How to read kindle books on your iPhone
September 30, 2009
First things first!
To use this app you would need a iPhone 2.1 software update. (To get it, connect your iPhone to your computer using iTunes and click Check for Update)
Get kindle for iPhone free at Apple’s App store
Read Kindle books on your iPhone or iPod touch
- No Kindle required
- Get the best reading experience available on your iPhone or iPod touch
- Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
- Automatically synchronizes your last page read between devices with Amazon Whispersync
- Adjust the text size, add bookmarks, and view the annotations you created on your Kindle
- Don’t have a Kindle? Get yours here
Shop for books in the Kindle Store optimized for Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch
- Buy a book from the Kindle Store optimized for Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch and get it auto-delivered wirelessly
- Search and browse more than 350,000 books
, including more than 105 of 112 New York Times bestsellers
- Find New York Times bestsellers and new releases for $9.99, unless marked otherwise
- Get free book samples. Read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy
- Books you purchase can also be read on a Kindle
- Kindle newspapers, magazines and blogs are not currently available on the iPhone or iPod touch
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Apple iPod touch 32 GB (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL
September 29, 2009
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Apple iPod nano 8 GB Black
September 28, 2009
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Apple iPod Nano
One of the most exciting Apple mp3 player models introduced by Apple Company lately is the Ipod namo 8GB mp3 player, which is considered as the tiniest color iPod in the market today. This tiny Apple mp3 player could store up to 2,000 songs! This means that if you have the Apple iPod nano 8GB mp3 player, you can enjoy up to 24 hours of non-stop music wherever you are.
If you are traveling on the road on your own, you will never be bored with this Apple mp3 player around. The Apple ipod nano 8GB mp3 player is a state of the art gadget. It is USB and FireWire compatible so you can easily download music from your computer into this Apple mp3 player.
If you are one of those people who usually purchase music online, you can just download everything into your Ipod nano anytime. Aside from giving you very clear digital sound, this newest member of the Apple mp3 player family also gives you audiobooks, podcasts and built-in games.
If you are traveling long distance and would like to take a short break, you can just pull up at a rest stop and play some games in your Apple mp3 player.
Apple also introduced a Windows version of iPod, at a later stage.
Which audiofiles are supported
The audio files that iPod (mp3 / mp4 player) supports are MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless audio file formats.
Slight Disadvantage: MIDI and WMA files can be played only after a convertor accomplishes conversion, for non-Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and other open-source audio formats are not supported at all.
iPods interface
Apple wanted an extremely user friendly interface and thus adopted the minimalist interface, which features only five essential buttons, namely,
- Menu (to access functions and to toggle the backlight);
- Center (for menu item selection);
- Play/ Pause (this also works as an off switch when held for few seconds);
- Skip Forward/ Fast Forward;and
- Skip Backwards/ Fast Reverse.
An additional Hold button is provided for accidental button pressing prevention, and it can reset the iPod if it has frozen or crashed. Functions such as volume control, scrolling are handled by the usage of the rotational click wheel. Later models have some minor changes in the functions of the buttons but overall the number of buttons has remained at five.
Sidenote: Why is it named iPod?
To market this path-breaking mp3 / mp4 player, they needed a suitable futuristic name.Inspired by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the dialogue “Open the pod bay door, Hal!” with reference to the context of the Discovery One spaceship and its white EVA Pods, a freelance copywriter proposed the name of the product as iPod.
The management of Apple accepted the proposed name and on 23 October 2001, the iPod was officially launched.
iTunes store
To enable customers to access songs of their choice, Apple opened up an online media store The iTunes Store on 29 April 2003, where individual songs could be downloaded at prices less than a U.S. dollar per song. The purchased songs can be played only on iPods.
iPods have come a long way from their inception, and now the latest fifth generation iPods possess multimedia capabilities and are available in both Mac OS and Windows OS versions.
From being a digital music player, the iPod has now transformed into a digital media player.
Features
- 8 GB capacity for 2,000 songs, 7,000 photos, or 8 hours of video
- Up to 24 hours of music playback or 4 hours of video playback when fully charged
- 2-inch LCD with blue-white LED backlight and 320-by-240-pixel resolution
- Supported audio formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
- Supported video formats: H.264, MPEG-4; Supported image file types: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG
Nora Roberts Angels Fall Audio Book
September 24, 2009
Reece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view below her. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that haunt her.
She settles in Angel’s Fist, Wyoming - temporarily, at least - and takes a job at a local diner. And now she’s hiked this mountain all by herself. It was glorious, she thinks, as she peers through her binoculars at the Snake River churning below. And then she sees the man and woman on the opposite bank. Arguing. Fighting. And suddenly, he’s on top of her, his hands around her throat. . . . Enjoying a moment of solitude a bit farther down the trail is a gruff loner named Brody. But by the time Reece reaches him and brings him to the scene, the pair is gone. And when authorities comb the area where she saw the attack, they find nothing. No signs of struggle. No freshly turned earth. Not even a tire track. And no one in Angel’s Fist seems to believe her. After all, she’s a newcomer in town with a reputation for being jumpy and jittery - maybe even a little fragile.
Maybe it’s time to run again, to move on. Reece Gilmore knows there’s a killer in Angel’s Fist, even if Brody, despite his seeming impatience and desire to keep her at arm’s length, is the only one willing to believe her. When a series of menacing events makes it clear that someone wants her out of the way, Reece must put her trust in Brody - and herself - to find out if there is a killer in Angel’s Fist before it’s too late.
Nora Roberts Blue Smoke
September 23, 2009
The blaze that night at her family’s pizzeria changed young Reena Hale’s life in more ways than one. Neighbors and relatives would pull together to help the Hales get through the crisis and rebuild. The Baltimore authorities would arrest the arsonist responsible. But as Reena gazed into the fire, beheld its brutal beauty and destructive power, her destiny began to take shape. She would study, struggle, and walk the gauntlet to understand and master its terrible force - and one day become an investigator herself.
But she is not the only one fascinated by the flames. Someone else sees their power as well - and is obsessed not with conquering the fire but with controlling it, owning it, using it to exact vicious revenge.
When Reena achieves her goal and joins the arson unit, her strength and wits are constantly tested. Though sometimes the job seems like a snap compared to her love life. One relationship after another has ended for her - some in tragedy or drama, some not with a bang but with a whimper. And she can’t always blame them - after all, a soot-caked woman barking orders and smelling of smoke isn’t the biggest turn-on in the world. Then she meets Bo Goodnight, who seems different. He’s been trying to find Reena for years, and now that she is close enough to touch, he has no intention of letting go.
Nor does the man who has begun to haunt Reena’s life - with taunting phone calls and a string of horrifying crimes. And as Reena tries desperately to trace the origins - of the calls, the fires, the hatred aimed in her direction - she will step into the worst inferno she has ever faced.
