iPad 3 logic board leaked

Chinese site WeiPhone posted a photo claiming to be the logic board of iPad 3 showing an "A5X" written on the chip. The forum post indicates that the new processor in upcoming iPad won’t be A6 processor as rumored. Although the image can be of a test model or a prototype, the date code says "1146" – meaning the processor was manufactured in the 46th week of 2011, i.e. third week of November.

Now, it is also uncertain whether it will be called an iPad 3 or an iPad 2S or something like that. Let’s compare the iPad 2 logic board. The following image from iFixit website shows iPad 2 logic board with A5 processor on board. Comparing the two, it is clear that the new logic board is much more compact with less empty space in it.

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Apple iPad 3 rumors – high resolution to be released in March 1st week

Nobody is sure if it is called iPad3 or not, but the next generation iPad is going to be released in the first week of March (probably on March 7). Few of the important things that might be featured in iPad 3 are:

• High resolution "Retina" display featuring twice the resolution of iPad 2 (full resolution of 2048×1536).
• Bigger battery – probably better battery life
• Better camera
• Better graphics and processing power
• 4G LTE networking

Of course, none of these specification are confirmed but, many of them are  based on the data collected from supply chain and leaked parts iPads.

Apple is known to surprise people by omitting some of the oblivious and offer unexpected added benefits. 

Animation Introduction – Keyframing, inbetweening, spatial movement illusion

A nice introduction to animation. Simple lines used to illustrate how things can be moved by using different frames.

Windows Live Writer settings transfer/backup – blog profiles, draft and recent posts

Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is considered to be the most feature rich blog authoring tool. Available for free in Windows (sorry Mac/Linux folks) is known for comprehensive text editing, image management, and link management tool for bloggers.

This Christmas, I  got a awesome present, a brand new laptop. It is great working in the new machine. But, I wasn’t easy updating all of my blog addresses in the new Live Writer. So, I went searching for a tool that can backup and transfer blog profiles. 

A free tool, Windows Live Writer Backup, available in CodePlex, proved to be the perfect tool to make the task easy. Even if you don’t need to transfer profiles or settings, this is a perfect tool for keeping the backups of your blog profiles.

Downloading, installing and creating the backup is pretty easy. Clicking on the "Backup" button creates a bakcup file containing settings, posts and plugins. If you want more flexibility on what to backup and what not, you can optionally select or deselect features in Settings / Posts and Plugins.  Clicking on the text ‘Settings’ lets you deselect  ‘blogs’, ‘blog templates’, and "link glossary".  By default, recent posts are not saved. But, you can also select it by clicking on the text ‘Post’ (as shown in figure below).

After backing up the backup file (name.wlwbackup) is copied in the new machine. After installing the software in the new machine, Restore button is used to restore the profile in the new Windows Live installation.

Rumor: ‘iPad 3′ to be released on Steve Jobs birthday on Feb 24 ?

Apple Inc and rumor go together. If you haven’t grabbed the $99 HP tablet or a $199 RIM Playbook or a $199 Amazon Kindle Fire… or any other Android tablets and waiting for next generation of Apple’s $499 iPad, your wait might be over in a couple of months.

On the birthday of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who died recently, Apple is rumored to be planning to launch the next generation of it’s market leading tablet, iPad. The tablet, expected to be named iPad3, will most probably feature Apple’s Retina Display and a new generation of Apple microprocessor.

Citing a sources from a Taiwanese iPad3 supply chain, a local Chinese newspaper the Economic Daily News, Focus Taiwan wrote that the factory had cut the Lunar New Year holidays to meet the delivery deadline.

While considering the previous product cycle, Apple might release the next generation of iPad by the endo of March 2012.

What can be done in Facebook?

Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are gaining popularity day by day and other Internet strongholds like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft had tried to grab their share of social networking traffic without much success to date. Although Google has done a pretty good job by launching Google Plus after a number of failures.

Among others, Facebook is one of the popular social network website at the current time. Some use it for one purpose and others for more than one purposes. Here are the list of things Facebook can be effectively used in our life:

• Search and find old friends and classmates.
• Track down lost family members.
• Create social and professional circles and expand it by connecting with various people all over the world.
• Share interesting photos, videos, and website links.
• Recommend and get recommendation for shopping, books, movies,  music and so on.
• Exchange wishes for special occasions like birthdays, marriage, and other events.
• Play online games, share the score and compete with friends.
• Spread the word about social, political events and charities.
• Invite and schedule parties and get-together. Track visitors and plan accordingly.
• Messenger like – text and video chat with friends.
• Do business online by buying and selling stuff
• Search for job, contact prospective employers and market oneself.
• Do online marketing of businesses or websites.

I hope this list will be helpful to open new avenue in your social behavior.

Goodbye Blogsome

Before we started the blogs in our own domain, we tried various blogging platforms including Geocities, Blogsome, Blogger, WordPress.com and so on. After realizing that investing a lot of time and effort on such platform doesn’t pay-off later, we choose to purchase our own domain and start developing it. Our fears are turning out to be real… After Geocities and other free hosts, Blogsome is also shutting down soon.

We received the following email today:

Hello owner of the xnepali blog,
We regret to inform you that Blogsome is going to be closing down
permanently.  We’ve enjoyed hosting your blogs, but all good things
must come to an end.  After the 7th December the admin interface of
your blog may no longer be accessible and the blog content may be removed.
If you would like to backup your content you can do so by logging into
your blog.  After this choose the Manage >> Backup tabs.  Here you
will find three backup options.  We have recently added a WXR file
option, which will allow you to import your content back into the
popular WordPress.com blogging site.  In order to keep your images you
should select a backup of the database which includes images.
We are sorry about the inconvenience and wish you good luck in your
future blogging endevours.
Cheers,
The Blogsome team.

Although we didn’t devote much time in the blog, we hadn’t closed it (now, they are going to delete it).

The email I got was not from Blogsome address but from "Browse the World" with email id originating from browseireland.com. When I checked the the Blogsome Forum, it is confirmed that they indeed are closing. Many users were disappointed and were desperately trying to move the blog to other platforms.

Some users have been worried about how to move the blog to another platform. Here is the procedure:

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Free screen recording software CamStudio

If you want to tell others how to do something in computer, the best way is to record what you do it yourself. For that, you can record a video of the computer screen by a camcorder. But, that is a very inefficient and costly procedure. There is much simpler method — just record what you see in the screen without having any additional devices like camcorder.

There are many software to scree-record – and the best ones are free. The one I like most is CamStudio:

CamStudio can record all screen and audio activities in your computer and create AVI video files. It also has a built-in SWF Producer to convert AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) too.

Download from SourceForge.

Double click the file to install CamStudio

After installing you can open the program to see the screen like:

The first red circle starts recording. Before you press the record button you have to customize the software so that you know what area of the screen you want to record and where you would like to save the output AVI file.

To select the screen region click “Region” on menu and select “Fixed Region”. Click on “select” button to select the screen area. The cursor changes until you select a rectangular are a in screen.

Now, you are ready to press the red circle, the record button.

See the preview of the the video I created by CamStudio while I was writing this post:
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Top 5 presentation software (Q&A Friday)

Question: My job requires to give a lot of presentations. Can you suggest the presentation software for better presentation?

Answer: Presentation is a skill you need to grow yourself. Computer software are only tools to help you in expressing your skills. A skillful person can use an unknown software to create stunning presentation, while the best rated presentation software can also create a novice presentation.

A presentation can be given without a computer. A black board (or, whiteboard), hands-on demonstration, and communication with the audience can make a greatest presentation.

If you insist on using a computer software, here are the 5 best tools for presentation:

1. Microsoft PowerPoint

PowerPoint, the 20-years-old presentation software from Microsoft is still the leading software used in presentation. Everyday millions of PowerPoint presentation are given in any given day. The ease of use and popularity of Microsoft Windows is the key to the success of MS PowerPoint.

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Submitting sites to Google and other search engines

Question - How do I submit my blog to Google and other search engine. I found a website that has 100 plus links of local versions of Google to submit sites. Is it worth the effort?

Answer - Short answer – no, you don’t need to submit. Get links from other sites.

Almost all the search engines (including Google) have site submission tools. That used to be one of the most important tool in past. But, time has changed and now search engine submission is not as important as it used to be. Search engines are intelligent to find your site – all by themselves. You can make their jobs easy – by posting your links in sites that Google/search engines already know.

Some SEO companies give more than necessary emphasis to search engine submission. One submission to Google through this link might be a good idea but, you don’t need to submit to multiple search engines or spend money to submit to multiple search engines. Try to get most out of backlink instead!

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