Turn off the weather and stock widgets in iOS 5 Notification Center

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Apple Weather and Stock Widgets, iOS 5, IPad, iPhone, Widgets

You might want to remove these widgets after your upgrade coz they will run your data plan through the roof.

Not everybody cares about stock prices or the weather. Here’s how to remove the weather and stock widgets from the iOS 5 Notification Center.

1. Open the Settings app on your iOS 5 device.

2. Tap on Notifications.

3. Look down the list of apps in Notifications and tap on the ones you want to turn off.

4. When the app’s screen comes up, simply toggle the setting from On to Off.

5. Continue toggling until the weather, stocks and any other widgets you don’t like are set to off.

6. The widgets you’ve turned off will now appear under the Not In Notification Center category on the Notifications screen.

Just A Quick Press – A Heads-Up!

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Android, Dial-up, IPad, IPad 2, PlayBook, PS1, Windows Vista

Many industry notable voices have been quick to update us all on what’s new in the tech market in terms of gadgets. Notably so is the clear indication that Tablets are getting most of the shine. But let’s try and know and understand what it is that’s out there before jumping on the bandwagon.

What’s Old and soon to be Out:

[1]        The iPad (1)

Though still an efficient tablet in it’s own sense and also neat toy, it’s old news and getting one is like going to the shops and buying half a dozen packets of milk that are due to expire the following day.

[2]        Any phone or tablet that runs on Android 2.2

Android 3.0 is here as well as Android Honeycomb! This is where style meets quality.

[3]        Symbian

It’s dead! Long live Symbian…now let’s move on.

[4]        Core 2 Duo chip driven laptops/desktops

Like really? I mean you would actually walk past an i7, i5, or an i3 chip to get a core 2 duo? Think about it and get back to me….take your time!

[5]        A yahoo mail account

Hahahahahahahaha

[6]        Windows Vista

The biggest mistake Microsoft ever made! This OS went against Microsoft’s original mantra of “A computer on every desk in every home”. How? Well at the time of it’s release in 2005, most PC users had a minimum of 512MB of RAM in their machines, whereas Vista came with a minimum requirement of 1GB for the Home Basic. My view, any OS that forces you to change your hardware just to get it going is CRAP!!

[7]        PS1

Move on! The only cool old thing coming back is Nintendo.

[8]        VHS

WOW! Like slap me twice and call me Rufus, do people still have these in their living rooms?

[9]        Dial-up

What century are you in? Even worse when you tell me it’s a 512kb line.

[10]       CRT Monitors

………………………………. nuff said!

Basically what I’m saying is that you need to actually know and not just believe what you read about a product…even if it’s the in-thing at the moment. Everything has it’s own flaws yes, like the iPad 2 doesn’t support flash but the BB PlayBook does, thus grasping the edge when it comes to certain applications. As cool as the iPad 2 is it also requires proprietary peripherals, whereas the BB PlayBook doesn’t. These are just the few notables that you need to know about before committing R6 – 8 grand on a gadget that you might find not so useful in a year’s time. Think ahead, research and get the best buy.

Tablet Wars – Will The Tablet Boom Be Short Lived?

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BlackBerry PlayBook, Gigabyte, HP TouchPad, IPad, IPad 2, Motorola Xoom, Samsung GalaxyTab, Tablet PCs

The 21st Century! This is an era where everything ‘mobile’ in the tech world will only succeed if out of the box innovation is applied as well as some ruthless marketing and advertising.

I love gadgets and everything tech, but with the bar that Apple has set we are starting to see more and more mobile companies coming up with tablets that could promise to offer better functionality than Apple itself. This has caused an irrational flood of new gadgets debuting our stores at a faster rate than the cellphone industry (which has been around longer), thus raising fears that the need to compete at the highest level and maintain a client following might dwindle fast.

We have already seen Apple release IPad 2 (March 2011) just 1 year after the original IPad was released (April 2010). Samsung’s GalaxyTab has also experienced a facelift to the 10.1 Honeycomb version that keeps it in the running to compete side by side with the IPad 2. And that’s not it, BlackBerry has introduced the Playbook, HP not to be left behind has introduced the TouchPad, Motorola has also graced the scene with the Xoom, and Gigabyte has also joined the fray and plans to attract the market with a Dual-Boot (Android and Windows 7) tablet. And this is just to mention a few (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_tablet_PCs#Slate).

Don’t get me wrong when I say that there’s a fear that this tablet revolution will be short lived for this doesn’t mean that they will fade away and we’ll move back to solely using PCs and Notebooks. Tablets have been around longer than the IPad (April 2010), though if you ask generation X when they first saw and used one it would be the IPad. Apple merely made it look fancy, built some killa apps on it, and voila! The point I’m trying to push across here is that at the fast pace that tablets are being released, we might just see blunders made like with Apple’s IPhone 4 in the name of being the market leader. The younger generation constitutes the majority percentage of mobile users and as we all know a teenager’s loyalty is hard won and easily lost. A couple of rush design and production mistakes might just see client loyalty ditched and merely transfered to the next best thing.