The hot, exciting and anticipated 2010 is finally here. Tech geeks all over the world rejoiced with the vast amounts of progress in science and technology, to make gadgets much faster, powerful, smaller and cheaper in the last year. 2009 was quite a mark in the last decade, with loads of new stuff coming out, faster than consumers can actually use. Before we give the final farewell to the past year, let’s have a look at the highlights of the year, what was good, what was bad and what made a mark.
1. Twitter Makes News – Livens up the Internet
Started as a micro blogging site, Twitter has progressed into a social networking site, which some people swear their lives by. Living without Twitter is absolutely impossible for some people, including extremely busy celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and now, even Bill Gates! When Michael Jackson passed away, most of us did not hear it on the news, rather, we heard it through Twitter. Twitter is quite clearly becoming the hotspot for top news to leak out and spread faster than a wild fire. It has also become a solid medium for social commentary on a massive undeniable scale. So, if you’ve not joined the Twitter bandwagon yet, it’s high time you did so… You don’t want to be a social outcast now, do you? Read more…
A Laptop With No Keyboard? Check out the latest invention from Apple. What do you think? I think it would take time to get used to type an email on this pretty cool laptop…
The best thing about the Ipod touch is that you can use it to get on wireless internet. This would enable you to not only get on the internet, but access all of your favorite sites with the ease of a computer, all in the palm of your hand. As far as size goes, it is awesome because it is so lightweight. You could literally carry it in your pocket and you wouldn’t even notice it.
Customers have said that another selling point of this gadget is that you can put so much video on it. The quality of the screen, and the fact that you can put so much video on it, really sets it apart from other devices of a hand-held nature. Also, there are a ton of apps you can download, which come from an app store which is basically the place you go to get anything you want for you Ipod. Also, many of the apps are free, so you can literally outfit your Ipod without spending another penny! Read more…
Have you seen the typo Apple made in iPhone update recently?
They managed to make a typo on a menu on the iPhone. Apple has written the Categories menu on the new Podcast download area of the new application as “Catagories”.
What makes this typo even more embarrassing is a comment from Scott Forstall, Apple’s vice president of Platform Experience, were he said: “I actually have a photographer’s loupe that I use to make sure every pixel is right. We will argue over literally a single pixel.”
Although the controversy of a kill switch started in the days following the launch of the android based phone G1 from Google, it originated from the iPhone. Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent iPhone developer recently came across a secret line of code in the iPhone. Read more…
I just received an email from a friend of mine with a picture that describes the difference between a stone and an Iphone. I just had to share it with you. What do you think?
Steve Jobs was a revolutionary man, who changed the life of computing and made it into a core business. The launch of iMac in the late 90s was a huge, rather phenomenal success. The announcement of iMac was the main cause of the enormous amount of buzz among all Macintosh Fans and Critics alike.
This was the period when Apple decided to make a drastic change in the entire Macintosh Computer’s internal hardware. At that time, Apple was known for making computers that didn’t just perform well, but looked pretty good too! Apple was declared unanimously, as “The Back of Macintosh Computers looks better than anyone else’s”.
