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The
Zipper has many ways for you to fine tune the local news
and local gossip information to meet your needs. There
are two main filtering abilities available...the
Channels and the Locations. The Channels are geared
around topical categories such as news, gossip, deals,
sports, music, etc and they're very handy. The
Locations are pretty much what they sound like. They
allow you to narrow all the available information by
certain location qualities. The default locations are
Your Location (your home base), Current Location, and
different specific categories such as your high school
or college and even private locations/channels. Let's
turn our attention to the Current Location feature to
figure out how to use this in your eternal quest to find
the best local news and local gossip.
So
how does Current Location differ from Your Location? In
most cases, they may very well be the same thing but not
when you're traveling. Your Location means your home
town. No matter where you are on the Earth, Your
Location will remain the same unless you permanently
move somewhere else. Current Location owes its
existence to a really cool function of building the
Zipper to work with your smart phone such Iphones or
Android phones. These phones can keep track of your
location and in fact, they need to do so for all kinds
of features such as the GPS tracker app you probably
use. It's pretty cool that we can piggy back off of
this ability to bring you local news and local gossip
according to different locations. Otherwise, what's the
point of even have the word local in the title? So
how can we use the Current Location filter on the
zipper?
The
first obvious choice is while traveling to another city
or area. There are all kinds of reasons you may want
the local news from that area you're traveling in. It
may be as simple as finding out why they traffic
suddenly blew apart and figuring out what to do about
it. It may be to find events in the area that are new
and even spur of the moment. You can always check a
website for this info but the information tends to be
static and may or may not work. For example, maybe the
website talks about that really cool anime and comic art
exhibit at the local museum. You look at the website
and it says it's sold out but you go online and search
the Zipper to find a zip about how you can still get
stand by tickets for the 4pm showing even though the
site says it's booked. Why do I bring up this example?
Because it actually happened to us at the San Fran
Picasso exhibit. Local news can be powerful even if
you're just on vacation. Hey, why can't we empower
having fun! This goes for impromptu concerts, deals at
restaurants, and don't forget local gossip.
Let's say you're visiting LA or New York. You check out
the local gossip channel on the Zipper under the Current
Location setting. You see zips of how Katy Perry is
signing Kitty Purree stuffed animals at some club or how
they're filming a scene of the latest installment of
Twilight over by a highway underpass. How cool could
this type of network for local gossip be to create
memories that you just can't buy!
If
you get a little homesick, you can always flip the
location setting to Your Location but while traveling,
nothing's cooler than getting the local news and local
gossip scoop as if you were....a local!
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