Most of us are watching (walking to be accurate) the market for a new tablet that might be the one we are looking for. But rather then just wondering which will suit us well? The right question is what will we be needing it for?

To me think there should be a guide line for each one of us to help us decide what will benefit us and what isn’t? Anyway here is a good points I found it in some website that the author wrote (seems pretty reasonable to me!):

1. Tablet could be used as a good e-reader:

In this point it might for some people but to me after I tried the kindle I don’t think so. Why? If you haven’t read from an electronic paper with e-ink you should right away. Because reading in tablet with a radiation coming from the screen will hurt your eyes and your sight going to fade away with time, unlike the e-reader there aren’t any radiation at all it’s like you reading from a book.

1. Tablets are portable productive station:

True!.

1. Tablet are better that old laptops:

Can’t argue with that!

1. Tablet are great for meetings:

“While you should probably paying attention during meetings, tablets are a great way to take notes unobtrusively and, when things get boring, play Angry Birds on mute.”

1. Tablet are great in sharing photos & 1-1 presentation:

I don’t know about that I haven’t tried it yet! Since I don’t have one.

1. Tablet are great to view movies and pictures:

Maybe if I was in a place without my 46″ TV!

1. Tablet are cheaper from some laptops:

Yeah right! With the same amount of money I pay for an Ipad I could bring a marvels laptop!

1. Tablet are good for travels:

I do think so.

1. Tablet don’t crash!:

I don’t know about that!

1. Tablet are just cool!:

This was the author point of view as he mentioned that it makes you feel like your from the future.

As for the reason not to buy I just copied it and paste it here since is so simple and clear!

1. Are tablets as portable as the phone you already have? You can stick your phone in your pocket and never know it’s there, but can you do the same with an iPad or TouchPad? I don’t think so, unless your name happens to be Baggin’ Saggin’ Barry. Is carrying an extra bag to holster your tablet the end of the world? Clearly not, no, but don’t try to tell me it’s as portable as my handy little Android (or whatever) phone when it’s patently not.

2. Where are the games? And by games I don’t mean things like Angry Birds, with all due respect to our fine feathered friends. Will I be able to play 64-play multi-player in Battlefield with a tablet? Will I be able to waste hundreds of hours playing World of Warcraft? What about Crysis 2? Tablets may have their place in the world, but playing real games to the fullest will always require a discrete GPU-backed PC.

3. How much work can you do on one of these things? Do they run Photoshop? How long will it take to render video? My guess is that my desktop PC, with its overclocked (to 4.0GHz) quad-core processor and hundreds of gigabytes of free space, will be able to render a video 800 times in succession before a tablet can render a video just once.

4. “You can browse the Web with a tablet while watching TV on your couch! And movies look great on them!” All fair points, but I can already browse the Web on my couch with my battle-tested laptop, so why get another device to do the same thing? That doesn’t make much sense, does it? As for movies, well, I prefer watching them on with a proper setup—Blu-ray player, big screen TV, surround sound, the works—as opposed to watching them cramped on a train, or even hunched over in bed.

5. Something better will come along in a few months. Remember when netbooks were all the rage a couple of years ago? The future of computing, and so forth. You barely see them mentioned anymore, and that’s because tablets are the new soup du jour. In four years we’ll all be writing “Remember tablets?” articles, lamenting having spent all that money on a silly piece of transitionary technology.

Google had announced of it’s newest product for Chrome “The Web Store”, it’s the same thing as android market which contains web apps (Application which was built with web technology). This new idea is a revolutionary in such way it could bring more entertainment and gadget to browsing which will make net surfing a real fun.

With web store you could download extensions to your web browser (Chrome only!) which could bring a real rich experience in browsing, for example there is Google TV! After installing it which it will not take more than seconds, you could watch a verity of channels. Another extension “blogger” if you have a blog you could easily blog an article automatically to your blog. HTML editor extension for any one interesting in web developing. In the end it will make chrome browser like a desktop no need to press desktop button or shortcut.

Below is a snapshot of my browser with the extensions:

To be honest, until I tried it, I didn’t completely “get it.” What sort of “web apps” were out there, just waiting to be integrated with my browser that didn’t already exist as a rich website that could just be opened in a new tab? I spend most of my time in a browser anyway and when I’m not, I’m using some developer IDE these are obviously not going to run in a browser tab.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore?hl=en-US

Not 24 hours after Steve Jobs told his minions that Google’s Don’t Be Evil mantra was “B.S.” (or “crap” depending on who you listen to) Google answers by pushing out an Android update to Nexus One users that includes multi-touch (and other Android goodness).
Google, up until yesterday, left multi-touch off its U.S. Android phones, presumably in deference to Apple’s multi-touch patent.
It was also rumored that Apple asked Google not to release multitouch in the U.S. to avoid the IP aggression we’ve seen it take against Palm for including multi-touch in the Pre.
I’m not saying that Google released the Nexus One multi-touch update because of Jobs’ comments, but it may have been pushed out a little sooner because of them.
More evidence of how the relationship between Apple and Google has chilled lately.
The N1 update takes the Android/iPhone battle to a new level and frankly, the ball’s in Apple’s court. Jobs promised that the next iPhone would be A+ and that Android won’t be able to keep up with it.
Them’s fighting words, Steve!
If Apple doesn’t address a majority of the items on my iPhone wishlist (background apps, voice search, improved home/lock screens, widgets, etc.) with its “A+” release we’ll know that Jobs was just trash-talking and that Android has clearly taken the lead in the smartphone wars.
Note: Impatient Nexus One owners can force the firmware update by following this technique. It preserves your data and apps and doesn’t require root access.

Hereunder a set of backgrounds devided into folders, and the folders are:

Abstract  : 34 pics

under water : 46 pics

Vista: 118 pics

Black & White: 34 pics

Winter: 107 pics

Vista Black: 34 pics

Lastly,  Landscape: 52 pics

To download the set please click the picture below:

File Size/ 125 MB

File Type/ ZIP

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Thanks All !

Till today, more than 400 Palestinian killed (shaheed) in Gaza between Baby, Young and Old men and women. The strange thing is the silence from the Security Council about this massacre. Unfortunately, most of western media “as usual” tries to overturn the facts by showing Israel as injustice.

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The last pic shows some jewish how are watching the massacre and happy for it!

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some of the Destruction made by Israel

A spokesman for the Oregon State Police, Lt. Gregg Hastings, said a Woodburn police officer died. He did not identify him.

He also said the blast seriously injured the Woodburn police chief.

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After nine months of searching for work, Ben Klausner thought he’d finally caught a break when he landed a contract gig in September doing security work for Microsoft’s cloud computing project.

Just a month after he started, though, he learned his contract was ending. Now Klausner, a 55-year-old former IBM worker finds himself again out of work. And the prospects for employment look even dimmer than they were before the Microsoft job.

Klausner

“It was frustrating,” he said of his brief Microsoft experience. “You go in and you expect to be there for a year or more and after a month they tell you you have another 30 days.”

Klausner’s story is the kind that unemployment statistics and headlines don’t often take into account. Unlike companies that have had widespread cuts, Microsoft hasn’t announced broad layoffs. However, that doesn’t mean the ranks of those doing work for Microsoft are as robust as they once were.

Microsoft has sharply slowed hiring and cut a significant–but unspecified–number of contractors. The company has also said it is looking to reduce its bills from its vendors, an action that could also trim the ranks of those who do business on Microsoft’s behalf.

“I don’t think many people are aware that Microsoft has cut back a lot of projects,” Klausner said.

Klausner said he tried to find another job either within Microsoft or at the consulting company through which he got the Microsoft work, but he came up empty. “They talked about finding other things, but they didn’t have anything,” he said.

Things haven’t worked out the way Klausner planned when he left his IBM job in Texas nearly a decade ago. Klausner, a ham radio enthusiast and science fiction fan, had grown tired of Texas and wasn’t enjoying his latest assignment at IBM. He headed to Seattle at the peak of the dot-com boom because of its low unemployment rate and fast-growing technology sector.

“It was the height of the boom, so I figured I could make a move,” said Klausner, whose resume includes work as a systems and network architect in addition to his security work. He found jobs at a couple of Seattle-area start-ups, but after the dot-com bust, he found steady work harder to come by.

Eventually, he settled on finding work as a contractor–one of the legions of tech workers that companies hire for specific projects. “I’ve been doing contract work for about four years; not so much by choice but by circumstance. It’s what was available.”

But now, Klausner said he doesn’t find very many jobs even for contractors. He said he applies for several jobs each day but that there’s a huge amount of competition, noting that the recent failure of Washington Mutual has put even more technical folks in competition for the slots that do come open. “There just aren’t that many coming up either,” he said.

For now, Klausner is also curtailing spending as best he can. “I’m going into what I think of as hermit mode,” he said. “I don’t go out much. I don’t buy much. I was on the verge of replacing my car and that went on hold.”

Instead, he is relying on his 12-year-old Ford Explorer as he searches for new work. That, he hopes, will make his savings last longer.

“Of course, investments have gone in the toilet so it’s not as big a cushion as I would have liked,” Klausner said. “I’ve got some savings for a couple of months, but it could be a real problem if this goes on.”

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The report is end but the crisis is going on. So, what’s coming next?

Source: CNET

Here is a rare pictures for Mecca, some of the pictures took at the last of 19th century.

AlAbas House near to Alka`aba

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AlMas`a , it was out the holy mosque

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Alka`aba without robe 

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old pic

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 The door of Alka`aba

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 The Black Stone

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rare pics

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Prophet Abraham Shrine

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AlSafa Door before 100 years

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Zamzam Water

 Zamzam Well, one of the god miracles

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Zamzam Water for visitors

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King Faisal Bin Abdulaziz

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Makkah Flood in 1941

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Prophet Abraham Shrine

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” Thousands more jobs are in danger after the world’s biggest bank announced a huge round of redundancies yesterday. Citigroup is cutting 52,000 jobs after losing £13billion over the past year. Chairman Win Bischoff warned that the axe would fall ‘particularly heavily’ at Citigroup’s European headquarters in Canary Wharf, East London, where the U.S. bank employs more than 10,000.

The purge at Citigroup –which comes on top of 23,000 job losses already announced - will intensify fears of further cuts in the banking sector. Royal Bank of Scotland is preparing to slash 3,000 positions at its investment banking division after losing billions on ‘toxic’ U.S. mortgages. And Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs is getting rid of 3,200 staff in a move that threatens hundreds of jobs at its City operation.

Even HSBC, which has emerged from the credit crisis relatively unscathed, is axing 450 staff in its Hong
Kong office as the Asian economy stalls. The cutbacks will see tens of thousands of posts go in industries servicing the banks, such as printers and catering and security firms.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research also predicts that more than 30,000 estate agents could lose their jobs as a result of the housing market collapse. Most of them work in sales, because this side of the business is virtually paralysed. Ben Read, the CEBR’s managing economist, said: ‘Estate agents are reducing staff to skeleton levels.’

Source: dailymail