This has been a very busy week and bad news is that it is not over yet. There was the Le Web where Eric Schmidt showed of Android 4.0 (ICS) on the Nexus S and on the tablet, Twitter came out with a new UI for Android, iOS and web, also updated the Desktop UI, we also saw the Facebook app for Android UI changes. Yup, have been busy. We also saw the launch of the famous Flipboard app on the iPhone and the iPad which lets you see the regular news feeds in form of magazines with rich text formatting and good UI. Just last night, Google uploaded Google Currents to the Android market and the Apple App store which seems to be Google's answer to Flipboard. Let's look a bit closely to this application.
First of all I was disappointed when I came to know that this application is available only in the U.S for now. With Le Web going on, I thought at least Google will make it available in Europe, also Hugo Barra who was present at the Le Web demonstration did not show any peek or give hints...
No matter how much we love the touchscreens, virtual keyboard is still considered to be a compromise. With full touchscreen devices like iPad 2, navigating through the device is a breeze. But when it comes to typing long emails or posts, it is still a pain to use the virtual keyboards. Keeping this in mind, Apple has ensured that their Wireless Bluetooth keyboard works fine with iPad (and iPad 2). Thankfully, we now have a huge collection of Bluetooth keyboard cases which we will be reviewing one-by-one over the coming days. We start off the campaign with Logitech Keyboard case by Zagg.
Keyboard cases like this one from Logitech have couple of advantages over Apple's wireless keyboard-
Google has yet again teamed up with NORAD to track Santa as he travels across the globe on the Christmas eve. This year, the NORAD Tracks Santa website went live on December 1 and features a Countdown Calendar, a Kid’s Countdown Village with holiday games and activities that change daily, and video messages from students and troops from around the world.
NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) has been helping families track the whereabouts of Santa for years. In 2007, Google teamed up with NORAD and took Santa tracker to a new level altogether. Users can track Santa in 3D on Google Earth and Google Maps.
Keeping in mind that Christmas is right around the corner, many of you must be looking for gifts or just to upgrade your old gear, whatever the situation, the decision of buying a new laptop can be a difficult to some people, but after figuring out what are you going to use your laptop for and how much are you willing to spend on it, you will see the pieces of this puzzle will fall into one.
Seeing that many of you had appreciated our Which Desktop PC to Buy article, we decided to shed some light on the difficult decision of buying a laptop. Depending on what type of work do you want your laptop to use, you can classify laptops in 3 major categories:
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
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