On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
The iPad is finally here and in the hands of 300,000 people already. Given it's popularity and growth website owners will want to make sure their websites are ready for the iPad. Also remember there is no flash support on the iPad and videos are played using HTML5 format. iPad Peek is a tool for you to view your site on an iPad without actually owning one. The problem with this little tool is that flash works on it but technically it should not. To fully test your website's iPad readiness you need to. Step 1: Start your Firefox (or Safari) browser and change the user agent string to that of the Apple iPad. You may use Google Chrome as well but it just takes lot of effort to change the user agents in Chrome. Step 2: Disable the Adobe Flash plug-in from your browser settings. Step 3: Open iPadPeek.com and type the URL of any website in the built-in Safari browser of the “virtual” iPad. This tool will render websites in landscape mode by default but you can click the top...