iPad 2 and the new iPad compared (fun)

Based on the recent over heating complaints of the new iPad, I have created this unique comparison between the previous generation iPad2 and the current iPad.

Yes, it does heat enough to cook an egg. (Photo credits – iPad – ars technica, omelet – myself)

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Apple special event scheduled for March 7, 2012 – iPad3 expected – my fact-list

Updated: March 7 ticks and crosses added. New post on the media event.

Well, it is fun to follow Apple rumors. I had been bombarded with various speculations and rumors. I am creating a checklist to see how many of those rumors held good by March 7 (this post will be updated on that day).

Today, immediately after the financial network CNBC incorrectly claimed that the Apple event will be held in New York, Apple announced the event, to held in it’s usual location in San Francisco. The network corrected itself by saying – New York will play a “key” role in next week’s announcement.

Rumors confirmed:

1. Apple special event to be held on March 7, 2012
2. – Apple special event to be held in usual Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Calif.

Incorrect assumptions:

1. Apple special event to be held on Setve Job’s birthday (February 24, 2012) – Economy Daily
2. Apple event to be held in NYC (as claimed by CNBC, and Dalrymple’s reply )

More unconfirmed rumors (Some are still unclear):

1. New iPad to be named “iPad 3″
2. Quad-core processor in iPad
3. Faster dual core processor with enhanced graphics in iPad
4. New processor to be named A5X
5. New processor to be named A6
6. Retina Display in iPad (a resolution of 2,048 by 1,536 pixels)
7. $80 premium to the price of iPad
8. 4G LTE connectivity in iPad
9. 8 MP camera in iPad (though, a 5 MP might be enough)
10. More tapered edge in new iPad
11. An 8-inch iPad
12. Apple will also release Apple TV set top box (Macrumors)
13. new iPad to be 0.8 mm thicker (Apple.pro rumor)
14. Near immediate availability of announced product (9to5Mac)
15. Absence of home button (Gizmodo)
16. Will it be called iPad HD ?
17. New Smart Cover to include a rear cover to protect the iPad’s aluminum backside (Ars).
18. New iPad to be released in initial launch markets on March 16th (Fox News)
19. 1 GB RAM (last minute rumor)
20. $99 Apple care plan (last minute rumor)

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The most popular online email provider in Nepali community – Yahoo

The crown of the most popular email provider in the Nepali community goes to Yahoo.com.

After the analysis of nearly 4000 unique comments in xNepali blog, we have concluded that Yahoo is the most popular email service provider with 66% market share, the distant second is Hotmail.com with 13% market share, Google’s Gmail comes third with 11% market share among Nepali users.

It is to be noted that Ymail.com (2% market share) is also owned by Yahoo. Other Yahoo domains like yahoo.ca, yahoo.in, yahoo.co.uk were also placed in ‘others’. MSN’s Hotmail.com data doesn’t include msn.com, live.com and so on.

How did we do the calculation?

I came across a plug-in in WordPress that can extract all the email from the comments in a WordPress blog. From the extracted comments, some clearly fake emails were deleted and the domains of the email were extracted. These domain names were used to do the statistical analysis.

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QR Code – language for mobile?

Can your mobile read the adjacent code? The collection of small dots in the code is 94 words long and it can tell a whole story:

A QR Code is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.

Common in Japan, where it was created by Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994, the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. QR is the abbreviation for Quick Response, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.

My mobile phone reads a short text instantly. It took a little while to read the long text. In contrast to the bar code, that can contain up to 20 characters, this small square can contain up to 7,089 characters.

"xnepali.com" looks like the code posted on the right. The difference between the densities of the dots in the two codes is clear to indicate how long the text it contains.

You can generate a code for "I like xnepali.com" by clicking in the link.

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Why do I need a webhost when I can make my own server?

That was what I did previously. I did set up APACHE, Php, MySQL and got dns from no-ip to start my own server. But, after some time I realize that the cost and effort was not worth the output.

Here are some of the reason professional web hosting services are better than a home server to host a website:

• They are professional and they have usually have dedicated person 24/7 to rectify any errors that can happen in the servers.
• The electricity bills – You need to have the computer running 24/7 and hence the cost is going to be much more than a typical hosting.
• Most ISPs disallow webserving. You have to call them and confirm that making your computer a server in their network is allowed.
  The traffic usage of a web-server is significantly different then that of a normal user as the upload is a lot more than download. Not telling them is out of question.
• You are offering no redundancy at all. If your computer dies, you don’t have the website – it is as simple as that.
• Are you placing it in 24/7 air-condition. Computers are likely to overheat without being in air-condition and left on 24/7.
• What is the upload speed of your internet connection ? Usually for a general residential line, upload and download speeds are different. Most ISPs provide very low upload speeds when compared to download speed. At this rate, a few users can flood your upload line and cause your site to be inaccessible to the other users. Site load time is usually very slow.

Computer operated Baby Rocker

Isn’t is cute? A computer operated baby rocker. A simple code in Linux makes it an automated rocker.
Whether it is practical is another question though.

Office 2010 The Movie (Trailer)

Microsoft seem to give an impression that the new Office 2010 will be entertaining and fun experience. That should be the reason, Microsoft Office 2010 has come up with a movie trailer for its promotion. It sure is nice movie trailer with love, tragedy, fight…

Nice ad Microsoft!

Here is the video:

Are you throwing away your Mac and buy a PC? You might not need to even if feel like testing it. A Mac version would always be around the corner.

Funny PC one-liners

Computer related one-liners to excite your funny-bone:

* Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted.
* COFFEE.EXE Missing – Insert Cup and Press Any Key
* Buy a Pentium 586/90 so you can reboot faster.
* 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
* Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
* Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
* My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
* C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN
* <——– The information went data way ——–>
* Best file compression around: “DEL *.*” = 100% compression
* The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in.
* BREAKFAST.COM Halted…Cereal Port Not Responding
* The name is Baud……, James Baud.
* BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go!
* Access denied–nah nah na nah nah!
* C:\> Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner. Bad, bad command!
* Why doesn’t DOS ever say “EXCELLENT command or filename!”
* As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
* Southern DOS: Y’all reckon? (Yep/Nope)
* Backups? We don’ *NEED* no steenking backups.
* E Pluribus Modem ..
* File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
* Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny
* A mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available.
* An error? Impossible! My modem is error correcting.
* CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/n)?
* Does fuzzy logic tickle?
* A computer’s attention span is as long as it’s power cord.
* 11th commandment – Covet not thy neighbor’s Pentium.
* 24 hours in a day…24 beers in a case…coincidence?
* Disinformation is not as good as datinformation.
* Windows: Just another pane in the glass.
* SENILE.COM found . . . Out Of Memory . . .
* Who’s General Failure & why’s he reading my disk?
* Ultimate office automation: networked coffee.
* RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure.
* Shell to DOS… Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS…
* All computers wait at the same speed.
* DEFINITION: Computer – A device designed to speed and automate errors.
* Press — to continue …
* Smash forehead on keyboard to continue…..
* Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue…
* ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!
* E-mail returned to sender — insufficient voltage.
* Help! I’m modeming… and I can’t hang up!!!
* All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
* Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue.
* “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, 1981
* DOS Tip #17: Add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to CONFIG.SYS
* Hidden DOS secret: add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS
* Press any key… no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE!
* Press any key to continue or any other key to quit…
* Excuse me for butting in, but I’m interrupt-driven.
* REALITY.SYS corrupted: Reboot universe? (Y/N/Q)
* Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_~”
* Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)
* Read my chips: No new upgrades!
* Hit any user to continue.
* 2400 Baud makes you want to get out and push!!
* I hit the CTRL key but I’m still not in control!
* Will the information superhighway have any rest stops?
* Disk Full – Press F1 to belch.
* Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (T)hrowup
* Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic
* (A)bort, (R)etry, (T)ake down entire network?
* (A)bort, (R)etry, (G)et a beer?
* If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
* Programmers don’t die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
* Programmer – A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate objects.
* Real programmers don’t document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

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