Monday, April 29, 2013

Xbox SmartGlass available for Kindle Fire - Onet.pl

id=”intertext_1″> Xbox SmartGlass is now available on Windows Phone, iOS and Android, and now there is also produced by the Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet and Kindle Fire HD. Although both devices are on Android, it had to be tailored specifically to the unique interface of the tablet, as well as the options available to them, hence the long wait.

id=”intertext_1″> Once installed on the Kindle Fire, the said application, owners of the tablet can look to your friends, send messages, and use the equipment as an additional display using the tablet as an additional controller. The application can be downloaded from the Amazon App Store .

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Protect your Kindle from Verbatim - StacjaKultura.pl

approaching the picnic, and picnic soon will be another long weekend, and then the holidays. It is therefore appropriate to protect their Kindle case. Together with Verbatim we’ve got special cases.

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The line carrying cases Folio Verbatim , you can add style are using your tablet Kindle Fire or Kindle Fire HD. Folio Case provides protection from scratches and bumps in daily use. Its very thick and soft padding to protect the tablet’s screen Kindle.


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Television offensive Amazon. Kindle TV wykosi competition? - Gadzeto Mania

Amazon ecosystem will be enriched by TV box

equipment name is not yet known, but by analogy to other devices described it as Amazon’s Kindle TV.Warto be noted how television has changed in recent years. Television ceased to be just a receiver allows you to watch linear niespersonalizowanego program. In conjunction with the Network turned into a universal device for media consumption, including games, running on a remote server.

It is no wonder that the battle for the TV market has long been engaged in both acting on the company, as Netflix and Hulu, as well as the year and Apple. Amazon will therefore not an easy task and must offer something that will distinguish it from the competition .


What will be the dark horse of Amazon?

What will tempt potential customers? I admit that I do not like to speculate, and almost everything about it so far is speculation. In this case, the indication may be Amazon’s recently disclosed plans for the series. Company sends to the Web several television pilots (a few days ago wrote about Marta), and the indications of the most popular ones viewers will see the development as a complete season.

“Zombieland” – one of the proposals serialowych Amazon

In this regard, Amazon Netfliksa follows in the footsteps of his hit “House of Cards”. It can therefore be assumed that the company decided to draw users own productions . I think that’s not all. Why? It is worth to refer to the foundation upon which Amazon has built its power.

Jeff Bezos is a master of optimization and sales. Long ago perfected sale online – by constantly improving its service of online shopping has eliminated all unnecessary steps and made the purchase through the Web has become as easy as never before. Maybe it’s just waiting for the market of services available through the Kindle TV, a dark horse Amazon will not only offer, but also a way to access a variety of content and shopping via the TV.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

BookShout Startup raises $ 6M, no longer lets users import Their Kindle and ... - PaidContent.org

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Dallas-based startup BookShout, Which aims to Promote social reading and aid book discovery, has raised $ 6 million in a Series B funding round, the company Announced Thursday. But the company is, at least temporarily, no longer permitting users to import Their Kindle and Nook books onto the platform – the feature Showed That it off as the main perk of its platform at the Frankfurt Book Fair last fall.

That has not stopped

Ambassador Enterprises, a Fort Wayne, Ind.-based venture companies from investing again. “By serving authors and publishers in a process-oriented, measurable way, BookShout is Eliminating the guesswork and building tools That let content creators take control of Their audience,” Ambassador Daryle Doden CEO said in a statement.

BookShout, Which is available on the web and for Android and iOS, recently rolled out digital tools for bulk sales and promotions. It offers gift cards and promo codes and added an “author circles” feature that lets authors communicate with Their fans. The company says it is working with 250 publishers and sells over 100,000 ebooks on its platforms. But it would not reveal how many users it has.

As for the Kindle and Nook IMPORTATION – Which seemed suspect at the time it was launched, even though CEO Jason Illian said the company was not breaking Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s terms of service – the feature is turned off for now but could return, Illian told me. “We’ll see if we do [turn it back on] or not based on our relationships and partnerships with publishers,” he said. “We are here to serve them.”

BookShout was founded in 2010 and has gone through a number of incarnations before its current model. It has also received backing from Ingram Content Group CEO John Ingram. Including the newest round of funding, the company has raised $ 8.75 million in total.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

E-book readers - the perfect gift for First Communion - BBC News

What is the perfect gift for First Communion?

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Poles are traditionalists when it comes to First Communion gifts, the study Ceneo made last year indicated a bicycle as the best gift for first communion. A large popular were the medals and watches. This does not change the fact that for years steadily increasing popularity of electronic gadgets among children in many schools.

This is the tablet, smartphone and e-reader can pierszokomunijnymi year’s hits. This can also be seen in the growing popularity of these categories in the comparison site. Among the categories of tablets on Ceneo in the first quarter of 2013 there were more than 100% increase over the same period a year ago. E-readers, in turn, are popular with almost 60% compared to the previous year, and the mobile phones by 30%. Smartphones and Tablets, however, are not the cheapest of gift suggestions. – Most popular in the last three months of the tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 8 GB, is an expense of at least 775 z?. On the other hand for the most common in the first quarter of this year, the smartphone Samsung Galaxy S III must pay up to 1900 z? – says Agnieszka Spider with Ceneo.pl. – It is therefore an ideal gift pierwszokomunijnym output and may be in this case e-book reader, the average price is less than 410 z? – he added.


E-book reader – with pleasure

Although e-books are still a curiosity in Poland, in e-readers constantly growing. Popularization of e-literacy and encourage lower prices of e-books and the process of digitization of Polish schools. The smartphone is the youngest hard to learn or read a book while thanks to e-readers anywhere can read your favorite novel or even mandatory reading. E-book readers allow the youngest to pack your backpack up to several hundred titles of favorite books, whether for school or for pleasure, the natural size would never allow them to do so. With special displays for these devices provide a comfortable reading experience comparable to traditional book, and more importantly, do not cause eye strain. Can your child get used to the regular reading and in the future also help him in learning a foreign language. Taking into account the fact that some of the e-reader allows for including the Internet, they can be a replacement for tablets, like the Kindle Fire.

– an average tablet price 750 z?, while e-readers can be purchased at the price even for 150 z?, like the model Vedia eReader. Of course there are also those where the price is even 1915 z?. The most popular models, among more than 110 models available in the Ceneo.pl, in the last quarter of this year are: Amazon Kindle 5 at a minimum price of 389 z?, more expensive Amazon Kindle Paperwhite in price from 669 z?, and Onyx Boox i62HDw price 729 z? – says A. Spider with Ceneo.pl.

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Regarding the popular brand, is the undisputed leader for more than two years are brand Kindle readers. In particular, the three models in the family: Kindle Fire – a strong leader in e-readers in 2012 and 5 Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite, which occupy more than a year najwy?szemiejsce po?ródnajpopularniejszych products in this category. Kindle readers are not the cheapest available on the market, but despite this many users opting for a higher price, and will rely on proven quality and popularity of the brand. Among the popular manufacturers innch e-book readers in the top five followed by the company Onyx, Prestigio, PocketBook, and Vedia.

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choosing a gift to celebrate First Communion, if we must choose between e-reader or tablet, you should keep in mind that these are different devices for different purposes. You should also remember that in the race for first communion gifts do not lose one of the most important values ??of this festival, which is the time spent with your loved ones.

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Xbox SmartGlass released for Kindle Fire devices - Polygon

To Dave Tach on Apr 22, 2013 at 4:00 p

Microsoft’s Xbox SmartGlass app, Which allows users to interact with Their Xbox 360 consoles via smartphones and tablets, is now available for Amazon’s Kindle Fire devices, According to the app’s listing in the Amazon Appstore for Android.

The app is compatible with the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. According to a tweet from Xbox spokesman Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, it requires Android 4.0 and above. That excludes the first generation Kindle Fire from compatibility, as it runs Android 2.3.

SmartGlass was released last year for Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices. Earlier this month, the Android app was updated to work on 7-inch and larger tablets.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Here Are White Supremacists' Favorite Amazon Kindle E-Books - The Village Voice (blog)

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Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets the lowest dregs of Amazon.

Thanks to the dawn of e-readers and the death of the gatekeepers of traditional publishing, disenfranchised voices at last have the chance to reach a mass audience. At long last, white people are no longer being denied the opportunity to express Their white views to the world.

Thanks to Amazon’s “sure, we’ll e-publish anything!” policy, even the dumbest of white people now has a platform to share the white perspective. And we would point out That especially industrious white authors like Paul Kersey or HA Covington, both below, might even manage to make a few shekels on the deal, but we half-suspect that “shekels” might have something to do with the Organized Jewry so fear these fellows, so That we’ll keep to ourselves.

Anyway, here’s an overview at five works of lily whiteness, all available for an instant download on Amazon – and, as a bonus dispiriting, a quick look at the tastes of the Amazon Reviewers who champion this crap. Note: All quotes come from the publicly available preview of the books. Your Crap Archivist spent no money on these, because, seriously, fuck these guys.

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The Barnacles of Aegir
Author: Kay Gregory
Genre: Science Fiction
The Cover Promises This is the Jonathan Livingston Seagull of whites-only barnacle-focused science fiction novels.
Premise: After a great war, the remnants of the white race are enslaved to Hindus, because That is totally a thing That Hindus are itching for. The surviving whites team up into a secret rr-and-d group called the Foundation, built by survivors of the Orthodox Church. (“Dissident” Catholics and Protestants join in, too, we’re told, the implication being That most Catholics and Protestants sided with the Hindus.) Being brilliant in ways never could Their masters, the whites build the first interstellar star ship and launch a hail-Mary Noah’s Ark into the cosmos, with lots of purebred sperm and embryo on board.
An Actual Sentence: “Jerrik knew the food, at least, should not be a problem even though the Aegirian ecosystem was purely native, unadulterated by the stocking of Old Earth flora and fauna like virtually all inhabited worlds in space were white. “
Current Amazon Kindle Store Best Sellers Rank: # 1,091,106
Five-Star Amazon Reviewer Harold Ray Crews Says: “I whole heartily recommend this book”
Other Products Harold Ray Crews Has Reviewed View: Django Uncahined (One star, “utterly despicable,” “instills anti-white hatred”), 100% Silk Woven Colorful Gingham Blue and Gray Self-Tie Bow Tie (Two stars, “All you need are the clown shoes with a tie That size. “)
Upsetting Fact: According to his blog, Gregory Kay is invited every October to read from his work to the fourth graders.

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Escape from Detroit: The Collapse of America’s Black Metropolis
Author: Paul Kersey
Genre: purportedly non-fiction
The Cover Promises That everything you need to know about Detroit’s bad half-century can be found in the contrast between the public art commissioned when the city had a Majority white population (the above photo, of God) and when it has had a Majority black population (the photo below, of the fist of Joe Louis)
Premise: White flight was actually a ” systemic ethnic cleansing “that has led to the” complete collapse “of the city, Which started” the moment That Black people Became the Majority. “
An Actual Sentence: ” As Black people flee the still-dead Frankenstein-monster That is Detroit, they move to the safe Whitopia’s [sic] That will inevitably be in turn vacated by white people fleeing the crime and depreciated property values ??That follow the Black refugees of the Motor City. “
Another Actual Sentence : “Inevitably, Black people lack the ability to sustain the infrastrucutre they are handed over in the transition of power. Why can not the Black engineers just fix these water pipes?”
Current Amazon Kindle Store Best Sellers Rank: # 38,904
Five-Star Amazon Reviewer P. Atwood says: “When the upward and far thinking people are replaced by a low IQ criminal people, the City Becomes a horror show, “
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A Distant Thunder
Author: HA Covington
Genre: Alternate History
The Cover Promises That the flag of an all-white republic is awfully close to Nigeria’s.
Premise: The second of Covington’s novels about the founding of an all-white republic in the northwester United States, A Distant Thunder Concerns a young patriot’s quest to assassinate a wicked supreme court justice named – of course – Samuel Rothstein.
Actual Sentences: “Did you know that the Angielski language contains over one hundred words for nigger? ZOG tried to ban them all. Thought control …. On more than one occasion, at the early party meetings I went to while I was In high school, we’d get newbies who d never been among racially aware white people before. Suddenly they’d burst out, cursing and shouting and screa ming out loud over and over again ‘ Nigger! Nigger! Niggerniggerniggerniggernigger! “like they had Tourette’s Sybndrome. For the first time in years, for the first time ever for some of them, they could speak freely and without retaliation from politically correct society. “
Current Amazon Kindle Best Sellers Rank: # 310.472
Five-Star Amazon Reviewer J. Michael Says: “ A Distant Thunder pulls you into the mechanics of revolution: the weapons, the tactics, the secrecy, the psychology, etc., “
Other Products J. Michael Has Reviewed View: Mitt Romney’s No Apology: Believe in America (one star,” A Romney administration: more of the same, with a bit more war, more Mexicans and … more wives? “), Frank E. Eakin’s What Price Prejudice?: Christian Antisemitism in America (one star,” [Eakin] takes mon ey from the hands [of] organized Jewry (note the name of his professorship’s sponsors) in exchange for slandering Christianity “), Victor Easy Set Mouse Trap 4 Pack (Five stars,” Bait them with peanut butter and wait for the carcasses “)
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Captain America and Whiteness: The Dilemma of the Superhero
Author: Paul Kersey, again
Genre : Hilarious cultural commentary
The Cover Promises Here’s what Captain America’s shield looks like when you can not get the rights to it. Also, “Whiteness” is not the name of Cap’s new sidekick, who could be played by Jim Gaffigan.
Premise: For years, Hollywood has been replacing its classic white action stars with “the Vin Diesel, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Will Smith, and Samuel L Jackson’s. [sic] “The Marvel comics heroes were created in the 40s and 60s, before this time” when whiteness is under attack, “so the Marvel superhero movies have been welcome havens for old-fashioned white heroics. In the comics, meanwhile, is attacking its Marvel heroes’ whitenss with stories of a black Captain Ame rica and a new Spider-Man named Miguel Morales.
An Actual Sentence: “Entire industries have arisen for academics to attack whiteness … yet Marvel was saved by the inherent whiteness of its characters because it gave the American audience Relate white characters that too at a time when Hollywood is de-whitening itself. “
Another Actual Sentence: “And finally, we’ll tackle the question of why Marvel’s resident anti-hero Frank Castle – the Punisher – is the only ‘hero’ Whose actions make sense.”
Current Amazon Best Sellers Rank: # # 1,991,409
Five-Star Amazon Reviewer Music Man Says: “Telling the truth will get you everywhere, eh? Youbetcha!”
Other Products “music man” Has Reviewed View: Failure to Launch DVD (one star, “the idea if him with a minori ty fiance ‘years prior from the ghetto, now dead, is absoutely wrecklace script-writing at it’s ultimate stupidity “); Tiger Woods: A Biography (one star,” Cheesey. Sugar frosted cake. “); 1Pound soild [sic] Batch Churn Butter (five stars, “This is the Butter to get.”); Taken DVD (five stars, “Finally, the All-American White male serving HIS Sacred country on all levels with what really matters .. . sparking confidence, once again, that those who Would! “)
Upsetting Fact: You can make” tax deductible “donations to Paul Kersey via his website.


There’s plenty more of this swill, but this is all too depressing to keep wading through, and anyway I have to spend the next couple hours clicking on editions of The Autobiography of Malcolm X so Amazon’s book-recommendation system stops thinking I’m racist.


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CONTEST: Win the e-book reader Kindle! - Www.ofeminin.pl

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Kindle, and comics - but sympathy is not [Ubuntu / Debian tips] - dobreprogramy

last weekend came to me pod?amany friend who is a big fan of comic books. A few days earlier purchased the e-book reader Kindle, which planned to read stories hatched. Everything would be different colors if the Kindle from Amazon handled the format CBR (comic book archive), and not just with PDF.

Sam CBR format is nothing but a RAR archive containing image files PNG or JPEG . In addition to the files. Cbr files can also be found. Cbz (ZIP archive), as well. Cbt (TAR).

Okay – some theory behind us ;)

With the knowledge that the only archive we can easily extract and convert these images to the desired portable document format. Our intentions will need several existent tools.

  • pdftk – tool for modifying PDF files.
  • sam2p – tool for converting raster images to PDF
  • unzip – zip decompressor
  • unrar – rar archive decompressor

Ubuntu / Debian have to execute the following command:
sudo apt-get install unzip sam2p pdftk unrar

When all the tools are installed correctly we can start to write a script that will remodel our unfortunate. cbr’a.
#! / bin / bash file_in = $ 1 # file cbr (z) (t) is designed to convert FILE_OUT = "$ {1}. pdf" # create a random directory name in the / tmp / DIR = `mktemp`; rm-fr $ DIR; mkdir $ DIR; # Unpack archwiwum echo "Unpack archwiwum comic book ..." if file "$ file_in" | grep-iq rar, then unrar e-inul-s "$ file_in" $ DIR elif file "$ file_in" | grep-iq zip then unzip-qq "$ file_in"-d $ DIR elif file "$ file_in" | grep-iq tar, then tar-xvf "$ file_in" $ DIR fi # create PDFA echo "create PDFA ..." # find all files with desired extensions and sort them for i in `find $ DIR | grep-i '. jpg $ | . bmp $ | . png $ | . tiff $ ' | sort`; to sam2p j: quiet-c: dct $ and $ DIR / `basename $ {i%. jpg}. pdf`, done # combination of individual PDF files into one. echo "We are uniting pdfs ..." pdftk $ DIR / * . pdf cat output "$ FILE_OUT"

After running the script if you have to wait … This can take quite a long time – it depends on what hardware launched conversions and how many “pages” consisted of a comic book.

About as it presents the Kindlu. Photo taken from Google’s, because I could not swing a buddy went out too.

For me, the quality is not too cool – also depends on the book, the original is in color or black and white. You can always play around with the contrast JPEGów, which can increase the outline on e-ink readers.

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