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Dell Inspiron Duo – Its a Tablet, no Netbook, no Both its a Hybrid PC
Discover New Way of Typing on your Android Smartphone with 8pen
CSS Sprites: What is it and How can you reduce Webpage loading time?

Dell Inspiron Duo – Its a Tablet, no Netbook, no Both its a Hybrid PC

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 10:07 PM PST

Year 2010 is marked as an year of Tablet PCs with release of iPad, Samsung Tab and even Dell had their Streak Android tablet. Now, Dell has come up with a Hybrid Tablet PC which is a combination of Notebook and Tablet. Sources says that this 10 inch Hybrid machine runs on Windows 7.

The “Touch Input War” from the Mobile Phone battle field has spread to the Personal Computers. Again spearheaded by Apple with its iPad and then followed by other like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Archos 9 PC Tablet, Blackberry Playbook and more. Dell has tablet PCs like the Latitude XT2 and Tablets like Dell Streak in the market now. But I think this device is aimed at the fine line that exists between Tablets and Tablet PCs. Dell Inspiron Duo, a hybrid device that can switch from tablet to netbook just by a flip of the lid as shown in the Picture and the video below.

Dell Inspiron Duo Tech Specs

10-inch Inspiron Duo
LED-Backlit LCD
Screen surface: Glossy
Run on Windows 7
Intel Dual-Core Atom N550
Processing speed 1.5 GHz
WiFi 802.11 n
Input Methods: Keyboard, Trackpad, Touch Screen
Available colors: Black, Blue, Red

Dell Inspiron Duo Price and Availability

Dell Inspiron Duo was Announced at Intel Developing Forum, September 14 in San Francisco, California and expected to be officially released possibly on 23 November. There is no news about Indian release. Price will play a vital role to become Customer choice and I guess it will be more than Apple iPad because it’s not just tablet!

Have a look at introductory official video of Dell Inspiron Duo:

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Discover New Way of Typing on your Android Smartphone with 8pen

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 08:44 PM PST

Typing messages and emails on touch enabled phones is serious problem till date. Sure there are many options available on the phone such as auto completion, text prediction and auto error correction but none of them make sense some time. Swype technology was also a big break through in the development process where you can type in your words by just swyping on the on screen QWERTY keyboard. No doubts these methods are considerable but one encounters serious problem when he needs to enter a non dictionary word while chatting with his friend.

Instead of the conventional QWERTY keyboard 8pen provide all new way of typing words on your device. The main screen is separated into four section each of which contain 8 character each. The letters are selected in a unique gesture of the finger. Explanation of the usage of keyboard is little tough in words so below is the short video to give you a better insight.

Feature of the 8pen keyboard

Provide a new way of typing and you will never regret again for smaller screen.
User can enter non dictionary word without any training.
Reduces typing errors.
Gesture support for quick text.
Once you have mastered you can type without even looking at your screen.

Just install the application scanning the below provided QR code and set it as default keyboard after the brief tutorial.

To know more about the development check out the official website

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CSS Sprites: What is it and How can you reduce Webpage loading time?

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 07:39 PM PST

CSS sprites allow you to reduce the number of HTTP requests by creating a single file that contains all the images merge out in a grid and let the browser to make a single call to the server. A single call to the server let the browser to in the reduction of number of HTTP, which helps in increasing the web page’s performance.

Why CSS Sprites gaining popularity?

Rather than HTML content images are the major area of concern in increasing or decreasing the web page performance considerably. There are atleast 3-4 images in every web page which are much responsible for taking the much more time to download at the client site.

The real statistics which prove the above fact is done by “The 80/20 rule which tells us about reducing http requests“.

Table : Time Spent in loading Popular Websites

	Time Retrieving HTML	Time elsewhere
Yahoo!	10%	90%
Google	25%	75%
MySpace	9%	91%
MSN	5%	95%
ebay	5%	95%
Amazon	38%	62%
Youtube	9%	91%
CNN	15%	85%

So, from the above statistics it is clear that Why CSS Sprites gaining popularity and what role it has to play in a web page.

Advantages of CSS Sprites

1. Reduces number of HTTP requests

Whenever a user visits on a website, the browser requests the data from the server. The client(i.e.browser) made an http request to load the page from the server on which it is save. Every image on a webpage made a different http request to the server, so more number of images leads to more HTTP requests to the server which ultimately leads to more downloading time. So, CSS Sprites helps in reducing number of http requests by combining number of images in a single image.

2. Saves downloading time of webpage

Reducing number of images on the webpage helps in saving the downloading time of the web page and ultimately increase the web page’s performance. CSS sprites helps in merging number of images which saves the downloading time.

3. Reduced file size

CSS Sprites containing more number of smaller images will have more savings on file size than the cumulative of individual images. So, combining smaller images in a single images reduced the file size and helps in the web page’s performance effectively.

4. Flexibility

Flexibility in a web page is very important feature, if your webpage has more flexibility the user loves to visit back to your site. CSS Sprites helps in making your web page more flexible.

How to implement it?

CSS Sprites are really simple to implement on your webpage. There are a lot CSS Sprites generators available online from which CSS Sprites Generator is one of them. CSS Sprites Generator is one of the best generator as it has a simple mechanism to generate a code to make your web page more efficient then ever. You can choose as much number of images as you want to make them as a single image so that it would make your web page more attractive and a efficient one. You can also choose the padding between the two elements you choose, border around the whole image, background colour and how to align them. You can see the preview and can generate the code.

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