Belkin International, Inc., is a global manufacturer of computer hardware and other gadget accessories introduced ten cases especially designed for Apple iPad device. Some cases are now avalible around US online as well as at Apple stores in the US. The iPad-Cap Sleeve, Contour Sleeve, Grip Vue, Grip Ergo, Grip Swell, Grip Groove, Leather Sleeve, Leather Folio, Envelope, and Shield Clear cases gives the protection as well as design and comfort. Sleeves feature lightweight, durable material and soft inner lining to help cushion your iPad and protect the touch screen.

On Saturday, April 3, Apple Inc. introduced iPad to the world. The iPad allow users to read books, play games, watch movies, send emails, listen to music, browse the Internet,Gaming and much more. IPad is designed for on-the-move purpose like mobile phones. Belkin’s new assortment of sleeves and cases protect and give users instant access to iPad. Belkin has developed these cases to provide protection as well as for accessing iPad easily.

Yesterday Opera Software announced, Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. And within 24 hours, Opera Mini for iPhone is the #1 app on iTunes App Stores around the world. Opera Mini is currently the hottest iPhone app in the 22 featured Apple App Stores.

Today iPhone users have a choice, and, as the numbers show, they are eager to explore new and faster ways to surf the Web on the iPhone – especially during heavy Web traffic,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software. “With any widely available and frequently downloaded Opera product, we are appreciative of all the feedback we are getting, as it helps us to continually improve our product and better meet the needs of our users.”

According to Apple app download count, Opera Mini has been downloaded to 1,023,380 Apple devices. On March 23, Opera Software submitted Opera Mini for iPhone and iPod Touch and also presents Opera on iPhone during the Mobile World Congress, CTIA and SXSW.

If you haven’t been to the YouTube website recently, you should because they have completely redesigned the video pages. The new design might load a little quicker on slow connections but it looks too minimal and even incomplete to me.

Anyway, this story has nothing to do with the color scheme or the layout of the redesigned YouTube website – its about an extremely important feature that some feel has gone missing in the new design.

YouTube (old) had a star rating system that would let anyone with a Google Account rate YouTube videos on 1-5 scale. This simple feature saved us from wasting countless hours on YouTube because if a video had low user ratings, you immediately knew it was not worth your time and you could skip to the next one.

YouTube has now replaced the “star rating” system in the new design with a “Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down” rating system that gives you only two choices – you either like a video (5 stars) or you don’t (1 star).

Most user prefer to see the ratings of a video before hitting the play button but for some unknown reason – may be to boost page views – YouTube is no longer displaying the ratings of videos on their pages. If you rate a video, the overall ratings appear but not otherwise.

Fortunately, YouTube has not dropped the ratings completely and there’s a simply way by which you can see the ratings of any YouTube video without having to rate it. Just click the drop-down arrow next to “views” of any video and you’ll find what you are looking for.

Alternatively, you may install these extensions for Chrome and Firefox and you’ll get the star ratings back in the main video page just like the good old YouTube design.

An advantage with extensions is that they’ll add star ratings to videos displayed in the YouTube search results as well so they’re more handy.

It’s not uncommon to find music videos and pirated movies on YouTube but you may be a little surprised to know that the world’s most popular video sharing site has now become a haven for software piracy as well.

People are using the YouTube site to not only share serial numbers of software but there are tons of step-by-step “tutorials” explaining how one can activate virtually any popular software title or video game that’s out there. Some of these videos have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

I was recently looking for reviews ofsearch suggestions on YouTube (that was released just a day ago) and though there weren’t any reviews of this popular screencasting app, there were quite a few screencasts on YouTube explaining how to get this $300 software for free.

Surprisingly, all the search suggestions made by YouTube itself pointed to these unlicensed software. I am not sure how YouTube determines what phrases to suggest in the drop-down but it does indicate what people are searching for on the site.

The auto-suggestions were pretty similar for queries like “Microsoft Office 2007” and “Adobe Photoshop CS4” – both very popular software programs.

There’s one possible reason why pirates may be turning their attention to YouTube – traffic. YouTube videos, due to to Universal Search, are more likely to appear on Google’s first page of search results and that could bring enormous amount of traffic.

Underground websites hosted in China and Russia are very unlikely to make it the front pages of Google for popular queries but with the help of YouTube, they possibly can.

It’s new in the market but it has already made a good name for itself. Olive is an Indian company dealing in telecommunications and now it’s into the laptop business. Recently it has launched the Olive Zipbook, the first Indian netbook with a built in 3G modem. A zipbook is nothing but a laptop, it’s just much smaller in size. The Olive Zipbook features an inbuilt Tata Photon USB modem that allows you to experience high internet speeds anywhere anytime. That’s the major reason why it has become popular among the users. Another interesting feature about the Zipbook is that it comes with a 3G radio. The 10.1” device has become quite popular in spite of certain limitations.

Specifications and Features: The Olive Zipbook features a Intel Atom N270 Processor 1.6 GHz. Although the processor is a bit old to be used in a netbook, it performs well. The looks are simple with a standard keyboard and a touchpad. Most of the keys are normal sized and typing is not difficult even though the keyboard is small. The console runs Windows XP service pack 3 and its quiet fast. The Zipbook also boasts of a 1 GB DDR2 RAM and a 160 GB Hard disk which is enough to support your computing needs. It has 3 USB 2.0 and a memory card reader to let you manage your connections. Its wireless connectivity is defined with WLAN 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi which lets you connect easily to the wireless networks and other wireless devices. A built-in 1.3 mega pixel camera and microphone lets you to stay in touch with your near and dear ones when you are away from them.

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The sound quality is also good with the 2 inbuilt speakers. The battery support is not so good with the 3 cell battery and Olive needs to work on that. The Zipbook is extremely light weight and ultraportable and you can easily carry it in your back pack when you are travelling. It is also available in colour variants of black, yellow, white and red. To sum up, the overall ergonomics is good and you can surely opt for it if you want to stay connected when you are travelling.

Pricing: The Olive Zipbook is available at an attractive and affordable price of only about $518 and around 17,999 Rs in India.