Apple Wednesday announced a touchscreen tablet computer, the "iPad" for consumers who want to take their movies, TV shows, music, games and reading with them, be it around the house or on the go.

If you’re a current iPhone user, much of the interaction with the iPad looks to be very familiar. For instance, tilting the iPad gives you portrait or landscape viewing — both orientations support a lovely full screen keyboard. It also appears that the app icons on the “home screen” change orientation too.

Apple iPad specs:

• 9.7-inch display with 0.5-inches thickness.
• 16GB to 64GB of on-board flash memory
• 10 hrs of battery life. Over a month for standby
• 1GHz Apple A4 chip (developed for the iPad)
• WiFi 802.11n
• Bluetooth 2.1
• accelerometer
• digital compass
• speaker and a microphone
• 30-pin dock connector

Looking forward to see the new iPad, particular when I was looking to buy a Amazon Kindle, but now I think Amazon will accelerate the Kindle 3.

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There are many other features to add using the Twitter API, anybody can contribute to improve the RADTweer, is Open Source.

The application is one sinble EXE file, at the first start up it 3 files will be created, those binaries files are use to cache messages and configuration, and can be read from ClientDataSet.

The application has some features, like:

• List of messages
• List of Mentions
• List of followers
• Set message as favorite
• Also, show how many friends, followers and following people
• And many other features

Also, XML format is use to read the Twitter API response and when necessary save the information in ClientDataSet as a cache mechanism, download the source code or the binary and have fun.

If you would like to contribute with this project you are very welcome, as much you contribute you will be came officially part of the project.

The RADTweet source code is available in SorceForge, also the version 1.0

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Eu quero desejar a todos um feliz natal e próspero ano novo a todos que fazem parte da comunidade Embarcadero, dba’s e desenvolvedores ao redor do mundo.

Me gustaria desearles unas felices fiestas y feliz año nuevo a todos los miembros de la Comunidad Embarcadero y a todos los DBA’s y desarrolladores del mundo.

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This event was the first after our traditional old BorCon (Borland Conference).Because of the acquisition last year and many other things going on, we weren’t able to put on a big show like BorCon — but this year was different. Delphi Conferences started in many different countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica), and a lot of people showed up. The event in Brazil was no different, as it included 26 presentations, 4 simultaneous tracks and over 500 Delphi developers in attendance. Everybody was really excited about Delphi 2010.

DavidI and I (Andreano Lanusse) just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to the Brazilian community for your support, passion, and loyalty. You have continued to make Delphi stronger and stronger over the years.

All of the slides and samples are available in CodeCentral, of course in portuguese :), but google is your friend.

Here some pictures of the event of the year 2009 - Delphi Conference Brazil:

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During the last 2 weeks I have been working to create a Twitter desktop client in Delphi, this weekend I made a lot of progress.

The first release you will be able to see your recent messages, retwitter and add favorites. The application will use around 6-7MB RAM and EXE file less them 3MB.

Here a first screenshot, using the VCL components.

I expected to release the first version in 2 weeks, and yes I will provide the source code. I’m looking to host the project on SourceForge.

I need to define the name for this application, based on legal reason we can’t use the name Twitter. We can use like TwiDDer, TwiiPPer, anything like that, but again no Twitter, understandable they wanna protect the brand.

So I would like to ask for the Delphi Community "What name should we give for this application?", please add your comments.

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We could do another day training, too much features on this release :).

I just wanna say thank you for the Brazil community for all of your support and passion for Delphi, now is time to use Delphi 2010.

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"Now, 7 days later with an IDE with hundreds and hundreds of our components installed, we’re happy to report there is no way back. Delphi 2010 instantly became our preferred IDE. The improved debugger, the code formatter, IDE insight, more responsive editor provide an instant merit on existing projects. Best of all this does not come at a price, quite the contrary, more features, more capabilities, richer VCL and more responsive IDE at the same time."

In other words, they are more productive and will be able to create more great components for Delphi and C++Builder. TMS will will publish on this page a list of components that have been updated with Delphi 2010 & C++Builder 2010 support.

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I hear so many words like "Delphi 2010 is great!!!", "I’m definitely moving to Delphi 2010", "DataSnap is great", "Touch and Gesture Rocks", and also the Firebird users are VERY HAPPY!!!!

Those words sound like music, the entire team is grateful.

Here some pictures of the event in Mexico D.F.

No distraction, everybody watching the demos.

Coffe-break, everybody hungry and running, only 10 minutes break, too much features to present.

Members of the DelphiAccess.com, the Spanish Delphi forum. I’m so proud of this group, they have great ideas and are helping the community every day.

Well, now is time to back to US and prepare the online presentation for the Spanish countries in Latin America, also prepare the Delphi 2010 training for Brazil, yep September 15th the Brazilian Delphi community will have a full day training in Delphi 2010, the event is FREE!!!

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Also, I had a very special guest at the event, Thom Gerdes member of the Delphi R&D and responsible for the Direct2D implementation and also worked on the Touch and Gesture development. Thom’s presentation was excellent and the audience was fascinated with the power of touch and gesture on Delphi and C++Builder.

During 4 hours we present all of the new features and every was very excited.

Now I’m in D.F. the capital of Mexico for the tomorrow’s event, we are looking forward many developers at the event.

Thank you for all developers in Guadalajara. was great to talk with all of you face to face..

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Also I recommend you to watch the new sneak peek video about other new database features and DataSnap 2010.

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