Prediction for the new iPods

With only a few hours away from tomorrow’s Apple rock and roll event, tension and excitement is building. Numerous rumors and predictions are circulating around and the event seems to be the talk of the hour. While everyone seems to hold their own opinion as to what might happen tomorrow, these are a few things to expect at the event:

• The announcement of the new generation of camera equipped iPod Touches and iPod Nanos. Although, they might be announced tomorrow, AppleInsider reports that one of their highly trusted sources said that the new generation of iPods might be delayed due to bad hardware issues. AppleInsider has confirmed this news with a report posted Monday by Hardmac, which is an English version of French Apple news website Macbidouille.
• Another thing we could expect is the announcement and maybe even a release of the new iTunes 9 with social networking capabilities.
• For all of you still dreaming of the fabled iTablet, it is extremely unlikely it will make an appearance at the event.
• The discontinuation of the iPod Classic.
• Lastly, Mr. Steve Jobs himself might attend the event, now that apparently he is doing much better. It’s been months of recuperation but at last he seems to be in good condition to not miss this important event.

Apple Rock and Roll

So what is it in the new iPod touch and ipod nano? Smaller or bigger? additional feature with camera? Few hours from now..stay tuned..

Download Opera 10 USB Version

The latest update of Opera Web Browser Opera 10 recently was released, and it seems lot faster and improved a lot over its previous versions, If you want to try the new Opera Browser without installing you can download the portable opera 10, which you can carry on your USB Drive, orrun it without really installing it on your system.

To use OperaUSB, Extract the zip file onto your USBDrive or Hard Disk, and run “OperaUSB.exe”

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Google Maps to Show Traffic Conditions on BackRoads

Google Maps keeps adding new things to its world class mapping software “Google Maps”. I never imagined that Google will integrate so many things into it that it will eventually become the world best detailed map. It has added so many features that it is hard to count them.

Today, Google has announced on its site an addition of a new feature i.e Traffic conditions on the back roads. Back Roads are generally the alternative roads which you can take to avoid the highways. Since highways tend to get the major chunk of the traffic, you can take the back roads to avoid it. Google will aid you in this by providing you with the traffic situation on those back roads. This software can really come handy since its available on the mobile version of Google Maps.

The 100 million dollars question is that how Google collect this data? It seems Google has shared a bit of the answer to this questions as i found out on a blog post by Leena Rao on TechCrunch. Below is what she added:

Google says that this feature can also be accessed on Google Maps for Mobile, which is particularly useful when trying to figure out the best route on the go. Google also shed a little bit of light as to how they crowdsource traffic info via Google Maps on mobile phones. When you enable Google Maps with My Location, the phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you’re moving. When Google combines your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, they can get an idea of traffic live conditions. They continuously combine this data and send it back to you for free in the Google Maps traffic layers.

Google assures users that they only use anonymous speed and location information to calculate traffic conditions, and only do so when the user has opted to enable location services on his or her phone.

How To Create a PDF ( TweetBook ) Of Your Tweets

If you are a twitter user and tweet heavily you might have noticed that the number of tweets you make can get lost in time, and keeping a track of all your tweets can be difficult and if your interested in having having a ebook of your tweets then try TweetBook.

Tweetbook can read, share or backup all your Twitter updates (tweets) as a single PDF file called tweetbook.Once you login, you’ll find your Twitter Intro to the left, and your tweet and favorite count.You can create a tweetbook of your Tweets and Replies and also the TweetBook of your favorites.

Just head to TweetBook and sign into Twitter via (OAuth) access to your Twitter Account.The maximum number of tweets you can create a PDF of is 3200 as this is the limit set in the Twitter API.

Create your own TweetBook.

Design Your Own Twitter Backgrounds

Are you bored with the default Twitter Background Theme, then Why not create one of your own.To create your own Twitter background Theme head to FreeTwitterDesigner, where you can create your own Twitter background for your twitter account.

You can design background themes for Twitter either by logging into twitter from FreeTwitterDesigner and upload your creation directly into Twitter or Design, Download the Image and upload it into your Twitter Account manually.

Here’s how you can create your own Twitter Background

1. Visit FreeTwitterDesigner, Choose Sign with Twitter to update your background automatically or “Use Without Signing In” to design and upload the image manually.
2. Select a theme and click “Lets get Started”
3. Add object like Text, Shapes and Images, change colors for background,links,Text,Sidebar and sidebar border.
4. You can also create theme for various resolutions and also preview the design with an Twitter overlay.
5. You can also customize the objects in terms of their font, height, width,rotation,blends and filters.

Once your happy with your design click on “Generate Image”, and save the Image (.jpg) in your system, incase you are logged into your Twitter Account, you can click “Export To Twitter” to automatically update your Twitter Account.

If you are not logged into your Twitter Account, login now and follow the instructions,

Note : This application requires you to run Flash 10

Create Ubuntu Live USB With Persistant Storage With uSbuntu Live Creator

You can create a LIVE USB with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04 with persistent storage so that the work can be saved on the USB as is not the case in Live CD’s and Live USB.It can create LIVE Bootable USB from Disk Images (ISO), CD, or Download the Distro.It supports Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint or CrunchBang.You can also load from the created LIVE USB in Windows with a special portable version of Virtual Box.All the data stored in the usb persistent storage are hidden and the data is stored in a special file called casper-rw.

uSbuntu Live Creator will also create a portable(no installation) version of VirtualBox, that can be launched by running Launch_usb.exe located in the Portable-VirtualBox folder in your USB Drive, so that you can launch ubuntu right in windows.

Features :

• Create bootable USB device from Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint or CrunchBang
• Enable persistency of your data
• Launch Ubuntu directly in Windows with a special Portable VirtualBox
• Hides created files on the drive.

Steps to create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive :

• Prepare your USB, ie., Format the drive with FAT32 or FAT partition
• Download and launch the uSbuntu Live Creator and choose a USB key or drive in the list
• Select a ISO file or CD of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu 8.10 or 9.04
• Choose the size of persistency data.
• Check the options you want
• Click the thunder to start the creation

Next, launch Portable Virtual Box and from the Boot Options you can start Ubuntu in

• Persistent Mode (your data will be persistent)
• Live Mode (all your data will be discarded after reboot)
• Install (to install Ubuntu on your hard drive)
• Integrity Check (check the files on your key)
• Memory Test (can diagnose RAM problems)

The data on your Ubuntu can be backed up by simply copying the “casper-rw file” in your Windows OS.

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