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Technological advancements made in the last 50 years have dramatically changed our lives. One of the things that technology has enabled us to do is to work from home. This trend seems to be picking up popularity all over the world and there are thousands of individuals that are pursuing full fledge careers from their homes making use of future technology.

Forrester revealed a new study showing that 9% of the total workforce is employed in home based jobs for different companies. Yet another 22.8 million people are operating their businesses from their homes. This unique demographic is having a big impact on neighborhoods. Residential neighborhoods are now turning into business districts with every other home turning into an office for the home owners.

This new trend has resulted in a dire need to equip homes with business class broadband services. In the absence of such a service economic development may be greatly hampered by poor internet services. Hence a large number of multinationals and communities are now getting themselves involved in developing a more reliable broadband infrastructure. In the days gone by employment opportunities used to attract people to a particular neighborhood.

Today however if people are unable to work from home in a particular neighborhood then they will move to another one. In other words, communities that do not possess proper work from home facilities will lose out on 10% to 20% of the total jobs. This is the impact of modern technology on our lives and it is likely to get even larger in the coming years.

Media Players coupled with the technology of watching video is the core of MP4 player. In United Kingdom almost 95% of the people have media players in their hands. They are listening to their favorite songs and also watching their favorite video clips whether they are travelling on the mass rapid transit, or shopping, or walking, or jogging or even travelling.

It is one of the forms of entertainment for the people not only for the youngsters but also for the grownups and retired people too. People relax by listening to their favorite music and favorite video clips and movies. The prices of MP4 players are very nominal and every teenager can literally afford to buy it from his or her pocket money.

We know that there are various companies making MP4 players but the best ones are ideally those that are more durable and those which have the best reviews by the public. The review writers are actually the users of these players and as they have used it therefore they are well aware of the pros and cons of the device.

Therefore it is always a wise decision to go through the reviews of the public before making the final decision of purchase of MP4 player. Not only that one can watch movies but also can browse internet. It has digital camera as well as a good amount of flash memory for storage. All such interesting features makes it a mini computer in other words because of these additional features.

Ever since the announcement of the Apple iPad (which was long before its actual release), people have been comparing it with the Amazon Kindle, even though they didn’t even have the final full specifications of the device. This is because Apple themselves said that the iPad will directly compete with Kindle and any other ebook readers, having its own ebook store run by Apple.

Now that the device is finally here, we can make some pretty good comparisons between it and the Kindle (specifically the second release, as the first one is already obsolete).So, let’s start with the strain on the eyes thing, which is the number one argument for buying a Kindle. I don’t know about you, but my eyes have gotten used to various screens with their own light source. We’ve all been watching TV since we were little (well, most of us), and our eyes kind of got used to it.

Plus, there’s all the time spent typing text on a smart phone or sitting in front of a computer.The iPad’s screen is literally a world apart of most TV’s and desktop or laptop screens. Apple seems to have selected the best possible screen for reading, which is a good decision for a device intended to be used as an ebook reader. The 9.7 inch OLED screen is very beautiful, and the contrast is great. It’s not like reading paper – it’s more like reading that white letter size paper under a bright light or the sun (you can configure the brightness, of course).

Plus, there’s the obvious advantage of being able to read in the dark (and the iPad doesn’t light up the whole room, it’s very good at keeping the light inside the screen). I think there are very few people who would find reading books on the iPad more tiring or problematic than on the Kindle, so that’s a score for the iPad.

Now that we’re past that, let’s see what else sets the iPad apart from the Kindle. The most obvious features are, of course, the color screen and the ability to run various apps that are not limited to or even related to reading. You can view videos and pictures, edit documents, surf the web, check your email, manage your tasks, watch online TV (using apps like ABC Player or Netflix) and do a lot of other things that you usually do on your laptop or desktop computer.

To put it shortly, the iPad is a universal portable computer. This sort of puts it in a completely different league than the Kindle, but the latter’s sales will definitely lower because of the iPad.

But let’s say you really just want to read ebooks and are considering both the iPad and the Kindle (most probably, the Kindle DX, which has almost the same price as the iPad and a bigger 9.7 inch screen). For this purpose, the Kindle is better, but not by a big margin.

The iPad has a few unique advantages of its own:

1. The iPad doesn’t have any strict DRM on ebooks (at least for now), so you can read free books like those on Google Books.

2. You can easily read the books published online using the Safari browser and read PDF and DOC documents using a third party app that you can easily get from the Apps Marketplace. Reading PDF’s might be a big deal for some, who buy various ebooks from independent sites and publishers (and they’re in PDF 90% of the time).

But the Kindle is ultimately better for reading ebooks, and here’s why:

1. The Kindle is cheaper at $259 (unless you really need the Kindle DX, which retails for $489, which is $10 cheaper than the starter iPad; in it’s favor, the Kindle DX has a 3G modem, unlike the Wi-fi only adapter of the iPad);
2. It’s much lighter at only 10 ounces, compared to the iPad’s full 1.5 pounds;
3. The screen is much better for reading. It’s just like reading paper, and you can easily read it in direct sunlight. The drawback is that you can’t read it at night without an external light;
4. The battery life is much better on the Kindle, which can work for 2 weeks (with wireless off) before it needs recharging.

In the end, the choice is up to you. I can say that the iPad is a great universal computer that can be used for anything you’re using your laptop for right now (even photo editing!), with the added ability to read books in a pretty comfortable manner on a good screen. It’s the best choice if you read a book or two per month, and would like the ability to view videos and read web sites from it. The Kindle is the best choice if you are reading a lot of books and/or want a separate device specifically for this purpose.

All of us want to be noticed by others with the help of the gadgets which we use. We want others to look at us whenever we are moving around holding these gadgets in our hands such as the mobile phones or the music players etc. Then why do you have the same kind of craving for the earphones? Did you ever think of adding color to this small instrument and of making your music and listening experience even more attractive, stylish and above all colorful?

The look

You do not have to wait anymore. Stop thinking about it and start acting. Yes, the earphones which had always been the demand and need of the people and which you always wanted to grab are the ones by the Empire Brands. Not only one or two but actually four lines of the earphones have been introduced by the brand for the sake of satisfying the customers and everyone’s needs who want to be different from others. These earphones are no doubt quite stylish as well as eye catching.

Specifications

With the help of these earphones you would not only be able to have unique noise isolation but you would also be having a 1.2 extra long meter cords. We cannot forget about the gold plated tips that are designed for the maximum protection of your ears.

It starts with the little buds line, which is quite clear from the name. It is light in weight and also has a semi gloss finish. You can have this one for a reasonable price of $29.99. The second one is the empire line which has prices of $34.99. The third is jaw breaker line available in just $17.99 and the last one is the metallic line that is of $12.99. You would be able to get great attraction for yourself with the help of these earphones.

Shared web hosting is still the most popular type of hosting online, although that will probably change in a few years when cloud hosting will be perfected and everyone will start using it in their datacenters. It is very cheap and if the physical machines are powerful enough and not too loaded, it’s enough for most small-to-medium applications that will have anywhere from thousands to hundreds of thousands of visitors per month.

If you are just starting out and you need a simple, easy to use hosting for your new site, forum, newsletter, e-shop or other online presence, you can easily go with shared web hosting.

Shared web hosting works very simply: a single, powerful machine (most datacenters nowadays use 4-8 processor cores, 8-16 GB of RAM and 2-3 500-1000 GB hard drives for this purpose, which is enough in 90% of all cases) hosts the accounts of 10-30 clients, with their websites, email accounts and everything else they might have.

The resources are distributed dynamically on a per need basis, and the theory is that it’s highly unlikely that all of the websites on the server will be hit by a lot of traffic at once, so most of the time; they are enough to keep a stable, high performance for all the clients. When a site gets to the front of Digg or other social network and starts receiving tons of visits, it uses more resources than usual, but because the other clients’ sites are mostly idle, they don’t notice anything.

If that site uses more than a certain amount of resources (which is set in the customer agreement), it is disabled until the owner does something to lower the load or moves to a VPS or dedicated server. This is the biggest drawback of shared hosting, but can be avoided by using a CDN (Content Distribution Network) like the free Coral CDN or paid MaxCDN (the latter gives you nice analytics and more control, but the former is good enough for basic use), which basically caches your pages on a whole network of servers that then serve them to your visitors, avoiding your shared hosting completely (and therefore, not loading your site).

Now that you understand what shared hosting is and how it works, let’s take a look at the best cheap and reliable web hosting companies and see what they have to offer.

1and1. With over 4 million customers and 5 datacenters all around the world, 1and1 is truly one of the leaders in the hosting industry. They have the cheapest prices and the most features per dollar you pay. I also like how they don’t say they offer unlimited everything (which is just impossible) like a lot of other companies do, but that will probably change. They offer various shared hosting plans from $4 to $20, with a lot of disk space and unlimited bandwidth (although it’s probably limited to about 3000-4000 GB per month, like most other companies). They have a great custom Control Panel where you can control everything (obviously from email to domains to transfer limits and billing. They also run frequent discounts of 50% or more percent for the first 3-6 months, which is great if you’re strapped on cash when you start out. Another great thing they do is give you $75-275 for AdWords, Yahoo and CitySearch, so you can use those vouchers to advertise your products. That can easily cover the hosting price for a couple of years!

HostGator. One of the most advertised hosting companies online, HostGator has offers for everyone. Starting at $4.95, they offer unlimited everything (which is not really true, but I guess they couldn’t compete with anyone if they advertised their real limits), and for the $12.95 plan, they give you a free dedicated SSL certificate, IP address and phone number, which would otherwise cost about $90, and is great if you need them (they can all be used for an e-commerce site, for example). They use the cPanel Control Panel, which is pretty standard and works well.

iWeb. Another great hosting company that makes it to the top lists and receives various awards every year, iWeb has a very good shared hosting offer, even if it’s more expensive: they offer a zero-downtime guarantee, which is achieved by having the shared hosting in a virtualized environment (i.e. a cloud) with a few redundant servers as backup. This is great news for anyone who knows how valuable every minute a site is available is. The rest of the offer includes 600GB which you can’t use for personal stuff (although you can probably host videos for your site), unlimited bandwidth and one domain for $1, which is nice. The cost is $1.67 per month, but only if you subscribe for 10 years. If you want to pay monthly, the cost is $7.77.

ix Web Hosting. This was and still is one of the best hosting companies for the last 10 years. Their current offers are between $6.95 and $12.95 (with a special discount of about 50% for all of them) and include free dedicated IPs (2, 3 and 15, which is just amazing, you could use them for SSL, cloaking, proxy sites and other things) and Adwords/Yahoo coupons ($100, $125 and $150). Not too bad, definitely worth checking out.

JustHost. This company has been getting a lot of attention in the last couple of years, and users say that it’s quite good. They’re pushing the limit with their all-unlimited offer (which I believe isn’t true, as I said before), but the price and uptime are good enough, and the support is great, so they can be forgiven . They also give you a free domain with their $6.95 plan (now only $3.45, special promo offer), which is always a bonus.

Shared hosting is a great way to get your presence online and start a site, forum or anything else. It’s cheap, easy to use, doesn’t require a lot of manual configuration (unlike dedicated servers and VPS), and it’s powerful enough to hold a small or medium site with a few tens of thousands of visitors per month. Unless you need more control over your server, you can easily go with shared hosting.

Smart phones nowadays have replaced almost every portable device we used to carry separately just a decade ago. Besides the phone part itself, they now include mp3 and video players, a lot of storage space, full web browsers, GPS navigators which can even replace the dedicated in-car models, cameras and a lot of other stuff.

But the technology is not yet as good as to replicate all the features and quality of those devices separately. So, if you need 200GB of space, a big display or a GPS receiver with a higher transmission power, a smart phone that has all of that integrated into it won’t be of much use to you, and you’ll pretty much have to use separate devices.

The same goes for cameras. Even the best smart phones today barely reach the still and video quality of the cheapest point and shoot dedicated cameras. It’s just impossible right now to cram a good quality camera along with all other devices into a slim smart phone, so the manufacturers aren’t even trying to do that.

There are a lot of photographers that like to always be prepared but do not carry their professional dSLR with them at all times (to cafes, parks, parties and other places, which sometimes may inspire them to take good shots). What they do is take their cheaper and much smaller point and shoot camera. Phone manufacturers noticed this and created a special device for them: a phone with a good integrated camera, at the expense of other features like a GPS receiver and Wifi, and sometimes size and weight.

These phones are an excellent replacement for a photographer’s go-everywhere point and shoot digital camera. With one of these, instead of carrying both the phone and a camera, they carry only the phone, which also consumes less energy and is easier to charge (from a computer’s USB port or using a small travel charger).

Here are some of the best camera phones available on the market:

Sony Ericsson C905. You could say Sony Ericsson is the leading manufacturer of camera phones. They actually came up with the concept with their first Cybershot phone. The C905 continues the good tradition and is packed with camera features (remember, the phone is secondary in these devices). It’s got a 8 megapixels digital camera with a Xenon flash (the one that is used on many compact point and shoot cameras) that shoot high resolution photos and videos at a great quality, with a lot of advanced features like an image stabilizer, burst shooting of 7 frames per second, face detection (useful for focusing), 16x digital zoon, automatic red-eye reduction, and much more. A very fun and interesting feature is the Smile Shooter that uses face recognition to automatically take a snap when the subject is smiling. How many point and shoot cameras have you seen with this feature? Other than that, the phone has a M2 card slot for Sony memory sticks (up to 8GB), a 240×320 screen (like a lot of compact P&S cameras), an integrated mp3/aac player with stereo Bluetooth, and support for 3G networks for fast data transfer.

Samsung Pixon 12 (M8910). This is Samsung’s new camera phone, which was released at the end of 2009, and has a 12 megapixels, wide angle camera with a Xenon + Power LED flash, which is quite impressive. It has a lot of effects and shot modes (including fast shoot of 5 frames per second). On top of that, the phone itself is very slim and light (a bit thicker than the iPhone and weights 119 grams), supports 3G networks, up to 16GB microSD cards (which are pretty cheap nowadays), has Bluetooth, Wifi, aGPS and TV out (to view your shots and videos on any TV set), a great web browser (Dolphin) and a beautiful 3.1 inch AMOLED 480×800 display. Yes, it’s pretty much the best camera phone (or even smart phone) ever.

LG Renoir (KC910). This phone is one of LG’s camera phones, and is replacing the ageing Viewty. It was launched in 2008 (when it was one of the best camera phones available) an is still a good device with a lower price tag than the others on this list. The camera is a 8 megapixels one with Schneider-Kreuznach optics (the good stuff) and Xenon flash shooting 3264×2448 stills and 640×480@30fps videos, which is pretty standard for most point and shoot cameras. It’s got a lot of features, including special effects, manual/auto focus, image stabilization and smile detection (like the Sony Ericsson C905). Other than that, the phone is equipped with everything else you might need, from 3g network support, Wifi and Bluetooth adapters to an FM Radio, GPS navigator and TV out. At this time it sells for about $200, which you could say is a steal for a camera phone with these specs. An excellent choice if you want to save some money while getting the most features possible.

Nokia N86. Nokia is also known for its good camera phones, and the N86 is not an exception. The phone has a wide angle 8 megapixels camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Tessar lens (very good quality), 20x digital zoom, auto/manual focus, dual LED flash (weaker than a Xenon, but still good enough), variable aperture (F2.4, F3.2, F4.8), high speed 1/1000sec shutter, a lot of special effects and modes, red eye reduction, and a lot of other features. It also has a photo editor (useful for quick edits), PAL TV out and direct to printer printing support with compatible printers. The phone also has any other features you might need: Bluetooth and Wifi adapters, 3G networks support, a microSD slot for up to 16GB cards, a great web browser, FM radio, and much more. As if that’s not enough, it also runs on Series 60 Symbian, which means you can find a lot of third party apps for various tasks, from video and music playing to viewing Word files and managing your contacts. At about $250 retail price, this is also an escellent cheap camera phone.

Samsung Innov8 (I8510). This is another of Samsung’s camera phones that made it on this list mainly because it runs on Symbian Series 60 (unlike the Pixon, which runs a custom OS) that give the user access to a lot of useful third party apps for anything from managing contacts to watching videos and using Facebook. This, coupled with the good camera, makes this phone a good all-around choice for anyone. The specs are pretty standard: an 8MP camera with Dual Power LED, a 2.8 inch display, a microSD slot for up to 16GB cards, Bluetooth, Wifi and a lot of other features. The price is a bit higher than, for example, the N86 or the Renoir, but the Symbian OS might be worth the price to some people.

If you are an amateur or professional photographer and carry a point and shoot everywhere you go, you may easily benefit from one of these phones. Why carry 2 devices when you can carry only 1, which also has enough storage space and a music/video player?

Web Technology is changing rapidly, as more and more new features are being added consistently. In the web 2.0 users can alter the content of website, which is not allowed in the previous non-interactive websites.

Web 2.0 is becoming increasingly popular day by day. This is because there is great use of wikis, blogs, and social networking technologies.

In the academic world and the people in business invent to spell 2.0s, consisting of  Government 2.0, Travel 2.0, Library 2.0, Social Work 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Publishing 2.0, Medicine 2.0, and Telco 2.0 . These 2.0 refers to Web 2.0 technologies. These are the new modified versions of respective specialized field.

Abode Flash and Abode Flex framework, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) and JavaScript/Ajax frameworks such as Dojo Toolkit, jQuery, Yahoo! UI Library and MooTools is typically used in Web 2.0 in the client-side /web browser technologies. JavaScript is used in Ajax programming to upload and download new data from the web server. In this process they do not undergo full page reload.

Now a day’s Document Object Model (DOM) is used to dynamically update the web pages. It is based on the new data received. Apart from it Flash and Ajax, JavaScript/Ajax frameworks are famous in creating Web 2.0 sites. The same technology used in the whole process which is Document Object Model, Ajax, and the JavaScript.

ASP, Ruby, JSP, Perl, Python, ColdFusion, and PHP is used in Web 2.0 on server side. The developer uses them to dynamically update the data. In this case they use information from database and files. There is also Web 3.0 which is all about personalization and semantic web.
The Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that assist in information sharing, user-centered design, collaboration on the world wide web and interoperability. Instances of Web 2.0 consists of hosted services, web-based communities, social networking sites, web applications, wikis, blogs, video-sharing sites, folksonomies , and mashups.

Viewers often prefer websites designed with table-less xhtml and HTML in comparison to those having a number of tables. The reason for this is that they do not wish to experience the hassles of a slow downloading site on their browser. Use of tables, columns, and rows can limit the browser capabilities to a large extent in respect of fast navigation.

One of the requirements of such designing is adaption of PSD to XHTML. Good news for the aspirant clients is that there are real good providers who perform the task of such designing at most affordable prices and requisitioning their services will always be cost and time economic for the client. Obtaining the psd files from the clients, these provider and designers will convert them into navigable XHTML. However, some of them may design in the traditional table based mark up while those following advanced paths will go for the table-less html and xhtml designing.

With the process the benefit of the client would be increase in their online clientele as well as their diverse strategic activities and approaches. Coding that are commensurate with the requirements of the search engines and their algorithms will help the client site rise in ranking on the result pages of the search engines and will also find place in the leading web directories.

Table less web designing is one of the latest technologies that have proved to be extremely useful in attracting the viewers thereby adding to the traffic flow and revenue generation of the site concerned.

And that is the ultimate objective of any web designing.

Apple’s iPhone has the largest collection of applications written for it. That’s a fact and it will take a long time before any other platform gets close to their numbers, especially with new apps added everyday. And the recent crackdown on cookie-cutter apps that just copy others and don’t provide anything valuable to the users will help ensure that the quality of the marketplace stays high.

The iPad and the much-rumored iPhone 4G will play an important role in growing the apps market even more, as the applications will be cross-compatible on all these devices, including the first-generation iPhone and and iPhone 3G.

If you plan on buying an iPhone, you can be assured that it will definitely not get old in the next few years. One thing I’d recommend though is to wait until the next generation iPhone comes out. There are 2 good reasons for that: one, the new device will likely have  a lot more features and power and you might like it more; two, the current performance champion, iPhone 3GS, will definitely get cheaper, possibly by a high margin, and you, as a buyer, will only benefit from saving a few tens or hundreds of dollars.

Having said that let me show you a few of the coolest and most amazing apps you can get and install on an iPhone.

Photoshop Mobile. Yes, the most popular and functional photo editing software for desktop computers, used by many professionals around the world has a mobile edition, both for the iPhone and Android devices (although it’s a bit more limited on the latter). It certainly isn’t as advanced as the full version, but it’s more than enough to quickly edit any of the pictures you take, for sending them via email or posting them on a site, forum or social network. You can crop, resize, modify and apply various effects (like black and white, sepia, old, mosaic, etc.) to any of the images you have on your phone.

Skype. This is a great app for making cheap calls and sending cheap SMS messages all over the world, using VoIP (which stands for Voice over Internet Protocol) via your operator’s 3G network or any available Wi-Fi hotspot (which makes it even cheaper). You can also have a special Skype number which will be cheaper to call from the country you register it in, no matter where in the world you are. I can be redirected to any other mobile or fixed telephone number, which makes it even better. You should definitely check it out. A better choice would be Google Voice, which offers all of the above plus more (like automatic voice messages transcription and receiving calls to multiple numbers at once) for free, but unfortunately Apple decided not to allow their app in the marketplace. There is a mobile edition though, but it’d cost more to use than Skype.

Layar Reality Browser. This is an amazing Augmented Reality app for the iPhone and Android, and it allows you to find places of interest near you. For example, you could search for the best café and it’ll give you a map of all the café’s near you with user reviews, so you can choose one. Then you could travel to it using your GPS and compass. You could also hold the phone in front of you and Layar will display a mark right above the building where you need to go to (using your phone’s camera as a real-time view). The app also integrates with Facebook and Twitter, so you can see the tweets and messages of any people around you that have an account (which is practically everybody these days . The app is perfect if you’re in a new town and don’t know what to do or where to go.

ModGuitars.com Tuner. This simple web application will help you tune your guitar. It isn’t an automated system that would tell you when the tune is right using the phone’s microphone (although that would be awesome). Instead, it provides you with the sounds of perfectly tuned guitar strings, and you can use them to tune yours (you gotta have an ear for music though). The interface is simple, just visit the link and prepare to tune your guitar.

Need for Speed Shift. This is one of the best games on the desktop and on any mobile platform, including the iPhone. The effects, controls and graphics are simply outstanding, and you can play it over and over again and never get tired of it. Definitely a must have game if you use your phone for entertainment and like car racing simulators.

If you already own an iPhone or plan to buy one, definitely try the above apps, to see how your phone can do for you something you never thought was possible on such a small device.

Just a decade ago, Palm was practically the only serious competitor to Microsoft’s Pocket PC operating system and devices running on it. They made a few great PDA’s (and a lot of mediocre ones) and licensed their operating system to other manufacturers, which resulted in very good devices like the Sony Clie.

But when smartphones started appearing, Palm lost the ball. They didn’t roll along with the times and didn’t understand what the users wanted. That’s why today, most consumers will tell you that they don’t know about Palm or at least that they had any smartphones.

And they do have some very nice devices. Their new redesigned operating system called Palm WebOS has a lot of features that rival those of the iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile, and the currently available Palm Pre and Palm Pixi smartphones can easily replace any other phone.

But the launch of the Pre didn’t cause as much excitement as it was anticipated, and that’s because, while the whole thing (the OS, apps, devices, features, etc.) was new for Palm, it wasn’t anything groundbreaking for everyone else. We’ve already gotten used to the calendar, web browser, camera, the apps and extensions that make up our smartphone experience with the iPhone, Android and even the older Windows Mobile. Basically, in a world where all the mobile devices can, Palm now can, too .

But there are people who really like the new devices and WebOS, and the Pre does sell pretty well, so not everything is lost. If Palm will manage to increase the number and quality of apps in their store, they will surely be able to hold their own against the other players.

Right now, their marketplace contains only a few thousand apps, as opposed to the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands for Android and iPhone, respectively. That is really a small number, but as the first iPhone showed us, you don’t need numbers; you can do pretty well with quality alone. Let’s hope that Palm applies that strategy for their marketplace.

For now, let’s take a look at some of the best apps available on the Palm WebOS marketplace, which will help you work faster and make your life easier.

Super Contacts. The new WebOS default contact manager is disappointingly lacking a very important feature – categories. It only allows you to view all of your contacts in an alphabetical order list, which gets tiring when you’ve got hundreds of them. Super Contacts allows you to categorize you contacts however you want and assign custom gestures for a few useful things like sending an SMS or email. The free version has ads (like a lot of free WebOS apps do) and allows only allows 3 groups and only 12 contacts per group, which may be enough for some people, but those who don’t like ads and/or store a lot of contacts (like entrepreneurs and businessmen) might need to shell out $1.99 for the full version.

Evernote. This is an excellent tool to have for taking any kind of notes and storing any sort of information. You can save emails, notes and documents, web pages in catalogs and with tags that will help you find them later. The application can sync with your online Evernote account if you have one, which is very useful. The main difference between this WebOS app and its iPhone and Android counterparts is the lack of a voice recording feature, which is very useful when taking quick notes.

TweeFree. There are a lot of Twitter clients for Palm WebOS, but this one has the most features for a free application. TweeFree has a very nice interface and offers all the standard Twitter features – @ mentions, timeline, direct messages, search and favorites – which are more than enough for most users. There is a $2.99 upgrade that gives you a location-based “Nearby” stream and the ability to read and add to Twitter lists.

My Databank. A very simple, yet useful WebOS applications that will help you store and manage any type of data you want. It allows you to create simple list databases using text fields, check boxes and numeric fields. The app comes with a few lists pre-installed and you can download more by selecting “Share Categories” from the drop-down menu. You can also copy and modify lists on the fly and send information to other apps on the device. In a real world example, you can use this app to make a list of email addresses, then send a message to all of them (your personal pocket mass mailer) or open a few web browser windows (or “cards”) with one click.

Outline Tracker. This is a very useful application for entrepreneurs or people who like to plan their tasks and keep their time in check. It uses the Getting Things Done system, which allows you to break a bigger project into smaller tasks and schedule them at specific times every day. The app also has the ability to sync with Basecamp, which makes it practically a must have if you use it. The free version is limited to 50 entries, which may be enough for personal or small business use, while the paid version is $23.50, quit a bit more than the other apps on this list.

Pandora. This application allows you to stream any Pandora stations onto your Palm device. As you may know, Pandora is a great music streaming service, where you create your own channels (or “stations”) with your own artists and can stream it anywhere, anytime and share it with anyone. The Android application has become very popular, and this WebOS version is also very nice. You can buy and download any songs very quickly using the “Buy this song” button, which leads to Amazon, and the controls are in the phone’s notification area, so you can access them anytime, even while using other apps.

AccuWeather. This is a great application to keep track of the weather around the world. The main page shows you the local temperature, wind speed and humidity (based on the ZIP code you entered or your GPS location). There are other pages for 24-hour forecasts, satellite view over your location and a list of prospects for planning any events (you wouldn’t want have an open barbeque or run in the rain . The free version is supported by ads, and there’s a $1.29 fee for removing them, but if you don’t check the weather every half an hour or so, chances are they won’t annoy you.

As you can see, there are a lot of apps for the Palm WebOS that can do whatever you need. If you already own or plan on buying a Palm smartphone, do a search on the marketplace. Chances are you will find a solution for any of your problems.