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Sunday, 27 June 2010
Things for iPad Review

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The big interface helps productivity... except when it omits a feature.

Known as one of the premier organizational to-do apps on Mac and iPhone, Things sits in iPad limbo. Is it a stand-alone task-management tool with features that fully match the strong Things for Mac? No. Is it just an extension of Things for Mac, designed to mostly sync data for mobile use? Not really. Things for iPad gives lip service to both audiences without fully serving either. It omits features--crucial to some--that you'd need in a stand-alone tool, and at $20, it's far too pricey to just be a way to bring the desktop data outside. At least the core to-do list functionality shines through; even in this waffling 1.0.1 version, Things for iPad can help boost your productivity.

Loosely related to the Getting Things Done methodology, Things is flexible enough to fit most workflows. You'll create to-do entries, projects with multiple steps, and schedule items. Complete a step, and cross it off; it's good organization at its simplest. You can shuffle items between key areas, such as putting some in today's view to focus on just a few at a time. Scheduled items can even hide in an upcoming area and automatically appear on a specific date.

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Different list views help corral to-do entries.

If you have the Mac version of the software, Things for iPad syncs the data over, keeping both editions current with your life. It worked well in our tests. With the desktop software open, every time we launched Things for iPad, the two found each other on the local network.

But you can only access several important features on Things for Mac and then sync them over. For example, recurring events--"take out the garbage each Wednesday"--require the Mac software. Ditto that for customized folder headings that essentially group aliases of to-dos.

Things for iPad misses other key interface features. You can't simply drag single (or multiple) items into new areas; you have to tap them and select a new destination. Worse, there's no search functionality, and bizarrely, you can't create lists that aren't Projects, a restriction that will seriously irk users of Things on other platforms. Cultured Code says it will address most (or all) of these in an update, but it's been almost two months since the app was released, and the company was unable to confirm a timeframe for an update that is absolutely essential for rounding out this half-baked, under-featured, and significantly overpriced app. We know this developer can do great things, and we're hoping the 1.1 update of this iPad app will realize its full potential.. Blue Ant V1 Bluetooth Headset Retail Packaging



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Friday, 25 June 2010
Summary Box: Google’s AdMob protests Apple’s new advertising barriers on iPhone, iPad











Summary Box: Google's mobile ad feud with Apple



CHANGING THE RULES: Google thinks Apple is imposing new restrictions that could hobble its ability to sell and place ads on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.


THE POSSIBLE FALLOUT: AdMob, a mobile ad service recently acquired by Google for $750 million, says Apple's changes will stifle competition and reduce revenue for developers of applications on the iPhone and iPad.


THE TENSION: Apple tried to buy AdMob before getting trumped by Google last fall. Incase EC20002 Car and Wall Charger for iPhone. That was the latest bit of bad blood between Google and Apple, one-time allies whose relationship has deteriorated as they have increasingly clashed in the mobile device market.



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Thursday, 24 June 2010
5 tips and 3 sites that take care of your digital legacy when you die

5 tips and 3 sites that take care of your digital legacy when you die



If I’m having this much problems managing my multiple digital presences now, try to imagine what could happen if for example I suddenly croaked.



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It’s a morbid thought, but have you ever wondered what happens to your LinkedIn account, your Facebook page, Twitter, Flickr or whatever account when you die?

In my article Get ‘porn buddy’ to clean up your digital debris when you die and its accompanying video, social media expert Adele McAlear, explains that the tangle of digital detritus we leave behind can have far reaching consequences on the lives of our loved ones, friends and even businesses we’re affiliated with.



“You’re Facebook page lives on long after you’re dead and unless arrangements are made other social sites won’t close your account either,†she said.


Conversely, if you haven’t left your account passwords to anyone it would be extremely difficult to open up those accounts.


Imagine if you had a Website that is earning money through ad placements, manuscript or book sales, online donations. Rather than help your family through financial difficulties those funds could be barred from them. iSkin Vibes 85XX Charcoal Embossed Pattern. Worst if someone else got hold of the password or hacked the system, they could siphon off the money.


What if you were blogging or talking to online communities to promote a company through a social site? If you die and no one in the organization has the password to the site, the company won’t be able to moderate discussion or filter out damaging posts.


Here’s where you need your porn buddy. You’ve got accounts to not so family friendly sites which if ever dug up could bring some embarrassing moments to your loved ones of business colleagues. 


Here are a few things to consider when preparing for your digital demise:


1)     Determine what it is you want to pass on or get rid of


2)     Designate a key person who will be left with account passwords and instructions. This could be a digital executor working under your lawyer, a friend working with your family or a buddy known only to you.


3)     Consider money in and money out issues. These are sites that are earning you money or sites that you owe money.


4)     Explain to your family your wishes. What may be important for you might be hard to understand for them.


5)     Understand the death policies of your social media provider and make arrangements with them early on.


Here are some sites that can help you managed your affairs. They have free and paid services:


Legacy Locker


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Four Photography And Art Apps. For iPhone And iPad

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Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Apple Releases Safari 5.0
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Walmart Offering Up iPhone 4 On Launch Day

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As Apple is preparing to meet a large demand for iPhone 4, Walmart can now be added to the list of distributors on the launch day of June 24, according to MacNN.


The reason for the move is an attempt to help Apple alleviate some of the stresses of good 'ol supply and demand, giving customers an opportunity to purchase the handset from multiple retail stores.  Best Buy and Radio Shack are also ramping up to offer up the newest iPhone on June 24 as well.. Nokia BH 105 Grey with DC 4 Refurbished


This would be the first time that Walmart will be selling the iPhone on a launch day of the device.  Before, only previous versions of the iPhone were made available by the company, much later on.  We all remember the images of huge lines outside of AT&T and Apple Stores. 


It should be noted though that Walmart will not be participating in pre-orders of the device, which are slated to start this coming Tuesday, through Apple as well as AT&T.


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Rosetta Stone, BP, Denny’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods among big market movers Thursday


Posted by vitavilolu-phone at 6:00 AM EDT
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Biker embarks on social media-driven trek across Canada

Biker embarks on social media-driven trek across Canada



Thanks to Olivier Kerebel, I’ll never think of the French as pinky-pointed tea-sipping, croissant-nibbling wimps again. Instead, I’ll think of Olivier’s epic thigh-busting bike ride across Canada that he’s recently launch from Toronto’s Dundas Square. I’ll also think of his savvy use of social media to bring his friends along for the journey.


I met Olivier when he was crashing on a friend’s couch (set up via couchsurfing.org). The Parisian is in Canada for a year on a temporary visa, and hopes to eventually end his bike ride in Vancouver. His last blog update - befreetochange.wordpress.com/- places him in Sudbury, Ont. and he’s posted the mandatory photos of the Big Nickel.



Follow Olivier's bike journey across the country with social media.



Olivier is using an array of Web 2.0 tools to document his trip and share it with peers. He has a knack for shooting video while riding that isn’t too shaky, and even narrating a monologue while pedaling – which he somehow manages to upload to YouTube. There’s lots of pictures on his WordPress blog, and Olivier is also updating a Facebook page and Twitter account.


But my favourite social media feature of this biking journey is Olivier’s use of Polldaddy.com. A simple radio-button poll sits on the right side of his blog, and after June 6 Olivier’s followers will click away to decide which route he will take across the country. It reminds me of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” book series I was fond of in elementary school. Nokia 2730C. The ability to help determine Olivier’s fate and how he experiences Canada during his trek adds real appeal to reading the blog.


Currently, the poll asks followers how cruel or how nice they plan to be to Olivier in their voting. Right now, it looks like Olivier’s in for a tough ride as 88 per cent of respondents indicate they’ll favour more difficult paths (including me – I’m hoping for a Grizzly encounter).


Olivier is also raising money for Save the Children through his blog, and anyone can make a donation online with a credit card. His goal is a humble $1500, but I’m guessing he’ll meet enough people along the way and gain enough interest with this blog that he’ll surpass that mark before he hits the Prairies.


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Hewlett-Packard spends $1.6M to lobby government in 1Q, one of highest spends in industry











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WASHINGTON — Hewlett-Packard Co. spent $1.6 million to lobby the U.S. government in the first quarter on a smorgasbord of issues including federal spending on technology, enforcement of immigration laws and health care reform.


The amount was nearly double HP's $840,000 lobbying tab from the first quarter of 2009. HP spent $710,000 on lobbying in the fourth quarter of 2009.


Kristy Sternhell, formerly a counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, was among the people who lobbied on behalf of HP, which is the world's biggest technology company by revenue.


HP said in its latest lobbying-disclosure form, filed with the House clerk's office, that it lobbied Congress and various government agencies. Those agencies included the Homeland Security and Labor departments, which HP lobbied on immigration-related issues, including legislation involving the creation of a computer network to verify that workers in the U.S. are legally able to work. Other agencies included the Health and Human Services department and the Federal Reserve System.. Nokia X3 Red on Black Unlocked GSM Cellular Phone


HP's $1.6 million tab ranked among the highest for technology companies in the latest period.


Other big-time Silicon Valley tech firms spent less. Google Inc. spent $1.4 million in the first quarter to lobby the federal government on issues including its decision to stop censoring search results in China, and Oracle Corp. spent $1.1 million, in part on regulatory issues concerning its recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems.


However, Microsoft Corp., consistently one of tech's biggest lobbying spenders, spent more than HP — $1.7 million on lobbying in the latest period.



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Apple Releases Safari 5.0

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Monday, 21 June 2010
Native iPad App Library Passes 10,000 Milestone
Apple’s iTunes App Store now lists more than 10,000 universal and iPad specific apps, with nearly 1,000 more being added every week.


According to a report by Mac Stories, Apple’s iPad library includes over 2,100 games and includes a broad mix of content from digital books to productivity and news apps to rich media apps.


Around 78% of iPad specific titles are paid apps, echoing the findings of an earlier report by Moblix that cited an 80% paid mix in April when the iPad store first opened with around 3,000 titles.. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10


A slightly smaller percentage (around 75%) of the iPhone’s 225,000 titles are also paid apps. This indicates iPad users are more willing to pay for premium content.


Faster growth, despite Apple’s approval process

According to a report by PadGadget, growth of the iPad apps library has outpaced the original iPhone App Store, which took almost five months to reach the 10,000 app milestone in 2008.

The site also notes that Google’s Android Market took almost 11 months to reach 10,000 apps; that store has no approval process in place screening apps for performance as advertised or other quality control issues.


Google currently forbids Android tablet makers from putting Android Market on their non-smartphone devices, so there is no official market for Android-based tablet software comparable to what Apple maintains for iPad users.


In just 63 days, Apple’s curated App Store for iPad has taken third place after iPhone apps and Android smartphone apps. PadGadget notes that HP’s Palm/webOS, RIM’s BlackBerry App World, and Nokia’s Symbian platform all boast fewer than 7,000 apps.


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Microsoft Office Web Apps: Why to use and Why not

Microsoft's going the Google way to offer its widely used and highly-priced Office Suite Online for free. The Redmond company offers free online office components that comprises Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote as a part of free online suite called Office Web Apps. That said, the online edition of the Microsoft Office is an substantial development for consumers in the current round of updates. Overtly, it projects Microsoft's commitment to cloud computing - - promoting applications online instead of desktop programs. On a broader perspective it seems the software giant is all set to take on the rivals such as Google and Zoho offering online office suites. BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Black Unlocked GSM Cellular Phone. With a week's time for the release of new version of traditional desktop Microsoft Office version - Office 2010, we decided on an extensive comparison with online version.  Before you set out to purchase the desktop version, you need to see whether the online version of Office Suite has enough to do with.


In order to use the free Office Web Suite you need to visit the office.live.com. To work on the new online Office you will need a free account for the company's broader Windows Live onilne service.


The Office Web Apps run smoothly on all major browsers - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. As is expected, the online version of Office suite lacks some of the local desktop version of Office. Microsoft is trying to ensure that the profitability of its Desktop suite is not compromised. Then, why did Microsoft launch the online Office Web Apps? The software major is draws a line between the two versions — referring the Office Web Apps as a companion to desktop Office for "light" work.


Let's take a look at the major pros and cons of using the Office Web Apps over Office 2010


Pros


User Interface


Online version of the Office suite wears a simpler look and feel than its desktop counterpart. It includes the Ribbon feature.


Storage


The new Web Apps boasts of a 25 gigabytes of free online storage for the documents, via a companion Microsoft online storage system called SkyDrive. The Office Web Apps produce documents that use the same file formats as the desktop programs. The desktop program gets fully accurate when it is opened in desktop Office. This is clearly fidelity. In the tests the claim is held true, at least on my Windows PC.


Features



  • The new version of desktop Office suite has several new features, but most of them are devoted to power users or corporate users. It isn't a big change as the predecessors.

  • Two web apps, Excel and OneNote allow multiple users to log on work on the same document togather.  The Excel online is a reduced version of the

  • The Office Web App use a variety of fonts and styles, insert and resize photos and create tables.

  • It allows you to view documents but not edit them on your iPhone or iPad. It also works with other mobile devices.


Dell lowers 1st-qtr profit by $100M to set aside legal reserve it may have to pay SEC

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Sunday, 20 June 2010
AT&T hole exposes iPad users’ e-mail addresses; hackers harvested data by tricking website











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AT&T hole exposes iPad users' e-mail addresses


SAN FRANCISCO — AT&T Inc. on Wednesday acknowledged a security weak spot that exposed the e-mail addresses of apparently more than 100,000 users of Apple Inc.'s iPad, a breach that could make those people vulnerable to precision-targeted hacking attacks.


The vulnerability only affected iPad users who signed up for AT&T's "3G" wireless Internet service.


It involved an insecure way that AT&T's website would prompt iPad users when they tried to log into their AT&T accounts through the devices. The site would supply users' e-mail addresses, to make log-ins easier, based on unique codes contained in the SIM cards inside their iPads. SIM cards are used to tell cell-phone networks which subscriber is trying to use the service.


The hacker group that claims to have discovered the weakness — the group calls itself Goatse Security — said it was able to trick AT&T's site into coughing up more than 114,000 e-mail addresses, including those apparently of famous media personalities and important government officials.


A representative for the group told The Associated Press late Wednesday that the group contacted AT&T and waited until the vulnerability was fixed before going public with the information. AT&T said the problem was fixed Tuesday but that it was alerted to it by a business customer.


Gawker Media Inc.'s Valleywag website earlier reported on the breach.


AT&T said it will notify all iPad users whose e-mail addresses may have been accessed.


"We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted," the company said in a statement.


AT&T noted that the only information hackers would have been able to steal using this attack were users' e-mail addresses. But that can be enough to launch a highly effective attack, since the attacker also knows that the person receiving the e-mail is an iPad user and an AT&T customer and would expect to receive e-mail from Apple and AT&T about their accounts. Criminals could use that knowledge to trick them into opening e-mails that plant malicious software on their computers.. Nokia 6555


An Apple representative deferred requests for comment to AT&T.


Apple has sold more than 2 million iPads since they went on sale two months ago. The iPad comes in two different flavors — one that only connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi, and another that also can connect through AT&T's "3G" cellular network. The Wi-Fi-only models aren't affected by the breach. Apple hasn't specified how many of each model it has sold.



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