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I was beginning to think that there was no real purpose to the Caps Lock key other than to annoy you when it’s accidentally turned on. Then Ghacks comes through and digs up an application called Capster (Windows only) that can really save you oodles of time with a concept that is so incredibly simple.

What you have to do is download the application and put it in a cozy spot on your computer. There’s no installation so the next thing you’ll need to do is fire it up. You should then see a window similar to the one pictured above where you can browse for the application that you want to start with Windows. In this example I chose Firefox, and I set it to only start if the Caps Lock key is on.

Then you’ll click the Create Shortcut button to have it place a shortcut on your computer. What you need to do now is put that shortcut in the Startup folder located in the Start Menu, and after that Capster will take care of the rest. The next time you start your computer it will try to run each application, but it will first check to see if the Caps Lock is on or off and proceed accordingly.

One of the reasons that I really love this application is that it is designed to have a minimal performance impact on your computer. Capster doesn’t have to stay running in the background thanks to the clever shortcut creator, and that’s something I really applaud the developer for. I highly recommend checking out this app if you’ve been yearning for a quick on/off switch for your startup applications.

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The iPad isn’t considered a netbook, but Apple’s month-old tablet is already pounding on the budget computing category, according to market numbers.

Research conducted by Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty shows that netbook sales have slowed down dramatically since January — when the iPad was announced, and shrunk even more in April when the iPad shipped. Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt concludes that Apple’s tablet is gobbling up netbook sales.

“As her chart (above) shows, sales growth of these low-cost, low-powered computing devices peaked last summer at an astonishing 641 percent year-over-year growth rate,” Elmer-DeWitt said. “It fell off a cliff in January and shrank again in April — collateral damage, according to Huberty, from the January introduction and April launch of the iPad.”

Of course, looking at the graph you’ll notice a general decline in netbook sales over the course of 2009, so it’s possible that the downward trend simply carried over to 2010. However, corroborating the correlation between the introduction of the iPad and shrinkage in netbook sales, Huberty also cited a survey conducted by Morgan Stanley in March, which found that 44 percent of U.S. consumers who were planning to buy an iPad said they were buying it instead of a netbook or notebook computer.

Netbooks — lightweight, 10-inch notebooks costing between $300 and $600 — were a sizzling product category in 2008. That year, manufacturers shipped over 10 million netbooks, and the mini notes continued to sell well in 2009. ABI Research forecasted that manufacturers will ship 200 million ultra-portable devices by 2013, which is about the same anticipated size as the current laptop market worldwide. The ultra-portable device category includes both netbooks and tablets, and at this rate, the iPad just might dominate the mobile PC market.

This is exactly what Steve Jobs had planned all along. Apple resisted producing a netbook, calling the miniature computers $500 pieces of “junk.” And when Jobs introduced the iPad, he highlighted its strengths — web browsing, e-mail, watching movies and other tasks — while noting that netbooks “aren’t good at anything.”

So far, it looks like Jobs’ sales pitch is working. Apple sold 1 million iPads in just one month.

See Also:

• Why 2010 Will Be the Year of the Tablet
• iPad Could See 50 Tablet Rivals This Year
• How the Tablet Will Change the World
• 5 Features the Apple Tablet Definitely Won’t Have — But Should …
• How Will the Apple Tablet iPad Change Our Kids’ Lives?

Photo: Brian Derballa/Wired.com; charts courtesy of Morgan Stanley