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The following Objective C program will show today date in mm-dd-yyyy format by using  NSDate formatter:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"MM-dd-yyyy"];
NSString *strDate = [formatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
NSLog(@"%@", strDate);
[super viewDidLoad];

Betting big on the Indian market, Internet giant Yahoo! plans to host content in six regional languages, besides Hindi and English, by next year. “We are looking for partners.

By next year, we plan to have content in up to six regional languages,” Yahoo! India Managing Director Arun Tadanki said on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit here today. At present, Yahoo! India has a partnership with publishing house Dainik Jagran for offering content in Hindi.

“We see huge opportunity in regional language content. Our Hindi news traffic had taken over the traffic we see for news in English,” he added.

There are about 50 million Internet users in India, which is likely to go up to 240 million in the next five years. Tadanki said 73 per cent of all Indian Internet users have access to Yahoo!, so regional content is very important to the company.

US computer-maker Dell made its entry into the highly competitive Indian smartphone market with the launch of two high-end 3G-enabled handsets, priced at Rs 10,999 and 16,990 respectively.

The company is targetting both high and low-end users with the two smartphones, dubbed XCD28 (Rs 10,999) and XCD35 (Rs 16,990), it said here.

“With today’s launch, we extend (our) pioneering edge to the smartphones market… as starting with the XCD series, we look to offer technology solutions to a much larger audience,” Dell India General Manager Consumer & SMB Mahesh Bhalla said.

“India is one of the fastest growing global markets for mobile devices, as well as personal computers,” Dell Inc Vice -President Worldwide Business Development & Strategy Farooq Butt said.

Other foreign companies that are already present in the Indian smartphone market are HTC, Nokia, Acer and Blackberry, but domestic companies are also trying to corner a slice of the pie through aggressive pricing of models.

Poken is a social business card conceived to accommodate the growing contact details of people in this age of social media networking. In other words, as one blogger Amy Palko put it, it makes it easier for you to link your online profiles with people you meet offline.

Produced by a Swiss-based company Poken S.A., each device, mostly animated toons, comes with a palm that ‘high fours’ the other Poken devices to exchange their contact cards by holding them about 0.5 inches apart.

Once the data transfer through the proprietary short range high frequency, wireless communication Near Field Communication technology is complete, the palms glow green. Apart from supporting the usual telephone, URL(s), location and email addresses, a Poken contact card could be configured to more than 40 social networking sites. Orkut, India’s biggest social networking site, does not figure on the list.

“Although Orkut is not supported with the device initially, it can be configured later,” says Naidu Darapaneni, founder-CEO of meraevents.com, the authorised reseller for Indian market.

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Harvard researchers, using the iPhone to track people’s moods, have found a correlation between daydreaming and unhappiness.

The app, aptly named “Track Your Happiness,” contacts iPhone users at random times during the day to ask how they’re feeling and what they are doing while answering these questions. Users have the option to decide when and how often they’ll be notified.

The researchers’ findings, published in the journal Science, were based on samples from 2,250 adults. Out of those surveyed, 58.8% were male, and 73.9% of them reside in the U.S. The mean age of those involved in the survey was 34. As DISCOVER reports, responders said they were daydreaming 46.9% of the time when the iPhone rang to check in on their thoughts. And those who said they were daydreaming were more likely to reveal that they were feeling unhappy.

For more details log on to : http://mashable.com/2010/11/12/iphone-app-measures-happiness

This will be a good news for people that find themselves as a short on time and or patience people. Google has got a something new to make your next Web search even faster than it used to be. On Tuesday, the biggest search engine in the world, Google, had announced the debut of Google Instant Previews. This, you will think, is the déjà vu effect from Google Instant Previews because before it was released there was a similar program on Google that was called as just Google Instant, without any addition word of Previews. But Google claimed that this is different from the former Google Instant that had been seen rolled out in last September.
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Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Rice University are developing an electronic notepad that consumes very little energy. This device, called I-slate may soon allow some of the estimated 100 million Indian children who attend schools without electricity to have access to an electronic notepad. I-Slate , Palem’s brainchild, is in development at Institute of Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics (ISAID) which is based at NTU. The first prototypes of the I-slate , which were built by a team that included three Rice undergraduates, are set to undergo their second round of tests in India later this month. Palem, who directs ISAID, said the device is the first of a series of electronic notepads being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of today’s processors.

The chips are under development in partnership between ISAID and Switzerland’s Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology, the chips will make it possible for the I-slate to run on solar power from panels similar to those used in hand-held calculators.

The I-slate began to take shape over the summer, and early prototypes were introduced in tests at a school near Hyderabad in early August.

“Developing an electronic notepad that is green, requires very little energy to operate and that could even run on solar energy in future is in line with NTU’s emphasis on sustain ability research,” said NTU President Su Guaning.

“The research will not just help in the sustainability of our planet but the development of such sustainable, low-cost technologies will also help the poorer communities in the world to close the digital divide. It will be life-changing and it will help to improve lives.”

Hexxeh has just confirmed that they he and his team has tested the required binaries on a iPod touch 4G and needless to say, it worked just like it did on other A4 devices like the iPhone 4 and iPad. Once this new version of OpeniBoot is out, it will work with iPhone 4, iPad and the 4th-gen iPod touch. So, soon we can install and run Android, for now Froyo in all iOS devices latest generation A4 processor (iPhone 4, iPad, iPod Touch 4G)

iPhone allows you to have only 9 “home screens”.
If, you have filled up all your 9 home screens then Safari will automatically block the ‘Add to Home Screen’ button – in fact you will not even see it!

To see it again you will need to make space on your home screen by deleting one or more items from your home screen.

How to delete items from the home screen?

Click and hold on any icon on the home screen till all the icons start wiggling.
You will see a red cross on top of each icon which you can click to remove it from the home screen.

Here is the way to change the name of your MAC, which will be displayed while networking also.

Goto System Preferences -> Select Sharing

Now give the name for your MAC. Also you can specify your Sharing preferences and also the shared folders.