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;