State of the Art - David Pogue’s Review of the iPad - NYTimes.co. But the real fun begins when you try the apps that were specially designed for the iPad’s bigger screen. (When the iPad section of the App Store opens Saturday, it will start with 1,000 of them.) That Scrabble app shows the whole board without your zooming or panning: a free companion app for your iPhone or Touch is called Tile Rack; it lets you fiddle with your letters in private, then flick them wirelessly onto the iPad’s screen. Newspaper apps will reproduce the layout, photos and colors of a real newspaper. The Marvel comic-book app is brilliant in its vividness and panel-by-panel navigation. Hulu.com, the Web’s headquarters for free hit TV shows, won’t confirm the rumors that it’s working on an iPad app, but wow — can you imagine? Speaking of video: Apple asserts that the iPad runs 10 hours on a charge of its nonremovable battery — but we all know you can’t trust the manufacturer. And the techies are right about another thing: the iPad is not a laptop.
A real person, a lot like you. My friend Sara has run a small online business out of her living room for 12 years. It's her whole life. She takes it very very personally. Last week, one of her clients sent her a 10-page-long scathing email, chopping her down, calling her a scam artist and other vicious personal insults, saying she was going to sue her for everything she's worth as retribution for her mis-handled account. Devastated, Sara turned off her computer and cried. She shut off the phones and closed up shop for the day. On Sunday, she spent about five hours - most of the day - carefully addressing every point in this 10-page email, then went through the client's website, learning everything about her, and offered all kinds of advice, suggestions, and connections.
The next day after sending the email and refund, she called the client to try to talk through this with her. The client cheerfully took her call and said, “Oh don't worry about it! My friend Valerie was doing online dating. I felt for those guys. TubeTop, The World's First Inflatable Laptop. Photo Download: car / bus / bicycle. Flowchart: How You'll Inevitably Shatter Your iPad - apple ipad. MOVIES: The 15 WORST Opening Weekends In Box Office History - Le. Information is beautiful: war games | News. Amid confusion over the rise in defence cuts, I was surprised to learn that the UK has one of the biggest military budgets in the world - nearly £40bn ($60 bn) in 2008.
But I was less surprised to see who had the biggest. Yep, the United States spent a staggering $607bn (£402 bn) on defence in 2008. Currently engaged in what will likely be the longest ground war in US history in Afghanistan. Harbourer of thousands of nuclear weapons. 1.5m soldiers. Here's that bloated military budget in context. The defence budgets of the other top nine countries can be neatly accommodated inside the US budget. So the US is an aggressive, war-mongeringing military machine, right? But is that true? Military units First of all, the enormity of the US military budget is not just down to a powerful military-industrial complex.
In fact, it's vastly rich. (This is a reworking of an image from the blog ASecondHandConjecture.com) The US is knocked down into 8th place by such nations as Jordan, Burundi and Georgia. B0CsT.jpg (JPEG Image, 480x389 pixels)