Two stellar companies, Girls in Tech and Ubergizmo are teaming up tonight to present: Digital Summer! This event will bring together the most international, professional, and glamourous crowd in San Francisco to celebrate photography, fashion, art, and technology. Among the unique features of this one-of-a kind event is a live runway fashion show. Invitees will also have a chance to enjoy a professional photo-shoot and lots of time to socialize.

Ubergizmo has become one of the top consumer electronic websites, and is distributed in six languages and read in 212 countries. They have been recognized as a leading high-tech website and is ranked as a Top 100 Blog by PC Magazine. Girls in Tech is one of our favorite female run social network enterprises that is focused on the engagement, education, and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent, and influential women in technology. They have made it their personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the tech sector.

Media partners include Yanko Design,Cult of Mac, Techie Diva, Tech Mamas, Mashable, Burdastyle, FashionablyMarketing.me, Thread, and We Blog the World! Sponsors for the eve include Intel and Vorizon. That said, there are some great people behind this and it should be a fun one!  Will you be joining us?!

Get your tickets here on eventbrite, or get your $10 ticket at the door!

Follow the event on Twitter @ #DS2010

We’ve seen the success of its practical applications and digital reader abilities, but the Apple iPad has also been used in some pretty crazy ways. There are some owners out there who believe in making the most of their iPad experience, using the device for dolphin communication, for cats and dogs, as a skateboard, and in zero gravity. Just for fun we thought we’d share some of the extraordinary, albeit unconventional, uses of the Apple iPad for you to enjoy.

What is the craziest thing you’ve used your iPad for?

Take a look as Pianist Lang Lang plays the iPad for a concert encore.

Well the writers at Social Media Dudes think so. These days the majority of cell phone owners are smartphone users, and for good reason. A recent post described how one of these wonderful little devices can change your life, both personally and professionally.

Using a smartphone can increase your productivity while using applications and settings that keep you on top of important events and details in your life. Your schedule, documents, contacts and social networks are available at your fingertips to keep you connected and engaged with friends and clients.

You are also more prepared and informed with smartphone apps, receiving real-time notifications so you’re always up to date. GPS, the Internet, even traffic updates means you are one step ahead of the next person, every time.

As with most technology, there is also the potential for fun. While waiting for an appointment or sitting on the train you can access hundreds of games, surf the web or browse your Facebook and Twitter to unwind and relax.

So for those of you who haven’t invested in a smartphone yet, I think it’s time you should be asking yourself why.

Which smartphone applications do you use most often?

With all the events going on this summer, now is the best time to experience the city! The forecast is calling for sunny days so go outside and enjoy the weather. Here are a few of our top picks for events going on right now:

2010 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

Celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the gardens with music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, family festivals and children’s programs with artists from around the world. Free admission through October 31.

The Taste of San Francisco Tour

Tour the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of San Francisco and experience a variety of histories and cuisines. Includes Italian, Chinese, Mexican, seafood and others.

San Francisco Bicycle Musical Festival

Saturday July 31 from 10 a.m. – 2 a.m. enjoy the largest 100% bicycle-powered musical festival in the world. The event begins at Marx Meadow and continues at different parks all around the city. Check out the schedule online for performances and locations!

San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Dodgers

Cheer on your team and enjoy the luxuries of AT&T Park. First pitch is at 7:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Hang Out at Pier 39

When it’s nice outside the pier is the place to be. It’s the perfect place to eat, shop, visit the sea lions, go to the aquarium, or take a whale watching tour.

What are your weekend plans? Any other suggestions for fun events in the city?

Did you know that you can save money with calls to landlines and mobiles? By using the Skype application on your iPhone you are able to reach your contacts anywhere in the world at great rates when using Skype. You are able to text with “pay as you go credit” or with a subscription and receive unlimited calls to landlines and to even some mobiles in specific countries. Skype’s screens are able to sort contacts alphabetically and enables you to chat online with contacts as well. Skype-to-Skype calling on 3G is free until the end of 2010, after that there’ll be a small monthly free.

As an event planner, Skype can be especially useful for long distance meetings and interviews. It makes it much easier to keep in contact with event partners and those involved with the production of the event. Using video conferencing for meetings can not only be more cost effective than face to face meetings, but can make the brainstorming process move much quicker. This is much better than regular telephone conferencing where you can’t even see a person’s facial expressions. Video chatting makes the process much more personal.

Call and be called on Skype- wherever you go!

How amazing is it that you can make free Skype-to-Skype calls to phones abroad on Wifi or 3G? Skype for Iphone truly delivers Skype experience and now you can video chat from your phone from anywhere in the world which, makes conference calls easier too!

Top 4 Reasons to Love Skype for Iphone:

• Near CD-quality sound for Skype-to-Skype calls using wideband audio on iPhone 3GS or 2nd generation iPod touch and onwards.

• Enhanced call quality indicator, which will help customers choose the best moment to call.

• Improved start-up time

• Rapid access to the dial pad from the home screen

Have you ever used Skype for meetings? The bigger question on our minds, however, is just how big a blow FaceTime on the brand new Iphone 4G will deliver to Skype and other competing VoIP services.

“OpenTable is the leading supplier of reservation, table management and guest management software for restaurants. In addition, the company operates www.opentable.com, the world’s most popular website for making restaurant reservations online.” (opentable.com)

Open Table has been around for awhile now but it never seizes to amaze me how convenient this website is, especially when the application came to the Iphone. They have also just joined forces with Yelp to make reservations even easier. This will allow logged-in Yelp users to make a reservation at many restaurants without leaving the site. You won’t need an OpenTable account to take advantage of the system, but if you use the same e-mail address for both accounts, they’ll continue to earn dining reward points on OpenTable, which can add up to credit at certain restaurants.

The App: Being an event planner, this can be extremely useful at times when you need to scout available venues on the fly! This application/website not only finds nearby restaurants but can book your table as well. Calling restaurants and being put on hold is now a thing of the past. It will even give you directions to the restaurant from wherever you are. You are shown only nearby restaurants, and while it doesn’t filter by type of cuisine or refine your search as easily as you can on the website, it’s still very functional. They have also just created a new app for the iPad which will allow a lot more information on one single screen, and is more user friendly than the Iphone app.

For more info on the iPad app, check out OpenTable iPhone App Now Available For iPad [OpenTable Restaurant Reservation App Is Now Available For iPad] » TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Dining Points: Every time you make a reservation and show up, you receive dining award points. The points can be anywhere from 100-1000 depending on the restaurant and time you chose, and are not awarded for cancellations/no-shows. They can later become a “dinning cheque” which can be used at any OpenTable restaurant world wide.

Have you used the OpenTable app yet?

Instead of waiting in lines outside of designer sample sales, you can now shop from home, work, or on your iphone! If you haven’t heard of Gilt, actually formed in 2007 and over 1.7 million members strong, it is a pioneer in the U.S. and one of the leaders in the very hot e-commerce “deal space” industry.Sample sales have often been defined by inconvenient times and locations, and only a small number of people actually had access to them. Now, this concept is alive online and can be brought to people all across the country.

Really loving the deals on this site so here’s some info we came across that we’d like to share:

Invitation Only Shopping
Gilt Groupe offers access, by invitation only, to Men’s, Women’s, Children’s and Home desired fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. The sales last for 36 hours and present hand selected styles from a single designer.

First Come, First Served
The sales take place on www.gilt.com and the full collection of merchandise will always be available at the start of the sale. It is important for members to log on early before everything is sold out!

Advance Preview
Each brand is introduced a few days before the sale begins. Gilt presents designer bios and show previews of upcoming sales.

Jetsetter:

Invitation-Only Travel Sales
Jetsetter gives members insider access, knowledge, and elite deals on the world’s best vacations. All the hotels featured are hand-selected by Jetsetter, and the sales last five to seven days.

Some Current sales:

Hotel Maya – Long Beach, CA
Hotel Teatro – Denver
Hotel Commonwealth – Boston
Alladale Wilderness Lodge – Scottland
The Pines Lodge – Beaver Creek
Tiamo Resort – The Bahamas
The beach House Inn – Maine

On Monday, Steve Jobs announced the phone that we’ve been waiting to hear about all year: The Iphone 4G! This phone is 10x more impressive than the last Iphone 3G and I can tell you that I am very impressed. I am definitely buying the new Iphone and can’t wait to get it in the palms of my hands, regardless of the long lines!. Enough talk, let’s see what the new Iphone has to offer. It comes with 100 new features, so take a look here at some of the best ones.

Features of the iPhone 4

9.3 mm thick (that’s 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS)
Front-facing camera
Micro SIM
LED flash for the camera
A second microphone for sound cancellation
Integrated antennas
Glass on the front and the back
326 pixels per inch display
Powered by Apple’s A4 chipset

FaceTime brings video chat to the iphone 4G

This front-facing camera is going to be very useful to make video calling.
Here’s a video to see how this works:

A huge improvement is: A bigger battery. This means the Iphone can last a lot longer than before!!
7 hours of 3G talk time
6 hours of 3G browsing
10 hours of wifi browsing
10 hours of videos
40 hours of music
300 hours in standby

Also,check out the integrated antennas
If you look at the edge of the iPhone 4G, you can see 3 lines that are part of the structure of the device. With the iPhone 4G, Apple introduced something new.

Retina Display makes the iPhone 4G an HD device

Retina Display dramatically increases the pixel density by 4 in the same amount of space.The result is that you get far more precised display.

What do you think of the iPhone 4? I’m personally really excited about FaceTime…Are you impressed?

Over the past few weeks privacy has been the buzz over on Facebook Island. To leave, or not to leave has been eating away countless nights of sleep for many Facebook users –alas, all can be resolved with this parody video to help persuade you as to why you should be deleting your Facebook account…

As much as I hate hearing about the Hills, or how someone’s pigs and cows are doing in Farmville; I shall be retaining my account, for now… What about you? Still plan on keeping your account after watching this hilarious video?

Learn How Groupon Works! from The Point on Vimeo.

How can anyone refuse daily deals offered in San Francisco? These bargains include discounts at: restaurants, gym memberships, laser hair removal, cruises, events, and much more. Who doesn’t love a deal? Andrew Mason produced Groupon in 2008 to, “make it easier for people to enjoy the great things in their community…we do it by offering daily deals at unbeatable prices through the power of group buying.” Groupon offers stunning deals for cities all over the United States, Canada, and is currently expanding as I write. Groupons main focus is on “unusual, special and niche things in each market.”

Groupons deal today:

$15 for $30 Worth of Indian Fare and Drinks at Maharani Restaurant. Did I sign up for it? Of course I did! This deal works up to two people, but if you are not an Indian food lover, it can always be a gift for a friend who is. Maharani has also been listed as “one of the top 10 Romantic Restaurants in San Francisco” – About.com I’m looking forward to eating here and receiving this fabulous deal. Here is the website.

How does Groupon work?

A specific number of people must sign up for the daily deal, and if not enough people sign up to reach the minimum, then no one receives the deal. Just because you sign up for the deal does not necessarily mean you will receive it, which means you should encourage your friends to join!

Now that you are aware of this incredible website, Groupon, then there is no excuse not to sign up and receive these outstanding unbeatable deals. Enjoy!