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2010 holds many possible designs for the Tablet

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

There is a rumor that APPLE will be releasing a 7 inch design of an APPLE Tablet, according to PC World as early as January 26th.

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We all know about the recent SONY, Barnes & Noble and Amazon’s e-book readers which provide an interesting mixture of technologies to allow the screen to provide low power usage and glare-free viewing even in bright sunlight, ideal for reading on any device. The added benefit of color that currently eludes E Ink screens on the market have also been rumored. The display made by a company called Qi, touts a hybrid E Ink and LCD screen. So I wouldn’t really call these devices “tablets” but they are certainly some form of it, an it all depends on how you define the design.

And what about the operating system within this 2010 tablet race ? Reportedly a 10.1 inch tablet will run Google’s Android, which is now become a popular OS for devices as well as phones… I like that one!

So 2010 may hold many options for tablets with Dell, Asus, Microsoft and Apple all supposed to have tablets in the works it’s an exciting time for this market.

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Web Trends for 2010

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Whether you are a web designer, web developer or love watching how technology unfolds and hits the consumer market — then this article should be a good read. And while web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent, that’s exactly what this article deals with.

Great article on CNN concerning the latest web trends of 2010

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Voice Recognition for the iPhone

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Dragon Dictation – Speech-to-text translation

Speech-to-text translation isn’t a new idea, but Dragon Dictation for the iPhone turns the concept into a functional reality. The app makes it easy for you to dictate notes, e-mails or text messages, which are then instantly converted to text. With a click of the button, you can go on to send your dictated text via e-mail or SMS, or to save it to the clipboard. Best of all, Dragon Dictation is completely free (for a limited time).

The application itself has a minimalist design: When you launch it, you’ll be able to hit a button and record your dictation — and that’s it. After the initial voice-to-text transcription, you can also edit via text or voice, replace poorly transcribed words with suggested alternatives and select words or phrases to delete.

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Dragon Search - Search the entire web with your voice

The app’s design is very simple to use and lightening fast. After you launch it, simply click the red button to say your search query. Hit “done” and you’ve just searched practically the entire web with your voice. Results are displayed on single page views per search engine, and you can use your finger to quickly scroll through the horizontal toolbar to arrive at your destination of choosing.
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Google Goggles – The Visual Search

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

This Summer a friend pointed down and asked me “…Do you know the name of that flower?” and I replied “No, I don’t…” we looked at each other and then looked down at our hand-held devices, an iPhone and a BlackBerry. Both have internet capabilities, but what can we do? Search the Encyclopedia Of Life (which exists by the way and is a tremendous ongoing project that is creating the first ever complete encyclopedia and index of every organism that exists on this planet)

Then the idea of a “visual search” came into our minds, what if we could take a picture with our phone and search for the name that way… This has to be something that Google is working on we assumed.

A month ago I was watching Inside The mind of Google that was on CNBC. And there it was – Google was working on Visual Search.

Enter Google Goggles

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It’s quite amazing… A picture is worth a thousand words ( as any good web designer would say) No need to type your search anymore. Just take a picture. Find out what businesses are nearby. Just point your phone at a store.

Google says that this is just the beginning – and that it’s not quite perfect yet, it works well for some things, but not for all. And it looks like they are not yet recognizing items from the Encyclopedia of Life quite yet, as it works for landmarks, Books, Places, and Wine to name a few.

Oh yea… It’s available for Android – Of Course.

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