According to NetMarketshare, iOS browsing global quota surpassed Linux’s starting from July 2010 and our beloved iPad shares some merit from that with iPhone and iPod touch.

Linux-powered devices exist from more than a dozen of years. They are usually capable desktop or laptop computer, with big screens, fast processors, true keyboards, multi-button mice, strong Internet connections.

Nevertheless, in three years a entirely new category of devices, with small screens, relatively slow processors and no physical keyboard at all surpassed them in terms of generated web traffic.

As a bonus, you can check traffic generated from Android devices too.

Think about it.

iPad is going to radically change the way we interact with computers, especially at home.

You can tell by looking at products like PadTab, a wall mount kit that allows the iPad to be firmly put on a wall or house appliance.

The kit comes with two wall tabs, that adhere to walls or refrigerators thanks to industrial-strength adhesive, and an iPad tab that stays in the same way on the iPad. You can order more wall tabs if you like.

We wouldn’t apply to out iPad a plastic structure that is more or less permanent, but many people will do—signs are… written on the wall, for who can read them.

PadTab is US$ 29.99.

At its Sept. 1 event, Apple trotted out a new iPod touch, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, a rekindled Apple TV, and even a brand new social network in iTunes 10.

This annual fall bash held surprises for almost every device that Apple sells – with one notable exception.
“It’s the biggest change in the iPod lineup ever,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the event.

With updates for iTunes, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch, iOS, iPad, and Apple TV – phew! – Apple gave a nice polish to practically its entire line of gadgets. But what happened to the iPod Classic? The bulkier, bigger-hard-drived device is still for sale. But no annual refresh is often Apple code for “we’ve lost confidence in that product.”

Then again, we all thought the same thing about the Apple TV before today.

iPod Touch

On first glance, the new iPod touch changed the least this year. No exciting new shell. No Weight Watchers-style heft reduction. But Apple crammed in an HD video camera on the back, a front-facing camera for video chat, and four-times the number of screen pixels. The Touch’s innards also gets an A4 processor, the same kind Apple uses to power the iPhone 4 and iPad.

iPod Nano

The new iPod nano slimmed way down this year. It’s 46 percent smaller and 42 percent lighter than the previous model – making it almost Shuffle size. But the biggest change is the Nano’s new touch screen. It will run an OS similar to the iPhone’s, with square icons representing each feature. The Nano loses the video camera it had in its last iteration, but gets VoiceOver, FM radio, and a pedometer.

The new design, which includes a clothing clip, will come with 8 gigabytes of memory for $149 or 16 gigs for $179.

New social network, Ping

Ping is today’s most unexpected Apple announcement.

The social network will come baked into iTunes 10 and allow users to connect with friends and musicians. Apple describes the service as a music discovery program. “Follow” people to discover what they’re listening to, watch their favorite music videos, find custom top-ten lists, suggest songs to others, and learn when musicians will tour in your area. Ping is free, but Apple hopes all this sharing will lead to a bunch of new 99-cent sales.

New Apple TV

After years of disappointing sales, Apple TV has returned. And it’s itty-bitty. The new set-top box not only comes with a new frame, but also comes with a new philosophy. Apple tossed out the notion of buying TV shows, syncing them to the device, and then watching everything on your TV. Now, Apple TV is all about streaming. You can rent shows and movies through iTunes for as little as 99 cents – or cue up Netflix if you want. The Apple TV then projects these streaming shows to your TV in HD or to an iPad wirelessly.

The new box will cost $99.

iPod Shuffle

After rolling out multitasking and printing features for the iPad and a new video game service (Game Center) for all iOS devices, Apple CEO Steve Jobs dived into the company’s new lineup.
First up was a refreshed iPod shuffle.
Last year, Apple forced an uber-radical redesign upon the littlest iPod. It stripped away the classic click wheel, replacing it with special headphones and VoiceOver, which allows the device to read aloud song titles and playlist information. Today, Apple backpedaled.

“People clearly miss the buttons,” Jobs said about the restored click wheel. “They love the buttons from the second generation, but love the VoiceOver on the third generation.” Now the Shuffle has both.

The two-gigabyte music players will cost $49 each.

As far as we know, App Store lacked an iPad Photo app able to use metadata information from photographs for searches and various other chores.

Sort Shots – iPad Edition 2.0 from Today Beanheads Consulting Inc. closes the hole.

The app allows users to import images via iTunes while retaining previously assigned metadata keywords and ratings, so users can simply tap on desired search criteria to find photos instantly.

Tags and ratings asseigned to images in Sort Shots can be exported and used by some desktop applications like Photoshop Bridge and Lightroom from Adobe, Apple iPhoto and Aperture, Microsoft Photo Gallery, and Nikon Capture NX2, at various degrees of compatibility.

Sort Shots 2.0 retains the original image resolutions and has an option to choose between viewing either the original image or an optimized version.

Sort Shots – iPad Edition 2.0 is US$ 4.99 (€ 3.99).

Just a remainder for all those people that asked themselves how to play Internet radio in background with the iPad, and gave the wrong answer.

This is often possibile indeed, even if iOS 4 — and its multitasking feature — isn’t yet compatible with the iPad.

The trick is to find an Internet radio you can listen inside Safari, activating it… and then going to the next app. Safari will close, but the stream will continue to play.

Just be sure to choose either a radio Safari can play… and that you like, too!

[via FairerPlatform]