1. Looks like a blown up version of the iPhone at first glance
2. Steve Jobs thinks the iPad is better than a Netbook, iPhone and also a laptop
3. It’s very thin (iPad Technical Specifications coming soon)
4. Customizable home screen (how about that Android?)
5. Supports full HTML
6. Large On-Screen QWERTY keyboard
7. New eMail interface
8. Built-In iTunes
9. Accelerometer
10. Same Unlock screen as iPhone
11. No support for Adobe Flash yet
12. Photo Album works just like iPhone
13. Supports YouTube HD
14. .5 inches thin, 1.5 pounds — 9.7 inch IPS display
15. Full capacitive multitouch
16. 1GHz Apple A4 chip
17. 16GB, 32GB and 64GB Flash Drive options
18. 10Hrs battery, >Month of stand-by
19. Can run all iPhone apps unmodified out of the box
20. Run apps in full screen
21. No multitasking
22. Supports high end gaming
23. iPad SDK released
24. Developers can modify their existing iPhone apps using iPad SDK for iPad’s larger screen
25. Full fledged eReader
26. While reading an article you can play the embedded videos within the article
27. Built-In iBooks apps for iPad’s native eReader
28. iBooks is the App store of eBooks
29. It has a bookshelf, looks exactly like a bookshelf
30. Change fonts while reading the iBooks
31. Supports iWork
32. Not just QWERTY Keyboard, it also has a data entry keyboard and a Date time keyboard
33. iPad syncs over USB just like an iPhone or iPod
34. All iPads have WiFi but there will be models which also have 3G. Like the Touch and iPhone
35. 2 data plans from AT&T (250MB data for $14.99/month and Unlimited data at $29.99/month)
36. No contract for data plans, it’s prepaid
37. Can activate data plan right on the iPad
38. All of the iPad 3G models are unlocked, and they use the new GSM microSIMs
39. Free AT&T WiFi at Hotspots
40. Starts at $499
41. No Multitasking and no Notifications
42. Not a phone

Twitter launched Local Trends last week, however it was not open for everybody. Today, Twitter fully launched the service and is available for everyone. Here is how you can do it.

If you already have a Twitter account and have not set a location for the Local Trends, then the next time you login to Twitter, you will see this notification.

Click on the “Set your location” button to open the location box using which you can zero in on your country, state and city. For your convenience Twitter already has some famous cities and countries shortlisted. Unfortunately, you might not see all the Countries and Cities. There are a select few from which you can choose. Twitter has a tiny note at the end which says that they are working on adding more locations. Luckily for me, I found my city, Boston. Click on the appropriate Country/City and click the “Done” button. As the button suggests, you are actually done setting up your local trend.

If you are traveling and want to change the location, you can always click on the “Change” link under the Trending category in the sidebar to change the location. Once done, you will see the top trending words under the Trending category in the sidebar.

When you click on any of the trends from the list, you will see Real-Time tweets for the selected trend. All it does is uses Twitter’s search feature and searches for the selected trend. It’s similar to searching for a keyword.

Twitter Local Trends adds a geographic perspective to all your Twitter cravings. I feel it’s a great feature and brings more relevancy to the Tweets. Who knows, you might find a friend for life or actually a life partner who lives close to you that share same interests.

Google is doing everything it could do to help Haiti victims. Google has a dedicated page for all the information related to Haiti. This information page gets prime real estate on Google’s home page which is priceless.

Apart from information about how to donate, this dedicated page also has a person finder tool, where one can either report someone missing or report someone found. You can also embed the tool on your own website or weblog. Below is the embed code:

<iframe src="http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/?small=yes"
width=350 height=300 frameborder=0 style="border: dashed 2px #77c"></iframe>

All Google Voice calls are free to Haiti. However, you need to have a Google Voice account. You can request one here.

You can donate directly from the same page using Google Checkout.

If you have a video from the disaster which can make an impact on the donations, you can use the Submit video link to upload the videos.

You can also directly assist relief workers in saving lives using Google Map Maker. You can draw your own map and assist people on the ground to find the victims.

Google will also donate $1 million to help organizations provide relief.

1. Go to TwitLonger
2. Login using your Twitter credentials
3. Start long Tweeting

All TwitLonger does is it clips anything more than 140 characters from your Tweet and creates a Short URL which, when clicked, will take you to the long tweet on TwitLonger.

You can download the latest SDK from Androids Developer website.

Here are my Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions:

Google Mail Checker

Almost everybody has a Gmail account. So here is a great way to get a quick info on the number of unread Gmail messages. You can click on the extension to load Gmail. You can also check out an alternate extension called Google Mail Checker Plus which also, apart from showing the count of unread messages, allows you to Preview mail, read, delete, archive and mark as spam.

Ibrii

Ibiri is a snippet tool that can snip any kind of information just by dragging and dropping the content into the Ibiri pane. You can practically snip and share anything that opens on your browser, well in this case it’s the Chrome. You can share Text, Video, Images and even embedded objects like audio files and flash files. You can also snip information from multiple pages and save it as a single page. All you need to do is register and start snipping. Sharing your saved pages is also very easy, just a click away. At this moment Ibiri allows you to share your pages on Facebook and Twitter with a click of a button. If you want to share using other medium like email or chatting, you can create a permalink and share the link.

Google Sidewiki

Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page. Now there is a Chrome extension for it. Just install it and the little badge shows the number of sidewikis you have for the page you are visiting.

Google Similar Pages

When clicked, the similar pages extension lets you to explore similar pages like the one you were browsing. It sends a search query to the Google’s search engine to find similar pages of your interest. It’s viral and very useful when you are following a story. When you click on the similar pages button, it shows previews of similar pages and you can select the one you want.

Webpage Screenshot

If you would like to take snapshots of webpages to share or use them in blog posts, then Webpage Screenshot Chrome extension is for you. You can take screenshots of webpages and save them as JPG or PNG. The extension also allows you to save full screenshots of pages.

Facebook

Well this was obvious. You got to have a Facebook extension by benhiller. Once logged in, you can post status, check live feed, check comments by you and also comments to you. It’s a must have for any chrome user.

Chrome Bird

Again a must have and an obvious extension to have. Although the name does not say anything about twitter, it is quite evident from the badge image that it is a Twitter extension. Chrome Bird was one of the top Google Chrome Twitter extensions that’s out there to download. It lets you check your twitter feed and also post directly from the browser toolbar. Chrome Bird also supports the new Twitter Lists and allows you to retweet too.

PageRank

Google does not offer Google toolbar for Chrome. In such a case, you will not be able to check the page rank of a webpage in Chrome browser. However, there is a extension for that. The PageRank extension shows the Page Rank as a little number badge in the toolbar. No more switching between browsers to check the page rank of a web page.

Fittr Flickr

A Flickr extension to do almost everything that you can do on the Flickr site. It has a lightbox for large previews, you can access the EXIF data and many more interesting features.

Goo.gl Url Shortener

As the name says, it shortens the awfully long URLs and makes them easy to share on social networking sites like Twitter, where you have a limit of 140 characters per tweet. It also allows you to directly post the generated short URL to Twitter, Facebook, Email etc with just a click of a button.

I’m sure there are many more interesting extensions for Google chrome, however these are the ones which we found will be useful for most of us. If you have some interesting extensions to share, please use the comments section to shout it out.

Finally, Meebo, a one place Instant Messaging service, opened the Meebo bar for everyone to download. Meebo bar which includes the Drag to Share dock, also installs a floating footer toolbar which allows the users to login to any Instant Messaging service and a bunch of other custom buttons like Facebook, YouTube etc. See how you can download, install and customize the Meebo bar in your WordPress blog after the jump.

Go to the Meebo Bar page and click on “Get it Now” button
Sign up for the Meebo toolbar

Set up your Meebo bar by entering the Blog name and Blog URL

Next step is to choose your blog/website platform. In our case, it is WordPress. So select “I have a Wordpress site that I host myself (not on Wordpress.com)”

Once selected, it shows instructions on how to download and setup WordPress plugin. You can either use the WordPress native plugin uploader or manually upload using FTP and then activate it from the Plugins page from your admin panel in WordPress.

Once activated, you are all set to customize the bar from your Meebo account.

Login to your Meebo account, go to Control Panel and simply choose the buttons you want to show on your meebo bar. By the way, the Drag and Drop feature needs no settings, it’s enabled as soon as you activate your Meebo Plugin.

{Share/Bookmark}]]> http://www.neonerdo.com/drag-to-share-plugin-for-wordpress-blogs/feed/ 4 http://www.neonerdo.com/drag-to-share-plugin-for-wordpress-blogs/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neonerdo/~3/NTKHIJcKxqQ/ http://www.neonerdo.com/show-desktop-button-windows-7/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:01:42 +0000 Kalyan Verma http://www.neonerdo.com/?p=254 Since ages Windows users are used to click the little “Show Desktop” icon in the quick launch toolbar or hit “Ctrl+D” shortcut to take them quickly to the Desktop. The “Show Desktop” icon traditionally was in the quick launch toolbar, however with Windows 7, Microsoft decided to change this and put it at the right corner of the Taskbar next to the Date/Time display. For an average Windows user, it is a little hard to spot the “Show Desktop” button, because it blends into the Taskbar and does not stand out. This short video shows you where the “Show Desktop” button is located in Windows 7. By the way, if you are a shortcuts person, this is not for you.