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Navigating high school as a teenage girl can be a confusing and painful time, no matter where on the social spectrum she may fall. Learning about relationships and expectations while finding yourself in the process isn’t easy for anyone. Having a good book to turn to can sometimes provide teen girls with the only reprieve they may find from a world that is otherwise complicated. The best books are the ones that will also grant them the opportunity to reflect upon who they are, who they want to be and who they should be surrounding themselves with along the way.
While at first glance the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle look somewhat similar, they're not. Comparing the two is like comparing a computer to a book; each is meant for a completely different task. As an e-reader, the Kindle enables you to read and carry your library with you in a single, small device. The iPad is Apple's version of a tablet computer. Comparing the two illustrates just how different they are. Amazon's own tablet, the Kindle Fire, is much closer in function to the iPad.
Between the ages of 8 and 12, preteen boys face an influx of transitions, ranging from rapid physical growth to revolving friendships to escalating peer pressure. Boys and parents often find it confounding to successfully navigate these natural developments. In a period where peers and pop culture have more sway than parents, these eight books offer practical tips on understanding the physical and emotional changes, breaking through the self-absorption and opening the lines of communication.
The Kindle Fire is a great tablet for people who do a lot of shopping at Amazon -- find out why in this video clip with eHow Tech editor Dave Johnson.
Amazon's online e-book store ranks books and authors using proprietary methods linked to sales. As the bookstore is a large, dynamic marketplace of over a million titles, and because Amazon calculates rankings hourly, you'll see rapid rises and falls in rank, even from the sale of a few books. Sales rank affects a book's exposure in the Amazon store, so ranking methods have become a popular topic among authors, publishers and book lovers.
Although an e-reader may be capable of reading different types of files, each device is designed primarily for the e-books available from the manufacturer's e-bookstore. Amazon sells e-books in MOBI format, while Apple and Barnes & Noble sell e-books in EPUB format. If you think that should make Nook e-books and iPad e-books compatible with each other, you might almost be right. Each manufacturer embeds code in their e-books, making them incompatible with other readers.
One great thing about books is that you can lend them to friends or family to discuss later and share the experience of reading the book. Amazon has added this capability to its Kindle reader, by making some of the e-books on its website available for lending between users. When you loan a Kindle book, you do so for 14 days, and you cannot read the book on your device while you have it loaned out. You can only loan a book out one time.
There are several good e-readers available that can be useful for teens. The e-reader that works for you and your teen depends upon your personal expectations and your budget. Some e-readers give full access to the Internet and include additional functions, such as games. Others focus strictly on making available books or specific subscriptions, and a few have parental control options. To get the best e-reader for your teen, develop a checklist of e-reader expectations.
Bedrooms can be tight. Space may be at a premium, and every inch counts. Utilize what room there is with a bookcase shelf that you can build yourself. Most bookcase shelves are 11 or 12 inches wide, but you can reduce the size to 8 inches. It's wide enough to hold most books. Use lightweight plywood and a few braces for affordability and convenience.
NOOK book sharing is not unlimited and knowing the limitations of the feature can help relieve problems later on. Learn about the limitations of NOOK book sharing with help from an electronics expert in this free video clip.
Though the Kindle doesn't create or edit the password on protected PDFs, it supplies its own security for guarding your files. You can assign the entire device a password, which users must enter each time the Kindle turns on or wakes from Sleep mode. The password prevents others from accessing your e-books, including personal compositions that you imported from elsewhere. Perhaps more significantly, the password prevents others from using your Kindle to make purchases through your Amazon account.
Understanding whether a Kindle book has DRM protection is essential if you want to loan the book to someone else. DRM -- an abbreviation for digital rights management -- is a security technology that prevents you from copying a book from your Kindle. The publisher or rights holder dictates whether a book has DRM security or not. You can check for DRM on both the Kindle itself and on the Amazon website.
Emailing a podcast from GarageBand doesn't actually require you to leave the main program window. Email a podcast from GarageBand with help from an audio engineer, musician, video editor and Mac savvy tech with a degree in Digital Media in this free video clip.
The Kindle e-book reader's ability to compile a library of books into a small, portable device is particularly helpful when reviewing resource materials, such as technical manuals, encyclopedias or textbooks. People rarely read such books from beginning to end, but rather reference them for certain subjects. For many people, the ending index is the first place you search, but using the Kindle's "Next Page" button is unwieldy for such navigation. However, the Kindle enables you to quickly move to the end of the book with a few quick selections.
Parenting styles are vast and diverse, but if you believe there could be a difference between raising boys and raising girls, you might be interested in recently published books that focus specifically on what it's like to raise a son. Whether you are in need of advice for parenting a toddler or a teen, you need not look any further than an online bookstore or the shelves of your local bookseller for options.
Completely erasing your iPhone can solve major software problems the device is experiencing. You can always reinstall your iPhone's media library, apps, documents and settings by using Apple's iCloud service. ICloud hosts a backup of your iPhone's data online. Therefore, you don't need to be near your computer to restore your iPhone's library because iCloud wirelessly installs your data. You can access the option to use iCloud to restore your data after using the Reset feature to erase your current iPhone or when you set up a new iPhone.
Amazon offers a wealth of books, magazines and newspapers through its Kindle Store. Your Kindle connects to this resource, provided you have a wireless connection to the Internet. Using broad search terms on the Kindle Store results in countless titles, spanning numerous categories. Although strategically selecting your search terms produces better targeted results, filtering these results by category further narrows the list to a more manageable number.
The audio of your iPod comes out of the stereo 3.5mm jack. While headphones typically do not allow you to separate the left and right stereo channels, you can do this by connecting your iPod to your home stereo. Most stereo receivers allow you to alter the balance of the stereo field. Alternatively, you can leave a channel unplugged, if you don't wish to hear it.
Kindles usually get their books directly from the Internet over Amazon's Whispernet network. If you can't connect to this network from your location, you can copy books to your Kindle from your computer. You can also copy books to the Kindle whenever you have a file ready on your computer and don't want to buy a new copy from Amazon. Kindles accept several file types, including Mobipocket files, TXT files, PDFs and Amazon's own AZW format.
Major booksellers including Amazon and Barnes & Noble have online shops for their e-books, and so do e-book makers including Kobo and Sony. Aside from Amazon, most use a format called EPUB for their e-book content. This makes it possible for the owner of a Sony Reader to download books from a variety of other sources and take advantage of promotional pricing at multiple stores.
When your Sony Reader is failing to load digital publications or you accidentally installed the wrong system software onto the device, you can reset the e-book reader using its built-in hard reset utility. The utility corrects any problems you are experiencing as well as returns the device back to factory settings. Before launching the hard reset utility, back up any content on the e-book reader since the process erases everything when it returns the device to factory settings.
Whatever reason you have for wanting to remove an e-book from your Kindle for BlackBerry app, doing so is easy to accomplish in just a few steps. Removing e-books can free up space, which can be especially helpful if you have a lot of e-books and very little remaining storage. One good thing about Amazon Kindle e-books is that they remain safe in the cloud so you can retrieve them from Amazon at a later time on your BlackBerry or a different device.
Downloading audio from the NPR website is something that you can do right from your Web browser. Download audio from NPR with help from a sound recording and music production specialist in this free video clip.
Exchanging a book between a Kindle and a Droid Kindle is a lot more straightforward than you might fear. Exchange a book between a Kindle and a Droid Kindle with help from an electronics expert in this free video clip.
Organizing Kindle books into files is a great way to keep better track of your entire library. Organize your Kindle books in files with help from an electronics expert in this free video clip.
Combining the books on two Kindle accounts is a great way to achieve one larger, unified library. Combine books on two Kindle accounts with help from an electronics expert in this free video clip.
Filtering the book search on a Kindle can help you find more specific information faster. Filter book search on the Kindle with help from an electronics expert in this free video clip.
Compiling a book for the Kindle requires you to make some very special considerations when it comes to the format of that book. Compile a book for the Kindle with help from an electronics expert in this free video clip.
You can get books onto your Kindle in a few different ways depending on your preferences and the means that are available to you. Get books onto your Kindle with help from an electronics expert in this free video clip.
Certain Net Books can naturally interface with the Kindle in really interesting ways. Learn about Net Books that work with Kindle with help from an electronics expert in this free video clip.
Getting large print on a computer requires you to make a few key adjustments to the image you're viewing. Get large print on a computer with help from an expert in computer software in this free video clip.
The iPhone isn't just a phone - it can also let you listen to Kindle audio books wherever you go. Listen to Kindle books on an iPhone with help from an expert in Apple retail in this free video clip.
“The Callings,” co-authored by Mary S. Palmer and Loretta Theriot, was first published in 2002. It is the true crime story of two young men born in Cameron and Creole, Louisiana, during the 1960s. They attended the same school, where Loretta Theriot was their teacher. One boy became a priest, while the other received a life sentence for murder. The names used are fictitious.
One way that you can effectively color comic books is through the use of Paint. Learn how to color comic books using Paint with help from a professional comic book artist in this free video clip.
Professionals use color in a very detailed and dramatic way. Find out how to color comic books like a professional with help from a professional comic book artist in this free video clip.
Breaking down a comic book script page is something you have to do before that page can actually be drawn. Break down a comic book script page with help from a professional comic book artist in this free video clip.
Certain comic books uses a faded background technique to achieve a unique and interesting look. Make a faded background for a comic book with help from a professional comic book artist in this free video clip.
Recycling comic books into artwork is a great way to express yourself using someone else's material. Learn about things to do with recycled comic books with help from an experienced graphic designer and illustrator in this free video clip.
InDesign is a great program to use if you're attempting to design your very own book. Learn how to lay out a book in InDesign with help from a well-versed web, graphic and illustrative designer in this free video clip.
RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, is a technology that enables you to receive updated posts from websites without having to visit them individually. Mobile RSS applications simplify the task of keeping up with your favorite blogs and sites by automatically gathering new posts from websites to which you’re subscribed and making them available in an easy-to-read format for smartphone and tablet screens. Many RSS apps require a Google Reader account, and typical features include the ability to read articles offline and share with your social networks.
Notating a book may be necessary for a wide variety of different reasons. Find out about the proper way to notate books with help from a professional reading and English tutor in this free video clip.
Saving your books online to an iPad isn't nearly as difficult as you might be assuming. Learn about saving your books online to an iPad with help from an Apple certified technician in this free video clip.
EReader.com is one of the largest online e-book retailers. Most of the e-books available on the website are in PDB format, a format mostly used to view books on Palm mobile devices. These e-books also come with DRM -- digital rights management -- protection, a mechanism that prevents you from using the book on all of your mobile devices. To overcome this issue, you must remove DRM protection from eReader e-books. Although removing the protection from a copy you own is not illegal, distributing the unprotected e-book is. Calibre is the only tool that can legally create non-DRM PDB files.
Flip books were originally an animation technique used to make pictures in a book appear to move when the reader flipped the pages. Today this technique also refers to digital documents that mimic a page being turned. You can create a flip book in Adobe Acrobat Professional by using Page Transitions on any multipage PDF. Use this technique to animate pictures drawn on separate pages or to create an eye-catching effect between pages on reports or other documents. Note that the effect only works when the document is being viewed in-full page mode.
Typically, you can automate simple actions in Microsoft Office applications through the use of recorded "macros," or action sequences. However, with a basic understanding of computer programming, you can also automate other tasks such as table deletion of document search and modification. The Visual Basic for Applications language facilitates this by integrating directly into Office applications. Although not as functional as more full-featured languages, VBA gives you some control of the way tasks and data work in a program. For example, you can create an encryption class to serve as an encryption library inside a VBA script.
The Kindle e-book reader is a perennial best-seller on Amazon.com, and the online retailer claims to have sold more Kindles than any other product on its website. Because the various Kindle models offer portability and easy-to-read high-resolution displays, they are primarily used as e-readers, even though they offer other usage options as well. When you are considering the purchase of a Kindle, you might wonder how many books the device can hold. The answer varies from one Kindle model to the next.
An electronic book, or e-book, refers to a manuscript’s electronic representation of a book in one of several formats such as EPUB, eReader, PDF, MOBI and KF8. The EPUB format is the most popular standard and is the format used by the Nook, iBooks and Sony readers among others. Amazon Kindle devices use the MOBI format; some have recently begun using KF8 -- Kindle Format 8 -- which greatly enhances the reading experience with more graphics and interactivity functions. KF8 is only available on the Kindle Fire as of March 2012; however, Amazon promises multidevice expansion. If you have a…
Comic book pages are typically laid out in a very specific way to best benefit the flow of the story. Learn how to do notes on a comic book layout page with help from a writer, illustrator and animator in this free video clip.
Inking is one of the most important aspects of any comic book. Get tips on inking comic books and find out what to expect with help from a writer, illustrator and animator in this free video clip.
After Effects allows you to unleash a number of effects on your work, including the "comic book effect.' Turn a frame into a comic book effect in After Effects with help from a professional in the fields of film and video in this free video clip.
