Is apple getting ready again to shake the word, with iPhone will there be a Macbook touch, will we be free from the keyboards, mouse and will only interact with our computers using the touch screens, will it be accessible for all computer users.

Well the Rumor has started picking up, ‘Mac Daily News‘ reports Apples Secret Product Macbook Touch and Gizmodo says it too ‘Rumor:MacBook Touch coming in Oct‘.

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading Super Drive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.In all honesty, we may have passed this story up, but we’ve heard vague reports from reliable sources that Quanta is busy building a touch product for Apple. This latest information seems seems to compliment what we’ve heard

Source [Mac Daily News] , [GizModo]

With iPhone 3G hitting the market and high speed internet access is easily available on cell phone, more people are using their cell phones to browse internet. Access to internet via mobile grew up to 147% in 2007 and is expected to take a huge jump after the 3G networks & cell phones goes common. Being a blogger its time you should think about accessibility of your blog from a cell phone. So how do you make your blog cell phone friendly. (more…)

Steve Jobs at WWDC 2008 announced the new iPhone 3G, combined with all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking, built-in GPS, and iPhone 2.0 software that supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs hundreds of third party applications built with the iPhone SDK.
iPhone 3G comes in two models:

• 8GB costing $199
• 16GB costing $299

So whats new with the iPhone 3G, well iPhone 3G the next version from Apple have worked out on improving a bunch of stuff, its more thinner, solid metal buttons, gorgeious display, camera, flush headphone jacks and improved audio. The Battery life has been improved to 300 hours of standby with a 2G talk-time of 10 hours (prviously it was 5hr). (more…)

President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement:

We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We can’t tell you any more about it right now, but stay tuned.

May 21’s is expected to be the launch day of iPhone ins Canada. No price or package information has been released.

Apple Launched MacBook Pro Review
The macBook Pro model features the latest Intel Core 2 duo processor running upto 2.6Ghx with a 6MB of L2 cache.  The latest processor launched by intel on that performance is  t9500, t9300 , t8300 .

With addition to the processor Apple also updated the graphic processors to the latest NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB of video memory. Apart from the specs update apple has also introduced the multi touch gesture previously released in MacBook Air. You can pinch, swipe, or rotate by simply moving your fingers.

How much it costs ?

• 15″  - 2.4Ghz = $1 999.0
• 15″ - 2.5Ghz = $2499.00
• 17″ - 2.5Ghz = $2799.00

Should you buy a MacBook Pro  or MacBook Air
MacBook Air is the worlds thinnest Notebook, we agree, its light and is very sleek one of the innovation that attracted allot was it had a multi touch gesture and was total wireless i.e. no ROM etc.  The MacBook Air the worlds thinnest PC is a 1.6Ghz or 1.8Ghz processor with a 13″ screen and costs around $1799.00 to $3098.00 means its slow, its just wireless and its way to expensive and buying it for the sake of its sleekness is ……………………..

On the other hand the multi touch features one of the only usefull feature in MacBook Air is not available in the new MacBook Pro. The pro is packed with really fast processor, supper fast and supper powerful then the MacBook Air and costs $1 999.0 for a 13″ display as compared to  MacBook Air starting at $1799.00 so for an added $100 you can get a MacBook Pro definitely not the worlds thinnest Notebook but the worlds fastest Notebook.

Apple Inc. Today announced the release of Aperture 2 an apple version of photo management / editing software. As innovative as Apple is Aperture claims to be next generation software specifically made for photo editing and management. Some of the key featuers of Aperture are :

• Auto Image Management Tool, just plug-in the memory card and let it manage the images for your by adding tags, meta tags, copyright & caption. You can even add rating to your images, store them at specific locations with the Auto Image Management tools in Aperture. Aperture keeps track of every photo. Organize photos logically in projects, folders, albums, and Smart Albums. If you are photographer who deals with 100’s and 1000’s of pictures every day this is the essential app to manage your photos. I know how imp is rating and tags it quite annoying to search for images when you don’t have them organized.
• After creating a library in Aperture you can review you images side by side, search by keywords, zoom and rest of the standard features
• Aperture has an image adjustment tool build into it just like the rest could not find something extraordinary into it.
• Exporting Images to flickr, publish to Mac Gallery, Create a book for print and order, or you can print with a 16bit printing.

So far apart from the Auto Image Management Tool rest seems quite same old, and cost to the product $199.00 for a new purchase or $99 for an update to the previous one. Keeping that in mind I think I will still stick with the Picasa which is free to use ….

Apple just doubled the space in its iPhone and iPod.

iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply tapping a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a Windows PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email. iPhone is available in an 8GB model for $399 and a new 16GB model for $499

Source: Apple

Apple’s iPhone is ranked #3 in smart phone market world wide and have a worldwide share of6.5% which is huge in terms as iPhone is only available in USA & UK only. Apple’s products have really picked up pace and in the first quarter of 2008 apple made a net profit of $1.58 billion .

Previously Yahoo after a week of it initial statement gave clean statements that it would reject Microsoft’s Offer and set up an alliance with Google. According to tech crunch Yahoo board met secretly on Friday to discuss and made a decision on the Microsoft Offer. According to latest releases Yahoo have decided to reject Microsoft’s offer this has been verified by a publication by Wall Street Journal, According to wall street Journal Yahoo will be sending a formal letter to Microsoft declining there offer by Monday.

The reason for rejection is simple Yahoo considers that Microsoft has undervalued Yahoo assets and have placed a bid that is lower then that expected by Yahoo, in simple terms Yahoo have decided to accepted the offer by Microsoft if the value of bid is increased 12 billion to 56.6 billion dollars i.e. $40 a share.

Now the balls are in the court of Microsoft if they can jump up 12 more billion into this accusation they would gain control of Yet another powerful heritage of the Web.

I predict the accusation will take place and Yahoo will be accquired by Microsoft, Microsoft CEO ‘Steve Ballmer’ has also
mentioned that if the accusation of Yahoo takes place the brand of Yahoo will live only powered by Microsoft. Some predict that Microsoft will shut down MSN or Hotmail and merge them to Yahoo but i have my doubts as Microsoft will keep them both alive and in competition with each other…. and with Google.

Sunday Feb 3rd 2008
Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo’s strategy said on Sunday. Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Google several months ago on an alliance as an alternative to Microsoft’s bid, that source said. At $31 a share, Yahoo believes the bid undervalues the company, two sources said.
Source : Yahoo News

This statement by Yahoo Inc. clearly represents that they just give a big fat finger to Microsoft Up Yours! Apart from that Yahoo is also considering offers by Apple Computer to come in for the rescue. I still can’t accept the idea that Yahoo would become a part of Microsoft. Its devastating, since ages Yahoo has become a legend of internet, no doubt the company is suffering and is planning to layoff 1000’s of employees but since the old ages there was one site we all knew about and used it as well. Yahoo is the legend of internet, its not the best search engine and neither it has the best Mail servers but still Yahoo is something that reminds us of internet.

Worst case scenario if Microsoft acquires Yahoo what would be left of it, will Microsoft shutdown MSN.com and support Yahoo, will it close its MSN messenger and go for Yahoo Messenger, will msn live be replaced by MyYahoo, i dont think so all the services of Yahoo will be gradulay absorbed inside MSN and the legend of Yahoo will be dead.

iPod Video would be more fun if you could connect it with the TV, so far to connect it directly to the TV there are two great way one is the cheap way out and the other is a kool gadget by Tekkeon.

1- NavDock ND 2000
NavDock™ Home Media Center with On-TV Navigation for iPod lets you navigate your iPod through an on-TV menu to play videos, photos and music on a connected television. NavDock browses directly through your iPod menus, so finding and playing music and videos is easy. And you can use the 16-button remote to adjust or mute volume, shuffle, repeat or skip songs, and fast forward or rewind through music or videos. The remote offers a five-way navigation pad and quick keys that jump directly to the videos, photos, music or settings menus.

With NavDock, you have complete control. You can change the language, the menu color scheme to fit your mood, or the navigation speed to fit your taste. You can even access the equalizer or display the lyrics or album art that appears next to your songs in the Now Playing screen in motion as your personalized screensaver.

Source: NavDock ND 2000

Connect iPod  With TV using a  simple cable.
You can also simply connect your iPod using an A/V Cable. Most probably if you have a camcorder you already have that cable if not then you can buy it from ebay for $1.99.
Connect the cables set your iPod for TV output and you are ready to use your iPod with the TV.