Tablets are Taking Over!
I must admit, I like the tablet form factor. I don’t have one of my own yet, but I have played with my Brother-In-Law’s Apple iPad, and it is nice! I am looking forward to the Blackberry Playbook, and I am curious about the Samsung pad as well! We will see… I bet I end up with one before too long!
Tablets Will Finish Off Netbooks in 2011: 10 Reasons Why
“With the start of 2011 in sight, vendors are thinking about their product strategies in the New Year. In order to do that, they also need to examine how the market changed in the past year. Part of this process includes determining which devices, whether smartphones, tablets, laptops or anything else, will help them generate the most profit. Vendors that have been competing in the netbook market will especially need to consider how they should spend their research and development dollars in the coming year. Going into 2010, netbooks were all the rage both in the consumer market and the enterprise. But as soon as Apple introduced the iPad tablet and several similar devices followed it, netbooks lost their value to customers around the world. Netbook vendors that expected to generate big profits on those devices missed out. With the start of 2011, those companies need to realize that tablets are well on their way to eliminating netbooks altogether. The industry may get an early indication of how strongly buyers are interested in tablets during the Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 6-9 in Las Vegas. A significant number of new tablet models will be on display at the show. A year from now, the companies that stick with netbooks will be the companies that find themselves far behind the competition. Here are the reasons why tablets will eliminate netbooks as growing product category in 2011.”
I saw a blip of a headline on Digg. It was about a homeless guy that has an amazing “radio announcer voice!” Check out the first link to listen to the video, which has “gone viral!”
Let me say that this is a good thing! I have been very impressed with Windows 7, and you know, I haven’t downed the Microsoft Kool-Aid! In fact, I am an Open Source dewd! But, after the disaster that was Vista, Windows 7 is a case of “finally getting it right!” It is nice to see that 20% of Windows users have moved on!
Every so often I do a GSotW that is just TOO good to be true! This is one of them! I used to have an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application called “Omnipage” that was VERY expensive, but worked very well. It was version 12. The latest version for that product is now version 17. But upgrading was going to be EXPENSIVE! So, as usual, I looked for a free, and/or Open Source version! WOW! Did I find a gem! It is TOTALLY FREE, yet works great, is easy to use, and will even do OCR directly from PDFs without printing the document and then scanning it on my scanner! ZOWIE! This rocks!
Smart folks! I love my Android (Droid X) phone! And, so do a lot of other folks, it seems!