No-one who works in an office, or who runs a business of their own, will agree with the above statement at all. I certainly don’t. I just put it there to attract the attention of people like me, sorry about that!

Laptops and tablets are excellent. Tablets for media, laptops for traditional computing – i.e. anything where you need to use a keyboard and have a screen that can be set at eye level. Though even here of course the laptop requires such an amount of extraneous hardware, to get it up to your eye level and let you use a keyboard to type on, that space wise you might as well have a desktop.

The advantages to a laptop begin and end with its size. It can be carried around, it can be stored easily and it does everything a desktop does. Up to a point. At some stage, the simple mathematics of spatial awareness make it obvious that the place where a desktop scores over a laptop is also to do with size.

Basically put: a desktop is big, therefore it has more space to fit technology in, therefore it is ultimately capable of running faster and better than a laptop. In actual terms, it’s rare to see a desktop that does that because the cost of all that technology makes the big guns exceedingly expensive and only really useful for people who make movies and music – or who develop websites.

For all other purposes, the laptop is just as good as a desktop – though of course a desktop is much easier to fix in terms of hardware diagnosis and replacement. Anyone with a degree of computer knowledge can fix a desktop with a faulty component, while a laptop requires a long and annoying wait in someone else’s tech department.

The versatility of laptops and tablets is undeniable. Free laptop with mobile broadband contract deals have made the ubiquity of portable computing complete. Rather than tie your office to one internet connection and one desk, as you used to with a desktop, you can take your connectivity and all your work with you in a bag that fits neatly on your shoulder.

The lightness and small size of laptops is increasing annually – though there is definitely a limit, as some manufacturers proved with overheating laptops, whose operation was significantly hampered by the fact that you couldn’t put it on your knees without giving yourself painful burns. That aside, though, we’re reaching a point where you can get a free laptop with mobile broadband contract deal and have something that works equally well as a business tool, an entertainment device and a simple base station for connecting to the internet.

The real mover behind all this, though, is the net itself. If you’ve read many of my blogs you’ll know that I’m a little obsessed with this change. Basically: the web used to be a tying that we used. Now it’s a place that we live. The real reason why most people would prefer a free laptop with mobile broadband to a free desktop with a static broadband connection is that they want to be in the net wherever they go, whenever they want.

Nowadays Photoshop is a mature product and each new edition brings just one or two major new features. The all-new tool in the latest version is Content-aware Fill, whereby the program attempts to guess newly revealed areas of a picture – once you’ve removed a part of the image, such as unwanted tourists in the shot – to automatically fill in that part of the picture revealed. But now, instead of paying hundreds of dollars for Adobe’s star product, the same tool is available free via TouchRetouch App in AppStore.

For example, you might like to remove a few tourists from a photo of an archaeological site. There is a catch – the free version only works at a reduced resolution, but the paid version of TouchRetouch app only costs $0.99 allows you to edit photos at their full resolution.

The paid version of TouchRetouch HD also includes a Clone Stamp Tool for fine-grained control of the final appearance of the photo. This means you can correct the tool’s approximation of your missing content, or anything else in your newly-enhanced snaps. The app not only shows the power of modern editing technques, but also demonstrates the power of iOS development communities, which can now emulate the functionality of professional tools, and via their low-price-high volume pricing strategy, bring the delights of expensive tools to amateurs and hobbyists. Bravo!

Lets take a look at an example: See the two walking by the ruin?

and now lets see how these are taken out. Not a picture perfect mind you, but and awesome job for an effortless and quick fix.

Air Playit is one cool and very free video streaming software for you iPad. It allows you to convert, stream, download and play just about any video. Air Playit works well on iPhone, iPad, iPod over WiFi, 3G, or 4G network. It recognizes and supports over 320 video and audio formats.

Video and audio is effectively stored on a cloud and played from there. Air Playit automatically discovers your server on a local server, or allows you to enter IP os your own remote one. In fact, it has its own http server which allows you to access your music or video libraries remotely.

Part of this Air Playit app is also offline conversion, which allows you to convert to and from just about any format. No need to sync you devices, Air Downloader will download all videos and music automatically.

Air Playit supports Apple TV-Out, so that you can stream you videos on any iOS device anywhere.

You can download Air Playit software for free.