Apple iPad turns into dating tool!

The Apple iPad’s initial buzz has come and gone, and with the dust settling, it seems that many parties are not looking at it with nods of approval. After all, there are many gripes and issues that potential users would run into, and the fact that Apple seems to be trying to create a new niche market with it could prove to be a much more difficult sell compared to the iPhone when it first hit the scene in June 2007. Well, killer apps are what devices are all about these days, as having fantastic hardware alone is not good enough anymore.

What are some of the more practical uses that you can think of with the iPad?

Some folks are already quick off the blocks, with Skout ready to hit the market the moment the iPad rolls out in 56 days’ time. The Skout, you ask? What’s that for? Well, proceed to the extended post for the answers, ladies and gentlemen. Basically, Skout is a community dating application that makes it “even easier for singles to discover others with similar interests, using location information and the iPad’s rich interface.”

Skout for the iPad is equipped with a HotMap that displays a live overview of where you can find the most singles in your area – sounds like a dangerous tool to have if you’re bent in criminal intent! For those who want to end their lonely Saturday nights, Skout allows you to chat, share photos and even videos with one another, although bear in mind Skout won’t take responsibility if you settle down happily ever after with the lady of your dreams whom you met over Skout!

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Apple iPad India – a tablet-style computer in India

We have used various products of Apple and Apple is well known brand in India. With the launch of iPod, everybody was so excited. Today, we can see kids are too, using iPod and handle so well and has captured the Indian market too. Now, Apple has come up with its new product which is extremely interesting. It is a new category of wireless device that will play video, games and all sorts of other media. It is none other than Apple iPad India.

The new iPad India has been launched in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. It seems iPad India is also going to rock like other technology which this companies had launched in few years. iPad is Apple's biggest product launch after iPhone. And hence, everyone is excited to see and experience.

Now that it has launched recently, let me tell you that iPad has a near life-sized touch keyboard and supports Web browsing with a built-in calendar and address book. Well, there has been many expectation this time as there is always a hope for the best from this very reputed company. In India, people are so eager to see the new launch of products 'iPad India' and also eager to change their product with this new one. It would definitely a great sell in India as Apple's storied golden touch on consumer electronics in India. Apple iPad India would be a complete gadget as it sits somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop.

Yes, definitely, it is a huge challenge for another growth engine and hopes to find one in the tablet but you know every company risks to see their products because the move is not without risk. It depend on the cost and if the cost is very high, iPad India won't work out with middle segment consumers just like iphone in India but it would definitely work in India in the market. The sales predictions for the tablet that Apple can sell 2 million to 5 million units in the first year. Isn't it interesting!

Apple iPad India has a great feature and it is stylish and sleek too. It's features and specification is amazing. If we talk about its height, it is 9.56 inches (242.8 mm) and width is 7.47 inches (189.7 mm). It is 0.5 inch (13.4 mm) depth and it's weight is 1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model; 1.6 pounds (.73 kg) Wi-Fi.

iPad India has got very beautiful display with 9.7-inch (diagonal), LED-backlit glossy widescreen, Multi-Touch display with IPS technology and 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi). Also it has fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating and support for display of multiple languages such as English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Russian and characters simultaneously.

iPad India has the capacity of 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive with Processor 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip and has features like Wi-Fi model, Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology, Wi-Fi + 3G model, UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz), GSM/EDGE, etc. Audio formats is also supported such as AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV.

You can work up to 10 hours as the battery capacity is so nice and you can surf the web on Wi-Fi, watch video, or listen to music without any hassles. You can charge via power adapter or USB to computer system. For Mac system requirements includes Mac computer with USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later and if you are using Windows then system requirements includes PC with USB 2.0 port, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later. iPad is the next-generation gadget which will bridge the gap between smart phones and laptops for sure as it is sleek with great design and style. Apple iPad will be available in the India by March or April with the same cost as in the US i.e. $500 or Rs.23K with 16% tax extra. It would actually cost around Rs.27K in India for 16 GB version. And higher the capacity, higher the price. Distributors in India is expecting shipments in three weeks.

You won't believe but this is true that in India people usually like to get their hands on the gadget in the first few days and they can't wait for long time. Some people are ready to pay double the price to get the gadget. And therefore, for the first week, prices will be more than 20% the original price. So, if you are planning and didn't want to spend extra money then wait till it captures the market or else go for it. All expected features are available with iPad India and the price is also not too much. All the gadgets lovers are eagerly waiting to explore the all new Apple iPad in India.

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How to to prevent tracking by Google

Have you heard about the proxy service?

Yes, definitely, most of you have been using it too.

Proxy service allows us to enters in some other websites without intimating Google as we know that Google knows everything about you and your work as well. Google even know what you are doing, searching, investigating, communicating. Besides all these things, Google even knows your friends and family and what you’ve ever sent or received at gmail, whether you’ve deleted it or not. In short, he has an eye on you and tracks everything. Now, you cannot hide anything from Google but now special kind of anonymizing proxy service has been introduced i.e. GoogleSharing which is designed for a very specific threat. If you doesn't want Google to know anything about you and your activities then this GoogleSharing proxy service ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent Google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit. Isn't it an interesting one!

Actually, GoogleSharing is a kind of so called proxy service but it is not a full proxy service rather something designed exclusively for your communication with Google. Their system is totally transparent, and works as a normal flow that you exactly do. It is the same way working for you. Let me explain very clearly, that it actually mixes the requests of many different users together in such a way that Google cannot understand and will not know what is going on and from where the data is coming. It provide a system that will prevent Google from collecting information about you from services which don’t require a login and make this system completely transparent to the user. There is no special websites or change to your work flow. It just leaves your non-Google traffic completely untouched, unredirected, and unaffected.

Now you might be thinking how it works. The system consists of a custom proxy and a Firefox Addon and works by generating a pool of GoogleSharing identities, and use the cookie issued by Google and an arbitrary User-Agent for one of several popular browsers. This way Google didn't even know and understand what is coming from whom. The Firefox Addon watches for requests to Google services from your browser and when enabled will transparently redirect all of them but some things cannot be done like Gmail. You cannot anonymize these services, and it requires cookies that are pegged to your browser. If you log into your GMail account, it is obviously you. So naturally, they recommend switching to something other than GMail or Checkout, but if you must use things like GMail or Google Checkout, it should work seamlessly for you with GoogleSharing enabled that traffic just won't go through GoogleSharing. But except this, using GoogleSharing you can request all identifying information freely as while enabling it is replaced with the information from a GoogleSharing identity and not yours. This is only the tool that can flummox Google’s behavioral tracking system.

Let you know that all requests to a GoogleSharing proxy are sent via HTTPS. These eventually have to be proxied out as HTTP from GoogleSharing to Google, but your traffic is encrypted on the first path. So if you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, then this service is great to use. Only few limitations they have that it does not proxy Chat, GMail, Checkout, Sites, Docs, Photos, Calendar, Reader, or Health.

I have used it and believe me the only thing that they have is their reputations. So you can use it without any hesitation which I feel is fairly strong in the area where you want privacy. However, they also made the GoogleSharing proxy code available, and you can easily change the GoogleSharing proxy settings in the Firefox Addon. So if you don't trust, hopefully you can find someone that you do trust and one more thing that immediately sensitive information like login credentials or cookies are never transmitted through a GoogleSharing proxy and let you clear one very important thing Google cookies are actually filtered by the GoogleSharing Firefox Addon before your request is transmitted to the proxy. So there should be no chance of any login credentials leaking from your browser. You can use them, the traffic just won't be transmitted through the GoogleSharing proxy, and thus will not be anonymized and you don't need to worry about your login credentials or any other identifying information showing up in someone else's request.

Enjoy!!

Apple's finally unveiled the iPad!

Apple's finally unveiled the iPad. It's a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it's running a custom 1GHz Apple "A4" chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It'll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it's got the expected connectivity: very little.
There's a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi and optional 3G, as well as an accelerometer and a compass. There's also a keyboard dock, which connects underneath in the portrait orientation, support for up to 1024x768 VGA out and 480p composite out through new dock adapter cables, and a camera attachment kit that lets you import photos from your camera over USB or directly through an SD reader.


The device is managed by iTunes, just like the iPhone -- you sync everything over to your Mac. As expected, it can run iPhone apps -- either pixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen -- but developers can also target the new screen size using the updated iPhone OS SDK, which is available today.

The 3G version runs on AT&T and comes with new data plans: 250MB for $14.99 and an unlimited plan for $29.99 a month contract-free. Activations are handled on the iPad, so you can activate and cancel whenever you want. Every iPad is unlocked and comes with a GSM "micro-SIM," so you can use it abroad, but there aren't any international deals in place right now.

It starts at $499 for 16GB, 32GB for $599, and $699 64GB. Adding 3G costs a $130 per model, so the most expensive model (64GB / 3G) is $829. The WiFi-only model will ship in 60 days, and the 3G models will come in 90.

The screen is gorgeous, tilting is responsive, and the thing is super thin. Still, if you've used the iPhone before -- and you can see the two devices side-by-side here -- there's not a lot of surprises here so far. Here are some initial thoughts on the iPad like it's not light. It feels pretty weighty in your hand. The screen is stunning, and it's 1024 x 768. Feels just like a huge iPhone in your hands and many more but now after Apple's finally unveiled the iPad the thoughts has changed.

Mobile wireless router for 3G access: Vodafone MiFi 2352

Vodafone is launching and promoting some interesting products in the field of Internet access through a 3G connection. One of those marketed products is the new MiFi 2352 (an intelligent Mobile Hotspot for European HSPA Networks). So, this is now an additional option Vodafone users can pick if they need an Internet 3G connection.

The MiFi 2352 is a small device (it weighs hardly 100 grams) that can works as WiFi router as well as 3G modem to access Internet through mobile networks by using a computer or even any device with Internet connection like a smartphone, a video game console, a media player, etc.

It can be configured to operate in two different modes:

1. To work as a WiFi router: This MiFi is able to act as a conventional WiFi router (just like those used in many residential and corporate environments). In this case, the 3G data connection can be shared with up to five computers or other devices.

2. To work as a USB modem: It also works as a conventional 3G USB modem. So, you can connect it to a USB port of your computer in order to have Internet access wherever you want. Of course, you need an adequate mobile Internet plan, and in this case, only your computer will have Internet access through the MiFi.

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Mobile GPS software: Nokia launches a free navigation service

In these days, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a good sense of orientation when you are driving. It is enough if you have one of those devices known as satellite navigators at hand. But those gadgets are not cheap at all. Currently, the most inexpensive satellite navigator costs about $100, and the most sophisticated one costs about $400. Besides, if you need additional services such as traffic reports or suggestions about how to avoid traffic congestion, then you have to pay a monthly subscription.

However, all of this might change soon. Satellite navigation is moving more toward the mobile phones market. And now, Nokia has launched a free satnav service, which is called OVI Maps. This service does not even require an Internet connection in order to operate.

In sharp contrast with other similar services, the OVI Maps users won’t have to update the maps themselves or download several updates from Internet. Instead, Nokia stores those maps directly (and automatically) on mobile phones.

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Did you know the World's First Transparent Mobile

LG's has some really funky technology to showcase. LG has something that we weren’t expecting – the world’s first transparent design phone, the LG-GD900. This phone is highly stylish phones.

The LG-GD900 is expected to make a new fashion statement and it can. When opened, its sliding, translucent keypad illuminates a cool glow that reflects the phone’s sleek and polished silver body.

It also tries to live up to the highest level of technical features expected in a premium caliber handset, including its dedicated Bluetooth headset. The specs have not however, been released just yet.