Waiting for a great reason to buy a Kindle? Here are five perfect reasons to stop waiting!
1) You can purchase books at home!
There’s no need to go to the bookstore for new reading material. Simply log on to the internet and purchase a book from Amazon.com. Most books are available to preview before you purchase. You are able to virtually “flip the cover” in order to determine whether you will enjoy the book or not. You can read those same books at home, on the bus, in the car, and even on the beach! There are over seven thousand New York Times bestsellers that are available through Kindle’s wireless download service, with the potential for more every day. That’s more than many bookstores!
2) Books for your Kindle are cheaper!
Hardback books are being issued at higher and higher prices with many hardbacks costing as much as twenty-five dollars or more. Paperbacks are cheaper, but are issued later than hardback novels. Many people may wait for the paperback edition, but there’s no more waiting with a Kindle! You can purchase a novel immediately for a price that is lower than the cost of a paperback. Approximately sixty-five percent of e-books are less than $9.99.
3) A Kindle is more portable than traditional books!
The Kindle is smaller, thinner, and more portable than both a hardback book and a paperback novel. It weighs in at 8.5 ounces, and can hold up to 3,500 books. The Kindle’s battery life is amazing, lasting a minimum of seven days, and a maximum of one month depending on your Kindle model and your use of wi-fi.
4) You can change the text size when reading your Kindle!
If you have difficulty seeing, you can change the text size easily on your Kindle. There are fewer books that are printed in large print, but that problem is put to rest with a Kindle. Simply use your user settings in order to increase the size of the text to a point where you are comfortable reading.
5) A Kindle accommodates individuals with disabilities!
If you have a learning disability of any sort, a Kindle is the perfect device! For words that you don’t know, there is a dictionary function. The Kindle is also able to read English language content to you. It is perfect for those that have visual impairments and non-readers.
New Keyword Research tool is being launched soon. Beta Testers are needed to test the tool. Must have basic knowledge of keyword research.
You will be ask to take a quick survey before given access to the tool, then a quick survey after the tool.
You will be able to have access to the tool for 1 week to use for free, you will not get paid to be a beta tester.
If you are interested, please email support@thenewestgadget.com with your name, email, and phone number and write a few sentences on why you will like to beta test a new keyword research tool.
Serious inquiries only.
Following my earlier blogs regarding the Flash controversy between Apple and Adobe, here are some related information. According to a study done by Mefeedia, a company that monitors online video on the Web, 26% of Web video is already compatible with the iPad. This means that 74% is still encoded in Flash or platforms other than HTML5 or H.264. The report also states that most new online video is created using HTML5 and not Flash. It was also mentioned that just a few months ago, the percentage of iPad-ready online video is only 10%. The fast increase shows that HTML5 is fast becoming the platform of choice for individual content providers and apps developers.
I posted a few days back a blog on Apple’s reasons why Flash is not supported on the iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. Mr. Jobs himself said that their reasons are purely technical and not based on business issues. Adobe does not accept this and issued a number of statements to refute Apple’s claims. They said they believe in an open market that lets both consumers and developers decide what technology to use for their contents – CSS, HTML4, HTML5, Flash and any other available platform. Adobe published an open letter from its founders that says Apple is actually taking a step that could undermine the mobile era of the web, wherein any individual could publish his own content, which can be accesses anywhere at any time. They also boldly said that nobody, and certainly not a single company controls the web. Word war!
Here’s an interesting app for the iPhone and the iPad that can be considred both a game or a tool for designing your home. Home 3D is an architectural design software that you can enjoy while modeling your home. With this app, you can arrange the interior of your house by adding sofa chairs in the living room, replacing your dining table, repainting the walls or simply rearranging the position of your furnitures. All of these planned changes can be previewed first before you tear down anything or already buy those expensive furnitures. You can also add doors and windows to your home’s floor plan, almost similar to what can be done in a professional design software. But Home 3D is a lot less expensive at only $3.99 for the iPhone and $4.99 for the iPad.
Ever wondered why Adobe’s Flash is not supported on the iPod, iPhone and iPad? Critics are saying it is because of business reasons but Apple claims it is purely because of technology issues. There is no one who can explain Apple’s stand better than the man himself, Mr. Steve Jobs. He issued a statement on this dated April 29, 2010 in Apple’s website. The highlight of that statement is that Flash was created during the era of the desktop (stationary) PC. Today is now the mobile era where we have all sorts of portable devices that require touch interfaces, open web standards, and most of all low power consumption. Flash is weak in all these areas and there is now an ever-growing number of media outlets that provide their content to Apple mobile devices, using open standards like the HTML5. Mr. Jobs’ final word is for Adobe to lessen on criticizing Apple for not using Flash and instead focus on developing HTML5 tools.
WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2010 is just around the corner and will be held from June 7 to 11 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. But if you haven’t signed up yet, sorry because there are no more slots available. This shows how important the conference and have gained the status of some sort of a mecca for Apple software developers. It is expected that the highlights of the 2010 event will be on the iPhone OS4 and iPhone and iPad apps. New iPhone OS4 features will be hot on the floor especially multitasking and the iAd. There will also be Core OS sessions that will touch on topics on security, networking, low-level graphics layer, and hardware level services. Developer tools like the Xcode will also be discussed while development techniques for animation, graphics, gaming, audio, and video will be tackled in the Graphics and Media Lab sessions. WWDC 2010 will also focus on the HTML5, which has become an important tool for delivering audio and video to the Web. These are but some of the many things that will be taken up in one of the most important Apple gatherings and expect new developments that will be announced right after the event.
Lady Gaga complained the Fox unfairly edited her music performance on American Idol when she sang her hit song, Alejandro. So if you want to see the full unedited performance than the best place is to see it is right here through Perez Hilton’s blog, http://perezhilton.com/2010-05-06-gaga-does-idol
Write your comments below. Should the media edit Lady Gaga or give her freedom of speech?
Are you one of those who want to get hold of an iPad but cannot do it now because you are on a tight budget? Well my friend, there may be a solution to this problem, which could be just a few clicks away through your keyboard. Do you know that there are early iPad adaptors who are planning to resell their Wi-Fi only iPads because they want to replace them with the more advanced (as far as connectivity is concerned) 3G-capable models? You can check this out by yourselves by looking at buy and sell online stores like eBay where you can find slightly-used or even never opened boxes of the Wi-Fi only iPad.
Apple just announced that its one millionth iPad was sold last Friday, April 30. It’s barely 28 days after its release in the market on April 3 and this is remarkable considering the iPhone achieved the same sales status longer in 74 days. It was also reported that iPad apps download from the App Store has already reached a staggering 12 million while sales from the iBookstore is now over 1.5 million. However, there was no detail provided on how many Wi-Fi only or 3G capable models were sold. What is very clear here is that Apple has already generated an outstandingly good revenue from the iPad – from a conservative 500 million to somewhere around 700 million dollars? Who knows!
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