange the point according to the needs of a future travel.
And with that we came to the end of the e-Rewards part.
Let’s see what the Rewards for Thoughts could do.
Well this system first of all is a bit more comfortable, as the site, and the rewards are both run by avios. So the time between filling out the survey, and getting the miles for them, are significantly less, and normally takes about 24 hours.
The other advantages, are that most of their surveys are shorter, and there is more chance to spend really only 15, but a maximum of 20 minutes on the website, and earn a 100 avios on that day.
Similarly to the services of e-Rewards, this website is going to make sure, that it gives you information about your potential earnings, and on what you can expect, at least when it comes to the length of the survey. Although you can see, that Rewards for Thoughts doesn’t give you any compensation if for some reason you wouldn’t be qualified for a survey. Although compared to e-Rewards it isn’t as likely to happen. As before every survey, there is a ‘personality test’, which you don’t have to fill in, but it is recommended.
These questions are just trying to find out, what have you been doing in the last 12 months, such as have you bought a new car, subscribed for Amazon Prime, or Netflix. If you have any illnesses, which you might take medication for. And if you were to answer these questions, than the algorithms of the website would be able to tailor the questionnaires more around yourself. So in about 95% of the case you’ll be eligible for them.
When it comes to the surveys themselves, this website is almost essentially the same is the other, the topics, and the depth of which they are asking you about is not going to differ to much. Although I have to say, that I have had less errors with this system, than with e-Rewards.
Not to mention, that the surface is much more user friendly, and the transactions are easier.
So let’s see how things are adding up after a month?
After opening my British Airways Executive Club account, it could be seen quite well, that the amount of avios I have is somewhere between the three and four thousand miles. Of course these doesn’t include the result of the surveys I have done in the last two days. So all in all I have to say for me it was worth to use these two services. As in March these avios were the ones, which saved my life from getting stuck at Heathrow airport, when I was going home.
Would I recommend these services than to anyone?
Well if you are an avios or British Airways frequent flyer member, by all means. If you aren’t well, in that case you might still want to register to at least the Rewards for Thoughts website, as avios can be used not just on flights, but with some hotel bookings, and you can receive avios in many ways.
And that pretty much sums it up. I hope that we could have given you some entertainment today as well. If you enjoyed this content make sure to give it a like down below, and share it with your friends. Who knows, they might benefit from it as well.
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Hey guys, what is going on Mark here! And I know it has been a while, since we actually had a chance to publish anything about sales, or well anything in particular. But today we have just spotted an offer, which we wanted to give you a bit more information about.
Of course you can ask, that after so many complaining articles about WizzAir, what is this sudden change, that I’m about to give details of the sales of this airline?
Well, it is the recent experience, and with that recent experience the fact, that the airline has managed to improve on its reputation, and now I’m not looking for RyanAir or EasyJet tickets, if for some reason I would need an alternative to a British Airways flight. But lets get to the main reason this article has been created, shall we?
So in this particular case WizzTours Kft. has announced their summer sales, of which if you were to book your flights, and hotel with them, then they give you €50 off from the normal price.
All you have to do, is go on to http://www.wizztours.com/ and use the SUMMER50EUR promotional code, to book one of their packages.
The offer is valid only for booking made between 8th August, 2016 and 10th August, 2016 for holiday packages (flight + hotel) starting before 30th September, 2016. Wizz Tours is an online service, provided by Wizz Tours Kft. The promotional code, offers €50 discount from new bookings, for a maximum of 9 persons on each booking. This offer cannot be combined with any others.
Being completely honest, I wouldn’t want to miss out on this opportunity, if I would know, that the guys from HR would let me go on a holiday, but that’s another question at this point. 😀
We hope, that we could have helped today for everyone planning their summer holidays, or even for those ones, who have starting making plans for their autumn city breaks. If you enjoyed this content make sure to give it a like down below, and share it with your friends, so they won’t miss out on this opportunity.
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Hey guys, here comes the second installment of our weekly news summary. Loads of things happened in the world again, and we created what we though are the most important ones from those, and of course we couldn’t miss out our program recommendations either. So three, two, one…
News from the world
Local
United Kingdom
Even though this picture has been uploaded to the HOPE not hate Facebook page, on the 2nd June, 2016. We didn’t find it before our weekly closure previously, so even though it is a bit late, but we would still like to share this with you. As we have found it quite interesting. At London Euston Station, volunteers have put the pictured transparent, with a bucket full of flowers (and it has been confirmed, that the bucket has been refilled several times). And as far my opinion goes, I don’t think I have to say any other things. The picture speaks for itself.
According to Capital Wirral News, there are only two candidates left for the position of Prime Minister. Theresa May, and Andrea Leadsom. Just as a reminder, since 28th November, 1990. The United Kingdom haven’t had a female prime minister. And it seems like this could very well happen now.
25 years ago, (on the 7th July, 1991) a ten day conflict has came to an end, in the Republic of Yugoslavia. As we know Yugoslavia has been formed from six sovereign republics, five nations, four languages, three religions, and two alphabets, and it was only controlled by one centralized government, and when after 1989 everything started to go a bit south, and after a while the situation escalated to a higher level.
And that should be it, as we wouldn’t wish to say more about this, just wanted to remind everyone, and remember for the losses of everyone in a few lines.
During the afternoon, on the 1st July, 2016 tragic has happened on the Hortobágy. Soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Force’s, Warship and Mine Disposal Regiment, have been clearing an area from explosive devices. When at around two o’clock in the afternoon, Hungarian Local Time, a 250 kg, II. World War Russian bomb has exploded. The cause of the explosion is still unknown. But the fact is, that Master Sergeant Juhász Atilla, Master Sergeant Rózsa János Nándor, Sergeant Balázs Ádám, and Corporal Kozár Gábor have lost their lives in the line of duty. And Master Sergeant Tóth Péter has been seriously injured, but has been stabilized since. After the events, Hungarian Minister of Defense, Simicskó István, has announced that the soldiers have received a posthumous rank of Lieutenant. And commended them “For the Homeland” award, which is the highest possible commendation.
After the events of this tragic day, there were many speculations, on how, and why these events have happened, and the investigation is still on-going. The only thing we know for sure, is that their lives are a major loss, for the families, the armed forces, and for the country as well.
So hereby I’d like to take the opportunity, to say our condolences on behalf of the groups of editors, and on behalf of our followers to the families. And also we would like to wish a speedy recovery for Master Sergeant Tóth Péter.
Have you ever checked if someone your details have got stolen? No?! Well, we have good news!
As on the website Have I been Pwned you’d be able to search for details, from a previously hacked site. It is absolutely simple to use the portal, just type in your email address to the built in search engine, and in about one or two seconds you’ll get the answer, on how safe your details are!
On the other day I have found this video on the YouTube channel called Unbox Therapy, and to be completely honest I have found it a great idea, which Lou showcased. Technically it is nothing else, than a USB OTB stick, what is containing a few sensors, which are capable (just as well as the ones issued to the police) to analyse the air blown into it, and give back a blood-alcohol level.
The type of the aircraft might not be familiar for most, as we are speaking of a relatively new plane. And as the HB-JBA tail-numbered aircraft is the first, what any airline in the world would use for commercial purposes. And even though some of you might have seen this bird in March, at that point in the factory livery of Bombardier. Soon this could be an everyday sight on most of the airports in Europe.
As Swiss has placed an order of 30 for the smaller variant of the CSeries, which will replace the aging Fokker 100s, and Avro RJ100 Avroliners.
The Bombardier CS100 now in Swiss’ livery. Photo: airportal.hu
All of us could possibly remember the application called Duolingo, many of you guys might still use it, or maybe just download it automatically, when you switch to a new phone, and even though this could be considered quite a good option for improving language skills. It couldn’t replace one thing, and that would be a native teacher, who is available anytime we wish. And that is how we got to Tandem. Similarly to last weeks’ app, I haven’t met for the first time with this application now. I think I have used it, ever since I’ve moved to Newcastle, as I wanted to get back to my German skills, and maybe pick up one more language.
Which went well, more or less, but probably I have helped more to those Russian users, who wanted to improve their English, than they helped me improve my Russian!
And good news, the languages you can learn, or practice, and the amount of people you can do this with is almost infinite, and also if you want to have a qualified teacher, now you have the opportunity for that as well. Soon we’ll be returning with a complete article about Tandem, until than if you want to have lessons, than just download the app.
On the 4th July, 2016. Chris Evans, has announced on his twitter feed, that he had resigned from his post in Top Gear, and he also wished good luck, to his colleagues. And being completely honest, we’ve been expecting this for a long time, as the number of viewers of the BBC Show, has produced yet another negative record, on last Sunday.
Between the 12th and the 17th July, EFOTT Festival is open again for audiences. At this point on the beach of Lake Velence, where according to the organizers, there is going to be a bigger party than ever! Beach, concerts, gastro, civil square, beach football, cinema, and also more than a 100 artists at the same place.
For more details, tickets, and the list of performers, click on this link: http://efott.hu/
Well in this case we have good news, although I’m afraid only for our male readers, as according to our sources, at the end of this year a new café is going to be opened in Geneva, where the guests would be able to enjoy, more than just a cup of coffee. 😉
As at the place called Fellatio Café, next to the standard coffee house products, there will be an extra service available. Which shows quite well, that the customer is in the focus of this business.
And if I’m honest that would be all, what we found important to mention from the previous week. Thank you so much for tuning to us today. We’ll be back shortly with another Tips and Tricks episode. If you liked this content make sure to leave a thumbs up, and share it with others. If you wouldn’t want to miss out on the rest of our articles get subscribed, or follow us on Facebook.
Hey guys, Today we came up with something different, and we have reviewed a tech product for you. And as the title have indicated, this product is going to be the GXT 280 LED Illuminated Gaming keyboard from Trust. I have purchased this product about 2-3 weeks ago to improve the tech I’m using. And ever since it has been under high workloads. So let’s get started.
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Unfortunately, and so far this is the only drawback so far, the USB cable, is not covered in fabric, it is only the standard plastic one. With a length of about one – one and a half metres. The keyboard as well is made out of plastic, but the quality of the material gives you the premium feeling. All of the keys have got and LED backlight, and also the GXT 280 logo in the middle benefits from that as well.
Although it is not RGB backlight, as you can only choose between 3 color options, and a completely switched off position. The current ones are more than enough for my personal use. The three colors as the picture shows are red, green, and yellow.
The brightness has also got three settings, one dimmed, one in the middle as an average, and a bright one. The dimmed is good enough for use throughout the day, as it gives an edge to the characters, and for night time usage, depending on your own setup, I’d go with the bright. As in that case you wouldn’t need to use another light source to see all your keys.
The input is picked up by membrane sensors, which would provide a silent performance, and also a good tactile feedback, with a response time of just 20 ms. So if you’re using it for administrative tasks, or as in my case for programming, it would be more than able to cope with you.
Let’s get to ergonomics and layout.
Under the feet of the keyboard, and the palm rest, there are rubber pads, which would prevent, the un-wanted movement of the keyboard. To it is not too strong, so the user would be able to easily move the device into a comfortable position.
On the left the layout is usual, although at the area of the arrow keys there is a bit of a difference, than what I’ve got used to. The ‘Pause’, Scroll Lock’ and ‘Print Screen’ buttons have been moved over to numerical part of the keyboard. And the 3 LED signals took their place.
Just as usual, the function keys have been arranged in a four by three row, and above these are the 8 media control buttons, with 6 anti-ghost keys, and with the programmable buttons.
From left to right these are My computer, Homepage (or our default browser), Mail. Change of colours, Search, Favourites, Change of brightness. And than the Mute, Volume +/-
All in all, I think in a price to value comparison, this keyboard is perfect. It is not too expensive, and it was meant to punished anyway, so it will last you long enough. It is quite lightweight as well, and regardless of the brightness of the backlight, it wouldn’t be irritating on any of the settings.
And that would be it. Shortly Mark is going to be back with another Tips and Tricks episode, about the multimedia providers (Broadband, TV, landline phone) in the UK. And of course our Weekly news summary is coming up shortly as well.
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Hey guys,
As it seems like airlines definitely have their announcements planned quite well, at least for that, to ruin our own publishing schedule! 😀 Although WizzAir has made an announcement, which you should know about. Here are the details!
On the 6th July, 2016. WizzAir has announced, that they are going to open a new route from Budapest, and at this time the destination is the Bulgarian sea side, Varna.
Just as usual, for the first time the route is going to be operated with two flights a week. And from the 3rd August, there is going to be one outbound, and one inbound flight on every Wednesday, and Sunday.
And even though the airline is hoping for the success of the route itself, in the booking system the last available flight is the one on Sunday, the 18th September, 2016. If this is only due to the changes between the summer and winter schedules, or that this route is only a one or so month long experiment, well we don’t have the information about that.
What we know for sure though, is that the flight to Varna will be flown by the airline’s Airbus A320s, and they’ll be flying under W62475/W62476 flight numbers. The outbound flight will depart from Budapest at 11:10, and it will arrive to Varna at 13:45 local time. The inbound flight will depart at 14:15, and will arrive back to Budapest at 14:40 local time.
When it comes to the ticket prices, they are going to be at around 18-23 thousand Hungarian Forints, without selecting any extra services, and travelling with a small size hand luggage only.
Thank you for tuning in to us today as well. We hope that we could have given you a bit of an encouragement to travel. Also guys, if you liked this content make sure to give it a thumbs up down below, and share it with your friends, especially the ones, who are planning their holidays now. If you wouldn’t want to miss out on our future articles, don’t forget to subscribe either here on WordPress or by following me on Facebook.
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Well today, we have arrived to a point, which is also going to be essential, for you, as without a mobile phone it is quite hard to get by nowadays. Let’s see, what this category holds for you, shall we?!
Start with mentioning, that similarly to energy providers, there are also lots of companies to choose from. And the worst part is, that in many cases it isn’t entirely clear, what provider offers what, and which network does a smaller provider use.
But let’s not dwell on this too much, and start looking at the facts. The five big providers in the United Kingdom currently, are:
O2
EE
Three
Vodafone
BT Mobile
So there isn’t too much of a difference between this and the ones you might have got used to. All of them have their own separate network, and own towers, and when it comes to coverage, all of them could be considered as good. Almost all of them have the option, of a pay monthly contract, and as a SIM only pay as you go packages. But in most of the cases you will not be eligible for a pay monthly contract, at least the normal procedure with EE, and O2 would be that they’d run a credit check, and would decide afterwards whether or not they’d give you the contract. And in the near future we’ll give you a bit more information about these checks as well. But in advance just to get this out of the way, if you’ve just arrived to the country, than of course the credit check wouldn’t return any result, and at this point and time that would be a problem.
Let’s see the best currently available pay as you go packages from the above mentioned providers, and we have assumed that you would have a SIM free handset. And for the monthly costs we have calculated a maximum of £15, which could be considered average.
Billing period
N/A *
30 days
30 days
30 days
30 days
Amount of mobile data
N/A *
2 GB
1 GB
2GB
1GB
Minutes
N/A *
500
100
750
250
Text messages
N/A *
Unlimited
3000
2000
Unlimited
Price
N/A *
£15.00
£10.00
£15.00
£15.00
* As it turned out BT Mobile doesn’t have a pay as you go package, and the shortest contract they have avaialble is 12 months. And that they are just simply out of the league.
And just like in the case of the energy providers, among the mobile carriers, it wouldn’t be the big companies, which would be the best. So let’s modify our first table, and look at an alternative, which would be giffgaff.
Billing period
30 days
30 days
30 days
30 days
30 days
Amount of mobile data
4 GB
2 GB
1 GB
2GB
1GB
Minutes
1000 perc
500
100
750
250
Text messages
Unlimited
Unlimited
3000
2000
Unlimited
Price
£15.00
£15.00
£10.00
£15.00
£15.00
The example above clearly shows, almost as well, as anno in our FreeedomPop articles. Which you can access by clicking here. That at this point a company, the best value for money, is one, which is almost nothing more than a start-up. But this start-up has a contract with O2, and they provide the services using O2’s network.
To order a SIM card is quite easy as well, if you click on the link below, than you’ll be able to access the webiste, where you’ll be able to to just that, without paying anything for it. Just fill out the form, and click on “Order your free SIM” button, and in a few working days you’ll have the welcome pack in your post box.
And being honest with you, really that would be it, the main principles, of mobile providers doesn’t have too many differences in the UK, than what you might have got used to. So it would be quite hard to write anything more about this topic. We hope, that we could have helped with your move, or if we could’ve made your planning a bit easier.
We’ll be back shortly with a detailed review of the TV and Broadband providers in the UK. Until then, thank you very much for being with us today! If you’ve liked this content make sure to give it a thumbs up down below, and share it with your friends. If you don’t want to miss out on or future articles get subscribed here on WordPress, or follow me on Facebook or Twitter. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us on any of our contact details below.
Hey guys, Even though for today we had other plans, when it comes to our publishing schedule, but yesterday (4th July 2016, [the editor]) we have found an opportunity, what we wanted to share with you.
IATA, or otherwise known the International Air Transport Association not so long ago announced, that they would like to use, and know about the ideas of the society, to make air travel more comfortable, and efficient for everyone.
And with that announcement Passenger Innovation Awards 2016 have started, and the panel of experts are expecting every idea until the 31st August, 2016. Which at the end would improve improve the passenger experience, drive process simplification, decrease costs, and enable ancillary revenue. In one of the following areas: identity checks, baggage, and payments. Of course the sent in business ideas should achieve at least one of the above mentioned targets.
If you’re interested in participating in forming the future of aviation and air travel, than please click on the following link, where you’d be able to find out all the needed details and conditions!
Thank you for being with us today again! Please leave a comment, if you were to participate on this year’s Passenger Innovation Awards. Also please make sure that you hit that like button, and share it with the rest of your friends, so we’d be able to reform the beautiful world what aviation is.
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Today we have started a new series here on M&D’s Blog, to actually make sure that we have more and more useful content. In this series all of our editors will be contributing towards the target. And our articles will provide the most important things from the previous week.
News from the world
Local
BRExit aftermath
As we’ve been expecting, the result of the voting on the 23rd June, 2016 caused havoc, in not just the United Kingdom’s political, and economical system. And according to the hidfo.ru Germany and France would want to create a European super state, to prevent the destruction of the European Union. While according to origo.hu, the President of the Czech Republic is considering the country’s leave from not just the EU, but from NATO as well. And as it seems like, Austria isn’t as stable as we have been expecting before the BRExit, as a recent poll just shown, that if there would be a general election for Austria to stay or leave the EU, it would still stay but only with a small margin. (Just as in the UK)
Those who didn’t believe that we are the ones, who are writing the history, well for them this could be enough proof. The sources for the above mentioned news could be reached on the links down below:
On the 30th June, 2016, Budapest Airport has announced, that as the part of the BUD 2020 program, the construction of the new passenger wing would start on Terminal 2B. Above all that, there are plans for an airport hotel, and for a new logistics center. And also to improve the security areas.
The passenger wing is a key element in the improvements of the airport, as in the first five months of 2016, there were 12,5% more passenger travelling through Budapest airport, than in the same period of time, in the year before. The construction of the new building are scheduled to start at the end of the year, and will last for about one and a half years.
The CEO of Budapest Airport also said, that they have started to make plans for a new railway connection as well, with Kőbánya-Kispest station. And also they have considered planning a new terminal building as well, due to the projections, that in the next five years the number of passengers could raise to 15-18 million in a year.
You can have a look at the animations of the planned improvements on the following link:
Joint Air Force Base Andrews has been under lock down.
On 30th June, 2016 at 9:16 local time, the twitter page of Andrews AFB has been updated, saying that “JBA is currently on lockdown due to a report of an active shooter. All personnel are directed to shelter in place. More info as it comes.”
Later it has been confirmed by the commander of the base, and by the press, that the lockdown was due to a mistake. As on the above mentioned day he base was scheduled to conduct an active shooter exercise, however, reports of a real-world active shooter situation were reported.
As it turned out about an hour later, the real-world active shooter was the exercise itself, and approximately an hour after clearing this up, the base returned to its normal operation.
YouTube joins to the mobile live-streaming competition.
According to the http://www.hwsw.hu website, Google has decided to join to the live streaming market. Even though on the main website of YouTube the streaming option was available, but it didn’t support mobile devices. The first social media website to come up with a solution for that problem was Twitter, with their app: Periscope. And regardless of the hiccups in the first few months with the application, by today Periscope became a success. Not so much after Twitter, Facebook has realized the potential, and made their own implementation, which was first used by only a small group of celebrities, but nowadays it is available for everyone. In the updated version of the YouTube app, the function is already available, and according to the official notes, the YouTube streaming would be “faster, and more reliable, than its competitors”.
In my opinion, YouTube had made a good choice with this decision, as this would be great help for many content creators. And even though I have seen a few live events on Facebook, but I see a greater opportunity to directly share my videos on the biggest content sharing website. If the developers would really be able to implement the functionality.
The journey of Solar Impulse 2 has came to and end
On 23rd June 2016, after flying for 71 hours and 8 minutes from New York, the famous plane have landed safely in Seville. And with that the approximately 35.000 km around the world journey has been completed. Which is remarkable considering that the aircraft have taken-off on 9th March 2015 from Abu-Dhabi, and for 30th / 31st May (depending on the time-zone) it has already reached Nagoya. Although here it had to make a long rest, as weather conditions were not good enough above the Pacific Ocean to allow the take-off. At least until the 28th June 2015. After taking off from Japan, the plane have crossed half of the waters, and after 4 days, 21 hours, and 52 minutes it have landed in Hawaii. Where it had to wait until 21st April 2016, when it took off again, flown over the North-American continent, and the Atlantic Ocean, and arrived to Seville.
Spanish Air Force’s welcoming formation flight to salute the arrival of Solar Impulse 2
Emergency landing in Singapore
On 27th June 2016 at 08:04 London local time, Singapore Airline’s Boeing 777-300, tail-number 9V-SWB, was en-route from Singapore to Milan Malpensa with 222 passengers and 19 crew on board, and it was flying at the altitude of 30.000 feet (~9,14 km) above the Andaman See. And completed two of the roughly nine hour journey, when the crew noticed an oil leak in the right wing engine (number 2), and started a descent first to 17.000 feet, and than returned to Singapore. After a successful landing, and taxiing to one of the designated taxiways, the engine and most of the right wing caught fire. According to the footage the fire fighting crews have managed to handle the situation efficiently, and none of the passengers or the crew has been hurt. Though the structure of the aircraft have suffered major losses.
Ryanair has announced yet another service
On 28th June 2016 the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has announced, the between their normal and Business Plus options there will be another option for their customers called Leisure Plus. Which is nothing else, than a combination of some of their otherwise optional extras. Those who were to choose Leisure Plus from now on will be eligible for priority boarding, and they would be able to bring one (maximum 10kg) cabin baggage with themselves, among with a laptop carrying case. Also would be able to choose their seats for free, and will be eligible to check-in a maximum 20kg hold-luggage.
Also they have modified the Business Plus scheme a bit, as the ticket modifications are going to raise for +2/-2 days, from the current +1/-1 days. Other than that everything stayed the same for passengers who are using Ryanair’s Business Plus services.
Well DayOne Journal, is nothing short of a best friend of a journalist, or lets just say the creative community. Even though it hasn’t been the first time when I’ve met with this application, if I remember correctly it was back in February 2015, and since than it was a mandatory application on any of my Apple devices, not just because it synchronizes via iCloud, but because it’s functionality and performance have beaten WordPress’ own app, and also because whatever I have written in DayOne, I could have published it with a single touch on a WordPress website.
I have to say though, that the application is only available on iOS, and macOS. And on iOS they ask £3.99 for it, while on macOS it is a bit more costly as it is £22.99. And I know that these are quite high prices for a glorified notepad, Microsoft Word, or Pages. But there are cases when the iOS version is available as free to download, and in those cases the macOS prices are dropped as well.
On 30th June 2016, Warner Brothers Studio have published their newest project’s first trailer. The movie is directed by Clint Eastwood, starring: Tom Hanks, in a drama where we will be able to re-live the hardest flight of the national hero Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. And most of the moments of the investigation afterwards. I’ve gotta say can’t wait ’til 9th September!
HA-LCI
Also on 30th June, 2016, Filmservice Kft. has published a trailer, well this might be a bit exaggerated, as I haven’t been able to embed, or share the link, for you guys to be able to watch it here.
The title: HA-LCI doesn’t seem like a dealbreaker, but aviation enthusiasts would know for sure, that this is nothing else but a tail-number of Tu-154B2 aircraft. Which was flying the Budapest – Beirut route as Malév 240, and on 30th September 1975 it has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, and to this day and age the cause of the catastrophe is unknown.
The trailer could be seen on the link below, and I have to say when this movie hits Hungarian cinemas, I’m a 100% sure, that I’ll get on the next flight, to catch the premier.
No one seems to be interested in the Independence Day – Resurrection
As we have already given you an insight, 20 years after the original story, Roland Emmerich have decided to endanger our planet again, but at this time he also managed to make an even bigger attack.
Although it seems like, not too many people were interested, at least not in the US, as the filmezzunk.hu website have confirmed.
While in Hungary the ticket office income has been close to 75 million Forints (~ £200.000 on today’s (03/07/16) exchange rate) on the first week. In the US ‘Finding Dory’ massively overachieved the “new” sci-fi. If you’ve missed out on our previous movie review, click on the link down below.
Between 11th July and 17th July it is Farnborogh Airshow again. As in every second year, the show will be presented in two phases. Between 11th July and 15 July gates will be open for the potential clientele, manufacturers, and members of the press. But you can still buy visitor passes for that part. And on the 16th and 17th July the gates will be open for the public.
For more information about prices, tickets, and schedule please visit the official website.
Balaton Sound again, between 6th July and 10th July, the festival would be open again for music lovers, in Balatonzamárdi. So if you want to have a great time on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary, than I would definitely recommend this.
And to listen to the official Anthem of this year’s Balaton Sound scroll down.
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Hey guys, Mark here, back with another Tips and Tricks article. And even though today’s topic is a bit more dry than the previous ones, this is going to be one of those, what you’ll inevitably need to take care of, when you move to the UK, or any other country for that matter! Lets start to examine the energy providers of this country, and the opportunities what you need to be aware of.
First of all I’d just like to point out that as the number of providers is close to infinite, I wouldn’t be able to give you the best example of every of them, but we’re going to make a comparison of the currently available tariffs. And also the offers of different companies, and, about why, or why not to choose them.
eaking of a relatively new plane. And as the HB-JBA tail-numbered aircraft is the first, what any airline in the world would use for commercial purposes. And even though some of you might have seen this bird in March, at that point in the factory livery of Bombardier. Soon this could be an everyday sight on most of the airports in Europe.
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