Los premios obtenidos por Calle 13 fueron: por el disco Entren los que quieran: Productor del Año, con Rafael Arcaute, Mejor Álbum de Música Urbana y Álbum del Año; por la canción Calma pueblo, ganó Mejor Canción Alternativa y Mejor Vídeo Musical Versión Corta; con la canción Vamo’ a portarnos mal, obtuvo Mejor Canción Tropical; con la canción El baile de los pobres, obtuvo Mejor Canción Urbana; y con el tema Latinoamérica ganó Grabación del Año y Canción del Año.
Calle 13 tenía 10 nominaciones anoche, pues el grupo aparecía doblemente postulado en el rubro de Álbum del Año por haber producido parte del álbum Sale el sol de Shakira.
Sin “malas palabras”, sin acusar de drogadicto a ningún político y sin mensajes escritos en su espalda, René Pérez y sus compañeros de la agrupación puertorriqueña Calle 13 dieron cátedra de lo que es llevar la música popular a altos niveles de calidad y relevancia, durante la duodécima entrega de los premios Grammy Latino, que se efectuó anoche en el hotel Mandalay Bay de Las Vegas, y transmitido por Univisión.
Con un número de apertura que marcará la historia de este premio, Calle 13 interpretó el tema Latinoamérica acompañado de la Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela, dirigida por Gustavo Dudamel. En el número brillaron por igual Pérez y sus hermanos Eduardo Cabra “Visitante” e Ileana Cabra “PG-13”.
Appy holidays; Mobile tools for shopping, party planning are a dreamfor organizers; place a call to Santa or tap the dreidel, too.
Crain’s Chicago Business December 6, 2010 | Bertagnoli, Lisa Byline: LISA BERTAGNOLI Debra Thompson lugged around a three-ring binder, stuffed with gift lists and suggestions, to buy holiday gifts for the 27 people on her list last year.
This year, all she needs for Christmas shopping is her 4.8-ounce iPhone.
Ms. Thompson has stored gift ideas and info on the iPhone and then created back-up lists on her Sprint LG Android phone, laptop and desktop. To make shopping more efficient, she has downloaded a half-dozen mobile applications, including ShopSavvy Barcode Scanner (free), which compares price and availability for items at area retailers by using an item’s bar code.
She already has touched and tapped her way to a good deal on a Ralph Lauren perfume gift set, a far cry from past years: “I used to have to spend two days pre-shopping, calling all around town,” says Ms. Thompson, 59, executive director at GenTech, a Chicago-based non-profit technology education and training center.
She even used an app to settle an argument between two nieces who each wanted a Dora the Explorer doll for Christmas. Ms. Thompson activated Parents Calling Santa ($1.99) and let the red-suited man himself persuade the girls to share one doll.
FlightTrack ($4.99) will keep her posted on the whereabouts of her three grown children, who are flying in for the holiday, and Epicurious (free) will guide her as she cooks her first-ever roast lamb, the centerpiece for Christmas dinner at her Hyde Park home.
“This year,” Ms. Thompson says, “everything is on my iPhone.” Indeed, apps can be a godsend amid December’s blizzard of party and travel planning, shopping, wrapping and mailing gifts, and budgeting for charitable giving.
PRICE CHECK!
Barcode scanners that help users comparison-shop are making the scene this season. ShopKick (free, for iPhone and Android) is one notable example; pairing with major retailers such as Macy’s, it also gives users reward points for checking in to a store. CNET Scan&Shop (99 cents, iPhone and Android) adds user reviews to the mix; Price Check by Amazon for iPhone (free) enables price searches via barcode, text, voice and pictures.
The ShopSavvy Barcode Scanner (for iPhone and Android), the one Ms. Thompson uses, has 8.2 million U.S. users, according to Alexander Muse, its Texas-based developer. The last week in November, the app was used 53,000 times in the Chicago area. here snapfish coupon code
These apps for year-round use dwarf the numbers for holiday-specific apps. By contrast, Parents Calling Santa has been downloaded 20,000 times in the United States, according to Hyper Media Inc., its Maryland-based creator.
Finding lower prices isn’t the most important thing for every app shopper. This past Black Friday was the first that Christine Lock Garcia didn’t rise at 5 a.m. to nab holiday bargains. Instead, she used Target and Snapfish apps on Cyber Monday to buy gifts.
The convenience came at a premium: Ms. Garcia, 35, who owns an Elmhurst public-relations firm, paid $113 for her children’s gift, a Nintendo DSi, rather than the doorbuster $89 at Target. She doesn’t care.
“I got it on my own schedule,” Ms. Garcia says.
An avid runner with four daughters under age 5, she also plans to use Holiday Advice (free) to plan a wine-and-cheese party for friends. “I am always in the car, always on my phone,” Ms. Garcia says. “I always have access to everything.” Professional organizer Colleen Klimczak agrees apps are mostly a boon for busy holiday-makers. snapfish coupon code
“Technology can take you pretty far” in planning a smooth season, says Ms. Klimczak, 40, owner of Organizing for Your Peace of Mind, an Evergreen Park organization firm.
She has downloaded a dozen or so apps to help with her holiday. Santa’s Christmas Village (free) will keep her 6-year-old son occupied when she has holiday errands to run. The Christmas Carol Songbook ($4.99) will help settle musical disputes among family members.
Ms. Klimczak also uses Amazon.com’s barcode scanner and ShopKick to compare prices and get coupons and deals. ShopKick, she jokes, “is scary . . . it knows when you walk into a store.” For clients, she has suggested FastMall (free), with maps of area malls, and Web MD (free), with quick stress-relieving ideas.
But in her world, apps go only so far.
“Spending an inordinate amount of time finding apps to make your life simpler is counterintuitive,” Ms. Klimczak says. She also cautions against letting apps eclipse the personal side of the holiday: “I could send a digital Christmas card to everyone on my list, but I would never do that,” she says.
Ms. Klimczak has also found out, the hard way, that apps need to be closed after use or they drain the phone’s battery.
The sheer quantity of holiday apps can be overwhelming–and indeed, it’s easy to merrily purchase too many of them, or ones that duplicate functions you already have. (Do you really need a special Christmas list function to track gifts, when you probably have three organizing apps already? Will you actually have the nerve to use Sexy Mistletoe for BlackBerry, at $4.99?) The quality of apps can vary, though user reviews can generally help buyers avoid the worst of them. Getting a refund for one you’re disappointed with isn’t always easy or worth the trouble.
But users find that apps preserve their sanity and the time needed to get holiday tasks accomplished, in sometimes surprising ways. Chris Pautsch works in the app business but has a personal stake, too: For him and his wife, apps mean a little more peace and quiet.
When they upgraded their iPhones last year, the Downers Grove couple gave the old phones (with the phone feature disabled) to their 7-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter. The kids use them to play games, keeping occupied and quiet while waiting in stores and restaurants.
As a result, “I have great kids,” jokes Mr. Pautsch, 39, co-founder and CEO of KeyLimeTie LLC, a Chicago-based app building and implementation firm.
Engaging, and free, kids’ games include Santa’s Workshop and Santa’s Christmas Village; for older kids, Xmas Trivia offers entertainment along with a little mental stimulation.
KeyLimeTie helped produce Ultimate Holiday (free), a multifeature app that Mr. Pautsch’s son, Nathan, used to festoon photos of relatives with antlers.
He and his wife use Better Christmas List ($1.99) to set budgets and manage shopping, though they would find it more convenient if it allowed for syncing between their phones.
Mr. Pautsch credits the profusion of holiday apps to overall “off-the-charts” growth in apps, which can be built for as little as $8,000.
THE VIRTUAL MENORAH Daliah Saper’s family has lit virtual candles with Mobile Menorah (99 cents) on BlackBerry and played the popular Hanukkah game Dreidel Tap (free), in which players tap falling dreidels while avoiding burning candles.
“Hanukkah is not as much of a commercial holiday as Christmas, so it’s a bit harder” to find apps, says Ms. Saper, 30, principal attorney at Saper Law Offices LLC in Chicago.
Indeed, Laura Frankel’s favorite app for holiday use is a familiar one: Google for BlackBerry. But having it mobile allows Ms. Frankel, 49, to easily find the proper time to light Hanukkah and Shabbat candles, which is tricky this time of year: “Sundown changes so drastically,” says Ms. Frankel, executive chef at Spertus Kosher Catering in Chicago. Google brings her to OU.org, where she enters her Evanston ZIP code to learn when to light the candles.
For some people, apps help orchestrate charitable giving.
Amanda Su, 45, general manager at Rhapsody restaurant in Symphony Center, buys toys to donate to Toys for Tots throughout the year, taking advantage of bargains when she sees them. She tabulates purchases with Shopulator (free) and stops when she hits a certain dollar amount. Having a “hard figure” in front of her makes it easier to resist the temptation to go over budget, she says.
But even Ms. Su, an app fan, prefers to buy gifts in person, not online: “I like to see and touch.” Bertagnoli, Lisa
Calle 13 ganó anoche un total de 9 premios Grammy Latino. De este modo, la agrupación se convirtió en el máximo ganador en la historia de este galardón. En ediciones anteriores los boricuas habían acumulado un total de 10 gramófonos. Hasta ayer, el cantautor colombiano Juanes tenía el récord con 17 trofeos. Calle 13 ha ganado además dos Grammy anglosajones.
