Friday, 16 December 2011

How to Clean, Maintain and Protect Your Amazon Kindle

ince you had invested a certain amount of money in buying unsecured loans a new Kindle, it's also important that you know how to clean, maintain and protect your Amazon e-book reader so that it will not be easily smudged, damaged, broken or get stolen.
1. Do not expose your Kindle and its accessories to any wet surface including liquid spills or from rain. Turn the power off instantly once your e-book reader device gets wet.  bad credit loans Wait until the device dries completely prior you turn it back again.
Consult any Amazon.com authorized personnel by contacting them through their Customer Support that is located and listed at the end of the "Tips and Troubleshooting" area if your device needs service. Take note that faulty service may also void the warranty of your Kindle.
2. Recharge your electronic reader device every other day if you frequently use wireless. You may recharge it once a week if you are usually offline so that you can take good care of its battery even if the Amazon Kindle has long battery life.
3. Avoid touching the screen as much as possible because the tips of your fingers may easily create smudges on it. Clean the Kindle's screen with a soft unstained cloth if you need to wipe and clean the display.
If you accidentally drop some liquid or food stain on your Kindle, just carefully wipe it with a soft and slightly moistened towel. Avoid wiping it with anything abrasive cleaners such as any harsh chemicals just to clean your Amazon Kindle because it may easily damage it in the long run.
4. Have a book cover to put on so that it can protect your e-book reader device from scratches when carrying the Kindle inside a briefcase, bag or luggage. Place your new e-reader in the book cover especially when you commute or travel.
Purchasing a solid and durable pouch, small bag or cover for your Kindle is advisable so that it may not get easily damage inside your luggage, back pack or briefcase. You may easily find durable protectors for your electronic e-book reader online at discounted prices.
5. Take good care of your e-book reader device by not exposing it to extreme heat or cold temperature. Avoid leaving it inside your house or car in exceedingly high-heat or during very cold weather condition.
6. Never abandon or leave behind your electronic device in any public place especially with plenty of people. If ever your Kindle gets stolen, inform immediately by calling the Amazon Customer Service so that they can instantly block any new and additional account activity.

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Gmail, not sending attachments

google's GMail has a nice way unsecured loans of allowing you to add multiple attachments to an email. Rather than showing you 10 file upload boxes at once, the user attaches a file, you can click a button to add another attachment. I had a client request this functionality in an app I am building for them today, and it was pretty easy to implement.
Here's the code:
<input type="file" name="attachment" id="attachment" onchange="document.getElementById('moreUploadsLink').style.display = 'block';" />
<div id="moreUploads"></div>
<div id="moreUploadsLink" style="display:none;"><a href="javascript:addFileInput();">Attach another File</a></div>
And now here's the javascript bad credit loans  function to add another input box:
var upload_number = 2;
function addFileInput() {
  var d = document.createElement("div");
  var file = document.createElement("input");
  file.setAttribute("type", "file");
  file.setAttribute("name", "attachment"+upload_number);
  d.appendChild(file);
  document.getElementById("moreUploads").appendChild(d);
  upload_number++;
}
Google also does something else that is pretty slick in Gmail with their attachment uploads - they appear to upload the file using AJAX. So you can type your email while your files are uploading. Perhaps I'll look into doing that in a future blog entry.

Thursday, 1 December 2011

Yet Another iPhone 4 Catches Fire, This Time In Brazil

Fire can be a wonderful thing, you just ask the cavemen! Those flickering orange flames aren’t so great when they’re emitting from your smartphone, though.
That’s even more true when those flames begin to engulf an iPhone that is plugged into an electrical source.
Unfortunately, it appears that our recent report of an iPhone catching fire on an internal Australian flight may not be an isolated incident, with news that a similar iPhone 4 also set itself alight when on charge overnight at a Brazilian residence.
The iPhone in question was on charge just a foot from its owner’s face when it apparently began to smoulder, a sure sign that something isn’t right if you ask us!
This isn’t the first time an iPhone has found itself a little warmer than Apple intended. Earlier this week we told you about an iPhone 4 reportedly emitting black smoke during a flight in Australia. With the plane safely on the ground safety officers are now trying to work out what the catalyst could be for an expensive, premium smartphone spontaneously self-combusting.
Apple has not yet commented either the incident in Australia, or the one in Brazil which happened when the handset was on charge. With millions of iPhones being left plugged into unsecured loans the wall overnight, let’s hope that charging is not a catalyst for the overheating that apparently caused these two fires.
At the moment all possibilities are merely speculative, but the finger is being squarely pointed at the batteries used in Apple’s iPhones. If you own an iPhone and charge it regularly, chances are you’ve noticed yourself how toasty your handset can get. The iPhone 4S even gets quite warm during seemingly trivial tasks, and we’re blaming iOS 5. Whether the two troublesome handsets to be set alight were running iOS 5, we’re not sure, but an increase in heat would match the decrease in battery life that many are experiencing.
Coincidence? Maybe, but to coin an appropriate phrase: ‘There’s no smoke without fire!’

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

The First iPhone 4S Reviews Are In: With "Siri" The "New" Apple Phone Is "Better" Than Ever

           The iPhone 4S, officially due to arrive in consumers' hands on Friday, has already been given a thorough test by hand-picked reviewers. What did they conclude? Let's take a look at the word cloud.
iPhone 4s cloud
We took the reviews from some of the top folks who Apple chose to have the first look at the iPhone 4S (Josh Topolsky at ThisIsMyNext, Walt Mossberg at AllThingsD, David Pogue at The New York Times, and Stephen Fry at The Guardian) and put them to our word cloud test--after editing out the words "iPhone," "4S," "Apple," "iOS" and "phone" so the more meaningful ideas popped.
And right away you can see two things that distinguish Apple's latest edition of the iPhone: "New" and "Siri."
Siri is the voice-recognizing system that we'd previously heard was to be dubbed "Assistant," although Apple chose to stick with the name of the company it bought to spark off this innovation. Lots of demonstration videos have popped up online, and it seems Siri does an exceptional, doubter-defeating job of understanding commands spoken casually to it in natural language (also in a British accent). It's packed with easter eggs too, even delivering the Ultimate Answer (42) and joking about psychopathic AI HAL9000 in the movie 2001. Unlike other attempts at threading voice control through a device, it really does seem to deliver on its promises--perhaps why it popped up 59 times in the combined text. And while it also works super-smartly when you hold the phone to your ear, without the need for endless dabbing at its microphone button as shown in the video below, it does have limitations--including not being completely threaded throughout the OS yet. This means the kind of super-intelligent interactions we imagined aren't there yet--but Apple's noted, unusually, that this is a beta release and Siri is going to get much cleverer.
"New" is the other standout word here, and its important. Skeptics bad-mouthed the 4S on its unveil as being no more than a suped-up iPhone 4 in the same case. This is actually true, with the S supposedly standing for "speed" just as in the earlier 3GS. But as Daring Fireball's John Gruber noted, the "naysayers are the same bunch of dummies who dismissed the iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS as well" just because the metallic tapered chassis redesign didn't show up. These reviewers note that while it's essentially an iPhone 4 unsecured loans , there is a whole bunch of stuff that is indeed "new" and there's also lots to "like." The early performance benchmarks agree with them. One caveat here: The word "new" would almost certainly have to appear in any review of a new product, so take this with just a smidge of salt.
It's interesting that "camera" and "cameras" is only mentioned 29 times, while "photo" and "photos" show up 39 times. We're guessing that the all-new 8-megapixel camera is so similar in installation that the reviewers didn't want to get into its tech too much, but that they really were interested in looking at the resulting images. Positive reviews here suggest that you may consider ditching your usual "point-and-shoot" camera (3 appearances) for the iPhone 4S's built-in one performs almost as well.
Other dominant words like "iCloud," "app," and "software" are givens, since the faster (10 counts) performance of the phone compared to its predecessors allows for slicker apps, and the integration of iCloud to the iPhone system is an important generational leap that will change how users interact with their phones. iMessage, which we think may become a transformational app for the iPhone, was never mentioned--but that's understandable as you have to be running iOS 5 to use it, and these guys were just the handful of users able to do so right now (ahead of tens of millions as of today's expected launch of iOS 5).
One thing you'll note from their absence is negative words. There's no "bad," no "worse," no "fail." And instead you'll spot "better" (14 uses), "impressive" (7 uses), and "improved" (12 uses) in the cloud. "Steve" (4) "Jobs" (5) latest baby, which outlived him, would seem to be a hit.