MacBook Air Flash Guide

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HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

We all but gave up on the Slate, but Hewlett-Packard’s tablet computer was destined to reach the market after all, albeit in a slightly different flavor than it was originally envisioned.

The HP Slate 500 is a Windows 7-based tablet PC with a 8.9-inch, 1024×600 resolution screen, a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor, a Crystal HD accelerator that should ensure smooth playback for HD (1080p) videos, two gigabytes of RAM (recent rumors predicted 1 GB), and a 64GB SSD.

It has a USB port and two cameras: a 3-megapixel one on the back, and a VGA camera on the front for making video calls. It also has Wi-Fi but, quite disappointingly, no 3G connectivity.

These specifications make the Slate one of the most powerful tablets on the market, but its $799 price tag also makes it more expensive than its chief rival, the iPad. However, HP has envisioned the Slate as a device aimed at business customers.
“It’s really like a full-function PC, it runs Windows, it will run your office applications, it just so happens to be in a slate form factor,” said Carol Hess-Nickels, director of business notebook marketing at HP.
What do you think about HP’s decision to make the Slate a Windows 7-based tablet, aimed at business customers? Is the price right, and is there a place on the market for such a device? Please share your opinions in the comments.

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Apple Starts Selling iPhone 4 Bumpers Again !!

Apple had announced on September 10th that it will be discontinuing its free iPhone 4 case program after September 30th.

 The iPhone 4 bumper cases that were unavailable in Apple's Retail and Online stores during the program, first made their silent comeback to the retail stores on October 1.

Macrumors has just reported that they're also available on Apple's Online store.
Back in July, Apple had announced at the special press conference held last weekthat it will give free cases to all iPhone 4 customers to address concerns raised by iPhone 4 users about its antenna issue.

But in September, Apple decided to discontinue the program as it believed that iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even smaller than it originally thought.

We had heard some reports that Apple had started selling iPhone 4 bumpers in its Retail stores from October 1. They're now available even on Apple's Online store.

iPhone 4 retina display analysis

The Bumper cases are available in all the six original colors and are priced at $29 each. They will ship within 24 hours after you order it.

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New Yahoo Messenger App for iPhone To Allow Video Calls To PC, Android Smartphones

Yahoo's VP of Mobile for the Americas, David Katz has revealed that Yahoo is working on a version of Yahoo Messenger for the iPhone and Android, which will allow users to make video calls like FaceTime. The application, which is still under development, will use the iPhone 4's front camera to make video calls both over Wi-Fi and 3G.

While the iPhone 4's FaceTime is a great feature, it is restricted to making video calls over Wi-Fi - and that too only to other iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G users. The Yahoo App on the other hand, enables video calling to other users logged on to Yahoo messenger either on a PC, iPhone or Android smartphones.

David Katz, Yahoo’s VP of Mobile for the Americas region has revealed the following details:

"The free app, will be available for both iPhone and Android phones and will allow smartphone users to not only conduct video calls with each other, but with anyone that currently uses Yahoo Messenger for video calls on their PCs."

The ability to make voice calls with users on the iPhone, Android smartphones and anyone using Yahoo messenger on the PC could transform it into one of the killer iPhone apps on the App store, especially when you consider that Yahoo Messenger has 80 million users worldwide.
Yahoo seems to be pretty confident that its iPhone app will be approved because applications like Tango and Fring that offer video calling via 3G and Wi-Fi have already been approved by Apple.

Apple has also clarified that “they do allow apps on the App Store that support video calling on Wi-Fi and 3G networks.”
So, it could be only a matter of time before the updated Yahoo Messenger app arrives in the App Store.

We'll let you know as soon as it is available in the App Store

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iTunes Instant: Faster And Easier Way To Search iTunes And The App Store

If one of your biggest complaint about iTunes is that it is slow then you’re not the only one. iTunes 10 that was released earlier in the month is a little bit faster but just not fast enough.

So Stephen Ou, a 15-year-old developer (can you believe it) from the Bay Area created iTunes Instant, which makes it a lot faster and easier to search iTunes and the App Store.

Stephen Ou apparently developed iTunes Instant in less than 3 hours using Apple’s own Search API.

iTunes Instant is exactly what I have been looking for, simple user interface with fast, real time search results (sorry I have been spoilt by Google Instant, the new search enhancement that shows results as you type).

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'Error 13001' While Syncing iPod? Troubleshooting

You can update and organize your favorite content on an iPod using iTunes. iTunes is a free software application, provided by Apple, which enables iPod to interact with your computer. You can also connect to the iTunes store and purchase and download desired audiobooks, podcasts, videos and other stuff. However, you can experience major problems while syncing your iPod with iTunes. As a result, you cannot update your iPod. The error messages with strange codes might bewilder you and you are left helpless. Such situations suggest that there are some serious issues with your iPod including corruption. To tackle corruption, you would be required to restore an iPod, followed by prompt iPod recovery using an updated backup. And, if no backup is available, there are other efficient ways (discussed later in this article) to get back your lost iPod content.

Imagine a situation, wherein, you have an iPod Classic. You connect the device to your laptop in order to update it and start the sync process. But, this time around something unusual happens and you get the following error message while syncing iPod to iTunes.

"Error 13001"
Due to the occurrence of the above error message, the sync process halts.

Cause:
The above error message can surface in any of the below-mentioned conditions:
If your computer is infected with a virus.
If there is an issue with the content (eg bad music files etc)
If a background process is causing an issue with the syncing process
If there is a problem with the device itself. For instance, iPod disk corruption

Resolution
To troubleshoot the above error message, you must consider the following iPod recovery steps:
Use MSCONFIG or Task Manager to turn off the following processes, which may be viruses causing interference with the sync process

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1. If you find that the issue is not related to any virus, try and sync one type of content at a time (music, podcasts, photos etc). This would help you determine which type of content is causing the trouble. Replace the bad content or do not allow it to get synced.

2. If all of your content seem like causing the issue, then create a new user account. Log in to this new account and sync your iPod.

3. If the issue gets resolved, collect MSinfo32 report from both new and old accounts. Find out which processes are not active in the account you created recently.

4. If you still get the error message in a new user account, then it clearly indicates that the problem lies with your device. The iPod in question could be corrupted. In all such situations, you must restore the iPod right away.

Since restoration leads to serious data loss, you must download and employ a third-party iPod recovery software to retrieve the lost iPod content. They are quite easy-to-use and consume less amount of time in recovering music files, videos, audiobooks etc.

The best software to recover data from iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle is Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery.

Available in two versions for both Windows and Mac, this application recovers almost all photo (JPEG, TIF, TIFF, GIF), audio (MIDI, AIFF, M4A, OGG) and video (AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV) formats. This iPod recovery software is completely safe and allows you to save scan results for recovery at a later time.

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How Can I Get Back My Deleted Data From Hard disk

"How can I get back my deleted data from hard disk (computer), memory card?"


 It happens many times when you or some other person delete some important files or folders from your hard drive, pen drive or memory card and you feel helpless as you don’t know how to recover the deleted file.




Disk Digger is another free data recovery software which recover files from any type of media including USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, etc), and your hard drive also.


>> This program can recover deleted files including photos, videos, music, documents, and other formats also.


>> This is a free portable tool, i.e. it does not require any installation.


>> When you are using Disk Digger you need to select the drive and file types and click Next and retrieve the file from the list is files shown.


You can get it from Here

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Make Your First Letter Big In Blog Post

Often, You might have seen in newspapers or even in some blog posts that there are paragraphs in which the first letter of the first word of the first line is bigger in size as compared to the rest of the letters.This looks nice to see and many blogger uses this tricks. So this post helps you to implement this tricks.

You can also do the same thing in your blog posts—simply by Adding some CSS to your html code.Your post’s first letter (character) would become bigger than original font sizes.

Now, you might have a question–How to do this? 


Well, to implement this in your blog, all you need to do is to follow some steps which includes adding some CSS code in your html code, and you will have the first letter of your blog post bigger in size. Below picture shown you is the result of this tutorial.

Steps to make first letter big in your blog post are :-

• Log in to your blogger account
• On your dashboard, click on Layout (see the image below.)

• Now, click on Edit HTML to add code to templates (see the image below.)

• Then find the code]]></b:skin>and add following code above it 

.post-body:first-letter {

float:left;

color: #000000;

background:#ffffff;

line-height:80px;

padding-top:1px;

padding-right:5px;

font-family:times;

font-size:100px;

}

• Save your templates and you finished with this.

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How to Import Your Blog to Your Facebook Page

Generally, A blogger needs a wide platform which spread their important article to webuser. So this useful and important article should be available to their right audience. And we all are familiar with the popularity of facebook. How to use this platform effectively..??, their is one way...Feed your blog posts right to your Facebook page.

Here’s how:

Step 1: In the “Account” dropdown on the top-right menu bar, click “Application Settings”. This will bring up a page with a list of your applications.

Step 2: On the resulting page, click “Notes”. Don’t click on “Edit Settings” or “Profile”. Just click the word “Notes”.

Step 3: The following page will bring up your current notes or state that you don’t have any. On the right side of the page is a box where you will click on “Import a blog”.

Steps 4: On the next page, enter the URL for your blog’s feed. Then click the checkbox to accept Facebook’s terms (basically saying that you’re entering your own blog), and hit “Start Importing”.

Important: Facebook is often glitchy at this step.  If you get an error, and you’re sure you’ve entered the right URL, keep trying. You might even have to close out of the process and go back in, but eventually it will work. (Hopefully Facebook is working on this.)

Note: If your entire site is a blog (rather than a page on your site), you can enter the primary URL here too. In other words, we could enter “http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfoSectors” or just “http://www.infosectors.com”.

Step 5: If all goes well with the URL you entered, you’ll be taken to a page showing a preview of your blog posts. Don’t worry that they’re not in order here. It’s because they all show as being loaded on the same day.From this point forward, new posts will show up at the top as you post them. If all looks good, click “Confirm Import”.

Once you’ve confirmed your import, you can view the feed in the “My Notes” tab. That’s it! Your blog posts will now update your Notes page in your Facebook account automatically.

If you have a Fan Page

You can easily accomplish the same thing on your Facebook Fan Page. Everything is the same as a regular Facebook page, except the first step. On your settings page, where all your settings are listed, click “Edit” under “Notes”. From there, everything looks the same as above.

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Blogging Useful Tools [Start Blogging Smartly]

In my previous article I post about essential free templates websites for blogger,this something bloggers need. So in this section also I posted about various tools available for blogger, which makes your blogging easier and fast. This tools will help you in some way.

And we are blogger, So we should know about this available useful tools. I hope you'll like this, even I am very excited to write something useful things for my blogger friends. 

• Blogger Mobile: Start a your blog posting via your mobile.

     Post from anywhere!

• When you send texts to BLOGGR (256447) or photos to go@blogger.com from your mobile device they're automatically posted to your new blog.

  Blogger Mobile lets you send photos and text straight to your blog while you're on-the-go.

  
  
  
  
• Mail-to-Blogger: Post your article via email..?? Yes, you can also post to your Blogger blog via email.This feature is inbuilt to your blogger.So it is easy as well as healthy to use and post.

• BlogThis! Bookmarklet: BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Install this nifty bookmarklet in your browser, and you can post with just one click.Isn't this useful..??

• Blogger in Draft: Blogger in draft is a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before releasing them to everyone. Think of it as our sandbox, or laboratory, or just “Blogger + new things.” By taking your feedback and looking at what works and what doesn’t, we’ll be able to make features that much better when releasing them to everyone.

• Blog via Flickr: You can post your Flickr photos directly to your blog, and can even post directly from your camera phone (great for those whose mobile phone network is not covered by Blogger Mobile)

• Haloscan: By default, Blogger doesn’t allow you to send trackbacks when you post. By using the free service from Haloscan, you can send trackbacks to other blogs, and also display the trackbacks which have been sent to you. Other free features for Blogger users include external commenting and ratings systems for your blog posts.

• w.Bloggar: a free Windows based application which you can integrate with your Blogger blog to post remotely. One version allows you to install on a pen drive to post while you are away from home.

• Blogger for Word: This something great..!! Using this free download, you can publish your post to blog, save drafts and edit posts from within Microsoft Word.

• Blogger Developers Network: Information for developers interested in creating applications, templates and widgets for the Blogger framework.

This is general info about this tools,it just gives you small descriptions about the tools and if you have something to say then post comments below. I hope...,this post liked you and will be useful.

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