- Building Your First App – http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html – a self contained introduction to installation of ADT (Android Development Toolkit), starting new project, etc.
- “10 useful Resources for the fledgling Android developer” (a slideshow at NetworkWorld; 2013.01)- http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/85469/10-useful-resources-for-the-fledgling-android-developer.html
- “Learn Java for Android Development” by Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey, a 13-part tutorial (2010) – http://mobile.tutsplus.com/series/learn-java-android-development/
- Getting Started for Android Developers – http://developer.android.com/training/index.html
- Using your own SQLite database in Android applications – http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/using-your-own-sqlite-database-in-android-applications/
- “Android (Homescreen) Widgets – Tutorial” by Lars Vogel – http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidWidgets/article.html
- Android tutorials on YouTube:
- Android Tutorial 1 – How to start developing. Install SDK, ATD and Eclipse – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD7RwMoaFP4
- TheNewBoston – Android Application Development – http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34F010EEF9D45FB8
- A collection of Android development videos by user “myBringBack” – http://www.youtube.com/user/mybringback
- “Learning Android Development? Here Is A 200-Episode (Almost 20 Hours) Tutorial Series – All For Free [Videos]” by Artem Russakovskii (2011.08.23) – http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/08/23/learning-android-development-here-is-a-200-episode-almost-20-hours-tutorial-series-all-for-free-videos/
- Android discussions at Reddit – http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/
2013.01.14
Android development
2011.08.17
eBooks and eBook Format Transformers
Sites
- FreeKindleBooks.org – http://freekindlebooks.org/ – mainly books from Project Gutenberg, in MOBI format.
- A short and informative Kindle wiki – http://www.kindleapplication.net/a-short-and-informative-kindle-wiki/
- MobileRead – http://www.mobileread.com/
- [HACK] Google Translate on Ebook search menu – http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104386/a>
- A Kindle World blog – http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/
- Borrow Kindle Books from Your Local Library – https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000718231
- Visual Kindle Guide – http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Visual_Kindle_Guide
- Kindle Hacks Information – http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Hacks_Information
- Library Babel Fish – A college librarian’s take on technology – http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library_babel_fish [RSS – http://www.insidehighered.com/feed/atom/blog/library_babel_fish]
- eBook Architects – http://ebookarchitects.com/:
- eBook Retailers and Distributors – http://ebookarchitects.com/conversions/retailers.php
Articles
- “Free Kindle Books: A Guide” by Lauren Indvik (mashable > Tech; 2010.12.25) – http://mashable.com/2010/12/25/free-kindle-books/
- Books In Browsers 2011: Mary Lou Jepsen, “Readers and Accessibility” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikvwj54koLk
- The ABCs of e-book format conversion: Easy Calibre tips for the Kindle, Sony and Nook (2010.01.03) – http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-abcs-of-format-conversion-for-the-kindle-sony-and-nook-plus-some-calibre-tips/
Devices and other readers
- Amazon’s Kindle
- barnes and Noble’s Nook
- FBReader — e-book reader for Unix/Windows computers – http://www.fbreader.org/
eBook format transformers
- pdf2mobi – http://pdf2mobi.sourceforge.net/ | http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf2mobi/ [FreeWare]
- MobiPocket – http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadSoft/ProductDetailsCreator.asp [FreeWare]
- ABC Amber CHM Converter – http://www.processtext.com/abcchm.html [FreeWare]
- ABC Amber LIT Converter – http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html [FreeWare]
- ConvertLIT – http://www.convertlit.com/download.php [FreeWare]
- Calibre – http://calibre-ebook.com/ [FreeWare]
- at WikiPedia – http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Calibre
- Calibre error “Requested formats not available”:
- “Problems when saving to disk” (MobileRead [http://www.mobileread.com/]; 2011.07.05)- http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143020
- Solution (form the DOOH! department): before attempting to export a book (in formats other than the one it was originally loaded into Calibre), generate these formats by using the “Convert books” button. 🙂
- Mobipocket books on Kindle by Igor Skochinsky – http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007/12/mobipocket-books-on-kindle.html
- Mobi2Mobi –
- Kindle Mobi2Mobi GUI Vista/XP – http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Mobi2Mobi_GUI_Vista/XP
- Booksmith – Blog to Book – http://blog2book.pothi.com/
- Kindle publishing for blogs (by Amazon) – https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/
- SIC: access to blogs through this Amazon service is NOT FREE to readers.
- List of available bogs: “Blogs on Kindle” – http://www.amazon.com/Blogs-Kindle-Sports-Industry-Internet-Technology/
- “HOW TO: Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle” by Ben Parr (Mashable; 2009.05.13) – http://mashable.com/2009/05/13/blogs-amazon-kindle/
Kindle blogs
- Kindle Taproom – http://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/ | RSS: http://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
- 10 Best Kindle Blogs – http://www.blogs.com/topten/10-best-kindle-blogs/
- BlogKindle – http://www.blogkindle.com/
- Book of Kindle – http://thebookofkindle.com/
- EduKindle – http://www.edukindle.com/
- Frugal Kindle – http://thefrugalkindle.blogspot.com/
- Gizmodo > Kindle – http://gizmodo.com/kindle
- I Love My Kindle – http://ilmk.wordpress.com
- Joe Wilert’s Kindelville Blog – http://kindleville.blogspot.com/
- Kindle 2 Hacks – http://www.kindle2hacks.com/
- Kindle Chat – http://www.kindlechat.com/
- Kindle Chronicles – http://thekindlechronicles.com/ | Rss: http://thekindlechronicles.libsyn.com/rss
- Kindle Nation Daily – http://kindlenationdaily.com/ (old location: http://kindlehomepage.blogspot.com/)
- Kindle Nation Daily – http://www.kindlenationdaily.com
- Kindle Owner – http://kindleowner.com/
- Kindle Owners Blog – http://www.kindleowners.com/ | RSS – http://www.kindleowners.com/feed/
- Kindle Review – http://ireaderreview.com/
- Kindle Review – http://ireaderreview.com/
- Kindle World – http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/
- Kindle formating – http://kindleformatting.com/blog/
- Kindle in the Kitchen – http://www.kindleinthekitchen.com/
- Kindle2Rules – http://kindle2rules.com/
- KindleBar.com – http://kindlebar.com – – All the latest Kindle news and free eboo
- KindleReader – http://kindlereader.blogspot.com/ | RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/GImN
- Kindleville by Joe Wikert – http://kindleville.blogspot.com/
- List of Kindle Blogs (at Kindle Wiki) – http://kindlewiki.wikispaces.com/List+of+Kindle+Blogs/a>
- e-bookvine – http://e-bookvine.com/
- e-bookvine’s Kindle Board – http://e-bookvine.com/discussion/
- Kindlelicious – http://www.kindlelicious.com/ | http://www.cravingbooks.com
- Kinlde Wiki – http://kindlewiki.wikispaces.com/
- PDFCreator – http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
2010.11.16
Cell phones radiation
- “World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer” (SlashDot; 2011.06.01) – http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/01/1219248/World-Health-Organization-Says-Mobile-Phones-May-Cause-Cancer
- A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) concludes that mobile phone radiation presents a carcinogenic hazard. Are cell phones going to be the new tobacco, then?” This seems to be a new interpretation of a long-tern WHO study of possible cellphone health risks that had “inconclusive results” last May.
- “WHO report: Cell phone radiation can cause cancer” by Rachel King (ZDNet; 2011.03.31) – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/who-report-cell-phone-radiation-can-cause-cancer/49638
- “Cellphone Radiation May Cause Cancer, Advisory Panel Says” by Tara Parker-Pope and Felicity Barringer (The New York Times; 2010.05.31) – http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/cellphone-radiation-may-cause-cancer-advisory-panel-says/
- “Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone?” by Randall Stross (The New York Times; 2010.11.13) – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/business/14digi.html
- …. But the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding the phone against your head or body into the fine print of the little slip that you toss aside when unpacking your phone. Apple, for example, doesn’t want iPhones to come closer than 5/8 of an inch; Research In Motion, BlackBerry’s manufacturer, is still more cautious: keep a distance of about an inch. …
- <em.Brain cancer is a concern that Ms. Davis takes up. Over all, there has not been a general increase in its incidence since cellphones arrived. But the average masks an increase in brain cancer in the 20-to-29 age group and a drop for the older population.
- … subjects who used a cellphone 10 or more years doubled the risk of developing brain gliomas, a type of tumor. …
Related here: Taxonomy of cancers – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/taxonomy-of-cancers/
2010.10.08
Lawsuits in mobile space
- “Microsoft sues Motorola over Android – and all the other mobile lawsuits, visually” (Guardian Technology Blog) – http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/04/microsoft-motorola-android-patent-lawsuit
- “Lawsuits in the mobile business” by Design language News (2010.10.05) – http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1252039209
- Google spreadsheet “Who’s Suing Who?” – https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ndEhVeTQzd2llcWxwajN6bVJ6Mzl3eGc&hl=en_GB#gid=0
- Mobile Lawsuits (Flickr) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pconigs/5055027363/
- “Who’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade?” (Information Is Beautiful; 2010.10.06) – http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-in-the-telecoms-trade/
- “Growth of a meme: how a mobile lawsuits visualisation evolved”(Guardian Technology Blog) – http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/oct/08/mobile-lawsuits-visualisation-gathered
Related here: “One more example of reactive social role of patent system” – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/one-more-example-of-reactive-social-role-of-patent-system/ | “Broken patents system” – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/broken-patents-system/
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