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When the iPad splashed onto the rumor scene, the date was November 18th 2002.  In that month there was an article in eWeek by Matthew Rothenberg that speculated on an Apple tablet.  Of course his leaked info wound up being WAY off compared to what we see today as the iPad.  After that, it seems there wasn't much mention of it but once a year until April 2009.  From then on the rumor was white hot and the rumor mill was working overtime with many claims ... many that wound up being right.
At first, my excitement was hard to contain.  I was glued to the coverage of Apple's latest event, because the rumors had promised some serious excitement.  We were talking about a front facing camera, some multitasking goodness, and other tech geek goodies.  Then the announcement.  Everyone was waiting with baited breath for a Verzon partnership, iPhoneOS 4.0, and a real game changing device.  None of that ever came.
 

There are various articles and surveys out there that point to the primary internet device for a majority of internet users will be their mobile device (whatever shape or size that winds up being).  The reason everything is moving to the handset is that technologies are getting exponentially smaller, faster and more energy efficient.  Today's Google Nexus One phone has a 1Ghz processor.  The 1GHz processor was originally released to the masses by Intel as a Pentium 3 chip.   The year ... 2001.
 

Being a technologist to the bone and a lucky dad of twin girls, I often have "flash forward" moments where I can imagine talking to my kids about technology.  You remember the old "walked to school uphill, both ways" stories we used to get from our parents.  Well, I imagine technology conversations conversations about
 

• "I used to have to do research papers WITHOUT Google."
• "I had to go to the library and look things up in the card catalogue."
• "I had to connect to the internet over landline phone lines" (then explain what a landline was)

 
Thing is, I can imagine Google being here in 10 years, along with a plethora of other companies.  However, I recently had a flash forward that went like this:

Oh mighty keyboard.

Thou hath been with us for some decades.  Ne'er really a change.  Always QWERTY, sometimes slim, sometimes fat.  We love you in all your forms.  The keyboard may be the most basic input peripheral we use daily, but how many people see the importance?
 
EVERYONE seems to make their own keyboard.  HP, Dell, Sony, Gateway ... all are just rebranded pieces of Chinese manufacturing.  They didn't create the keyboard, nor spend much time analyzing it.  It ships with your desktop computer and it's usually mediocre at best.  
 
Enter Logitech.  Now this is a brand I can get behind.  Certainly not all their keyboards are fabulous, but the vast majority are.  They always work, have a nice touch and are available at any store you can purchase computer accessories.
 

 
Ahh technology.  How everyone loves thee.  Let me count the ways ... you can let me down.
Welcome to the latter half of 2009, where everyday computing is normalcy and not having a website is like having the swine flu.  Everyone will have the need for some type of technology project at some point in the near future, more than likely.

The Basics

The basic rule with any project has to do with its three main components.  Timeline, budget and difficulty/quality.  You can only have two of the three components in your control at any time.  
Want a cheap, quality product?  You're going to be waiting a long time. (You know, that guy who promised to build you a website for free? 
How about a really killer website, really quickly?  Expect to pay up to  and over 100% more for speed and quality.

 If you lack a marketing budget, use the following three powerful approaches to instantly increase your site’s traffic.
 
Get exposure on social news sites
 
Social news publications and aggregators enable people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Web. These sites, such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Fark, Yahoo! Buzz and del.icio.us, surface the best content as submitted and voted on by the community. When you submit an article, image, or video, it will immediately be added into the mix where other members can find it, access your site to read it, and vote for it. Once something has earned a critical mass of votes, it becomes worthy of appearing on the site’s homepage, which is the ultimate traffic driver you’re aiming for. Since you’ll have to compete with some of the nation’s leading content providers, you need to be strategic about which pieces of content you select to submit (they need to be unique and memorable) and which are most appropriate for a particular site’s audience (for example, Digg and Fark cater to more males than females). 

Thinking of getting someone to create you a new website? Does your online presence not say about your company what you want it to? Do you need more functionality to your website? Well, even if you don't use Tampa Tech Solutions to create your new website, here are a few things you should know.
 
1. Most people advertising on Craigslist for $300 (or cheaper!) websites fall into one of two categories. Either they are just trying to nickel and dime you, or they are rank amateurs.

Google is poised to take the technology world by storm (again). Simply not content with ruling the search space and having one of the largest hosted online gratis software suites, Google is going to reinvent email.

The Google Wave team intro their product at Google I/O 2009 as basically the replacement for email. WAIT. Replacement for email? You heard it right.Email is old ... in fact it's one of the oldest technologies for networked computers and it hasn't changed much from its inception.

Google thinks that email can be easier, richer, more interactive and FAR more useful. Based on their demonstration, I have to say they are absolutely correct.

The video is over an hour long and if you're at all a Geek like me, then you won't find it boring at all. If you find you really need to get to some meat, make sure you hit 1:12:00 in the video and watch "Rosie" demonstrated. They take LIVE chat to a whole new level. I can't accurately describe just how cool it is, so you'll just have to check it out. Hit the "read" link below to see the video.