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

“Born night, Yes last night”,Barnes & Noble unveiled its e-reader Nook, which runs on Google’s Android hot cake operating system.Also mentioned, it would offer subscriptions to more than 20 newspapers major U.S. daily.

Nook definitely comes with great features which amazon tribal e-reader was missing.

1.LCD screen 3.5 inch,color touch screen,easy-to-read and filters glare or back light.
2.Built-in dictionary ,adjustable text size,Dual-screen and comfort in reading hours together.
3.Built-in 2GB to store 1,500 books and magazines.
4.External memory card can save up to 17,500 books.
5.virtual bookmark to bring the last read page.
6.Read in multiple devices – iPhone, PC or MAC.
7.PDF support,EPUB and eReader Formats and image files(JPEG,GIF,PNG,BMP).
8.Audio enabled,MP3 support and built-in mono speaker.

Integration aspect with Barnes & Noble’s retail stores,making your presence inside the store with the device gives special discount and option of reading the entire e-books for free.

“On hand library”,Using free eReader software, you can connect to your iPhone, iPod touch or Blackberry,PC or laptop.

“Only your friends steal your books” — Not necessary they can from e-reader

LendMe™ technology works on single license,by which you will be able to loan the books to your friends(Only one person can read at a time,like sharing physical book) through any WiFi enabled device.

Rechargeable battery advantage to charge via USB or power adapter.Barnes & Noble also admits the Kindle has a better battery.

Nook also joins the paper-free green society,with price a of $260(Kindle 2 same price) and wide availability of physical store Nook is fully equipped to challenge the e-reader’s market.

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

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.

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.