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New feature of world time in iPod If you are a music freak and carry your with you everywhere except your washroom, you might have seen the option of world clock. This is a beautiful feature that can be used if your friend or relatives work according to different time zone. You can set alarm according to their office timings to wake him/her up or to remind them for their lunch. Ok wait, if you have contacts in multiple time ones, iPod gives you a solution to track all of them and put alarms separately. Next time you wear the headset, make sure you try those new options Apple has included for your convenience.

Steve’s article on relationship with Adobe Under the heading ‘Thoughts on Flash’ Steve published an article on Apple’s relation with Adobe No doubt relation between Mac and Adobe has been really great. Here is what Steve Jobs had to say about this, “Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that the

  TIMES Time's app sets another great example of how to properly display print media on the iPad . It really does feel like flipping through a magazine. When you launch the app you're ushered to the cover where you can immediately start swiping pages to the conveniently laid out table of contents or launch the unobtrusive dashboard to scan articles and jump to a desired section. Articles are crisply depicted without compromise and the text is rich, satisfying, and readable. Time has also included an embedded browser for Time .com, where you can scan the top stories of the day, or catch up on relevant posts in a desired category. Everything is a very seamless experience and a wonderful step in the right direction. A few things like bookmarking and some slightly less fickle touch controls would be nice, but they hardly hamper the overall experience. WSJ Here it comes, the WSJ news application for iPad. Nothing new could be find in this application. Some t

Steve Jobs brought us all to a standstill when he unveiled Apple’s new tablet PC, the iPad. Multi-media functionality, eBook support, eReader software and the iBookstore confirm that Apple is jumping into the eBook market with both feet. But what does the iPad mean for publishers? From what’s currently known, we suggest there are four important implications: 1) Building iBooks: ePub Steve Jobs explicitly stated that the iPad will use the free and open eBook format standard − ePub. This is a surprising but welcome move for Apple to embrace a non-proprietary media format − and terrific news for the publishing industry. It will make it easy for publishers who have already adopted ePub to capitalize on the iPad and realize an even greater return on investment. We are already working with many of you to produce ePub content and are preparing for significant growth in volume ahead of the iPad’s release. However, it’s important to note that while ePub is a

Just like Outlook or any other Email client, now you can drag & drop files to attach in Gmail . Before April 15, 2010 to attach a file we had to click on Attachments, then browse all the way to select files and attach them. Now its the talk of ancients, now post April 15, 2010 you can just drag files and drop them to your composing Email and it will get attached.  Once you drag the files over the browser with Gmail, it will give a prompt of ‘Drop files here’ which once done, should attach the file to the Email. This was one of the most awaited feature of Gmail by users. The limitation of this feature is that it is enabled and will work only on Firefox or Chrome as of now. IE users hope a better tomorrow which should come soon. For more details, you can visit Google blog. Some other resources are DNAMail , TechieBuzz , findithow and LivBit .   Buzz  

The Company posted revenue of $13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion. Apple sold 2.94 million Macintosh computers during the quarter, representing a 33 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.   Apple will provide live streaming of its Q2 2010 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PDT on April 20, 2010 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq210/ . This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter. The Company sold 8.75 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 131 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Also they have sold 10.89 million iPods during the quarter, representing a one percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. These results compare to revenue of $9.08 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.62 billion, or $1.79 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent, up from 39.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales

Great news for Apple lovers According to the report received from NetMarketshare, it indicates that iPad is soon going to make a solid place among all the countries within all user segments. The report says iPad grabbed 0.03 percent of total web traffic which is fairly high. If you take a glance at the competition you will find iPad’s performance is incredible. iPhone: 0.51% BlackBerry: 0.04% Android: 0.07% Windows mobiles: 0.07% The figure is really impressive, seems Steve’s idea might become a revolution in the web world in coming time. Good luck Steve!   Buzz  

Well, if its just about using an iPad, anyone can do it. There should be a difference between a common man and a professional. Here are some of the tips by Gizmodo that will surely help you become smarter while playing with an iPad. The Soft Reset Cut, Copy and Paste for Experts Import Your Own (Free) Books Easy Mute Never Buy a Digital Photo Frame Again Take Giant Screenshots Super Fast Webpage Scrolling Preview More Of Your Mail Bring Up the Virtual Keyboard With a Real Keyboard Downrez 1080P HD Videos...Or You Can't Watch Them #11 BONUS: Put 6 Apps In the Bottom Tray For all the above mentioned tricks, please read this article from Gizmodo.

Increasing business with Apple products. It seems Netflix is continuously gaining popularity. They have recently come up with a new application. This one needs very little explication indeed. Netflix has just officially confirmed that its currently iPad only app will be trickling down to the smaller iPhone OS devices. It's all very teasing and noncommittal as far as the timeframe goes, but who's not excited about getting the "dessert" to the iPad's main course? Hopefully there next target would be iPad, of course the world is crazy about it.

The terrific twitter client for for iPad We have been seeing this application on Mac since long time, now Twitterific has launched version for iPad. Largely the same interface as we've seen in prior iterations, and it makes the transition well here. Again, as usual, columns are easy to navigate and the sheer volume of information never seems cumbersome, although we find it pretty annoying that you have to switch to portrait mode to click on links, photos don't get their own formatting (relegating you instead to the site), and there doesn't seem to be a way to follow a public conversation thread - but ya, it's free and great for multiple simultaneous feed navigation. Some people might find Twitepad ($0.99) more to their liking, but in our time with the software it was a little too crowded for our tastes, and buggy in its current state. It's definitely one to keep an eye on, though. Im sure if you have used this application on your Mac you will continue to use i