Funke Akindele se ha pronunciado en medio del drama que siguió al estreno de su exitosa película Everybody Loves Geneva.
Internet ha estado en un frenesí desde hace algún tiempo después de que algunos informes acusaran a los cines de favorecer ciertas películas, incluida la de darle más tiempo en pantalla a Everybody Loves Geneva de Funke Akindele.
Esto provocó un gran revuelo en Internet, muchos afirmaron que ella intentó sabotear a sus colegas, mientras que otros se pusieron de su lado, afirmando que los cines sólo tenían prioridad según las elecciones de los espectadores.
En una publicación de Año Nuevo, Funke Akindele agradeció especialmente a sus fans por su apoyo. Apreció su amor y dedicación a su carrera. Y no se olvidó de sus compañeros que acudieron para hacer pasar un buen rato a sus fans.
Mientras hablaba de los objetivos de Año Nuevo, Akindele instó a todos a mantenerse concentrados e ignorar el ruido de los detractores.
“¡Nunca dejaré de agradecer a mis increíbles fans por hacer que esta película sea un éxito! ¡Su amor y apoyo lo significan todo para mí! ¡Un saludo a mis colegas que asistieron al encuentro!
A medida que nos acercamos al 2025, recuerde mantenerse concentrado, ignorar el ruido y perseguir sus sueños. ¡Tienes esto! ¡Y no lo olvides, #eljthemovie todavía se proyecta en cines de todo el país, el Reino Unido y algunos cines de EE. UU. (AMC y Regal)! ¡Mantengamos el impulso y hagamos que el 2025 sea inolvidable! ¡¡¡Feliz año nuevo a todos!!!
Funke Akindele habló sobre los momentos difíciles que enfrentó antes de su ascenso al estrellato hace unos días.
Compartió un vídeo de ella misma activa en el set de su película más taquillera, A Tribe Called Judah, en su página de Instagram.
Habló sobre cómo la película retrata los desafíos actuales de las madres solteras que crían a sus hijos.
Se consideraba un testimonio de fe en sí misma y dijo que enfrentó diferentes desafíos, pero aprendió a mantenerse firme y alentar a los demás gracias a ellos.
La reina de la taquilla animó a sus seguidores a seguir inspirando a la próxima generación de mujeres.
Antes del último partido de la fase de grupos de los Tres Leones vs. Eslovenia El martes por la noche, Southgate dijo que no estaba al tanto de los comentarios de Lineker.
El seleccionador de Inglaterra dijo: “Este es el mundo en el que vivimos y no me doy cuenta”. “Esto no es importante para mí en absoluto.
“Lo importante para mí es que tengo que liderar con confianza a este grupo de jugadores durante el torneo. Somos un equipo de alto nivel, tenemos expectativas y somos muy conscientes de que todo lo que hagamos será analizado, así que me siento muy cómodo. viviendo esa vida.
“No necesito involucrarme en asuntos externos porque soy mi mayor crítico y creo que nuestros jugadores también lo son. No podemos ganar nada de nosotros que nos ayude a mejorar escuchando las críticas externas.
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Gallagher sustituirá a Alexander-Arnold contra Eslovenia
“Sabemos que en el mundo en el que vivimos siempre habrá ruido externo, pero el ruido externo no debería afectarnos lo importante es el aspecto interno, somos los únicos que podemos rendir en el campo y los únicos que podemos. dar esas actuaciones mejores. El rendimiento es en lo que nos centramos “.
“Sabemos lo que hemos hecho bien, somos muy honestos al respecto, sabemos dónde debemos mejorar, somos muy honestos al respecto, y así es como se trabaja en equipo”.
Cuando se le preguntó qué cambiaría táctica y personalmente, Southgate dijo: “Obviamente no entraré en detalles sobre nada de eso cuando la oposición esté escuchando.
“Al final, nuestro desempeño debería hablar por sí solo. Por supuesto, es importante responder las preguntas con la mayor precisión posible, pero seré juzgado en función de cómo juega el equipo. Lo entiendo y me siento cómodo con eso”.
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Lo siento, Harry, pero se supone que los expertos no son fanáticos de Inglaterra.
While I hesitate to call the Rabbit R1 AI companion device useless, I would not describe it as useful. This is a cute, orange gadget that has spent much of its brief time in my pocket. I have little to reason to pull it out. And why would I? It does nothing better than my iPhone 15 Pro Max and the dozens of apps I have on it. It’s not even a better AI device than a smartphone with Gemini, Copilot, or ChatGPT.
Even the design, which gets points for solid construction and cute, retro looks, fails to inspire. The touch-screen, physical scroll wheel navigation is one of the worst system interaction strategies I’ve ever encountered. RabbitOS’s incredibly linear navigation only exacerbates the problem. I can’t remember the last mobile piece of consumer electronics that didn’t know to return to a home screen if you weren’t using it. I’d argue the developers took the “rabbit hole” metaphor a little too seriously and designed an operating system that is nothing but rabbit holes and the only way you get out of them is by carefully backing up.
Rabbit R1 was supposed to be different. it was supposed to be special. It’s not a smartphone and was never intended to be one or even compete with one. Instead, Rabbit tossed traditional smartphone and app tropes out the window and developed something new: a way of connecting your intentions to action without the need for apps. A new AI or Large Action Model (LAM), would connect spoken requests to app logins and then handle all the interactions and execution for you.
Specs
What’s in the box: Rabbit R1 Weight: 115g Dimensions: 3in. x 3in. x 0.5in. Battery: 1000mAh RAM: 4GB Storage: 128GB Display: 2.88in. TFT Connectivity: WiFi (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, SIM card-support Location: GPS Camera: 8MP CPU: MediaTek MT 6765
In practice, this means that you’re logging into your Uber, Door Dash, Spotify, and Midjourney accounts through the Rabbit Hole desktop interface and then using the Rabbit R1 hardware, its push-to-talk system, and on-board AI to request rides, food, music, and generative images.
Would it shock you to hear that most of that didn’t work for me? It’s not all Rabbit’s fault. Spotify won’t accept third-party music requests unless you have a paid account. Doordash couldn’t complete the sign-in. Midjourney works but the image generation is happening in Discord and not inside the Rabbit.
LAM turns out to be unimpressive and somewhat jerry-rigged. The built-in large language model that works with Rabbit Vision is somewhat better but why would I buy another $199 piece of hardware to duplicate something I can do with a cheap phone, much less the best phone currently available? I wouldn’t, and neither should you.
Rabbit R1: Pricing & availability
The Rabbit announced the Rabbit R1 AI companion at CES 2024 in January. It shipped in April, lists for $199 (about £160/AU$290), and is currently available in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Japan, and Australia. The first run is done and new orders are shipping in June 2024.
Rabbit R1: Design & features
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You have to give Rabbit and design firm Teenage Engineering credit: the Rabbit R1 looks nothing like a traditional smartphone and that difference helps broadcast its intentions, which are ultimately nothing like your phone’s.
Rabbit R1 is a 3x3in by a half-inch thick orange paint-covered and fairly sturdy slab. It has a tiny 2.88-inch color touch screen, an enclosed, rotatable 8MP camera, and below that a large, slick scroll wheel. If you look on the side adjacent to that wheel, you’ll see a small gray push-to-talk (to the device) button that goes right through it. On the opposite side is a USB-C charge port (the device does not ship with a cable or charge adapter). Below that is a SIM slot that you can open with a fingernail, a nice change from all the phones that require a special pin.
There’s a pair of microphones along one edge and on the back is a large speaker grill (one inch by about 0.5 in).
(Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)
Inside is 4GB of RAM, which doesn’t sound like much but considering how little Rabbit R1 does on board it’s probably enough. There’s a surprising 128GB of storage that will mostly go unused. The MediaTek MT 6765 is a middling CPU but it’s unclear how much of an impact since the Rabbit R1 is usually talking to the cloud. AI image generation through Midjourney, for example, is not performed in-device. Instead, it sends prompts to the cloud where Midjourney on Discord handles them, generates images, and then sends them back to the Rabbit R1 to be displayed on the tiny, albeit sharp, screen.
Considering how important that cloud connection is to Rabbit R1’s operation you’d think it would do a better job of maintaining it, but often when I picked up the Rabbit R1, it would say “establishing connection” while I waited. If I had it connected to my smartphone, the connection would often drop out. You can, by the way, buy and install a SIM card to deliver a constant, dedicated connection to your mobile network. Still, without the ability to make calls or even send and receive texts, what’s the point of that?
Design & features score: 3/5
Rabbit R1: Performance & Battery Life
Setup is mostly pain-free, though to use Rabbit R1, I had to get it on a network, which required typing in a WiFi password into a really tiny virtual touch screen. The Rabbit R1 wouldn’t work, though, until I plugged it in and accepted the first of what would become a series of regular updates.
There isn’t much about Rabbit R1’s operation that I’d call familiar. If you pick it up, you’ll notice the screen is dark until you press the talk button. The default screen is a graphical rabbit (Rabbit’s logo) with battery life and time. There’s nothing else on the display. Touching or tapping the screen does nothing. It’s important that you get used to talking to Rabbit R1, as it’s the only way to access its limited feature set. At least Rabbit R1’s microphones are powerful enough to pick up my requests even when I whisper them.
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Rabbit R1 doesn’t do much of anything on its own. There’s the cloud-based large-language model (LLM) that does a decent job of answering questions about the weather, history, and other general-interest topics. It’s also quite good at reading labels. I noticed that when I pointed it at a rocket model, it accurately identified it and then walked me through the bullet list of details on the box. The built-in camera is not for taking pretty pictures (what do you expect from an 8MP sensor?) and is instead used with Rabbit Vision.
The camera is usually hidden but when I double-click the Talk button, the camera swivels to face out from the back of the Rabbit R1 – you use the scroll wheel to flip the camera from front to back and vice versa. I can hold the button down to ask Rabbit R1 to, for instance, describe what it’s seeing. After a few seconds, it usually responds accurately and in surprising detail.
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It did well identifying a banana, a camera, and me as a late middle-aged man. But when I asked it to to help me plan a meal based on what it could see in my refrigerator, it only described what it saw in the fridge and told me there were many options. However, it did not describe a single dish and when I followed up and asked it to suggest a meal based on what’s in my fridge, it said it could not order food.
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I don’t speak any other languages, so I tested Rabbit R1’s real-time translation abilities by letting it listen to some Japanese language videos on YouTube. I told it to translate Japanese to English and, when I held the talk button to let it listen and then released it, the Rabbit R1 quickly displayed on screen and repeated the conversation in English. That was pretty impressive, though, the lack of on-screen guidance on how to make this work was frustrating. Most people not comfortable with technology might just give up.
I can relive all these interactions with Vision through the online “Rabbit Hole,” which keeps the text and images from each interaction in calendar order. There’s no search function but each entry includes a trashcan icon so you can delete it.
Rabbit R1 doesn’t include communication, email, messaging, social media, games, or anything that might prompt me to engage with it more regularly. It’s just an AI wrapped inside a device.
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There are some settings and controls for things like volume control. To access them you have to press the Talk button and then, I kid you not, shake Rabbit R1. To navigate the menu, you’ll need to use the large orange scroll wheel. This wheel is one of Rabbit’s worst decisions. I found it slippery and hard to turn. I hate it.
Navigating the Settings menu required a series of turns and presses. You navigate down to a menu item and then reverse those steps to get back home. It’s almost as if the designers never used a smartphone. If I weren’t testing the Rabbit R1, I might’ve pitched it out a window.
Rabbit R1 gets points for cute graphics. This is what I saw when I recharged the handset. (Image credit: Future)
Initial battery life on the Rabbit R1 was not good and I watched as it lost a quarter of it’s battery life in the space of an hour. Subsequent updates seemed to help that a bit but I still think battery life drains far too fast (even when you’re not using it). The average smartphone is more efficient and lasts far longer.
Performance and Battery Life Score: 2.5/5
Rabbit R1: Final verdict
If all it took to achieve success in consumer electronics is to deliver an adorable design at a relatively affordable price, Rabbit R1 might be a success. But that’s not the real world.
Rabbit R1 doesn’t do enough to replace your smartphone or even operate as a decent companion. It’s limited, and poorly thought out and much of the magic it promises happens – slowly – in the cloud and then is delivered back to this underpowered orange product.
If Rabbit hopes to lead the AI gadget charge, it better go back to the drawing board for Rabbit R2.
Maintaining a safe and hazard-free home is a top priority for every homeowner. While we often pay attention to visible safety concerns, such as electrical wiring or smoke detectors, we may overlook a hidden yet equally significant threat – clogged dryer vents. Dryer vent cleaning is a crucial aspect of home maintenance that ensures not only the efficiency of your appliances but also the safety of your household. In this blog post, we will explore the importance of hiring professional dryer vent cleaners in Nashville, TN, and Brentwood, TN, to safeguard your home and loved ones.
Understanding the Risk of Clogged Dryer Vents
Many homeowners underestimate the potential hazards associated with clogged dryer vents. Over time, lint, debris, and even bird nests can accumulate within the ducts, restricting airflow. This restricted airflow can lead to overheating, causing your dryer to work harder and increasing the risk of a fire. Preventing such disasters should be a top priority, and that’s where professional dryer duct cleaning in Nashville, TN, comes into play.
Efficiency and Energy Savings
Apart from the safety aspect, keeping your dryer vents clean can significantly improve the efficiency of your appliance. By availing the services of experienced dryer vent cleaners in Brentwood, TN, you can not only extend the lifespan of your dryer but also save money in the long run through improved energy efficiency.
Prolonging the Life of Your Dryer
The accumulation of lint and debris not only poses a fire hazard but can also cause wear and tear on your dryer’s components. A clogged dryer vent puts unnecessary strain on the motor, heating element, and other vital parts, leading to premature breakdowns and costly repairs. Regular professional cleaning ensures that your dryer operates smoothly and extends its lifespan, sparing you the hassle of premature replacements.
The Expertise of Professional Dryer Vent Cleaners
While DIY cleaning methods may seem tempting, they often fall short in removing the deep-seated lint and debris within the ducts. Professional dryer vent cleaners in Nashville, TN, have the expertise, specialized tools, and industry knowledge to perform a thorough and effective cleaning. They can identify potential issues, such as damaged ducts or improper installations, and address them promptly, reducing the risk of future problems.
Improved Indoor Air Quality
Clogged dryer vents not only compromise safety and efficiency but also contribute to poor indoor air quality. When your dryer is unable to expel moisture and lint effectively, it can lead to a buildup of mold and mildew in the vent system. These contaminants can then be circulated throughout your home, affecting the health of your family, especially those with respiratory issues or allergies. Professional dryer duct cleaning in Brentwood, TN, eliminates these pollutants, promoting a healthier living environment.
Conclusion
Don’t wait for a disaster to strike before addressing the importance of clean dryer vents. Protect your home, loved ones, and investment in appliances by hiring professional dryer vent cleaners in Nashville, TN, and Brentwood, TN. Regular maintenance not only enhances the safety of your household but also improves dryer efficiency, saves energy, and prolongs the life of your appliance. Take action today and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with a safe and well-maintained home.
Smartphones have become an extension of ourselves, and the importance of mobile internet usage is undeniable. As businesses strive to make their mark in the digital world, having a mobile-friendly website is no longer a luxury — it’s a necessity. This article aims to shed light on why a mobile-friendly website is crucial for your digital marketing efforts and offers actionable advice on how to optimize your site for mobile users.
The Rise of Mobile Internet Usage
Did you know that over half of all web traffic comes from mobile devices? The shift from desktop to mobile browsing is not just a trend; it’s a behavioral change that’s here to stay. Ignoring this shift can cost businesses valuable customer engagement and, ultimately, revenue. If your website isn’t optimized for mobile, you’re essentially turning away a large portion of your potential audience.
User Experience: The Heart of Mobile-Friendly Design
User experience (UX) is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the digital marketing world, but what does it really mean? In simple terms, UX is about how easy and enjoyable it is for users to interact with your website. For mobile users, this means fast load times, responsive design, and intuitive navigation. A good mobile UX is not just a scaled-down version of your desktop site; it’s a carefully crafted interface that prioritizes the mobile user’s needs and limitations.
The Impact on SEO
Search engines like Google have taken note of the mobile browsing trend and adjusted their algorithms accordingly. Websites that are not mobile-friendly are likely to suffer in search rankings, making them less visible to potential customers. On the flip side, a mobile-optimized website can give you a significant SEO boost, increasing your visibility and driving more organic traffic to your site.
Conversion Rates and Customer Trust
A mobile-friendly website doesn’t just look good; it performs well, too. Studies have shown that mobile-optimized sites have higher conversion rates compared to non-optimized sites. Why? Because a seamless mobile experience instills confidence in your users. If your website is easy to navigate and quick to load, customers are more likely to trust your brand and, consequently, more likely to make a purchase.
Practical Steps to Make Your Website Mobile-Friendly
Creating a mobile-friendly website might seem like a daunting task, but it’s more achievable than you might think. One of the first things you should focus on is implementing a responsive design. A responsive design ensures that your website’s layout adjusts automatically to fit the screen size of the device it’s being viewed on. This is crucial for providing a seamless user experience across smartphones, tablets, and desktops.
Another key aspect to focus on is the optimization of images and videos. Heavy media files can significantly slow down your website’s load time, which is a big no-no, especially for mobile users who are often on the go. Compressing images and using optimized video formats can make a world of difference in speeding up your site.
Navigation is the backbone of user experience. On a mobile device, screen real estate is limited, so it’s essential to simplify your navigation as much as possible. Make sure that buttons are easily clickable and that users can find what they’re looking for without having to dig through complicated menus. The easier you make it for users to take action, the better your conversion rates will be.
Testing is another crucial step in the optimization process. Don’t just assume that your website looks good on your own device; test it on multiple types of devices and browsers to ensure that it’s universally compatible. There are various tools available that can simulate how your website appears on different devices, but nothing beats real-world testing.
Lastly, make use of available tools to gauge your website’s mobile-friendliness. Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test is an excellent resource that can identify areas where your website might be falling short. It provides actionable insights that you can use to make immediate improvements.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
While you’re in the process of optimizing your website for mobile, it’s easy to fall into some common traps. One such mistake is overcomplicating your layout or using too much text. Mobile screens are small, and users typically want to get information quickly. A cluttered layout or walls of text can be off-putting and counterproductive.
Another common mistake is ignoring load times by using heavy media files. As mentioned earlier, mobile users are often on the go, and they won’t wait around for a slow website to load. Always optimize your images and videos, and consider using lazy loading techniques to improve page speed.
Failing to test your website on multiple devices is another pitfall to avoid. Just because your website looks good on your smartphone doesn’t mean it will render well on all devices. Take the time to test thoroughly to ensure you’re providing a universally good user experience.
Lastly, don’t underestimate the importance of easy navigation. It can be tempting to include all the bells and whistles in your mobile navigation, but simplicity is usually the best policy. Make it easy for users to find what they’re looking for, and you’ll be rewarded with higher engagement and conversion rates.
By avoiding these common mistakes and following the practical steps outlined above, you’ll be well on your way to creating a mobile-friendly website that not only ranks well in search engines but also provides a stellar user experience.
Investing in Mobile-Friendly Design is Non-Negotiable!
Having a mobile-friendly website is not just a good practice; it’s a critical component of your digital marketing strategy. By focusing on providing an excellent mobile user experience, you’re not just catering to a trend; you’re investing in the future success of your business. As part of your comprehensive digital marketing solutions, a mobile-friendly website is not an option — it’s a necessity. By taking the steps outlined in this article, you’re setting your business up for long-term digital success.
