Deidra Jones, President of Pocket Cocktails, has been busy creating and developing multi-purpose apps for the past two years. Her apps range from cocktail recipes to how-to-get six-pack abs to teaching your dog new tricks. For just $0.99 per app, you can learn how to make yummy Cosmos and balance it with 60 seconds of ab work. Not a bad combo for two bucks. 

What is your techie mission?

To create applications for mainstream users to enjoy. Most of the early adopters for new technology were hard-core tech geeks. But now that has changed with mothers, aunts, and even your grandfathers are adopting and embracing the latest in technology. We aim to create apps that everyday folks can use and enjoy with their friends and families.

Who’s your techie role model

Steve Jobs - CEO of Apple Inc. Certainly he will go down in history as the man who brought apps to mobile. He's been at the forefront of countless milestones of sea change, including the infamous "1984" commercial, the original Macintosh 128K, Pixar, iPod, iPhone and now iPad. Its true genius to give people what they want BEFORE they know what they want.

The iPad has revolutionized the magazine industry...for the better (don't you think?). Even Condé Nast's magazine Wired reported that the sales of their iPad edition exceeded its print edition. 

Now, how about an iPad app that turns your social content into a magazine? Ta-dah, it's called the Flipboard. The online community is raving about this new social magazine app as a MUST on your iPad download list. The best part of it is that it's free (...for now).

Flipboard collects articles from your Twitter and Facebook accounts to create a one-of-a-kind social magazine just for you. For example, all the articles you and your friends 'Like' on Facebook or the re-tweets on Twitter will be compiled into a magazine layout.  Each Flipboard account is customizable to the reader's liking. Changes in content will reflect real-time feeds. Flipboard's next mission is to add feeds from Flickr and LinkedIn... stay tuned!

If you're still not sure about Flipboard, here's a promo video.

*This is the last of a five part series on tablet computing

Part 1: Invite the 'Normals' into Computing

Part 2: Flintstones and Star Trek Point Us to the New Paper

Part 3: Interface - One hand or two? Touch, Tap, Spin

Part 4: Tablet Computing - Real World Use Cases

There's not always a black and white answer to the question of whether one should go the tablet route or not at this point in time. There are convertible notebooks available as well, which are notebooks with a swivelling keyboard attached on a hinge. It can rotate behind the screen or flip out to a laptop setup as required. There are cons to this as the size and bulk could increase, and the user interface has to really match two different input methodologies.

Google and Viacom squared off earlier this year in a titanic battle that some thought might leave the future of the internet’s biggest video provider in serious doubt. It was something of an ethical quagmire, with early YouTube emails revealing the founders knew copyright infringement was occurring, and more to the point, turned a blind eye to it. What appeared to be an open and shut case was complicated by the fact that Viacom  itself was uploading its own copyrighted material, while still claiming Youtube was in the wrong.