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eBooks

Kindle Books Outselling Hardcover Books. “Tipping Point” Reached, Amazon Says

July 19, 2010

Kindle Books Outselling Hardcover Books. “Tipping Point” Reached, Amazon Says: “Amazon’s Kindle eReader has long been a great device. Unfortunately, for much of its life, it has been far too expensive. And now with Apple’s iPad out there, it seems a bit too, well, monochrome. But Amazon did a smart thing recently, they slashed the [...]

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Getting your Ebooks onto your iPhone or iPad

July 8, 2010

One thing I like about the digital revolution is that digital copies of anything don’t degrade over time.  You can keep enjoying them over and over for years.  However getting your media onto a device can be a bit frustrating.  Well a pair of apps, one for the Mac and one for your iPhone or [...]

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Will we pay more for magazines on the iPad?

June 2, 2010

Will we pay more for magazines on the iPad?: “Business Insider has a post up from AdAge about magazine pricing on the iPad, and they’ve got bad news for anyone planning to transfer all of their magazine subscriptions to Apple’s magical device: It’ll cost ya.” I ecpect that as more magazine go “e” that there [...]

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Barnes & Noble announce their Free iPad app – Nook for iPad

May 27, 2010

Barnes and Noble announced their new free iPad app.  Well Apple is letting other eBook reading apps through to the iPad app store.  No wonder Apple is trying to get authors to self publish with them.

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Comic reader app aims to shake things up…literally | Comics | iPhone Central | Macworld

May 5, 2010

Comic reader app aims to shake things up…literally | Comics | iPhone Central | Macworld: “Update: Madcap tells us Digital Comics isn’t Universal yet, but an update is expected in 2-3 weeks. However, if you run the iPhone app on your iPad and blow it up to double size, the content should scale even if [...]

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Actually, half of all iPad Books are Fiction – O’Reilly Radar

May 5, 2010

Actually, half of all iPad Books are Fiction – O’Reilly Radar Yeah, that sounds about right. The interesting thing are all the project Gutenberg titles. I guess people are going back to “those books they made me read in school.”

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AppleInsider | Google to take on Apple, Amazon in e-book sales this summer

May 4, 2010

AppleInsider | Google to take on Apple, Amazon in e-book sales this summer AppleInsider wrote: Google plans to begin selling e-books in late June or July, getting into the digital business Apple recently entered with the iPad and its own iBookstore. Is this a bad thing for Apple. Actually no. More eBooks means more content [...]

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Learning to Program – Lesson 2 Data Typing and Variables

September 25, 2009

This is the second lesson for the complete programming beginner.  We start with Data types and end with Variables and lists.

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Gnome for Windows Users

September 15, 2009

Most user’s aversion to Linux is really founded on unfamiliarity and the desire to keep things static. This self-paced course is designed to prevent this aversion by transitioning Windows Users to Linux using the Gnome environment. They are shown what they can do with Gnome that is much like windows. They are even given a [...]

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