Cheapest tablet $35 by Datawind in India
Tonight apple will unveil iPhone 5 , iPod, iCloud. India will launch its $35 tablet after some hours, indeed it will be the cheapest tablet in the world. According to Datawind, maker of tablet, it will be on shelves this december. Datawind earlier launched Netbook in India with Tata-Indicom’s free internet access for 1 year. Schools will be the initial consumer of this subsidized tablet. Its hasn’t given any name, but we can call it “cheepu” or ”nano”
Years back there were speculation of “one laptop per child” , lots of biggies like intel were in the initial project, later on they back-out fearing it will reduce the consumption of their products. so project could not materialized. But if this $35 tablet gets good response. it will be good news then we can say “one tablet per child”. It should also have 150 MB of free data per month then it will really penetrate the digital divide in india.
The tablet, will run on Google Android, WiFi connectivity, 256 MB RAM, a 2GB SD memory card, a 32 GB expandable memory slot and two USB ports. No specs about display are out, but with such a less cost tablet we can expect a low resolution display.
After Apple’s trend setter iPad launched every micro to big companies wants share of this market. Free android gave hardware companies very good platform to launch the tablet, now companies just get bulk order from china-make tablets and stick their own brand on it. If you are good you can capture the market anytime because tables are evolving very fast, every second year they get much hardware/software refresh that everybody want to get new one.
But as its Anroid app but we will not compare Cheepu to any other available table in world
1)Webos
2)IOS
3)Anroid
4) Windows
Amazon also launched Kindle Fire android based tabed for $199 to capture the market, Amazon already have content for the table, Amazon android store. So they just needed a device to consume that. because Apple was charging 30% of share in this thin profit market.
Love to see this “cheepu” , i will also buy it for my relatives.
Sync bookmarks, extensions across computers with chrome browser.
Various settings in the browsers like bookmarks, your plugin/extensions can be sync across your office and home computers/browsers. It was really a nightmare to manage all the bookmarks and extensions differently in Firefox. I used to backup all the firefox extension using FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) then copy the back up to thumb drive or iPhone, then synchronize office and home browsers, and for Bookmarks using the plugin like gmarks (it acutally uses google bookmarks) or xmarks(which is closed now).
This was history, now talk about Google Chrome browser which has now built-in provision for it called “Sync”. With it you can seamlessly synchronize all of your following browser settings.
- Themes
- AutoFill data
- Bookmarks
- Extensions
- Preferences
- Apps (coming soon)
How to enable.
Just follow these steps on each computer that should share the same Google Chrome settings:
- Open Google Chrome.
- Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar which is just below the [X] button. Mac users: If you don’t see the wrench icon, go to the menu bar at the top of your screen and click Chrome.
- Select Settings.
- Click the Personal Stuff tab.
- In the “Sync” section, click Set up sync.
- Sign in to your Google Account/gmail account
- In the “Set up sync” dialog that appears, choose what you want to sync.
- Sync everything: Select the “Keep everything in sync” option.
- OK.
- You’ll see a confirmation message once Google Chrome has finished copying your browser data to your Google Account. OK
How to disable sync:
do 1-4 steps described above.
5. Click on stop syncing this account.
Warning: if anybody enters his own Google account in sync. your browser setting will be copied to that person’s account.
all these setting are stored in google Docs in a special folder “Google chrome”, but can not change anything in that folder in docs.
Download video you just streamed/watched without re-connecting to server
Suppose You were watching a video on youtube or dailymotion. it took around 25 min to stream the video on your computer. now you liked the video and want it in you disk collection. but you afraid as it will again take 25 min to download on your computer.
don’t worry Flashgot is here to save your time and bandwidth ultimately money. Flashgot is a firefox plugin. When you see any video from youtube , dailymotion or anyother video sitem, you will a streaming icon is displayed on your FireFox status bar just before the list of extensiond.
after the completion of video streaming , when you right click on this icon you will see all the streamed video. just click on the video you want to download. It will automatically download the streamed video to your disk without again going/hitting the server.
Above is also same for mp3 files.
another useful features:
you can download all images including hidden one with just one click using flashgot.
and lot more. for more just install the plug-in and enjoy
if you want to directly download video from video sites. read this Download video from youtube dailymotion
Outlook like read receipt notification from Gmail,yahoo, hotmail,when the recipient opens and reads your email.
Microsoft outlook has provision to send the read receipt when somebody read your mail because its totally controlled by exchange and microsoft product, and its possible from outlook to outlook, you can not fulfill this functionality in external mail clients like gmail, yahoo, google. But SpyPig fills this requirement.
how it works.
you have to put a image generated by spypig in your email. this image also get open(if images are enabled). and a request is sent to the spyping server and they send mail to you about receipt.
Requirements:
give your email,
Email Subject.
select the image.
Now send the email with the above subject with the generated email & enjoy it.
Download youtube and dailymotion video
Videos from youtube, dailymotion can be downloaded with following process.
- install Mozilla firefox if you do not have.
- open the following url https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/3006
- add the plugin via clicking ”Add to firefox”
- open the video you want to download.
- you will see following
- click on download, select the location.
- it will start downloading your video.
now enjoy this, and share this with your friends.
Search mails, contacts, attachments in outlook at lighting speed:Xobni
Microsoft outlook client is very popular email client. But searching mails in outlook is very painful and if you want to search for a attachment you will struck you head in the wall. But don’t worry Xobni(reverse of INBOX) is here.
XOBNI is an free plugin to the Microsoft Outlook. It index the mails, attachments,
address in so nicely format that you will love it. When you select an contact, it shows all conversation, files-exchanged, related contacts. You can search content of your mails at blazing speed, yes i know Outlook search and indexing sucks. But this plugin will make your life very easy
As on top of screen shot you can put any string and xobni will search all the mails very quickly.Even you can browse the contact information from various social networking sites and skype.
Suppose you need to search a attachement from a particular contact. In normal search it is really difficult. using Xobni you just need to select the contact all the attachment till date from that particular contact will be displayed in the lower section of the xobni window. you can watch it , save it and using that attachment directly open the original mail.
Firefox must have plugins/extensions for fun and productivity
Firefox is very innovative and advanced browser. Every body should try to use it atleast once. tab browsing, extension and speed are some of the factors. Its improving day by day.
Extension are very powerful feature.Means you can extend your browser to unlimited possibilities rather than using simply for the browsing. Today extension for every popular website or web service exists from Facebook, Gmail, twitter, meembo, ftp etc.
Here some of my favorite and top extension’s reviews.
Gladder -> Gladder is very useful and powerful extension . it gives you option of 100s of proxies available in the world. you just have to add the site you want to proxy in the list of sites.
suppose you are in office want to browse some blocked content. just enter the url and press gladder button on status bar of FF. It will randomly fetch a proxy and pass it to that proxy and fetch the results. various site that are blocked like
gmail.com,
orkut.com,
hotmail
facebook
can be accessed with this beautiful extension.
just click on the gladder icon , a ladder will be appear on the same icon. it means now you are using the gladder. so every site added under the gladder will be open using a proxy.
some proxy might not work. no issue. you can right click the gladder and choose change proxy. a new proxy will be used to display the same page. even you can un-proxy the current page.
screenshots
here last icon is gladder.
here you will enter the sites you want to proxy.
Gmarks: for sync with the google bookmarks across browser. xmarks or foxmarks also good but with this you need another accound. to see existing bookmarks you need to go on to the website. so very time consuming process. that’s why gmarks is good.
FireFTP : it is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. you need not to install a separate ftp client on your machine. just add a extension of Fire Ftp in firefox and enjoy this fantastic extension. It has full functionality of a desktop ftp client.
FlashGot. suppose You were watching a video on youtube or dailymotion. it took around 25 min to stream the video on your computer. now you liked the video and want it in you disk collection. but it will again take 25 min to download on your computer.
don’t worry flashgot is here. when any video stream on the FireFox a streaming icon is displayed on your FireFox status just before the list of extension. after the completion of video streaming , just click on that. it will automatically download the streamed video to your disk without again going to the server. Above is also same for mp3 files.
another useful features:
you can download all images including hidden one with just one click using flashgot.
and lot more. for more see the site.
for web developers.
1. Web Developer toolbar. Its very useful having very excellent feature required by a web developer. a must one for any web D.
2. Firebug. most admired extension in firefox history. It is very powerful extension. you can change full page withoug going on server and see the output. it saves hours of developer and designer’s time. Before it life was very difficult for finding any UI related issue.