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What does the “S” stand for?

When I ask Apple this, they’re vague in their response. They note that some people say it stands for “Special” or “Super”. Others say it’s for “Speed” — much like the iPhone 3GS, the successor to the iPhone 3G. Or maybe it’s “Storage” (this is the first iPhone with 64 GB option — and with iCloud storage). Or “Sprint” (this is the first iPhone to run on that network in the U.S.) Or perhaps it’s for “Speech” or “Siri”. Either of these last two would get my vote. The point is, the “S” can stand for any number of things depending on who is using the device. Here’s all I know for certain: this is the best iPhone yet.

Unsurprisingly, there was a lot of talk in the blogosphere following the unveiling of the iPhone 4S last week. Some pundits seemed underwhelmed by what was unveiled on stage. “Where’s the iPhone 5?,” many wondered. Arguing over names is silly — Apple could have easily called this device the “iPhone 5?. But I assume they chose not to for the same reason that some actually felt underwhelmed: the iPhone 4S looks exactly like the iPhone 4. Fair or not, if a device looks the same, many will assume it is largely the same.

But that would be selling the iPhone 4S well short. While it does look the same as the iPhone 4, the 4S contains innards that are a significant upgrade over the previous model. The two biggest changes are the faster chip — the A5 over the A4 — and the much-improved camera. Combine those with the new iOS 5 software, and you have what will definitely be a worthwhile upgrade for many users. And when you throw in the amazing new voice-driven “intelligent assistant” Siri, it becomes a no-brainer, in my mind. These are the aspects I’m going to focus on.

The A5

First of all, the iPhone 4S blows away the iPhone 4 when it comes to speed. For the past week, I’ve been testing all of my most-used apps and the differences range from solid to awesome. At first glance, the speed difference may seem subtle. But over time, it adds up and becomes apparent. I would switch back to my iPhone 4 and get frustrated by the lag.

Apps that used to take a longer time to perform a task — applying a filter in Camera+, for example — now work much faster. More generally, every app seems to load quite a bit faster. The best way to see this is to load the Settings app that is built into iOS. On the iPhone 4, it can take up to 3 seconds to load. On the iPhone 4S, it loads in less than a second. And the 4S is faster at switching between apps when multi-tasking.

Better still is the performance boost that games get. Apple showcased Infinity Blade 2 during their demo last week, but the improvements to even less graphic-intensive games is impressive. Apple says that graphics can render up to seven times quicker thanks to the A5.

The Camera

The camera is an even bigger deal to me. As I’ve been following for some time, and Apple noted last week, the iPhone has become the most popular camera in the world if you go by the images uploaded to Flickr. And it’s not even close. This new camera in the iPhone 4S goes above and beyond. And it’s going to push that lead even further.

If the point-and-shoot market wasn’t in trouble before, it will be now.

Much will be made about the upgrade from 5 megapixels to 8 megapixels with the iPhone 4S. But the bigger difference is the engineering behind the new camera. Apple notes with pride that their engineers were able to completely re-architect this tiny camera to produce images that are on par with the nicest point-and-shoots available. They credit five “precision elements” to record incoming light (versus four in the already excellent iPhone 4 camera) and the inclusion of a larger f/2.4 aperture to bring in more light.

I was actually in London last week when I got the 4S. For the trip, I brought my Canon S95, a $400 point-and-shoot which is generally considered to be one of the best. I barely used it. While it still bests the iPhone 4S in low-light settings, for all most other environments, it’s hard to tell the difference. Yes, the S95 is still better, but it’s no longer so much better than it can trump a device that I always have in my pocket with me anyway. Yep, point-and-shoots are screwed. (In case that wasn’t already abundantly clear.)

Also great is that the iPhone 4S camera can shoot 1080p video for the first time. The iPhone 4 is limited to 720p. The 4S also features video stabilization, to ensure your home videos won’t make viewers want to vomit. Testing this out, it seems to work pretty well.

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If you’re not already running on the developer build of iOS 5 (whether you’re an actual developer, or a cough-cough-yeah-for-sure-I’m-totally-a-”developer”-shut-up-and-give-me-iOS-5), tomorrow’s the big day. After roughly 4 months of Beta builds, iOS 5 is finally launching to everybody.

Before you can dive in, though, you’ll need iTunes 10.5 — anything less just won’t do the trick. Looking to ensure that their servers don’t eat it too hard with tomorrow’s launch, Apple has opted to make the iTunes bit of the equation available this morning.

It’s been a while since 10.5 began rolling out in Beta capacity, so here’s a quick recap of the big new features:

• iTunes Match: For $25 a year, iTunes Match will give you legal digital access to any songs you own (be it through legal means or not). Match won’t actually launch until late October, but support is built into 10.5.
• Patches a number of Windows-specific security issues
• WiFi syncing support (when paired with iOS 5)
• Purchase history (for books, apps, etc) through iCloud

If you’ve got a beta build of iTunes 10.5 already up and running, you’ll need to reinstall manually to move to the final release (the Beta considers itself “Up to date”, though it’s set to expire in around 3 days.) Otherwise, you can update iTunes through the usual means, or by downloading it manually here.

Chances are that most are familiar with the idea of live streaming. Be it the Olympics or a product trade show, just about every savvy internet user is at least versed with the concept. However, on the flip side, how many have broadcasted live streams themselves? Probably not many and this article looks to address how to fulfill that need for those would-be-channel broadcasters amongst us.

Today, live video content is everywhere if one wants to look for it. The most readily available way to do it yourself is one-on-one chatting with a webcam using chat ala MSN Messenger. Expanding beyond one-on-one, though, is where things get tricky. Making that experience more like a traditional TV channel, where people can just watch without sharing their contact information with each other, is all but unheard of even… or that’s the way it was.

A reader pointed out DaCast to me, which looks to change that. It’s just launching, but after playing around with the available beta earlier I have to say it seems like a pretty easy and quick way to do internet broadcasting. People can even post the live streams elsewhere, like on their own webpage. It can be done professionally or on the cheap too, as one can just play around with their normal webcam and start broadcasting live.

The service is free to start, but just know that if you broadcast a certain amount (above 10GB according to the site) they will start to charge you. At that point, it’s still pretty cheap costing like a $1 or so for a half hour, although that depends on how many are watching. If one doesn’t mind having ads, or charging people directly, then of course it never costs anything and can even make some money too.

All in all, it might be a bit more professional than many will need or use it for, but it’s a great way to start live streaming to see what it’s like. I’ll be interested to see what people do with this in the coming months too, and feel free to post a link to a broadcast in the comments if anyone wants to share. ”

The new extension

If you are a webmaster, then you might on a hunt for better and Advanced SEO tools which helps to optimize your site. Well, if you use Google Chrome and feel that it lacks seo extensions as compared to other web browsers, then your problem is solved with the Sorezki extension. This is a chrome seo extension and is very simple to install. The list of things you gain from this extension is long. This extension display stats from search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Alexa, Dmoz, etc. you can even keep a track over social media activities stats from certain pages of Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Delicious, etc.

Features that it offers

Sorezki SEO Plus is a completely free tool for enhancing your seo activities. With the features offered by this extension, you can easily promote your site. This tool also displays SEO errors as well as details from any webpage you want like Server details, Markup, Keyword Density, etc. It even displays a tab beneath the optimization menu with solutions recommended for a particular error. This extension is a gateway to Google Analytics, On-page stats, links of competitors, backlink stats, Google PageRank, markup validation, search tools based on geo-location. There are no issues related with privacy, so you are just a click away from all the seo information you are looking for.

Other such tools

There is another such seo tool out there designed for Joomla. This tool is linkr, which is used for linking menu items articles, contacts, etc while you are editing content. This extension also let you put in bookmarking links like Digg and links of associated articles. This extension is also clean, hassle free, and very simple to use. However, if you are a fan of Google Chrome, then nothing can be better than the new seo extension from Sorezki, because you can use it without worrying about safety issues.

I was talking not long ago about using VLC to watch internet TV but today the streaming technology is yet far beyond. Technology is now doing for TV what TV couldn’t do for itself- Making it relevant. The days of primitive programming and broadcast timeslots are on the way out, a few decades after they should have been in museums. If you can imagine SEO- based TV programming, it’s on its way, whether the networks or anyone else likes it or not.

The stage was originally set by internet radio. This rather harmless looking concept is the basis of internet TV as a working proposition. It was established long ago that the net could take broadcasts from old style conventional media. If you’ve ever used iTunes, you’ll be aware how easy it is to broadcast good quality material online. This is good practice, and it’s good infrastructure for low cost broadcasting.
There’s a cultural element that needs to be understood, too. The new generation of TV audiences aren’t used to sitting in front of a screen and doing nothing. Internet TV is likely to be ultra-interactive, with multi million person audiences. This could become MMORPG for the game shows of the future, and if you can imagine Oprah with a live audience of 40 million people, that’s what’s likely to happen.

Even if you’re not a Canadian (based on stats it seems I have more visitors from US than Canada) you might find this article informative as this new law is going to apply soon enough in pretty much every country in the world. And this is gonna change (almost) everything…

While UN declared 2 weeks ago that the access to the internet is a human right, some Canadian internet providers are working in implementing a law which is limiting our access to the internet. How is this even possible in a full era of computers and Internet?

Earlier this year, the Canadian Radio-Telecommunication Commission issued a ruling that forces small ISPs to charge their customers per-gigabyte (Usage-Based Billing) for the bandwidth they use. What this means is that instead of paying a flat monthly rate for high speed internet you will instead be paying for every gigabyte of your internet traffic. Clearly, this is not as useful as paying a single price for an unlimited amount of bandwidth (well, except of a couple small internet providers, the big ones are not offering anyway unlimited bandwidth). And in practice it only benefits the large telecoms that can make more money by limiting their customers’ bandwidth and charging them overage fees.

The larger Canadian ISPs like Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, and Shaw Communications have already adopted this model. The smaller, regional ISPs are capable of being coerced into this same model because they have to lease their internet infrastructure from the big telecoms. In an attempt to placate the smaller ISPs the CRTC gave them a 15% discount on these leasing agreements, but at the same time forced them into an anti-competitive business model. By forcing the smaller ISPs to charge their customers per-gigbayte, it removes one of the more consumer friendly features of the small ISPs.

The reason for instituting Usage-Based Billing (UBB) is ostensibly to conserve network capacity. Large-bandwidth services like Netflix and YouTube have increased Internet traffic exponentially, increasing demand on ISPs to deliver faster connections. While on the surface this seems like a legitimate argument for UBB, it fails to take into account the fact that the smaller ISPs have consistently been able to offer large amounts of bandwidth for less money than the big telecoms. This is despite having less infrastructure to work with and having to pay the big telecoms for that same infrastructure.

According to a financial report published by Netflix, the cost to the ISP for sending one gigabyte of data through their network is less than a penny. Charging just $1 for a gigabyte of data would be exorbitantly overpriced and a complete rip-off for the consumer. And yet this is exactly what the CRTC and the big telecoms intend to do with Canada.

Other ISPs around the world have expressed an interest in adopting plans similar to Canada’s UBB. If the CRTC’s plan goes through unopposed, then soon we will be seeing the end of unlimited internet access everywhere.

I really want to talk today about smartphones. Are they really smart? I honestly don’t think so. Here a few things I would like to see included with phones; things which, if included, would make them genuinely …smart

First of all I think for a phone to be considered smart it should work based on user behavior. This means that my phone should respond to me. Its ring, brightness, wallpaper, etc., should respond to what I like, who I am, what I do on daily basis. My phone’s behavior should be influenced by the friends I have; even the music I like. I doubt that you recognize anything even remotely like this on the present generation of smartphones.

My dream phone; that true smart phone, should be able to change the ringtone volume based on what activities I’m doing. If I’m riding a bus or subway, or if I am in a public place or any place where there is a lot of noise, my dream smart phone should be able to detect this and automatically make the ring tone louder. Conversely, when I’m sleeping, reading in silence, praying (well not so usual for me though) or just enjoying a relaxing day, a true smart phone would know enough to lower the volume so I won’t have a stroke when it begins ringing.

Another aspect of a truly smart phone would be the ability to rearrange my phone contacts based on persons I call frequently – the top being the one I call the most so I don’t have to browse like crazy every time I want to call my wife. It should be able to rearrange my playlist putting my favorite singer at the top of the list. It should be able to change the brightness of its background based on the time of day or the ambient lighting around me. A truly smart phone would be able to change its background picture to go with my mood (or work schedule), and it should definitely know enough to be able to have my most used phone apps ready when I need them.

A real smart phone would “know” when it is time for my dentist visit, or when I am due for a general check-up, and be able to communicate with my car and tell me when my car needs gas. How would a smart phone know it is time for my car’s tank to be filled? Simple – every “smart” phone has a geolocation feature. This feature can tell when you were last stopped to get gas. Simple calculations would enable it to know how many kilometers you spent on road, how fast you drove and what the temperature is outside. Putting all of these things together, along with current traffic patterns, the true smart phone would be able to tell you when you are due to fill up your tank.

The dream smart phone would also be able to reduce or eliminate all calls or alerts while you are sleeping. It would know which people’s calls to let through, and which to hold until a more convenient time. This would help to prevent unwanted late night calls, ensuring that you get a sound night’s sleep.

I got an HTC couple of weeks ago. They are saying it is smart phone, but is it really? In truth, except the fact that it lowers its ring volume when you pick it up (and the fact that you can make it stop ringing by turning it upside down) it really isn’t that smart at all.

I also have an iPhone4, which is advertised as being one of the best smartphones there is, but what is actually smart about it? Is it the retina display? Is it the 5MP dual camera on the front and the back? I don’t think so. Even the battery on the iPhone4 is not smart. My old Nokia 5110 that I’ve had for several years has a battery that is ten times better than the iPhone 4!

How about performance? Is it performance that makes the smartphones better? Well, the new smartphones certainly have a great deal of power. They have fast CPU’s and amazing screen quality, but power and screen quality do not make smarter a phone.

What about you? What would you like you phone to be able of?

No, I think that we have long ways to go before we have true smartphones. The way I’m imaging a true smart phone is as a go-between; a buffer between you and the world. It would be like a secretary or perhaps, more accurately, like a personal assistant or even a guardian who helps you to get the best treatment, who protects you, advises you; in short, who helps you to have achieved a better life.

The Nokia X6 comes with music but should you come a’calling?

The 32GB X6 was first launched at Nokia World in September last year along with N900 Maemo wonder that no one could stop talking about but still managed to get a fair bit of attention with its 3.2″ capacitive touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera and, more importantly, the Comes With Music service. For the uninitiated, the service allows you to download tracks from a library of four million songs over the course of 12 months for free. Yes, free.

After being made available in sixteen other countries including the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa since 2008, Comes With Music recently made its regional debut signing on leading Arabic labels such as Rotana, Melody and Mazzika and offering a selection of Western as well as Arabic music. That in itself deserves applause since Apple has been ignoring the Arab world for a long long time now in terms of opening dedicated iTunes stores with localised content.

To use the service you need to install the Nokia Ovi Player on your PC, which is registered along with your handset, using a special code included within the X6 pack.  I decided to install the entire Ovi Suite, with Player as just one of the components. That didn’t go so well since the Ovi Suite is a whopping 93MB file and nearly took my laptop to the happy gadget place in the sky. My second attempt on a heartier desktop was more successful.

The setup process, which requires you to create a dedicated account, is fairly straightforward. Within minutes I was selecting songs like a kid in a ear candy store. The usual Western pop princesses and rock gods aside, I also found tracks from the good ol’ Frank, Icelandic wonders Sigur Ros and Niger musicians Etran Finatawa who struck all the right chords at WOMAD Abu Dhabi last year.