Recently iTwinge was introduced to get the feel of physical keyboard for the people who had trouble in typing the emails or people with fat fingers and women’s with long nails. This has greatly reduced the typing error. Still iphone users were not comfortable with the keyboard to type long mails.

Finally Dragon NaturallySpeaking has developed an iPhone app that allows converting your Speech-To-text. No need to type and strain your fingers all you need to is talk and application will convert them into text. You’re also given option to edit the text with keyboard if need, it can also copy the text and paste for the new mail or text message if needed. if your have trouble in using the iphone keyboard, Dragon Dictation is your dream app.

Having downloaded the latest version of iPhone 3.1 OS, will have complete support of Dragon Dictation, It’s a free app for your fingers, the company says free for limited time only. Grab it.

iPod Touch users keep yourself away, it’s not for you. Overall all its a rocking apps which makes the magic with your voice.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.1 is compatible with Windows which is available for you to use with your computer or laptop. It also supports Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Advantages of Dragon Dictation
1. Reduce the typo mistakes and
2. Reduce the time taken to transfer the ideas or speech into text.
3. No Need to type and strain your fingers
4. Recording stops after 30 seconds to convert your voice into text.No problem start recording again.

Lets have a look at the demo

Smartphones and portable devices are elements of communication, which are becoming a part of daily life.I could see the people hands are keen scratching their favourite widget to play the games or to get information,Losing their smart phone or widget makes their spine chill.Yes its again technology which helps them to trace it back.

How to recover a lost or stolen iPhone or iPod Touch ?
Undercover is a theft-recovery app which works for iPhone,iPod Touch or in Mac book.It claims it as the first iPhone app that provides push notifications to track and locate your stolen gadget.

How does undercover works?
Install undercover iPhone app via apple store and register your details in https://www.undercovercenter.com

Every time you launch the undercover apps,your phone’s location and IP information is recorded in your online account,later you can log in to trace the device.

Push notifications,It has an intelligent option which allows you to remotely launch Undercover on the stolen iPhone in order to track the thief’s location.

Undercover can also reacts handy when your iPhone is lost,you can set a message for the finder, the phone will ring and Undercover will display the alert on top of any application that might be running. When the finder views this message, Undercover will transmit your phone’s location online.

If your iPhone is stolen, Undercover will pretend to be a game. This will also encourage the thief to wait a few seconds for the game to load, enabling Undercover to get accurate location information. This location information is then added to your account and transmitted to the police station where you reported the theft.

clever thieves and crooks always seem to be one step ahead of the corporate programmers.

What if the app is removed by the iPhone-lifter?
some techie-thief who might even try to remove the undercover apps from the iPhone, default helper apps can still locate a lost or stolen device.

Undercover gives money-back grantee,if installed and the stolen devices is not tracked.Its worth spending 4.99 USD to protect your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Highlights
1.Tracking of your iPhone location is done with Google maps.
2.Push notifications to track and locate your stolen phone.
3.Post each and every movement of the location of gadget.

A Quick demo to trace your lost or stolen iPhone

What is TED?

TED,A devoted non-profit private foundation which was started in 1984 to stream the people with “Ideas Worth Spreading”.TED-Technology, Entertainment, Design, which passionately works to power the ideas which change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world.

TED is a paltform of inspiration from the world’s inspired thinkers, and its great community to harvest the ideas from curious souls with in 18 mintutes demo. Being said, TED.com is a digital archive which has all TED talks video stored in the web for later streaming.

iPhone’s “TED Apps” has the credit of aggregating the latest video form TED talks and it has also made it easy to spread the innovative ideas much faster.

The TED app is free available from iTunes, and it’s compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch.

TED App Features
To listen and watch the TED talk conference videos.
To search based on your interseted topic in the wide collection.
To bookmark your favorite talks and share with others.
Optimal thumb navigation to Home, Videos, Audio and Favorites.

Ted Talks for iPhone is much targeted for a specific group of individuals with strong interest in Technology, Entertainment and Design.TED Conferences is limited to few times in a year.

Just to preview,play the video

An iphone application which was introduced by Viper, a California based company which might mitigate this winter.

“Think out of box”,A free downloable application “SmartStart” can connect your iphone with a hardware module installed in your car. Just like James bond, you can start the car, start the heat or A/C, raise the trunk, lock or unlock the doors, and sound alarms from any location ,hold on you cannot drive!!!

To start the car using iPhone you need
1.iPhone with free App(It works with Wifi or dataplan)
2.Viper SmartStart hardware module (install it in your car & module costs atleast $300)

Security ramification has to be taken care .Starting your car even if it isn’t within direct line-of-sight is great advantage,what if you have started the car in unsafe situation where you wouldn’t want to, secondly there are cars which comes with default remote starters which has cut-off timer which rest the engine if you didn’t show up, typically 10 minutes.

You can control five basic functions of the car from anywhere provided with wifi and this coolest application is free to download, you also have a set back on hardware cost(at atleast $300). It comes as free service for first year,and there after an annual charge of $30 USD added for your car safety.

Smartstart is also joining the list of automotive iphone applications which has recently drive the market.

Let us have a look at the demo here

Optoma Pico is an award-winning pocket projector, also recommended by Apple. Begin an early bird , chasing the office assistant to set-up the big projector, gone those days.

The Pico Projector is light enough to fit in your pocket or backpack, yet great enough to project pictures, videos on most surfaces varying in desired image size by simply moving the projector forward or backward. This is perfect travel companion, to give presentation anywhere you go.

Features
It just weigh 4 oz./113 g including battery.It provides 1000:1 contrast ratio for viewing the images up to 152 cm. It supports DLP Pico technology and LED light source which lasts over 20,000 hours with rechargeable battery via USB or AC adapter.You can also project your favorite video or movie anywhere any time that is stored in mobile devices.

Technical specifications
1.Battery life: Up to 1.5 hours
2.Image size: 6 to 60 in./15 to 152 cm
3.Projection distance: 10 to 102 in./25.4 to 259.1 cm
4.Audio: One 0.5 W speaker

Advantages
1.Extremely portable
2.Connects to iPhone,iPod,camcorder and standard composite video.
3.Rechargeable batteries.

Forgiven dis-advantage
1.In-built speaker not audible enough,Needs external speaker.
2.Needs a darker room for a better result.

Optoma Pico is a smallest projector you’ve ever seen and its great combination to project your movie from iPod Touch and Bose speakers.Ad agencies and Photographers could leverage its stylish design and portability as part of their presentation.

Amazon kindle is an e-books reader which give access to digital books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. It’s really great to have the newspaper delivered to your Kindle each morning for commuters.

Kindle Screen and battery

Kindle 2 uses “e-ink” technology,to give the appearance as printlike material on screen. No back light so no eyestrain, but need a light source to read in dark. Adjustable font size to six different levels makes it easy for strained pupils.

specs claims, the screen is 6-inch (diagonal) electronic-paper display, with a 600×800-pixel resolution at 167 ppi.It also supports with 16 shades of gray for better display of images.

Normal 2 hours of charging will give 2 weeks of battery , the battery life is twice as much as when the wireless is switched off. Improved
Text-to-Speech feature and MP3 player might also affect the battery life.

Kindle to connect web cloud
Kindle wireless options pairs itself with sprint cellular data network to connect Amazon’s Kindle store which also get access to more than 50 thousand books.

Amazon’s entire library of digital books is available with overview ,if your impressed with overview you can download whole book with in minutes via Internet which can also be transferred to your kindle using USB cable.

Kindle to school’s and collage’s
Having provided with kindle to the school students with pre-loaded syllabus will avoid them carrying heavy books. “mac world says..” Buying e-books online will also save them 50% of the cost invested in the textbooks. Kindle also provides built-in keyboard and expandable SD card slot to have their notes stored.

Kindle in iPhone or iPod Touch
iPhone or iPod Touch owners can download the Kindle app from the iTunes App Store, and read books on either device as well. In fact, if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you don’t need a Kindle e-reader to download Kindle books.

Advantages of kindle
1. Faster refresh ,Quick and easy navigation
2.No eyestrain
3. Mobile support
4. Built-in free wireless
5. Built-in keyboard to store personal notes.
6. Text-to-Speech feature to have text read aloud.
7. MP3 player to listen to your favourite
8. Go green (just do not kill the trees to feed the readers)

Disadvantages of kindle
1. Amazon proprietary book format
2. Do not support PDF and Microsoft word readers
3. Red hot to the wallet (to costly for students)
4. Sealed battery

Kindle is great stepping stone for traditional booksellers to elevate into a new e-book business. Borders U.K has joined the race of e-book reader with its new product Elonex, soon Barnes & Noble(Nook) might come with new product to have healthy competition.Sony the tough contender is already in the market with relatively same price.

iPhone is getting the feel of physical keyboard with iTwinge. For a dedicated blackberry users and people with king sized thumb had difficulty in using the touchscreen version of iPhone. iTwinge can be slided from the bottom to top to act as a standard QWERTY keypad. With Apple approval Mobile Mechatronics has planned to sell this durable keypad for $29.99 .

However Mobile Mechatronics claims that an average user who has trouble in touch screen will improve their speed by 30% to 40% and simultaneously reduce typing errors by 70 – 80%. The iTwinge is also a good transitory product for users of other Smart phones that want to convert to the iPhone.

iPhone touch screen is trouble for
1. Heavy email or text users,
2. people with fat fingers,
3. women with long finger nails

To resolve this, Apple should consider its users with wireless or wired or Bluetooth enabled keyboard .

why not a Bluetooth enabled keyboard for iPhone or iPod touch users?

I would like to share the youtube which gives the demo of Bluetooth enabled keyboard for iPhone or iPod touch .

iPhone needs physical keyboard not just iTwinge. iPhone users should vote your comments for a wireless keyboard.

Apple’s iPod Touch is an electronic wand in the hands consumers. It provides the gesture features with the multi-touch GUI technology. Its Wifi feature makes it a mini laptop to browse and download. Neither a strict diet nor a tough workout is needed for the apple product to look smart and slim; topology of iPod touch proves that.

Apple’s iPod Touch…aah a list pops up in mind

Is it Portable media player?
Yes, with music player and you Tube client.

Is it personal digital assistance device?
Yes, with email client, Google Maps and so on.

Is it mini laptop to browse?
Yes, with WiFi capability.

Is it providing voice chat?
Yes, with voip apps like Skype.

iPod Touch = iPhone – phone
Altogether iPod touch has the all the feature of iphone expect phone and camera facility.

Apple’s 2nd generation iPod Touch comes with
1. in-built Wi-Fi.
2. 480×320 px at 163 ppi screen resolution.
3. Multi-touch screen interface with volume rocker buttons.
4. iPhone OS 3.0. (current version 3.1 released 09/09/09 )
5. 533 MHz CPU and 128 MB DRAM.
6. Rechargeable, built-in lithium battery and built-in audio speaker.
7. up to 6 hours of video playback or up to 36 hours of audio playback.
8. 110×61.8×8.5 mm (4.3×2.4×0.33 in) and weigh 115 gm.
9. iTunes 9.0 with Wi-Fi music store access.
10. Safari web browser, You tube client, email client, google maps.
11. Access to starbucks music (available in selected cities across the United States)
12. Widgets to support stocks, weather and social media applications.
13. Bluetooth.
14. 8, 32, or 64 GB flash memory.
15. Support OpenGL ES 2.0 for next-generation games.
16. Support for 480p and 576p component TV and video output .

Existing 20 million
iPod Touch users(until September 2009) can have the latest download of iTunes 9.0 and iPhone OS 3.1 here.

Today Apple has announced its new price tag for latest iPod Touch which comes with iPhone OS 3.1 and iTunes 9.0 .
8GB $199 32GB $299 64GB $399

Here is video demo for

2nd Generation iPod Touch

1st Generation iPod Touch

Yelp, is an iPhone Application that operates an online local search capabilities for its visitors with social networking and user review. Over 25 million people access Yelp’s website each month which positioning Yelp in top 100 U.S. Internet web sites.

Yelp is a robust application for business owners who can directly update their own business listings and its also an informational application for the visitors who needs information of the neighbourhood.

Yelp synchronize with iPhone’s GPS which maps the users to targeted location. When your search for restaurant, it will sequence the list based on distance, ratings and reviews added by the “Elite” members on the site. It also provides capabilities like sending a listing as an invitation for lunch to your friends. It also applies a “First to Review” reward among contributing members, further motivating to add reviews.

The potential feature is to focus your iPhone camera to a restaurant or bar or local bus, it will bring all the details about the restaurant or bus. Having these wonder full application in iPhone makes it a killer application for the travel lovers.

Video gives the demo of Yelp application.

Apple approved spotify applications which is ready for instant steaming for the iPhone users. Spotify is joining the music streaming contender list ahead of competitors Rhapsody and Grooveshark.

After 30 days of examination, Spotify app had hit the app Stores on August 28th 2009 in western Europe. If the “spotify” is spotted in cities like New york, it will sweetens the long commute to work with its cache ability of streamed music.

Technically spotify will allow you to get the music streamed from web first time, later it will send summarized client’s cache to stream hub, further any new request is served from the hub. Hence every new client is designed as server for forth coming users. Vorbis supports audio streaming process in the rate of 320kbit/sec.

iPhone App spotify
1. Sync well with ipod touch via Wifi
2. Confess of storing 3,333 songs with in 10GB(even if a song sized 3MB)
3. Can’t run in the background, when you read your mails or magazine
4. Need Premium subscription to use spotify offline

Vorbis support(s)ed
1. By apple iphone,ipod touch and google android phones.
2. Music files of .agg and .oga format
3. Winamp can also play “.ogg” vorbis files, as can VLC media player
4. Video games where is market is booming
5. Is prohibited in iPod and iPod Nano (Apples iTunes used for songs and videos)

Spotify opens the way to the next generation of internet based technologies, to store files and to be accessed online on any available computer or hand held devices.

Spotify is a gleaming symbol of modernity for the music lovers and yes you have reach the spot to get the invites to Spotify.

Spotify invites
http://spotify.rejected.se/
http://garaget.in/invites/
http://smexdesign.se/blogg/spotify-invites/

Soptify demonstrated here in Youtube