Amazon Finally Launches Its Appstore In Europe: UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain First Markets
Competition between Amazon and Barnes & Noble is heating up fast in Europe. In what might be the closest sign yet we’ve seen to Amazon preparing to launch the Kindle Fire tablet outside of the U.S., Amazon today announced that it is finally launching its Android apps Appstore in Europe. The first markets to come online will be the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the company noted today in an announcement.
The 5 Best Free Tools for Publishing Student Work
If you are a passionate educator, you know your students are bright and it’s likely that you want to show the world. However, publishing student work is not always as easy as taping an assignment on the wall. How do you go about publishing student work online so that it’s available to the world? Read on to find out the 5 best free educational tools for publishing student work. FlipsnackAbout Flipsnack Flipsnack is a free online app that allows you to convert images into digital books with a professional look and the ability to flip through pages.How to Use FlipsnackThe first thing you’ll need to do is sign up. Flipsnack allows users to sign up with a simple email address.
Write a Novel in a Month
From Wired How-To Wiki Photo by Valeriana Solaris/Flickr/CC November is National Novel-Writing Month. If writing an entire novel in 30 days strikes you as damn near impossible, just head over to the NaNoWriMo website and check out how many people have actually done it: More than 165,000 people participated in 2009, and more than 30,000 managed to crank out the 50,000-word goal. Of course, you probably aren't going to produce great literature in just a month. Infinite Jest and its ilk require more than just a month of writing.
NewzSocial Debuts A Social News Magazine For iPad That You & Your Friends Create
Just when you thought you had settled on your preferred news magazine for the iPad (be it Flipboard, Zite, Currents, or something else entirely), another new contender enters the ring. Today, the NewzSocial app is launching its own version of a social news magazine for iPad, but is offering a different take in order to stand out from the rest. In other magazines, you subscribe to read news from various sources (blogs, newspapers, online magazines, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) or you can pick from an editorially selected bundle of sources (like Flipboard offers with its sections on “Home,” “Travel,” “Photography,” “Tech,” etc.).
Storytelling, Design & the Things We Learn Along the Way
Sep. 30th Designing and editing “iPad Design Lab” TAKEAWAY: Reed Reibstein, the editor and art director of our new iPad Design Lab, describes how we put the book together, learning about the new tablet platform as we went. Purchase the book on the iBookstore “iPad Design Lab” trailer on Vimeo. By Reed Reibstein, Art Director & Project Manager, García Media
