Much anticipated, Apple’s New tablet iPad launched today … ! It is all same as rumored, and feels like a big size iPod touch in your hand. But whats this ……. iPad too is not multitasking ???? … Damn man …. We are in digital age and multitasking is now a basic feature of most OS driven devices and applications and I am still not able to understand what is restricting Apple to make there devices multitasking.

I couldn’t make iPhone as my phone because of this this major missing feature “Multi-tasking”..
What it mean… .simply it wont allow you to keep open 2 or more application at same time. And this is damm bad. I want to keep running always my IMs (I use skype most, but still keeps Yahoo, MSN and Gtalk for my friends) regardless I play a game or run any other application. Or lets take another situation…. I want to keep listening to Internet radio in background and read a book as well. But its not possible in any smart line products from apple such as iPhone or iPod touch, and now iPad too !

And all above you can get with most of smart phones available today … Palm, HTC, Nokia, RIM… or Android based.

I see iPad just a big size iPod touch + inbuilt mic ! ( damm … iPod touch doesnt have mic, and I wasnt aware until I bought it…)
So if you hook a tiny microphone to your ipod touch … it will be same as iPad except the big size. Your applications are same as ipod/iphone. iPad’s screen resolutions is 1024×768 wich provide 132 ppi (pixels per inch) much less then what I was expecting, Google’s nexus one much more clear picture with almost 152 ppi.

I coudnt see any reason till now to upgrade my smart-phone to iPad, or downgrade my laptop to iPad…

WordWeb

What kind of license you provide for your software … or you have seen for products..?

Every product or industry has material licensing system. For photographs, articles, designs, software’s and many more. And for that many kind of licensing we have seen. Some most common licenses are CCL, GPL, BSD and some are commercial. But recently I encountered a very unique license.

Yes, that is provided by a very famous dict tool, “WordWeb”. Wordweb is small dictionary application, which provide extremely effective dict help with windows. Wordweb offer 2 versions for download, “FREE” and “Buy PRO”. As usual, we are addicted to word “FREE” and simply I downloaded and installed in my laptop. As all websites and products ask for something like “I Agree” ….this also has a simple line somewhere in page text “WordWeb is fully functional, but to use it you must satisfy the licensing conditions “, not even ask for clicking check box of “I Agree”. We all are very much used to see such text and without reading or bothering what it is, just we go for download. And that’s what I did.

It was working perfectly well .. And one day, suddenly a pop-up came out when I tried to use it. It was a simple question ….something like this :

In order to continue using free wordweb, you need to answer this question :

How many flights did you take in last 12 months :

(o) More then two single side or one return flight.

And a instinct feeling of richness, I checked 3rd option …. ! And that’s it… second pop-up comes out and it said :

Sorry, you can no longer use of the free version.

Under the licensing terms you agreed to when installing the program, unlimited free use of the program is only available to people who fly very little. Please order WordWeb Pro now if you would like to continue using the program.

Wordweb’s website also mentioned in there licensing section : “If you can afford to fly, so that you do not satisfy the license, you can afford to buy the program.”

Wow .. That’s wonderful license, specially the implementation of the license.

Google is working very hard to provide something not only new but exciting. Google provided excellent Indic transliteration long time before which become very popular all Indic community.  A large number of bloggers currently using Google’s transliteration system. And last year Google did a big blast…. and provided first time in world, real time machine translation for Hindi. An age old, other popular translation tools like bablefish, still not made any move to provide translation with Hindi, despite the fact that Hindi is world’s 2nd most spoken language in the world after Chinese.

Now recently Google made one more milestone…..  by releasing Google talk idic language bots ! New Google talk bots bring real time translation and transliteration!! Yes Google has released translation and transliteration bots for Google talk IM.

Google transliteration bot can simply convert your text from English script to Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil or Telugu script. Here is how:

Gmail Chat

Now translation bots are really amazing and more intelligent. It provide you ability to talk in other language which you really don’t know.  For example you can talk to your Chinese girlfriend even she don’t know English and you don’t know Chinese.  Wow.

It is very easy to setup and use these Google transliteration bots :

1) First add the bot that you want to your friend’s list. (For example, add en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Hindi). You just need to do this once.

2) Start a chat session with your friend

3) Convert the chat session to a group chat and invite the bot to it.

Now Here is 3 most useful Hindi bots:

en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com — Transliteration bot

en2hi@bot.talk.google.com- English to Hindi translation  bot

hi2en@bot.talk.google.com- Hindi to English translation  bot

And there are more bots….

To get your messages transliterated, you can send chat to these bots:

You can send a chat to these bots to get your messages translated:

* don’t forget to add @bot.talk.google.com.

So start using Indic bots … !