Dell to introduce a Tablet

Dell’s first effort at a tablet will be the Mini 5 (a name that is still in beta) — a slice of plastic and glass with a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen that according to Michael Dell will debut “in a couple of months.”

The Mini 5 will sport a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a separate front-facing camera that can be used for video conferencing, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1-GHz processor. The 5-inch screen also means it will be be closer to the Sony PSP in its form factor than the longer legal notepad design of the iPad.

The Mini 5 will run the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, version 2.0 or higher. And instead of the 4:3 aspect ratio of the iPad, Dell’s tablets will support the 16:9 ratio. This will let it play widescreen films.

Ever wonder how twitter is going to make money?

According to MediaPost, Anamitra Banerji, head of product management and monetization at Twitter, has confirmed that the service is working on an advertising platform. This is following a panel on interactive advertising hosted by Seth Goldstein, CEO of socialmedia.com, where Banerji reportedly unveiled Twitter's plans in a relatively vague fashion. According to Goldstein and MediaPost, the plan is to let brands and companies interact with consumers and capitalize on trending topics, as well as ensure that the delivered content is "relevant and useful." Banji also indicated that initially the ads would feature hash tags to distinguish them from tweets, but that the developers were working on a better solution.

Twitter and Yahoo Teamup

The partnership will let people access their Twitter feeds on Yahoo! properties including their home pages, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports and others making it easier to tweet or check on the people they follow. Also on the Yahoo! search engine you can view live updates from twitter. This teamup is kind of like its ties with Google and Bing.

Ever wondered about google doodle logos?

The search-engine giant has a team of doodlers who brighten Google's plain home page with colorful illustrations all of them variations on the word "Google" for holidays and special events such as the Vancouver Winter Olympics. There's no set number on how many doodles Google does in a year, although the creations are appearing on its site more often. However, there is one rule for how a doodle should look: It must incorporate some form of the word "Google." Click here to view past google dooles

iPhone VOIP Application

Toktumi has built a back end similar to that of Google Voice, but unlike Google, it’s gotten Apple’s blessing. It’s one of the more complete mobile VoIP apps currently available for download; I especially like the fact that it allows you to receive calls straight to your mobile phone over a cellular network even if you don’t have 3G or Wi-Fi coverage. It comes with its own features such as call waiting, conference calling, call transfer and even voice mails — in other words, the service is like a virtual second line on your phone. The service costs $14.95 a month for unlimited calls in the U.S. and Canada.

YouTube to remove support for IE 6

Come March 13, 2010, YouTube will no longer officially support Internet Explorer 6.

Ars Technica found the specific date buried in a YouTube Help item pertaining to browser support. Under the section header, “When does older browser support end for YouTube (YouTube) and what does this mean?,” it reads:

"Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.”

The support entry also details that Google’s YouTube will notify site visitors of the change in browser support by displaying an interstitial every two weeks indefinitely until the user upgrades that will serve as a very blatant visual reminder and encourage IE6 browsers to upgrade accordingly.

C# WPF Grid / ColumnDefinitions

I'm going to give a short tutorial on Converting your XAML to actual C# code.

XAML Syntax


C# Syntax

Private ColumnDefinition Column1 = new ColumnDefinition();
Private ColumnDefinition Column2 = new ColumnDefinition();
Private ColumnDefinition Column3 = new ColumnDefinition();

That's basically all you do and If you wanted to set the Width and Height

Column1.Width = 100;
Column1.Width = 300;

C# Class

So I am taking Object Oriented programming this semester this is another one of those classes that I wish i could just test out of being that I program for an organization already and my main language that I use is C#. Anyways in my next post I thought I would share some of my knowledge of C# WPF.

First Website

So I am taking web development and I had to create a website being that I've done designs such as www.marrycaribbean.com , and www.meetingdavidwilson.com since I've been out of highschool this assignment was rather boring, Wish I could just test out of this class.

Google plunged into the world of social networking melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz.

Buzz, which will work through the popular Gmail service, will allow users to post status updates, photos and links to members of their network -- as well as pull in their activity on other sites like Twitter, Flickr and Picasa.

Phasing out IE 6.0

Internet explorer 6.0 support will be phased out by Google. Hopefully other big web publishers will follow suit. This is a huge victory for web designers/developers across the interwebs:

“Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Google to Rival the iPad

Not even a week after Apple’s recent (and possibly infamous) iPad release, some interesting pictures have started crawling out from a virtual corner of the internet by Google, which has the internet starting to talk. The brilliant minds at Google have been cooking up some images showcasing the Chronium OS tablet proof-of-concept, which were posted on the Google-owned Chronium.org website in the last week or so. Nothing major has been announced yet, but a few of the early features listed on the websites include a tabs-only interface with the tabs along the side(s) of the screen, a full screen Touch UI, and an on-screen software keyboard that boasts multiple setups depending on the need, including the ability to be split between the left- and right-hands (along with the familiar single keypad).

C# WPF

WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)

As i continued to program in c# with windows forms i was realizing the problems i was having with Windows Forms such as opacity and transparency causing major flickering as i continued to do research on solving this matter I ran into WPF. Ever since running into the WPF article on microsoft's website ive been developing applications using WPF which almost has endless possiblys in making really nice GUI interfaces.

More Info on WPF

Network Effect

The best example of network effect is the telephone. The more people that own a telephone the more valuable the phone becomes to them to network with others. Also websites such as facebook or twitter the more users that sign up and interact on twitter or facebook. These are good examples of network effect.

Wisdom of Crowd

Wisdom of crowd as i interpret it is just a group of individuals giving there input on a particular subject matter and taking all that input into account develops Wisdom of Crowd.

Knowledge

It seems that knowledge is an essential to life you use knowledge anywhere and everywhere. The ability to produce and use knowledge has become a big part of development in many organizations.

Cell Phone Application Saves Life

An iPhone application was said to save a guys life in the earthquake in Haiti. The application is called the Pocket First Aid and CPR. It is said that after a guy used this app while he was in the midst of rubble and his story was released the App's sales sky rocketed.

Google Chrome

Google has taken there advertisements for the Chrome browser from the Internet to the streets such as billboards, tv advertisements and more.

Twitter password reset

I was prompted by a message this morning on twitter that i needed to reset my password. I looked further into this and i saw on digg that it said twitter had a phish attack so this is a security measure. Props to twitter on taking action so quickly.

c# class

I am taking c# class I already know this language and just got a job on a project working with a CEO of an organization designing a desktop application to fully integrate with there website and send and retrieve data from there sql databases, it also allows Instant Messaging and lobby chats for the users to conversate.