Great, Apple announced yesterday that they will be releasing iOS 4.2 for iPad with Multi Task feature!

iPad is gonna become more useful…

What to choose and what not to?

A manufacture going to release a Bluetooth keyboard + a Silicone case for iPad!

Seven frameworks for business consulting framework described here:

1. Porter’s Five Forces
2. The Value Net
3. The Project Prioritization Framework
4. SWOT Analysis
5. The Strategy Matrix
6. Force Field Analysis
7. Affinity Diagram

Now Adobe has released a Photoshop Express as a free tool for iPad. Get it here.

Mary-Jo Foley discusses about Microsoft’s next-generation interface technology and their feature products.

Ghostwriter Notes for your iPad is the easiest and most convenient way to take notes, maintain current information, and have that information with you wherever you go. Read More . . .

You as a CIO, what to do and what not to do for getting IT Budgets?

To Do:

1. Talk Business (Talk about money, not methodology)
2. Create an Impact (Not a PowerPoint)
3. Sell Emotion (Make believe into project)
4. Be agile (Don’t make them wait)

Not To Do:

1. Make boring PowerPoint presentations
2. Discuss approach, methodology, functional and technical specs
3. Talk about earlier failed projects
4. Ask your IT Vendor to make it
5. Ask for less budgets than necessary

Via Sangram in Best Practices

Pretty nice wallpaper of “In Niz Bogzarad” means “This too shall pass” in Smashing Magazine.

According to recent editorial of Steve Ballmer in Forbes, Microsoft has been in cloud business for 15 years and they are going to invest $9.5 billion for R&D of it in this year!

Are companies using Cloud? He brought 3 companies in his article “The Future Is Cloudy”:

NASA is using Windows Azure, Microsoft’s operating system for the cloud, to enable the public and researchers to interact with hundreds of thousands of images collected during the space agency’s hugely successful Mars Exploration Rover program. This process will inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers, support future space exploration, and advance our understanding of the universe.

For RiskMetrics, the cloud and Windows Azure mean computing capacity can expand instantly to meet almost any level of demand for its sophisticated risk simulation models. This is allowing RiskMetrics to reach new customers and introduce new services without making significant capital investments in fixed computing assets.

And the Kentucky Department of Education is using Microsoft’s cloud-based communications and collaboration tools to connect more than 700,000 students, teachers, and staff to each other and a wide range of educational resources. The results will save millions of dollars and enable teachers to improve skills development as they work to prepare students for the jobs of the future.

If you have bought GoodReader, you can simply open CHM files as well as keeping them in your library with help of CHMate Lite. These are the steps:

1. Transfer your CHM file to your GoodReader library
2. Click Manage Files inside GoodReader
3. Select the file and choose “Open With…”
4. Once CHMate Lite appeared, choose it and it automatically opens in CHMate Lite.

Cool, isn’t it? You don’t have to pay for CHMate :)

W3C has released a tool called Unicorn for validation of a web page from every aspect.

As CEOs put IT budgets under pressure year after year, CIOs and their teams focus on balancing money spent on running the business (RTB) versus money spent on growing the business (GTB). By decreasing the percentage of their budget spent on maintenance and ongoing operations (RTB), they aim to have a greater share of their budget to spend on projects that grow the business. In the best IT organizations, the ratio can sometimes approach 50:50 — however, a more typical ratio is 70% RTB and 30% GTB. Read More . . .

Yea, I had to buy it as well… I was the same of Mary on not going to Apple products, but iPad was something I couldn’t prevent going for it… I was following it up from the very first days it was announced and once a friend of mine brought some for sell here in Iran, I bought it… and truly my productivity has increased greatly!

I second what Jason Perlow is saying. Since Microsoft’s tablets are failed, they may better start developing enterprise application clients + office apps for iPad so we don’t have to buy 3rd party apps for just doing our regular daily tasks.