The minimum amount of money an iPad can cost you is $499. But if you don't bother about the high-end features iPad provides and you just want to browse the net, then forking out $499 is not a good idea. Well, you can get a touch tablet 'PC' for less than $50. India's HRD ministry has unveiled a prototype.
HRD Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal has unveiled a prototype of a touch tablet that costs only $35 and can be used to browse webpages, word processing, and even video conferencing. The technicalities of the device are unknown but it doesn't use hard-disk. Instead it uses memory cards — much like mobile phones. It runs on a battery but it is solar power option too.

The price will be even lower for students for whom the Government is ready to subsidise even more. The cost of this tablet for a student will be around $20.
The reponse from the private sector has been lukewarm since the profitability of the device is being questioned.
[Via BBC South-Asia]

Evernote is probably the best and the most popular note-taking application on the web. Evernote recently reached 3 million users which is a great news for Evernote fanboys (and fangirls). But even after so much success, people still have misconceptions about the application. From security woes to limited functionalities, some people write it off for various reasons. This post is about some of those commonly held myths. Feel free to add your comments.

Misconception 1: Evernote is a note taking application. Very little possibilities. It's not for everyone.

Possibilities with Evernote are enormous. Every once in a while Evernote publishes Tips on how to use Evernote more effectively. From using it for planning your house to store your gym's schedule, you can do a lot with Evernote. If you're still not conviced, consider reading the following two articles:

• 14 Practical Ways to Use Evernote
• 6 Ways Evernote Can Boost Your Productivity

Misconception 2: You cannot share your notes with any one. Your notes are caged!

Evernote lets you share entire 'notebooks'. Here are detailed instructions how to do so.

Misconception 3: Your notes and documents are not secure.
EverNote makes a back-up of your notes in at least 5 disks. So data-loss is virtually impossible. Still EverNote has a well chalked out privacy policy which ensures your notes are safe.

Misconception 4: For free users, EverNote provides 40 MB sync bandwidth every month. This is too little.

Sync bandwidth is the amount of data you send to EverNote and not the actual amount of data your notes takes in their drives. With 40 MB sync bandwidth, you can make 20,000 typed notes, 270 web clips, 400 Camera Phone images. That's much more than you need. Still in case, you ran out of bandwidth, you can go premium for $5 a month ot $45 a year. Premium accounts get 500 MB sync bandwidth a month, along with other features.

Misconception 5: There's no Symbian client for Evernote.

There is one EverNote client for Symbian-based smart-phones, although not officially supported by Evernote. It works on all phones based on S60 5th Edition.

Digg has launched an invite-only preview of its newest user-interface designs that it will be launching for the public later this year. Apart from little changes here and there, these are some of the striking new features that would surely make it more social and usable.
1. Twitter style links: Profiles of each user will be accessbile through Twitter style URLs. i.e. digg.com/username

2. You can follow users. Just like Twitter. Once you sign in, you would be presented with a list of popular profiles on Digg whom you might like to follow. Updates from those you follow is available on the My News page. That's the same page as Twitter timeline.

3. Connect Social Networks: Joining the likes of most social networks, Digg will offer you to connect to Facebook, Twitter and Google to add new people whom you already know.

Once connected, you can see a list of people from the same network. You can follow them right from that page. It's that simple!

4. Simplified link submission: In just a couple of clicks, you can submit links to Digg. You can submit links right from the My News page. Just after you enter the URL, the title and the embedded images are loaded on the fly. All you have to do is to enter a description and hit the button. No more horrible captchas. It's simpler than ever before.

You can even comment on the newly submitted URL right from there!

5. Auto-submit content: Now, you can auto-submit content to Digg from any feed item. You don't have to visit Digg to submit a link everytime you make a new post. Just add the feed to Digg and everytime you post, it will auto-publish the content.

6. Twitter-style Load more widget: You can stay on the same page and keep borwsing through Digg's interesting links. All you have to do is to click on the Load More link once you're done reading everything on that page. With this, Digg has done away with pagination which is irritating for some users.