Gizmolife http://gizmolife.com Technology, Internet, Gadgets, Blogging, Reviews, Softwares, Freewares, Windows Tips, Tricks and Tutorials. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:12:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 gizmolifehttp://feedburner.google.com Apple iPad Prons and Cons http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmolife/~3/Ikq6hKC6q8g/ http://gizmolife.com/2010/01/prons-and-cons-of-apple-ipad/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:12:31 +0000 flang http://gizmolife.com/?p=154 apple-ipad
Finally Steve Jobs reveal the iPad, the so long awaited Apple’s tablet, and to be honest it doesn’t cover my expectations at all. I think it’s not so revolutionary neither the best invention in Apple’s history.

Looking at its specs, this is my list of pros and cons:

Pros:

  • Uses a reliable and solid operating system like iPhone OS
  • Nice design based on the successful iPhone and iPod Touch
  • Decent battery life
  • Compatible with existing AppStore applications and games
  • $499 for the 16GB model is not so bad
  • Supports open eBook format ePub
  • Plays video H.264 up to 720p and 30 fps, a win versus actual netbooks

Cons:

  • No multitasking
  • No camera neither webcam
  • No phone calls
  • Reading an eBook on a LED-Backlit display is much worst than on an eInk display. Kindle wins.
  • No memory expansion slot
  • Write documents on a big touch keyboard doesn’t seem to be very practical
  • Ugly iPhone style button

Would I buy the iPad?

Maybe, and only for surfing the web or watching movies on the go. Without multitasking I can’t even think on writing documents or reports on it if I had to search for information on the web at the same time. But who knows, Apple can add at any moment multitouch support to the iPhone OS.

Overall, I think that Apple’s iPad is a great product, although still not a real threat for eBook Readers and netbooks. It’s just another player in this crazy technology game.

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Nevertheless, we’ll have to wait until Steve Jobs appears on stage today at 10AM Pacific Time and reveals Apple’s latest creation.

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The very first Twitter client for Chrome was Chromed Bird, an excellent extension that keeps improving with each update. But this is not the only one, there also other nice Twitter clients for Chrome to choose among that really worth trying. Those ones are Chrowety and Kutano. So lest’s take a look at each one features so you can choose your favorite one:

Chromed Bird

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This is my favorite Twitter client for Chrome. It has support for timeline, replies and direct messages reading,
sending tweets, and the latest version includes lists viewing and drag n drop tab reordering. It uses OAtuh for login authentication and its source code is available at http://wiki.github.com/cezarsa/chromed_bird

Chrowety

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This extension has a nice user interface, with lots of options to customize it from its configuration panel. Besides tweeting, timeline, replies, DMs and favorites support, its list viewing support it’s really good. It also has new tweets alerts notification popups, tweets translating and preview for images and videos shared through Twitpic and YouTube.

Login can be done through OAuth or Twitter API. Check out Chrowety’s source code on http://code.google.com/p/chrowety

Kutano

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Similar to Chromed Bird and Chrowety, this extension has support for sending tweets and reading the timeline, replies and DMs. It also has pictures preview and geolocation support showing your location on a small maps. One cool feature is that it shows the tweets that mention the website you are visiting, letting you know the social buzz of that site.

This client has two drawbacks in my opinion, one is the lack of Twitter lists support, and the other is that you need a Kutano account in order to use it.

If you like Chrome Extensions, don’t forget to check out these 10 excellent Chrome extensions.

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If the previous 2010 Calendars collection weren’t enough geek for you, I think that this great Firefox inspired 2010 Calendars will take care of that.

There are two different designs, with light blue and red backgrounds, each one featuring 12 different Mozilla’s Projects for each month of the year. The calendars are in PDF format and ready to print in Letter and A4 page size.

Source: Mozilla Links

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TwentyTen is a beautiful theme for Firefox based on the style of Microsoft Office 2010, but also with a touch of the upcoming Firefox 4.0 design.

This theme is customizable through TwentyTenBuddy, a Firefox extension that is installed toghether with TwentyTen. This extension allows you to choose among 9 different colors and set some options, such as enable or disable the Aero Glass effect on Windows Vista o Windows 7, show or hide the new tab button and the tab close bottom, etc.
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Moreover, the theme supports Fission extension, an addon that gives more visibility to the progress bar by putting it on the address bar, and with Aero Glass activated looks really nice on TwentyTen.

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IE Tweaker is a freeware application that will let configure, tweak and fix Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, without the need of getting into the Windows system registry.

This free software has more than 90 tweaks and fixes for IE including:

  • Browsing Options: This menu option helps you to quickly turn off/on the following: Smooth Scrolling, Clear type font, Animation, Sounds, Picture Display, Automatic Image resizing.
  • Clear Junk Files: This option will help you to quickly remove all the temporary IE files, cookies, history, passwords, and AutoComplete data.
  • Tweak IE: Tweak IE menu has the following tabs:
    • Basic Tweaks: Offers you the basic tweaks such as Turn off/on Menu bar, Favorite bar, Tabbed browsing, Full screen mode, Caret Browsing support etc.
    • Browser Menus: Helps you to disable/enable the Browser Menus
    • Toolbars: Helps you to hide/unhide the various options on the bars and also the bars itself such as Status bar, command bar, etc.
    • Control Panel: Helps you to hide/unhide the various tabs in Tools -> Internet Options.
    • Advanced: Helps you to Turn off/on various options such as Compatibity view etc., and also allows you to change the IE Title, and Default download directory options.
  • Restrictions: This menu option has the following tabs:
    • Restrictions: Provides you various restriction optionss such as Changing default search provider, Add-ons management, Autocomplete features, etc.
    • Settings: Restricts the users to change various settings.
    • Security: Allows you to enable/disable options such as InPrivate Browsing, Filtering etc.

    Repair: Repair menu option provides you various options to repair/fix various issues that you have with Internet Explorer.

Best of all is that IE Tweaker is available as a portable application, meaning that is doesn’t need to be installed. Just download it and run the IE Tweaker.exe file.

Supported OS by IE Tweaker are Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

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There no doubt that 2009 was the year of Facebook, reaching the incredible number of more than 350 millions users around the globe and leaving the other social networks far behind it.

To confirm this, an updated World Map of Social Networks has been build, based on data from Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data for December 2009. Taking a look at it we can made some observations:

- Facebook has almost colonized Europe and it’s extending its domination with more than 200 millions users
- QQ, leader in China, is the largest social network of the world (300 millions active accounts)
- MySpace lost its leadership everywhere (except in Guam)
- V Kontakte is the most popular in Russian territories
- Orkut is strong in India and Brazil
- Hi5 is still leading in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and other scattered countries such as Portugal, Mongolia, Romania
- Odnoklassniki is strong in some former territories of the Soviet Union
- Maktoob is the most important Arab community/portal

Will Facebook finally conquer the entire world in 2010? Who knows? Anything is possible.

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A couple of weeks ago Fring released its application for Android, which includes very cool features, even support for VoIP to Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger contacts.

Now is its competitor Nimbuzz who also added support for free VoIP calls on its Android application. As with Fring, now you can call your friends for free on Nimbuzz, Skype, Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger (MSN) direct from your Android-powered mobile.

This new version also fix a couple of bugs and improves support for Android 2.0. If you still didn’t check it, you can get it for free from the Android Market or visiting get.nimbuzz.com from your mobile browser.
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If you love Windows 7 visual effects and styles, you must get this Windows 7 Theme for Nokia 5800 and Nokia N97 devices. The theme includes real Aero effects, real Microsoft icons and real battery/signal indicators. It is available in light and full versions for both smartphones.

If you want more themes for Symbian S60v5 smartphones check this collection of themes for Nokia N97, Nokia 5530 and Nokia 5800.

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A dump of Android 2.1 “Flan”, the operating system that probably is going to run the Nexus One (aka Google Phone), has appeared on the web, and with that the official wallpapers included on it.

There are 22 wallpapers in total, with abstract and nature designs, an a resolution of 960×800 pixels, giving us and idea of the size and definition that could have the Nexus One display.

If you want to get them here is the link to download the Nexus One wallpapers.

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