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I'm sad the iPad has received so much criticism, but pleased to see the bigger blogs are now standing up for it. The fact is Apple cut corners to deliver an interesting price. That's the reason it's not living up to what a lot of critics seem to think their expectations were. But what did they want, a $1000 device? They'd have panned it for being too expensive. Because that seemed to be the big concern pre-launch. This is what Brian Heater on pcmag.com feels is missing: Video Camera Expandable Memory Flash Support HDMI Out Other Carrier Support Multi-tasking The only thing that I think is really a missed opportunity is the camera. But I still accept that there had to be compromise for the sake of price. And that's just the way it is. In fact if Apple took a risk at all it wasn't with any of the things above. It was with the internal memory. Sure people think expansion cards are nice, but the iPhone has proved nobody really cares. Internal mem...

Short Search URLs I just had a neat idea for advancing a step in the short URL rage. I myself find short URLs very useful. I use snurl.com (sn.im) and often find my custom abbreviation of choice :) My idea also spawned from the fact that I use search shortcuts in Chrome, to search directly in custom websites. For example if I type "glotnl" into the Chrome omnibar followed by a Dutch word, it will lookup the Dutch word instantly, directing the browser straight to the page:  http://interglot.nl/woordenboek?word=probleem&SrcLang=1&DstLang=2 (see below for how to set up a custom Chrome search URL) It would be ideal if I could do this on any browser anywhere in the world at any time (lol) and this should be achievable by combining the short URL concept with the pre-programmed search concept. So to cut to the chase, I want to be able to create a short URL, like for example sn.im/glotnl that I can place a search term after, e.g. sn.im/glotnl/probleem that will translate to: ...