2012年3月29日星期四

3 Apple Apps I Like the Best

I've played iPad for long time and was amazed by the numerous apps in the store. I downloaded many apps I interested in and also deleted some after short term experience. Yet there are also many apps that I kept them all the way and would like to play them almost every day. They are free and very good to use. I'm not an advertiser for the apps but I would like to share them with you whether you know it or not.

1- Pinterest
Pinterest is an app recommended from my friend. She spoke highly of the app. So I clicked it in the computer firstly, and then I was lost in it for long time.



I downloaded the app immediately and revisit it often. I'm sure almost all visitors who came to Pinterest will be impressed by the whole contents, so beautiful and well-organized. Everything related to our daily life will be found in it, telling us that life can be so exciting like these!

As the official site described, Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. It lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find in your life. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.

2- Flipboard
Flipboard is reviewed positively by Apple and was rated as the application Apple's iPad App of the Year in 2010. This tells us how amazing and unusual this app can be.



Flipboard is a digital magazine, and it is more than that. It collects the content of social media and other websites and presents it in magazine format and allows users to "flip" through their social-networking feeds and other websites.

Differentiate to the iBooks; the magazine is flipped vertically, which give users a fresh experience of reading. What's more, the contents of the magazines are subscribed according to the users' interesting, ranging from Travel, News, Design, and Music, Celebrities etc. to other social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter contents. And you can view them in details by flipping each board. You see information can be shared in such wonderful fashion!

Though there are many methods to create digital flipping publications with some digital magazine software, Flipboard is an app beyond those tools' reach. The customization access to interesting information in such an unusual fashion is the reason to success in my opinion.

3- Draw Something
Draw something is the most popular app now and it emerged only two weeks. The game was downloaded 20 million times in the first five weeks after its launching.



This game is so fresh that it is not only a layout for users to show the ability to draw as well as offer us a chance to guess what the pictures name is, no matter you know the drawers or not. The app is connected with other social media to let you show the results. That's also explaining why the app gains so great fame and attention till now.

Welcome to recommend your wonderful apps to me!

2012年3月21日星期三

How to Get a Book Published Easily

Publishing our own books may be a great dream for some persons, especially the unknown writers or editors. Yet it is not easy to make it if no presses appreciate the works or have interest in publishing the book, except the writer has enough money to self publish them.
Traditionally, publishing books is not an easy issue. As the main paper media are newspaper and books. The writers or editors as well as the publishers should try their best to popularize their works in order to attract more readers enhance earn more profits and reputation.
What’s more, there is a long road for the writers and the press to go from writing the book until publishing or even selling them to the markets. Writing is not easy, so it is publishing. The finished book needs further editing, typesetting, pictures drawing, bookbinding and so on. Before the book is turned up before the readers, a series of tough work have done to it.
Thanks to the development of mechanization and other related technology, a lot of burdensome work have been relieved during the procedure of publishing and thus speeded up the course of extensive book publishing.
Another change that the high technology took to publishing is the popularization of internet, which has altered the layout of the publishing. The emerging media, such as blogs and Twitter and numerous e-books, have broadened the channels to publish articles, they also involved the ordinary persons in the publishing industry, hence take all persons have the easy approach to become a writer and access to build websites together; this is what web 2.0 time benefited us most importantly.
Publishing articles to the professional article websites or some sites that can sell e-books seems to be cool nowadays. But isn’t it be more amazing if all of your articles can be collected together and published as a digital magazine by your own? It sounds difficult, but we should believe the power of contemporary science and technology.
There are definitely some tools that can make self-publish easily. One of them is called the digital magazine software. It can easily combine your created PDF format articles together and then publish them as either HTML/EXE/ZIP or even Apple app or screensaver mode. After you created the flipping books, it is also possible for you to upload them to your own website, such as Facebook or the company sites. And all the procedures can be finished in only few steps. This flipbook creator makes publishing easy as everybody can have a chance to be a writer as well as the publisher.

2012年3月8日星期四

Upgrade iPad, Upgrade Your Life

Apple Released the New iPad on the morning 7 March, 2012 in California. The new generation iPad is featured with the more splendid display, the faster processer and other upgraded configurations. Though the creative points did not satisfy some investors, the new iPad is still worth to hold.
The most sparking point of the new iPad to the customers might be its Retina display. Since the old iPad and iPad 2 were embedded with the common LED screen, which could hurt the users’ eyes for long time watching, has been criticized fiercely.
Now the Retina display, as was rumored, has potentially making it the most pixel-packed slate in the market. The Current iPads have a display resolution of 1024x768; while the resolution of the new iPad is 2048x1536;—doubled the resolution, bringing the new iPad in line with the iPhone 4s’ retina display.

There is also a new iSight camera on board that is quite similar to the version inside the iPhone 4S. It is only five megapixels, but it does have a backside illuminated sensor with a five element lens. It is also capable of capturing 1080p video, which should come as no surprise. “Put another way, you all have an HDTV at home, 1080p—an iPad has more pixels. That’s incredible!” says Apple’s Phil Schiller.
And the new model has an A5X processor and quad-core graphics chip. Some experts indicate that the new iPad could be better than Xbox 360 and PS3 for its better screen resolution and more memory as well as no need of consoles. With the faster processor, not only can playing games on the iPad be an amazing experience, but other touches, such as flipping e-books (which is matured made by the flip book software) or surfing webpage can also be faster and enjoyable.

We are also excited to see the new iPad possesses the function of Siri as that in iPhone 4S, but it retains partly in it, only for some command notes. The whole voice input function for iPad might be perfect on its next generation. Let’s wait for the creation.
The new iPad will be available March 16th, starting at $499 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and scaling up to $829 for the 64GB version with4G. And as usual, the old iPad 2 will decrease $100. And the pre-orders start the releasing day in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia, with much of the rest of the globe to follow on March 23rd.