Archive for March, 2010

hp-slate

Just when Apple is preparing for a grand launch of iBad iPad on April 3rd, HP and Adobe have released a video demo of HP Slate running Adobe Flash, like ability to play videos anywhere on the internet (and not just Youtube), playing flash games etc. Also, Flash will allow users to access other content-rich applications on the web such as magazines and casual Flash-based games. Not just Flash, Adobe demonstrated HP Slate's ability to run Adobe Air applications as well. This is a clear signs of Adobe moving away from Apple-Flash fiasco and investing more time and energy towards other tablet computers. HP is yet to disclose the pricing, availability and specification details of HP Slate, but these videos add enough traction to the growing interest of this tablet which is one of the very few ones which can run Windows 7 OS.

HP Slate Adobe Flash and AIR Demo

HP Slate Commercial

The HP Slate commercial looks ridiculously similar to the iPad ad which ran during Oscars 2010. The demo features just...

google-public-data-search

Google has just launched their brand new tool called Google Public Data Explorer, which is an experimental visualization tool in Google Labs aimed at providing an array of data in visual form based upon the statistics gathered from World Bank and other firms. Google announced that Public data explorer tool will help people find reliable data and statistics on a variety of subjects. Yet again, Google has analyzed anonymous search logs to find patterns in the kinds of searches people are doing in order to prioritize which data sets to include in their public data search feature. There are more than 80 most popular data and statistics search topics like School comparisons, unemployment, population, salaries etc. Check out the complete list in this PDF. Check out Google Public Data...
online-encryption Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection whatsoever. There are multiple ways to automatically encrypt text messages and emails using some kind of hash functions like MD5, SHA1 etc. Of-course you can setup Outlook for encryption, but it’s very technical and requires lots of other services in order to work correctly. A simple way to encrypt a text message is to use any of the free online tools listed below

Top 10 Online Services to Encrypt Text Messages

1. Crypo - Crypo has a huge collection of online tools like Hash generator, one pass generator, pass phrase generator etc. For encrypting email messages, you can use AER-256+ or other related tool. 2. Encrypt Easy - Encrypt and secure your messages online with Blowfish, which is one of the most secured encryption algorithm. Pretty straight-forward to use. 3. Lock My Stuff - In addition to encryption and decryption of messages, it allows you to store the encrypted text on its server and send the URL. 4. Crypto -...

apple-ipad-release-april-3

Here ends the suspense. Apple has announced that iBad iPad will be coming to US on Saturday, April 3! Only the Wi-fi version of iPad will be released on April 3rd, while the Wi-Fi+3G models will be available in later April. As for the countries other than US, Apple announced that all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. iPad pre-ordering will be available from March 12 onwards for the US customers. The pre-ordering for both Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi+3G models will be available on the Apple's online store. The pricing and availability are the same as announced: Wi-Fi models will be available for a suggested retail price of $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available for a suggested retail price of $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB. Will you be booking one? [
Google's Nexus One might be coming to India very soon, but not in its US avatar. It will be a "mini" version of Nexus One which may not have all the features of Nexus One, but will certainly be lesser priced than it's US counterpart.

nexus-one-india

This was revealed by Shailesh Rao, the Indian head of Google during an editorial meet with Ankit from CNBC-TV18. This is what Ankit had to say on Twitter
Nexus One will not come to India in its US avatar, the India specific Google Phone may be a stripped down version and priced lower!
Historically, Smart phones never had a huge market in India, but now, the Indian market is opening up for smart phones like never before. Google understands that pricing has to be right for Nexus one to succeed. Apple failed to garner any major sales with iPhones when they released the 3G version way back in 2008. Apple never released iPhone 3GS in India, majorly due to the pricing concerns. This is a nice move from Google if they manage to get the mini version for a price of around INR 15k ($330 approx). The bigger version...
What if you found yourself wanting an old Mathematics or Geography textbook but not find it in your college library? Yes, you can borrow it from your friend or look for an used copy from a local book store or even buy a new one at Amazon. Well, you have another interesting option at your hands, thanks to the Wikimedia foundation!

Wikibooks - Free Textbook project

wikibooks-free-textbooks Wikibooks (previously known as Wikimedia Free Textbook Project or Wikimedia textbooks) is a wiki hosted by the founders of Wikipedia for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit. Wikibooks has been around for quite sometime now. It was started in 2003 and since then has grown to include over 36,000 pages in a multitude of textbooks, all created by volunteers around the world. Wikibooks has a comprehensive, kindergarten-to-college curriculum of textbooks that are free and freely distributable, based on an open-source development model. Somehow Wikibooks has not managed to garner enough publicity and attention as its counterpart, Wikipedia has managed to. This might be because Wikibooks has many incomplete texts, but many argue that even the comprehensive textbooks (priced several dollars) are also of poor quality....
Most of the users download pirated music from the internet, which results in loss of million dollars to the entertainment industry every year. Now you can download and listen wide range of songs for free, and that too legally! Below are the top 10 sites where you can listen/download your favorite songs for free.

Legal Music

1. Amazon

Amazon Music

You may have already purchased music from Amazon, but few of you maybe knowing that Amazon offers hundreds of songs and albums to download for free. Currently, they offer more than 1500 songs to download legally and they keep on adding new albums from time to time.

2. Last.fm

Last FM

Last.fm is the one of the most popular internet streaming radio service and they too offers a wide range of MP3's to download for free. You can also find some of the rare old songs from 60's and 70's at Last.fm

3. In.com Music

In dot com music

If you love Bollywood music, then In.com is the ultimate...
This is a guest post from binaryday. seo-keyword-stuffing A few days back Raju raised some really relevant questions about title and meta tag stuffing in general and whether there is anything wrong with the way the title tag is used by TechPP. I shall try to answer that question based on my limited knowledge of SEO. If we leave all the technical nitty gritties aside, a search engine ranks webpages based on
  1. What the webmaster says about the page (On page optimization) and
  2. What others say about the page (Off page optimization)
The title and meta keywords fall into the on page optimization i.e these terms decide what the search engine thinks the webmaster himself is saying the page is about. We should try to make sure that the search engine’s answer is same as our target keyword. I always give the example of a one page website for sell used car to explain this point. (Please do not judge me by the linked page as this just a concept page) Now let us see what I am telling Google about the page.
  1. The URL of the page tells Google clearly that the page and possibly entire site is about...
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