Apple Soon to release ITablet
* Screen size: 9.7 inches
* Chipset: Intel dual core or Samsung ARM11
* OS: App-store-compatible version of OS X
* Release date: Jan 2010
* Price: $500 – $800

1 of the main reasons Apple didn’t release the iTablet is because the goal was NOT to have an OS like the Itouch, but rather the full OS. This was only possible after Snow Leopard arrived with a smaller footprint. You could only imagine that apple will make this very thin, light, powerful, fast and the most important thing is a very good response to touch. In till now Apple is probably the ONLY Touch based device that actually responds! I recall when HTC came out with some “competitors” against the iphone – what a joke! But now rumors seem to slide to not having snow leopard but rather having iPhone OS 4.0 which will support all of the iphone apps in small screens like widgets. You can believe there will be multitasking and iTunes  WILL be updated with Itunes 10 to support eBooks. Maybe it’s time they change the Name of iTunes to iEverything.

Winner Features we would love to see:

• Intel Quad Core (doubtful)
• Multi Function Pullout Pen (possible)
• DVDR Drive (doubtful)
• Bluetooth (probable)
• USB inputs (probable)
• Foldout Stand (doubtful)
• iChat Camera (probable)
• 5mp Camera (possible)
• Built in Speakers(probable)
• Built in Microphone(probable)
• Slide Out Remote Control (doubtful)
• Portable Keyboard Accessory (doubtful)

What is The Levelator®?

Do you believe in magic? You will after using The Levelator® to enhance your podcast. And you’ll be amazed that it’s free, now even for commercial use.

So what is The Levelator®? It’s software that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better.

Have you ever recorded an interview in which you and your guest ended up at different volumes? How about a panel discussion where some people were close to microphones and others were not? These are the problems the post-production engineers of Team ITC here at The Conversations Network solve every day, and it used to take them hours of painstaking work with expensive and complex tools like SoundTrack Pro, Audacity, Sound Forge or Audition to solve them. Now it takes mere seconds. Seriously. The Levelator® is unlike any other audio tool you’ve ever seen, heard or used. It’s magic. And it’s free.

You’ll believe in magic.

Windows

• Requires Windows XP, Vista or 7
• Download The Levelator® for Windows (version 2.0.3)

OS X

• Requires OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later
• Download The Levelator® for OS X (version 2.0.3)

Linux

• Built and tested on Ubuntu (Feisty Faun)
• Requires Python 2.5 and wxPython
• Download The Levelator® for Ubuntu Feisty Faun (Python 2.5)
• Will NOT work with Ubuntu Edgy Eft or Python 2.4

WordPress 2.9 arrives, with an image editor and a trash folder

Good news for users of the popular WordPress blogging platform: WordPress 2.9 has arrived, and it includes some major new features that make blogging easier, as well as hundreds of under-the-hood improvements to important stuff like databases and SEO. The most visible new features are a built-in image editor, a much easier way to embed video, a better plug-in updater, and a trash for your deleted posts and files.

The image editor allows you to resize, crop, flip or rotate your images from within WordPress, which makes fitting your image into a post a whole lot easier. Sometimes it’s just not worth opening Photoshop for those quick adjustments. On the video front, you can now paste a URL from any of several major video sites (including YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr and Google Video) and WordPress will recognize and embed the video automatically.

The new plug-in updater does batch updates, so you can install the latest version of up to 10 plug-ins at once. Previously, you had to click each one individually, which was tedious for people with lots of gadgets installed. The new updater also automatically checks to make sure a plug-in is compatible with your WordPress install, so you don’t have to fear something mysteriously breaking when you do an update.

Trash seems like something WordPress should have included a long time ago. Now instead of asking whether you really want to delete that post or file, WordPress will just move it to the new trash, where it can be recovered if you change your mind. It’s a simple feature, but I think it will avert a lot of data loss catastrophes and save a lot of hassle.

All in all, WordPress 2.9 looks like a major improvement, and it should make your blogging life easier and more productive.

[Thanks Jay ]

Depending on your college/university you may just qualify for a Windows 7 Upgrade for $29.99. About time Microsoft stops ripping us off!

Now maybe they can help the full retail price and not just the student! Leave it to Apple to pave the yellow brick road and Microsoft trying to follow and mess it up.

Windows 7