I will start by saying this, DO NOT BUY THE ZAGG INVISIBLE SHIELD FOR IPHONE! It is a complete waste of money!

I received my zagg invisible shield on Febuary 10th, and recount my installation horror story here: http://www.dailyrelevance.com/iphone/zagg-invisible-shield

Im not one to completely disown a company, however, this has to be the worst product you could ever put on your iphone.  Here are just a couple of things that Zagg needs to seriously improve on before they ever consdier selling their invisible sheild to anyone!

Installation was the most frustrating experience I have gone though in a while!  Now, I can understand that it was my first time and that it does require a bit of a delicate touch, however, should it really be that hard?

Decreased touch response on the screen.  I brought this up with zagg support and they said “You’ll get use to the change in touch performance. It’s not hindered, just different.”  What is that supposed to mean?  Why would I want my touch performance to be different than if I had nothing on the screen at all?  To their defense, i never did call customer support.  But I was at this point fed up with the product and going to just live with it.

Now if those were the only problems with the product I think that I would be OK, but obviously they are not!

The cover becomes severly discolored!  I own a white iphone and after only 2 months with the zagg “invisible” shield it had become anything BUT invisible!  Take a look at the above picture after removing the back cover.

I think you are also all asking yourselves, why are the corners black?  Well to my next point, that is lint collected on the corner guards that became semi-unglued and collected all my pocket lint for me.  Also it is stuck onto a white background so you can get an idea as to how yellow it became.  You might think to yourself that I did something wrong or I left it out in the sun.  Well i’m not the only one with this problem!  When I took it to a competitor’s cart in the mall, they had a drawer full of zagg invisible shields that had the same or worse yellow discoloration and “orange peel effect”, which is what the guy called it.

The orange peel effect is where the invisible shield is no longer flat and smooth, it actually starts to ripple and become deformed?!? ruining your view of the display.

What should you buy, if the zagg is so incompetent and discusting?  I will have to give a little plug to my installer at the Tysons Corner mall.  Its a competitor of zagg called BodyGuardz and I highly recommend their product.

How do they solve the above problems that zagg has not?

First, they offer installation services for free!  Thats all this guy does, he installs the protective cover on your phone and he does it right without any of the headache that you would have if you installed it yourself!

Second, if this thing does orange peel, discolor, or start to collect pocket lint i’ve got someone I can go to.  He also guaruntees that they have fixed these problems in their phone and with professional installation i doubt the corners are going to be peeling off too.

I took a blurry photo of the guys information that installed my bodyguardz onto my iphone but once I get home I will post all his information.  Its been a week now and I havn’t had any complaints.  However, like the zagg product I will post a follow up after a month or so to see how the body guardz for the iphone performs.

If any of you are near the Tysons Corner mall in virginia, stop by the BodyGuardz cart right in front of the L.L. Bean store and they will take care of you!  I told him that I would referr anyone I could and make sure that everyone would steer clear of the Zagg invisible shield.

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Zagg Invisible Shield

Targeted marketing worked again!  Somehow they have been blasting me with advertisements about the Zagg Invisible Shield.  Boasting its scratch proof material, crazy thin construction and easy installation.  Easy installation?

I got this thing in the mail after about a week, and was pretty excited to get see what this thing could do.  I had already watched the online video and was pretty confident that I could get this thing on there.  They always make things look so easy on video don’t they!

If you know how professional window tint is installed, then the concept is very similar.  You spray on this included liquid onto your fingers and the plastic, which keeps it from sticking right away and allows you to get everything adjusted.  Then just squeegee out the bubbles and your done!

Yea, things didn’t go down like that at all!  First of all trying to take off the paper from the plastic with wet fingers is near impossible.  I ended up using a pair of tweezers.  Second, make sure you are in the NASA rocket building lab with absolutely NO lint, hair, or fuzz because this thing is a magnet.

Once a hair or fuzz does get on your unit, your screwed!  At one point I thought I had successfully put the screen cover on, just to find that a 1/2 inch eyelash had fallen to its demise in the center of the screen and was now perfectly installed with the cover like one of those quarters laminated to the bar!

Me, being horribly OCD, had to remove the cover half way to get the hair out.  At this point the cover had already partially dried and it now looks a bit stretched out after putting it back on again.

The front screen cover, was only half the battle.  I was thinking to myself, that if I was able to get that front one on.  The back shouldn’t be so bad.  Wrong!

Having the same issues removing the paper, I soaked up the plastic cover and began to install.  Now, all the movies show the user installing this on a black iPhone.  Mine is white.  This is where all the fuzz starts to show itself.

On my first round, I noticed that I had caught probably 10-15 pieces of fabric strings.  Otherwise microscopic, but apparently the combination of being laminated between my white iPhone and the plastic, made them stand out like they were under a 10000x microscope!

So after hiring the shoemakers elves, I was able to get most of the strands out of there realizing where they had come from.  My jeans!

After removing all my clothes at this point, I started again with the back piece again not having much luck.  At this point im pretty much boiling madd because this little sticker is winning!

If you have ever touched one of those sticky mouse traps, that are supposed to humanely kill mice, which to this day i still dont understand how humane and kill are allowed to go in the same sentence.  But anyways the experience is sort of like that.  Once a hair or fuzz gets caught in this black hole abiss, its pretty much going to be there for ever.

After almost scrapping the whole operation and calling in for a refund, I was finally able to calm down long enough to get this thing installed and all glued to the phone.  I’m still not sure if the whole schinanigan was worth it or not because they say it takes 12-24 hours before its completely “cured”.

Just remember, if you are going to attempt to install this thing.  Make sure you do it somewhere with the least amount of debris.  In my case it was in the bathroom.  Make sure all fans are off, no pets are around, and you are completely naked with your head in a swimmers cap and eyes covered by ski goggles.

Good Luck! And I hope someone else has a better go at this than I did.

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According to a mafia live employee post on getsatisfaction, the game was updated behind the scenes during the middle of the night. Not much appears to be changed except for a few new jobs and a supposubly more stable fight system.

I still don’t see the relevance of the whole mafia live fight system in general. One end says that people can sit online all day and spam for family members, in turn making them stronger and able to beat up on people with less family. Then an update was put out crippling this factor and making items more powerful. Now someone with 1 family memeber can attack someone with 1000 family members and still win as long as they have the right amount of equipment.

So what is the purpose of the mafia live slogan, “Build your family”? Isn’t the whole premise and success of this game bent on the virality and user growth? In its current state this no longer matters, i mean really who cares if invite someone because it doesnt get me anything other than the ability to do some jobs that without family I could not.

Mafia Live Tips for Newbs:

1) Buy equipmenet, if you are not able to find yourself anyone to add online – See my previous post – then stock up on revolvers or other low cost equipment to keep yourself from being from loosing to many fights.

2) Deposit your money in the bank, if you are level 5 and up, before you leave the game for long periods of time. Nothing like coming back and seeing all your money jacked from your pocket while you were in a meeting.

3) Don’t bother building up your attack or defense points, put everything into stamina and energy. See tip 1 if you don’t get why.

4) Revolvers give you the most bang for your buck, if you don’t believe me then do the math yourself.

5) Fight early morning or in the middle of the night, this is when most people don’t have the chance to put their money in the bank because they are sleeping

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I guess I can just watch a YouTube video while I wait for service to become available again, “fewest dropped calls” my ass. As most of you can tell by now, I switched over from Verizon. Best damn phone service in the land IMO!

As much as I hate the service, I think im still going to have to stay with AT&T just beause the iPhone is just so damn amazing, with full Web browsing support, and the HUGE number of Free and Paid applications. Its just a clear winner for me. I just hope i dont end up throwing my phone out the window when I need to make a call and can’t.

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