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jerma85 · 7 months ago
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i love going through my old deviantart so much. i will never give out the handle because im embarrassed but i think its so fun to go through all my old stuff. look at this drawing of miku and rin i did when i was 12
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swagchaosarcade · 4 years ago
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Where Can I Get A Free Download Of Kindle For Macbook Pro
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Amazon Kindle Fire and typically an Android tablet are very similar. They do use a lot of the same code, however, there is just enough difference in both operating systems. Then how to actually transfer photos and videos from the Amazon Fire tablet over to your computer.
If you’ve taken numerous photos and videos on your Fire HD 8, or Fire HD 10 Tablet with Alexa, this Kindle tips can be helpful for you to transfer your files from Kindle Fire to your computer. Let’s go-ahead to the computer and get started.
But hey, this Amazon kindle software was free- sure glad I didn't buy a tablet and get stuck with a non-functioning product. UPDATE 2016 None of the older versions would run on the latest Mac OS so I tried to get a newer one. Searching for 'Kindle' got me Kindle for Windows and dozens of totally unrelated products but no Kindle for Mac. By the way, if you’re reading this and you think your MacBook Pro might be affected, you can find details about the free repair program on Apple’s site. Getting a refund for the fix for this MacBook problem. Like you, I find it incredibly frustrating to have a company make a promise and then renege. Hi I was wondering if anyone can help me with an issue I currently have with my mac book air? MacBook Air info:-Purchased new, late 2012-Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5-Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3-Storage Capacity: 120 GB-Storage Capacity Free/Left: 68 GB-Current OS X 10.9.5 (13F1911).
Before we get started we’re gonna need a couple of different items.
One thing is your Kindle Fire tablet that you have.
The other is the cable that comes with your tablet. Just because some third-party USB cables may not actually have the ability to transmit data.
Where are Photos stored on Kindle Fire?
Amazon’s Kindle Fire takes photos or shoot videos with its built-in camera. You can keep your photos and videos in the internal storage or microSD card of your Fire tablet, or store them in Amazon Cloud Drive.
The default location for the Amazon Kindle and photos is in the internal storage.
If you know clearly where the photos and videos are stored on your Fire tablet, things become easy for you to backup/transfer pictures or files onto your computer from your device.
How do I transfer Photos from Kindle Fire to Computer
Transfer files via Cloud Drive
If you’re buying all your apps, music, movies, and books on Amazon, Amazon automatically saves it in the “cloud” and you can simply login on your computer to Amazon and transfer everything that way. Of course, you can manually transfer photos that you’ve uploaded to Amazon Cloud Drive to your computer.
Go to the Amazon Cloud Drive and log in to the Amazon account associated with your Kindle Fire.
Click on the “Pictures” folder and then click the “Kindle Photos” folder.
Select the checkboxes of the pictures you want to download and click the “Download” button. Choose where you want to save the photos and click “Save.”
However, many people prefer to simply hook the Kindle Fire up to the computer. Not only you can transfer files from Kindle Fire this way, but you can also transfer files from your computer to the Kindle Fire easily, as well. You are simply going to need a USB cable that works with the Kindle Fire.
Transfer Files from Kindle Fire via USB
Step 1. Plug the USB cable into the Fire tablet
Once you’ve connected your Kindle Fire to the computer with the USB cable, you may get a little tone that indicates that it has connected. If you don’t, what you’ll need to do is to put in your passcode or your password for your Kindle Fire and that will allow you to finish the communication to the computer.
Step 2. Create a folder to store your photos
Go to the further step, create a folder that we’re going to use later to actually back up the files. You can put the file anywhere you want. If you have a specific location where you store your photos or if you use the default pictures folder of the computer.
Here I’m going to go ahead and put it right here on the desktop. To do that, we’re gonna right-click, hover down New and then left-click on Folder, and name the folder whatever you want. Once you have that, just go ahead and hit enter and it will finalize that edit. We’ll come back to this folder in just a few moments.
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Step 3. Transfer pictures from Kindle Fire to PC
What we’re gonna do now is the bottom left hand of the screen, you’re gonna notice you may have a file explorer window, left-click on that and you’ll notice that the Fire device will show up under devices and drives. Double left-click on Fire, you may have two different locations for storage if you have microSD card in your Fire tablet. I use the default location for my Amazon Kindle and Photos. I don’t actually have a memory card plugged into it. But if you do, it will have an extra like memory card showing up right here to the right.
Double left-click on internal storage, and we’re gonna look for a file that says DCIM stands for Digital Camera Image.
Double left-click it and then double left-click Camera.
And then you’ll see the pictures in the folder.
Then, you can highlight by left-clicking and dragging, and that will select them allowing us to copy those over. Or you can hit Ctrl+A to select and backup all of those photos to the computer.
Navigate on the desktop and find out where we put that folder. If you look on the left of the desktop, you can find the Kindle backup folder you’ve just now created.
Then, drag the selected images to the Kindle backup folder, by holding left-click.
You may see a progress bar that comes across the screen.
Double check and make sure that those photos have actually backed up to the folder.
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Recover Deleted Files from Kindle Fire
Have you ever accidentally deleted photos, videos, books on Kindle Fire HD? You can recover deleted files from Kindle Fire by with Amazon account or Kindle file recovery.
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lady-divine-writes · 8 years ago
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Kurtbastian one-shot - “Passive, But Still Aggressive” (Rated T)
Sebastian forgets an important anniversary. Kurt doesn't. And Kurt handles it ... well, like Kurt. (2554 words)
Read on AO3.
Sebastian pulls his Porsche into underground parking, rolling in at about five miles below the speed limit. He stays between the lines, conscientiously following the yellow arrows that lead to his assigned spot, taking his time to maneuver his car into the dead center of his space. He’s stalling, and since he’s alone, he won’t bother denying it. He seriously considers sleeping here the seven hours until morning … in his car … underground. He’d wake up with a crick in his neck and a kink in his back, but he’d deserve it.
Kurt had expected Sebastian home hours ago. They were supposed to have dinner together. They eat dinner together most every night, but Kurt had stressed the fact that tonight they needed to have dinner together. He emphasized it not only like it was important, but like Sebastian should know why it was important.
But Sebastian didn’t catch on, even when the universe itself tried to give him clues.
He misplaced his wedding ring twice today. Sebastian never misplaces his wedding ring because he never takes it off. But he had to today twice – once when he accidentally stuck his hand in maple syrup, and the second time when a blue ballpoint pen exploded in his hand. He had to take his ring off both times to clean it, and then promptly misplaced it, but only for a minute – long enough to give his heart a jolt.
That should have been the only clue he needed, but being a rather dense male, it wasn’t.
The wedding party limo that passed him on the highway, decorated with white paper bells and silver tinsel, should have been his second clue. But when Sebastian saw it, he rolled his eyes, thankful that on their wedding day, he and his husband were able to escape the reception for the airport in his Porsche instead of taking the limo that his groomsmen had decorated with hundreds of inflated condoms.
The Heppermyer’s 50th Anniversary celebration, taking place at a table not too far from his during the dinner he should have been sharing with Kurt, should have been the hammer that clobbered him over his thick skull. He even sent a bottle of champagne to the happy couple’s table, and they sent him a piece of their cake – a green tea flavored Japanese inspired confection that he thought for sure that Kurt would enjoy.
But, ironically, it didn’t.
Kurt’s uncharacteristic radio silence after two, “Where are you?” texts didn’t do it, either.
No. Unfortunately it wasn’t until Sebastian left the strip club (girl dancers only so he felt safe entertaining there) and the song “I Have Nothing” by Whitney Houston came on his iPod over the car’s speakers that it hit him.
When Whitney sang the verse, “I have nothing if I don’t have you,” it hit him hard.
Today (technically yesterday, but Sebastian was leaping over shock and starting in the denial stage), was his and Kurt’s fifth wedding anniversary. The wood anniversary - oddly appropriate since Sebastian Smythe was officially a humongous block head.
But instead of realizing early enough to come home and salvage the night (by the skin of his teeth the way he usually does), it’s after 1:30 a.m. when Sebastian returns home from his new client meeting.
He could have bowed out hours ago; this client in particular wasn’t that important.
Nothing’s as important as his husband.
But Sebastian was having a moment.
He was riding high on scoring a win, so to speak, which came with it a moment of, “Why do I have to answer to anybody?” and, “I’m a grown man, I’ll do what I want.” Both of those moments may have been fueled by adrenaline and alcohol, but they were still significant at the time.
“It’s only the fifth year anniversary,” Sebastian consoles himself, making the decision to leave his car, go up to their penthouse, and face the music. He feels to onset of a mild hangover coming on (mostly from the adrenaline – he only had two beers, and he’d burned those off before he got behind the wheel). Plus, he has to shower. He smells like whiskey and cigarettes, and even though he didn’t order a lap dance, he somehow managed to come home wearing glitter. “How big a deal can someone make over a wood themed anniversary?”
Sebastian apparently forgot for a second who he was married to until he opened the front door and got a great, big, cedar-scented reminder.
Positioned five feet in front of the door, so it would be the first thing Sebastian would see when he got home, sits a round table draped in a white cloth, and covered in gifts. A handful of them are wrapped, but after seeing the ones that aren’t, the ones that are simply set up on display, he’s not sure he wants to see the wrapped ones. The ones he can see are so perfect and sentimental, the wrapped ones must surely be devastating.
In the center of the table is a polished wood vase, carved with Celtic knots, with a bouquet of red paper roses inside. Sebastian knows Kurt made the roses. They’d taken an origami class together at the Museum of Natural History about a year ago. Kurt excelled at it. Every chance he got, he practiced the craft, creating swans and cranes and little nesting boxes every time his hands got bored. Sebastian, however, could only manage a frog. It hopped to the left once, landed sideways, then never hopped again.
Next to the vase, he sees a wooden photo album that has their names and wedding date burned onto the cover, along with a mandala so intricate he can only imagine it took months to create. The album doesn’t close flat, bursting with pages Sebastian knows Kurt scrapbooked himself. Beside that sits a wooden plaque, again with their names burned into it, and on individual slats below that, important dates from their relationship. For most people, it would probably start with “first date”, but Kurt has listed “first fight”, then “first date”, “first I love you”, “first time”, the day Sebastian asked Kurt to marry him, the date they got married, followed by a handful of empty slats, presumably for special dates to come (provided their marriage doesn’t end tonight). He sees a wood wine rack filled with his favorite imported beer; a hand painted sign (in Kurt’s crisp but chaotic writing) that reads – I love you. You annoy me more than I ever thought possible, but I want to spend every irritating minute with you; and a neatly constructed Jenga tower, each block of this version bearing penned words along the side describing something dirty they could do to one another – things they could have been doing to one another all night long if Sebastian hadn’t been such an imbecile.
Sebastian sighs, breathing in and catching a whiff of a final touch that might bring him to tears. While he had been munching on subpar Chicken Alfredo in a hotel restaurant, Kurt had made Sebastian’s favorite – parchment wrapped salmon and burgundy poached pears.
And for Kurt on this special day, Sebastian has only his sad self, smelling like liquor, covered in glitter, with a grand total of nothing planned. He hadn’t even remembered to stop by somewhere to pick up a pathetic apology bouquet.
Of course, he never would have imagined how much he’d have to apologize for.
Oh dear God, Sebastian thinks to himself. I really dropped the ball on this one.
Sebastian has no idea what to do – absolutely no idea. He hasn’t heard Kurt yet. Maybe he’s asleep. That would give Sebastian time to run back out and try to find him … something. But what? Anything that Sebastian could buy at a gas station or a Walmart would be an insult to the exceptional and thoughtful gifts that Kurt had obviously taken months to put together.
He could take a shower, slip into bed, and feign illness – claim that the tuna tartar he ate at lunch gave him an epic case of the shits and he was stuck at the office till just an hour ago. Then he could stay home tomorrow, email his personal shopper and tell her to break the bank, up her commission and just go gaga.
Gaga! Lady Gaga! Kurt’s still head over heels for her. And Sebastian’s heard that if you slip her foundation a couple mill, she’ll come have dinner with you. Before he can jump on his iPhone to check if that’s true, he catches a tired and unhappy Kurt peeking out from their bedroom. Sebastian’s stomach lurches, which he takes as a sign, so he goes with his gut.
“I’m sorry,” he says, rushing past the table of wonderful presents and heading towards his husband with arms outstretched. “I am so, so, so sorry. I …” He was about to say that he completely forgot, but that would be heartbreaking. “I have no excuse,” he goes for instead as Kurt slowly steps out, walking towards Sebastian with red eyes and a wobbly lower lip “I ... it’s just, I brought in a new client at work, and I was so excited, I …”
Kurt walks up to Sebastian with a mixed expression in his eyes. Sebastian doesn’t know what he’s thinking, or what he’s about to do. On one hand, Sebastian expects Kurt to break down and start crying.
On the other hand, he can also see Kurt kicking him in the balls and punching him in the nose.
“It’s been a while since I’ve brought in a new client at work,” Sebastian continues, trying to earn sympathy he doesn’t deserve. He’s telling the truth, but it feels like he’s chumping out, “and I thought …”
Kurt puts delicate fingers to Sebastian’s lips and shushes him. “Sebastian,” Kurt says in a thick voice that’s incredibly even, “I understand.”
Sebastian scrunches his nose, looking at Kurt as if he’s never seen this man before. Where’s the high-pitched wail? Where’s the crossed arms? Where’s the splotchy red cheeks? “You … you do?”
“Yes. I do,” Kurt says, tight smile notwithstanding. “I talked to your secretary. She told me everything. I know this account was important to you. And even though it’s our anniversary, and I must have reminded you that tonight was important a dozen times, it’s alright that you went out and wooed your client instead.”
“It … it is?”
“Yes.” The shadow of a scowl plays on Kurt’s lips as he runs a finger down the slope of Sebastian’s shoulder, picking up traces of glitter and sweeping it away. “It is.”
“So, we’re … we’re cool?”
“Of course, we’re cool. We’ll … just … let it lie for now, and celebrate tonight … right?” It sounds more like a threat than a compromise, but Sebastian is in no position to turn it down.
“Right,” Sebastian says. “Absolutely.” Sebastian takes Kurt’s arms, feeling bolder since Kurt’s being so lenient. “I’ll take you to your favorite restaurant, your favorite nightclub, and we’ll spend the evening living it up. Just you and me. I’ll even rent a limo.” He pulls Kurt in to his embrace and nuzzles his husband’s neck. “We can feed each other strawberries, drink some champagne … we’ll tell the driver to put the partition up, crank the music on high, and we can go for a drive … a nice long drive …”
“Sounds great.” Kurt lets Sebastian kiss him on the lips. Or it will sound great, his tone relays, after I’ve slept, and after you’ve made this up to me.
“I’m gonna go get out of my suit and take a shower,” Sebastian whispers seductively. “You wanna join me?”
“Sure. Why not?” Kurt says it, but he doesn’t sound too happy about it. “Let me just get dinner put away. We can eat it later.” Another threat, but Sebastian’s just happy this is resolving itself painlessly.
It’s a little creepy, but Sebastian’s not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Kurt pats Sebastian on the arm, then walks past him to the kitchen. Sebastian waits, watches Kurt go before he heads for their bedroom to take off his suit and get his pajamas. Well, that was … interesting, he thinks. He’s tempted to pat himself on the back for that one, revel in getting away from his heinous act without a scratch, but he can’t, because all he can think about is his excited husband putting together that fabulous dinner, setting up that table full of gifts, probably dressing up in one of his gorgeous designer suits, and then waiting all night for his louse of a husband to get home.
And when he didn’t, Kurt got upset. Of course, he got upset. He was livid. He cursed, called Sebastian ever name in the book. Maybe he even considered packing up a bag and going to a hotel.
He definitely cried.
And yet, here they were, preparing to take a shower together, and Sebastian can’t help feeling lucky that they’ve finally gotten to a point where Kurt doesn’t fly off the handle when Sebastian makes a mistake. Because they’re only five years into this. Sebastian’s pretty damned sure that he’s going to make plenty more mistakes.
Thankfully, Sebastian married a fair and even-tempered man.
But …
… it hasn’t always been that way, and Sebastian can’t imagine why the change, the sudden change, especially tonight. And that kind of bothers him. It feels like the calm before the storm.
So, if this is the calm, when’s the storm going to hit?
Sebastian goes to their room. He sheds his suit and hangs it in a bag, trying his best not to rain glitter all over their wood floor. He’s going to have to pay extra to get that glitter out. He sweeps up the detritus so that Kurt won’t have to see it in the morning. Hopefully a good night’s … or morning’s … sleep is all he’ll need to smooth out the rough patches that are still being rubbed raw. But Sebastian has to fix this. He has to think of something that will equal that table full of presents and all the thought that went into them.
He opens his underwear drawer. He’d normally go to sleep naked but tonight that might not be the way to go. When he pulls out a pair of briefs, he discovers that that’s a good call. The storm has hit, and the casualties are numerous.
He grabs a pair of his underwear and heads towards the kitchen. Kurt’s just about finished putting dinner away, piling Tupperware in neat stacks on the middle shelf.
Sebastian clears his throat.
“Yes?” Kurt turns. Sebastian holds up a pair of his briefs … from the hole cut in the crotch.
Kurt doesn’t acknowledge the defiled underwear, just looks straight into Sebastian’s eyes with an eerie calm.
“Are you sure you don’t want to talk about it?” Sebastian asks.
Kurt nods. “I’m sure,” he says, returning to his work.
“Alrighty then. We’re still cool?”
“Still cool.”
“Good,” Sebastian says, tossing his briefs into the trash. “That’s … that’s good.”
Sebastian backs away slowly to get ready for that shower.
And he’ll hide Kurt’s scissors in case anything changes.
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altechml1-blog · 8 years ago
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Hands-on with TED Books for iOS: discoverability is great, clean required Book costs are great. Sharing, matching up, and (a few) design require help.
TED Talk recordings have a practically religion like after among the nerd swarm, yet a considerable lot of the points examined inside are normally substantially more intricate than the nibble measured recordings have a tendency to get into. That is the reason TED propelled TED Books toward the start of a year ago as an approach to both gain by the ubiquity of its TED talks, and offer watchers an approach to peruse more about the themes they end up noticeably fixated on because of the recordings.
TED Books were initially propelled as Kindle Singles through Amazon. The thought was to offer "short" pieces—not so long as a customary book, but rather any longer than your normal online news article—that would enable the normal peruser to take in more about the current point. TED has chosen to take a stab at going the application course by propelling TED Books for iOS, a Kindle-like application that enables perusers to peruse and download the short books straightforwardly from TED itself. What's more, since I am a fanatic of both TED and genuine long-frame pieces, I chose to look at the application for myself. What I found was that book and membership costs were appropriate in the sweet spot, however the application itself (while utilitarian) could utilize somewhat more clean before it ends up noticeably incredible.
How it functions
The TED Books application chips away at all iOS gadgets—iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch—and it's a free download from the App Store. The books, notwithstanding, are not free. They are evaluated at $2.99 each, or clients can subscribe for $14.99 per three months with another book being downloaded consequently at regular intervals (in addition to access to the whole back document for the present). The "books" are around 20,000 (plus or minus) words since a long time ago, contrasted with a normal book of around 60,000 words or more—this makes them about the length of our unique iPhone audit here at Ars, or John Siracusa's Lion survey. They're sufficiently long to make you have an inclination that you're getting your $3 worth, and sufficiently short that you can thump them out in a day or two without feeling like you're falling behind.
The application's arrival screen isn't very different from other perusing applications, as iBooks or the Kindle application. Books are exhibited to you on a bookshelf theme; tapping on their spreads raises the writer, a depiction of the book, and on the off chance that you haven't subscribed, the capacity to peruse a see. In the event that you have subscribed, you simply have the alternative to download the book, however downloading isn't generally the snappiest activity on the planet—particularly since a large number of the books additionally contain sight and sound and video components—so it would be decent if supporters still had the capacity to look at a see before downloading.Once you've downloaded a TED Book, there's a chapter by chapter list that enables you to skip to different parts. Furthermore, once you start perusing, things aren't vastly different from most other perusing applications—in any event at first glance. Swipe to one side on the off chance that you need to swing to the following area, right in the event that you need to backpedal. Be that as it may, not at all like some applications, TED Books enables you to scroll vertically inside every small scale "part" as kind of an amalgamation between applications like Instapaper and Kindle. This takes a bit of getting used to, however I discovered it wasn't too difficult to recall after a couple chapters.The content takes up the full screen of course, yet in the event that you tap the screen some place in a non-page-turning range, different alternatives wind up plainly accessible to you along the base of the screen. You can seek inside each book (this is furnished to you alongside a helpful visual page format at the top, so you can look through the pages to discover what you're searching for), change the text dimension, and offer your book by means of email, Facebook, or Twitter.Or at any rate it claims you can do that—I attempted to share a TED Book over Facebook by means of the application, yet when I tapped the Facebook choice, a white screen came up in the middle for a moment and after that left. What's more, when I tapped the Twitter catch, it basically raised a clear Twitter confine like the one worked to whatever is left of iOS. There was nothing connected—no book synopsis, no screenshot, not even a connection to TED for my Twitter companions to tap on. The email sharing choice just begins another email with a photo of the book cover connected. Obviously, I was quite baffled with the sharing choices here—they nearly should not be incorporated into the application for how constrained they are as a matter of course.
One of the all the more intriguing choices along the base is the capacity to view and leave remarks on every TED Book. These remarks give off an impression of being interested in the whole world, so in case you're not an enthusiast of Amazon's book surveys or those left on iTunes by the unwashed masses, this might be a side road for you. I sort of like it myself, however the remarks aren't joined to anything—it would be decent on the off chance that you could see certain sections that have been highlighted by others and after that see the remarks left by different perusers, yet until further notice, the remarks just apply to the whole book. Also, they are just perceptible once you have really downloaded the book. Why not make them open from the primary book choice screen so that potential purchasers can perceive what others have said in regards to the book before they focus on seeing or downloading?.
The decent thing about TED Books is that connections and other pertinent material are really connected on the particular content, and when you tap the connections, they stack up the connected page in that spot inside the application. This separates from the way Amazon set up its Kindle application, which gives you a chance to view references, however just by taking you to another piece of the book and just to see a content rendition of the reference. TED Books raises a program window on top of your content so you can rapidly observe whether you need to peruse further, and you can then open the page in Safari in the event that you'd like. The incorporation of recordings in the content is pleasant as well—I typically think this is a gimmicky extra in most ebooks that do this, however in the TED Books I looked at, the recordings were significant and sufficiently intriguing not to disturb me by their nearness. (Doubtlessly they should consume up more room, in any case, so on the off chance that you are tight on storage room as am I, be careful.)
More nitpicks
The application functions admirably enough as an essential perusing application, yet there are a lot of ways it could be better. I as of now specified the faulty way the sharing component has been actualized and that I'd get a kick out of the chance to see remarks highlighted on the primary bookshelf screen. Another (little) irritation is that the main spot in the bookshelf is constantly taken up by TED's endeavor to inspire you to subscribe—even after you have officially subscribed.
This plays into my next protest, which is that there is no real way to isolate out the books that you have downloaded from whatever remains of the library. Not at all like the Kindle application, there is no "cloud versus gadget" delineator—you should work completely inside this one bookshelf screen to discover the books you needed to peruse versus the ones you're leaving (sit tight for it… ) on the rack. On the off chance that you are a supporter, this could get furry entirely quick, especially in case you're sick of taking a gander at a portion of the books you're never wanting to peruse. What's more, since the "Subscribe" choice is taking up the upper left-hand recognize, it's quite recently yet another space that is being taken up by something pointless (in case you're now an endorser).
Goodness, and did I specify that in spite of the fact that TED Books monitors your membership status over your distinctive gadgets through your iTunes account, it doesn't seem to synchronize your books or perusing status crosswise over them? Not naturally downloading books bodes well—you need to choose to download a similar book to your diverse gadgets, and Amazon does this as well—however overlook attempting to begin a book on your iPad and lift it up where you left off on your iPhone.
An all the more baffling protestation comes as the illustrations utilized inside the application itself. On both the iPad and iPhone, it shows up as though some photographs/pictures from inside the books, and the majority of the choices along the base of the page (while you are perusing) are not improved for high-res "retina" shows. That is to state: they are clearly pixellated and incidentally somewhat foggy on the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and third-era iPad—odd for an application that was quite recently discharged for the current month, when the iPhone 4 with its high-res show has been available since July of 2010. In all honesty, those behind the TED Books application ought to know better.
Still a decent arrangement
Despite the fact that it might seem like I'm composing a long denunciation about the TED Books application, I really do like it. I think the idea is advantageous—iOS clients will probably find these short TED-themed peruses a committed application than they are whether they're compelled to burrow through Kindle Singles, and the costs for the scaled down books are easily moderate. Indeed, even the $14.99 membership cost for three months appears to be a decent arrangement—the application will auto-download six books in that time, in addition to you can go on a downloading binge in advance to accumulate all the TED Books you can before they take that advancement away. In the event that you like TED substance, it resembles being five years of age and paying $15 for a free-for-all at the toy store.
My nitpicks aren't dealbreakers either. I clearly subscribed in the wake of having seen a couple book sneak peaks, so I plan to peruse as much as I can before I'm compelled to rethink whether my $15 merits giving over again in three months. Be that as it may, I think those behind the application would do well to make changes to the UI with the goal that it's not pixellated, isolate out downloaded books from whatever remains of the library, and for's God's sake, either make the sharing element valuable or dispose of it. Toss in page adjusting for your in-advance books and significantly a larger number of individuals may begin purchasing TED Books than those of us who are as of now TED geeks. This application is average as it seems to be, however it could be extraordinary with some product changes—maybe in a future refresh.
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