From conservative point of view, this thought may be laughable, ridiculous.
Assuming that iPad and tablets like this will become as common as a notepad and sticky notes in your day-to-day life, would internet be limited to how its now via the servers, urls, domain names etc?
There is one internet that exists for serious business - where there are servers, IT teams, professionals, web applications and all sorts of complex processes to make everything work.
But then there is another internet, that is used by normal people to share their photos, videos and music files. They care less about how everything works, they just want to let others see what they have. And that's why the sites like Google Picasa, Flickr, Napster, YouTube all became famous and multi-million dollar business.
When iPad and devices like this will be connected all the time via wireless they in a way form their own network. And each such device can have its own NETWORK ID (iID?) Today in my contact list, I store the phone number and email address of a person. But that can extend to storing the NETWORK ID of the device as well. Each device can have an area (folder) in which the owner can put sharable files. And others can browse these files and download it or play right from it.
How easy would it be if you just browse other's iPad for their sharable content right from your iPad w/o going to url or browser or any html crap. It's like iLAN.
Then there would be some directories that would store the iPad's NETWORK IDs and the publicly available content in it. Information holders can even make money out of their own such information. All that Content publishing would take is to shoot a video and store it in such area of their iPad.
But, hard reality is Apple wants to be in between of all such transfers and they don't want any thing be published w/o their iTunes or AppStore. You can't even share ringtone. If they let go off their such greed or if Google or someone comes up with such freedom, we may see a new type of internet altogether in future.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
What future holds for iPad
Name
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Yes, Name sucks. May be because they have iPod, they wanted to rhyme it too closely with it. Steve Jobs must have written some poems using "iPod" and "iPad" words and iSlate, iNote, iTablet, iLet words did not rhyme. People are making fun of word 'iPad' because of similar feminine health product name. But if they had kept name iSlate, there would have been obscene jokes about that too.
Features
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Yes, its just another iPhone with bigger screen. It sits between iPod Touch and iPhone in a way that it does not offer calling via wireless network but supports 3G.
Those who did not like it say
> It does not have camera
> It has got too big bezel
> Its aspect ratio is not 16x9
> It does not support Flash
> No parallel apps
Those who like it say
> Its not for video chat, you can use laptop for that
> you can hold it without touching something by mistake
> you got 4x3 the standard tv ratio before new hdtvs
> flash is not secure and hogs the cpu
> hiya...hiya...
Look at it this way
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A small iPhone has created an IT market that never existed before. Development for blackberry or WindowsMobile wasn't that great. iPhone really attracted the consumers and the developers that what they can do with the mobile computing.
Now, if Apple makes a bigger size iPhone then its neither magical nor even ground-breaking invention. They just had to do what they did ealier, with a big size screen and rest is imaginable. So, what people can be disappointed with is, its not a 'new' device. Just same but big size.
But the potential for iPad still exists. Previously we used 800x600 monitors and the monitors kept getting bigger while the smaller resolution monitors are still used in many places - specially for point of sale at merchandise stores. Analogy may not be accurate in saying that iPad is an evolution from iPhone. iPhone and iPad has different audience and has different usage.
Applications
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> Doctors/Health staff will be able to use iPad in their day-to-day work. A big screen with enough information about patient, x-rays, facesheets, prescriptions can be viewed easily.
> Sales team can use it on the road for apps like SalesForce.Com or CRM. The main advantage is not the screen size only, but the bootup time. It takes time loading a Windows machine, but this will be always ON. We will see Microsoft Office tools on this very soon.
> Executives will be soon carrying this instead of notepad for their calendar, notes and contact management.
> A UPS or FedEx guy may be carrying this to get delivery signatures. It would be nice if the touch-input can accept some pen size stylus then you can easily sign on it.
> A construction engineer will be carrying this at the site for measurements and inputting data. Engineer on the roof can input the dimension on this and get a drawing easily.
> Devices will be made to attach credit card reader and barcode scanners. So that you can use this at point of sale. If stores don't use it, this can be used at events.
> During exhibitions, stall executives can use this to show off their products to customers walking by. No need to bring them to the stall and display products on large screens.
There is unlimited use of this beyond what people are talking about games, music and books. Don't think of this as an entertainment, time-spending instrument. Think of it as a money making instrument. You no more have to bring your customers to a place where you have hooked up your computer. You can just carry your business with you everywhere.
Future of iPad
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What would have amazed the people, which I think soon should be coming either in iPad or in competitive products:
> Sure, a camera. But two sided camera that you can turn to yourself or backside.
> Sure, parallel applications. no doubt about it.
> Bluetooth capacity with phone. A bluetooth device that you use with your phone should be able to be used with iPad. And iPad should allow video chat via this bluetooth receiver. If not over 3G, this should be possible over wi-fi.
> A pen-like writing tool for notes so you don't have to use keyboard. And the OCR that can transcribe what you are writing. You can store the notes either as image or transcribe and store as text.
> Speech-recognition. Not a major but executives may like it.
> Find another iPad via BlueTooth around you and then throw some of the info to another iPad - something like Bump in iPhone.
> Being able to share the desktop of multiple iPads like GoToMeeting or WebEx.
> Being able to place a regular paper on the iPad screen, and then write on the paper. iPad can behave like a carbon copy of what is written on the paper. That can be then stored as image/text etc. This would be a huge hit seriously.
> Sometime in distant future, iPad can have one side of it behave like a scanner. So you can slide the iPad over a page and scan the document. Wouldn't that be cool? if not iPad, at least a separate device can be made that can plug into bottom of iPad and then scan a document.
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Yes, Name sucks. May be because they have iPod, they wanted to rhyme it too closely with it. Steve Jobs must have written some poems using "iPod" and "iPad" words and iSlate, iNote, iTablet, iLet words did not rhyme. People are making fun of word 'iPad' because of similar feminine health product name. But if they had kept name iSlate, there would have been obscene jokes about that too.
Features
-----------
Yes, its just another iPhone with bigger screen. It sits between iPod Touch and iPhone in a way that it does not offer calling via wireless network but supports 3G.
Those who did not like it say
> It does not have camera
> It has got too big bezel
> Its aspect ratio is not 16x9
> It does not support Flash
> No parallel apps
Those who like it say
> Its not for video chat, you can use laptop for that
> you can hold it without touching something by mistake
> you got 4x3 the standard tv ratio before new hdtvs
> flash is not secure and hogs the cpu
> hiya...hiya...
Look at it this way
-------------------
A small iPhone has created an IT market that never existed before. Development for blackberry or WindowsMobile wasn't that great. iPhone really attracted the consumers and the developers that what they can do with the mobile computing.
Now, if Apple makes a bigger size iPhone then its neither magical nor even ground-breaking invention. They just had to do what they did ealier, with a big size screen and rest is imaginable. So, what people can be disappointed with is, its not a 'new' device. Just same but big size.
But the potential for iPad still exists. Previously we used 800x600 monitors and the monitors kept getting bigger while the smaller resolution monitors are still used in many places - specially for point of sale at merchandise stores. Analogy may not be accurate in saying that iPad is an evolution from iPhone. iPhone and iPad has different audience and has different usage.
Applications
--------------
> Doctors/Health staff will be able to use iPad in their day-to-day work. A big screen with enough information about patient, x-rays, facesheets, prescriptions can be viewed easily.
> Sales team can use it on the road for apps like SalesForce.Com or CRM. The main advantage is not the screen size only, but the bootup time. It takes time loading a Windows machine, but this will be always ON. We will see Microsoft Office tools on this very soon.
> Executives will be soon carrying this instead of notepad for their calendar, notes and contact management.
> A UPS or FedEx guy may be carrying this to get delivery signatures. It would be nice if the touch-input can accept some pen size stylus then you can easily sign on it.
> A construction engineer will be carrying this at the site for measurements and inputting data. Engineer on the roof can input the dimension on this and get a drawing easily.
> Devices will be made to attach credit card reader and barcode scanners. So that you can use this at point of sale. If stores don't use it, this can be used at events.
> During exhibitions, stall executives can use this to show off their products to customers walking by. No need to bring them to the stall and display products on large screens.
There is unlimited use of this beyond what people are talking about games, music and books. Don't think of this as an entertainment, time-spending instrument. Think of it as a money making instrument. You no more have to bring your customers to a place where you have hooked up your computer. You can just carry your business with you everywhere.
Future of iPad
--------------
What would have amazed the people, which I think soon should be coming either in iPad or in competitive products:
> Sure, a camera. But two sided camera that you can turn to yourself or backside.
> Sure, parallel applications. no doubt about it.
> Bluetooth capacity with phone. A bluetooth device that you use with your phone should be able to be used with iPad. And iPad should allow video chat via this bluetooth receiver. If not over 3G, this should be possible over wi-fi.
> A pen-like writing tool for notes so you don't have to use keyboard. And the OCR that can transcribe what you are writing. You can store the notes either as image or transcribe and store as text.
> Speech-recognition. Not a major but executives may like it.
> Find another iPad via BlueTooth around you and then throw some of the info to another iPad - something like Bump in iPhone.
> Being able to share the desktop of multiple iPads like GoToMeeting or WebEx.
> Being able to place a regular paper on the iPad screen, and then write on the paper. iPad can behave like a carbon copy of what is written on the paper. That can be then stored as image/text etc. This would be a huge hit seriously.
> Sometime in distant future, iPad can have one side of it behave like a scanner. So you can slide the iPad over a page and scan the document. Wouldn't that be cool? if not iPad, at least a separate device can be made that can plug into bottom of iPad and then scan a document.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
hackintosh
I haven't tried this but worth storing the URL.
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/01/install-mac-leopard-os-x-retail-dvd-on-a-ordinary-pc-with-boot-132-hack/
Copied here for future reference from above URL.
THNX to David Eliott master behind the Boot 132 hack which allows us to Install OSX on P.C. with the Unmodified retail version of mac OSX Leopard. The main benifit of Retail install over modified distro install is with retail install you can update your system directly from apple software updater just like an original Mac Machine.So forget about iAtkos, kalyway, Leo4all etc. & move with retail Install.
.
Requirement’s
# A PC with Intel Core Processors and Chipset (AMD is not supported).
# A retail Mac OS X DVD Installer Download Click here or Buy Click here.
# Download the Chameleon for Hard Disk here.
# Download the Boot-132 Generic ISO here.
If don’t works than download the more modified version.
# Download Boot-132 ISO with modified kexts here.
Before we starts let’s see how it works >>> you burn an Boot-132 Generic ISO (which has the bootloader on it) to a CD/DVD, after it gets to the boot prompt, you press ESC or ENTER and it prompts for a new BOOT DEVICE, you swap the BOOT CD/DVD with the LEO Retail DVD, you press enter and it shows you the name of the bootable partition from the DVD, you press enter and Leo starts to load. Some people pays money to E-FIX for this free & simple trick.The guide is divided into two phase’s first one is for Installing the OSX & second one is to elimnate the need of BootCD evry time while booting.Ready with your poison let’s start.
First of All burn Boot-132 Generic ISO into a C.D. in following tutorial term Boot-132 Generic ISO is replaced with BootCD.
Phase One >>>
1. Insert your BootCD into DVD/ROM and boot/start your PC.
2. On the boot prompt, press Enter. You will be asked to enter a two-digit hexadecimal boot device (do not press any key).
3. Remove the BootCD and replace it with the Mac OS X Retail DVD. Wait for the blinking light on your DVD drive to stop and then hit Enter (this will read your DVD drive and not your HD).
4. Perform the Mac OS X Leopard installation. You may need to use Disk Utility (under the Utilities Menu) to partition and format your HD if you haven’t already. Make sure to select GUID (under Options).
5. Restart after the installation and replace the Retail Mac OS X DVD with the BootCD.
6. On the boot prompt, press Enter. This time, enter the two-digit hexadecimal of the drive where you installed OS X. Enter 80; if it doesn’t show the startup volume of your OS X, hit Esc. Try 81, and so on until you see your OS X volume. Select it and hit Enter.
Now are in Leopard but you still won’t be able to boot your hackintosh without the BootCD. For overcome the BootCD you need to install external bootloader.
Phase two >>>
1. Open Chameleon that you download’s early.
2. Copy the contents of the Extra directory from the Generic.iso CD by drag & drop in to the Extra Contents folder in Chameleon by following this simple procedure .
Open the Generic.iso CD from your desktop. >>> Double-click on the INITRD.IMG file. >>> Double-click on the Extra folder. >>> Drag the Extensions folder to the Extra Contents folder in Chameleon
3. Double-click the Chameleon_DFE_for_Hard_Disk.pkg file and install to your hard disk.
4. Remove the BootCD and reboot.
5. You should now be able to boot into Leopard without the BootCD.
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/01/install-mac-leopard-os-x-retail-dvd-on-a-ordinary-pc-with-boot-132-hack/
Copied here for future reference from above URL.
THNX to David Eliott master behind the Boot 132 hack which allows us to Install OSX on P.C. with the Unmodified retail version of mac OSX Leopard. The main benifit of Retail install over modified distro install is with retail install you can update your system directly from apple software updater just like an original Mac Machine.So forget about iAtkos, kalyway, Leo4all etc. & move with retail Install.
.
Requirement’s
# A PC with Intel Core Processors and Chipset (AMD is not supported).
# A retail Mac OS X DVD Installer Download Click here or Buy Click here.
# Download the Chameleon for Hard Disk here.
# Download the Boot-132 Generic ISO here.
If don’t works than download the more modified version.
# Download Boot-132 ISO with modified kexts here.
Before we starts let’s see how it works >>> you burn an Boot-132 Generic ISO (which has the bootloader on it) to a CD/DVD, after it gets to the boot prompt, you press ESC or ENTER and it prompts for a new BOOT DEVICE, you swap the BOOT CD/DVD with the LEO Retail DVD, you press enter and it shows you the name of the bootable partition from the DVD, you press enter and Leo starts to load. Some people pays money to E-FIX for this free & simple trick.The guide is divided into two phase’s first one is for Installing the OSX & second one is to elimnate the need of BootCD evry time while booting.Ready with your poison let’s start.
First of All burn Boot-132 Generic ISO into a C.D. in following tutorial term Boot-132 Generic ISO is replaced with BootCD.
Phase One >>>
1. Insert your BootCD into DVD/ROM and boot/start your PC.
2. On the boot prompt, press Enter. You will be asked to enter a two-digit hexadecimal boot device (do not press any key).
3. Remove the BootCD and replace it with the Mac OS X Retail DVD. Wait for the blinking light on your DVD drive to stop and then hit Enter (this will read your DVD drive and not your HD).
4. Perform the Mac OS X Leopard installation. You may need to use Disk Utility (under the Utilities Menu) to partition and format your HD if you haven’t already. Make sure to select GUID (under Options).
5. Restart after the installation and replace the Retail Mac OS X DVD with the BootCD.
6. On the boot prompt, press Enter. This time, enter the two-digit hexadecimal of the drive where you installed OS X. Enter 80; if it doesn’t show the startup volume of your OS X, hit Esc. Try 81, and so on until you see your OS X volume. Select it and hit Enter.
Now are in Leopard but you still won’t be able to boot your hackintosh without the BootCD. For overcome the BootCD you need to install external bootloader.
Phase two >>>
1. Open Chameleon that you download’s early.
2. Copy the contents of the Extra directory from the Generic.iso CD by drag & drop in to the Extra Contents folder in Chameleon by following this simple procedure .
Open the Generic.iso CD from your desktop. >>> Double-click on the INITRD.IMG file. >>> Double-click on the Extra folder. >>> Drag the Extensions folder to the Extra Contents folder in Chameleon
3. Double-click the Chameleon_DFE_for_Hard_Disk.pkg file and install to your hard disk.
4. Remove the BootCD and reboot.
5. You should now be able to boot into Leopard without the BootCD.
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