Tech Article 5/24

Kindle is Welcomed by a U.K. Bookseller

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Amazon.com has made a deal with British book retailer Waterstone's allowing them to sell Kindle devices. Since the deal with Waterstone's, Barnes & Noble's Nook is beaten by Amazon's Kindle. Amazon has scheduled to have their Kindles in all 294 Waterstone's shops by September. The Kindles in Britain's largest bookstore chain shows the need for physical book companies to get a piece of the digital business. Amazon sees this deal as a great opportunity to get their device out there in Britain. Waterstone's wants some of the lucrative sales, a connection to the Kindle users in Britain. They also want to craft a "digital environment."

Web 2.0: Finding a Web 2.0 Tool

If you were to be looking for a good web 2.0 tool to use for school, Edmodo is great! My brother owns an edmodo for his history class in school. On edmodo, my brother's teacher, Ms. Alves, may post homework assignment that you will have to comment on with the answer or task. She also can link homework sheets and study guides on her edmodo. The teacher may also help a student by linking a powerpoint on a post. The powerpoint may go over the lesson that she taught during class. This will help a student that may not have fully comprehended the lesson.

Amazon Cares Enough to Help Create Texan Jobs

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Amazon.com and the Texas Controller of Public Accounts declared a dead that will create new jobs for Texas citizens. They plan to make 2,500 jobs in the next 4 years. They also want to make $200 million in capitol investments in the state. The agreement will solve all sales tax problems with the state and Amazon. The Controller of Public Accounts states that this is a very important step.

Summer '12

Summer

Costa Rica

I cannot wait until the summer! No more soccer games or homework. Just sleeping in and hanging out with my friends. I can't wait to spend my summer at my aunt's pool with my friends and family.  I plan on going to summer rec. and hangout with my friends. My cousin is coming home from college in Costa Rica, off of the Long Island University and I can't wait til she gets home either.  I plan on spending a good part of my summer with my cousins. I haven't seen some of them in what seems like forever. The last time I've seen some of them is Good Friday and Easter and not everyone was there. I especially have not seen my cousin's best friend Morgan in such a long time. Morgan is my cousin Maryann's best friend who we all consider family. I also can't wait to spend all my summer listening to amazing music like Jason Mraz , The Script, or Hollywood Undead. I really can't wait for the summer, as you can see.

Tech Article 4/20

Tunein's New App!

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TuneIn is the  free service that allows users to listen to radio for a mobile device. TuneIn now is a rival for users like Spotify and Pandora. TuneIn's workers are trying to make it easier for their users to find new music. They have accomplished this with their new app that allows user to go straight to the iTunes store to purchase the song they've just heard. TuneIn's just added many new content and will keep adding about 300 new sources a day.

Tech Article 4/12

Amazon Allows Old CDs to be Exchanged for Gift Cards

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Amazon has decided to make another deal for their shoppers. As of Wednesday, April 11th, Amazon is allowing us to Trade-in our old CDs for Amazon.com Gift Cards with their Trade-in program. The Amazon Trade-in program is a service that shoppers may exchange an item of Amazon's choice for Amazon.com gift cards. After you mail in your item, Amazon will notify you that the merchandise has been accepted  between 6 and 10 business days. Amazon's Trade-in website is not showing the option for CDs yet. Pricing information is also not showing yet.

Spring Break

Hi! Over the past week and a half I've had spring break. For the first week, I slept in for many hours. After I slept in I read and finished a new book each day from Monday to Thursday. A book I read has a second book in the series  that I am reading now. If you want to check out the first book Abducted, click here. On Friday, I went to my cousin's house for Good Friday. Our parents hid 212 eggs for only the 5 of us to find because my other cousins were in college. My cousins they slept over my house and on Saturday we went Laser Tagging. Then I went to go see Titanic. On Sunday, I went to my grandma's house and hung out with my family, ate dinner and played with my cousin's dog Douggle. Finally it was the last day and I had so much homework to do! I finally finished it after procrastinating at midnight.

Tech Article 3/30

Blind Man Gets to Taco Bell in Google's Self-Driving Car

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Recently, a YouTube video od the journey of Steve Mahan was showed on Google+. Steve Manhan is a legally blind resident of Morgan Hill, California. The Google self-driving Toyota Prius was tested for more than 200,000 before the company thought it was fine for Manhan to take a ride to Taco Bell and to pick up dry cleaning. Google received permission from the local police department to let Manhan be in the driver's seat without a license. To avoid any legal issues, Sergeant Troy Hoefling was put in the car with Manhan by the police department.
As much as this car can be helpful, they are not quite ready to hit the road yet.  Nevada made this car legal on the road in February 2012. They still need to allow car manufacturer testing the car. They are also planning to make the color of the license plate different.
In the video below,  Manhan says that he is only 95% blind but he is still very delayed by every task. There are some places where he cannot go or things you cannot do. He is happy that Google's car is going to change that by allowing him to do more tasks. 

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Tech Article 3/16

Ted App Finally for Android

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TED, the app that promotes "Ideas Worth Spreading", is officially on the market for people with Android devices. TED will allow users to browse and watch the full library of TEDTalks which are searchable and tagged. The TED app allows offline browsing and viewing. There also also the option of audio-only engagement that can be used when in the car and not wanted to watch a screen. Users are able to watch the newest videos online since they are updated daily. You can even share with your friends if you are connected to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. The new TED app is built for Android-enabled phones and tablets. Such as the Sony Tablet P "Dual Screen" and the Amazon Kindle Fire. The layout adapts to different screen sizes.The app will initially be available in the Google Play Store and the Amazon Appstore for Android.

Tech Article 3/9

An App Where You Cozy Up to Strangers?

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If you could have a sixth sense, what would you want it to be? Well Paul Davison is convinced that in 5 or 10 years Smartphones and apps will become our sixth sense that would feel impossible to live without. He believes that in 5 or 10 years we will be able to walk into a room and know everyone's name, where they work, and what people you know in common by his app called Highlight.This app is not the normal app, its a little more creepy than usual. The way this app works is that when you upload the app, you will log into Facebook. Then when you are on the road and someone else who uses Highlight that has some connection to you, the app will alert you. You may look at the map and see where you are and where the person you have a connection to. You could also then message them.

Tech Article 3/ 2

The iPads are on the Way

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Foxconn is preparing to send shipments to America from China on March 9th. These shipments will include new iPad 3s. The iPads should arrive right around the time that Apple unveils the third generation iPad to America, so that Americans can get iPads as soon as possible. The shipments will be under high security. Meanwhile, Apple Insider reports that stores such as Best Buy have been lowering their prices for the iPad 2.If you want to check out a video of a closer look of what might be an iPad three display, watch the video below by iFixit.

The Weekend After Stokes

This weekend, I was killed with sports. I was supposed to have five games this weekend. I should have had two basketball games and three soccer games. I had a double hitter in basketball, however I could not go to both. I ended up going to the first basketball game, but the other team did not show up. I came home and I had a little time before my soccer game.

I went to my soccer game for the Rutherford team I am on and got killed in the goal. I got kicked in the back of the head by a forward on the other team. I also got kneed in the muscle in my thigh. That was the end of that horrible game. It was now Sunday and I had two soccer games. My first game was once again with my Rutherford team. We played Hackensack, I think, and we did not do to well. We lost by a lot, and I was pissed. A few hours later, I had my last indoor soccer game with my Wood- Ridge team. We are the 0-7 team and we played the 7-0 team. We lost big time, again.

Winter!!!!!

Do you like Winter? I know I do. With all the snow (not this year though) it is so much fun. I also like Winter because of the winter break. I love it when I hang out with my friends and family on winter break. I love it when   my cousins and I have snowball fights. However, they are not as cool as this.

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Tech Article 2/17

Does Google Support Gay Marriage?

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As you should know, Google had a doodle video on their website on Tuesday, Valentine’s Day. In the sketch, a boy was trying to win over a girl, who is jumping rope, by looking up on google the average items to buy your Valentine. None of these items attracted the girl, however when the boy gets out his jump rope and jumps next to her, the boy has one her heart.

Above is what Google.com looked like
at the end of the Valentine's Day
video.

The girl does not like the
boring gift he gives her.

At the end of the video, there was a screen with six gay couples in six boxes. As the one shown in the picture. This brings up the question, does Google promote gay marriage? In 2008, Google came out against Proposition 8, which was against gay marriages in states, so it would not be the first time. Also, in 2011 during Gay Pride Month, Google changes its layout. When you search a word that is related to being gay, Google had a rainbow slide down from the top of the page and then twirl around the search bar.

He has won her heart and they live
Happily Ever After.

Above is the symbol of
Gay Pride Month.

If this does support gay marriage, Google did it at the right time. With Washington becoming the seventh state to allow gay marriage and New Jersey may be voting on as soon as Thursday, there couldn’t be better timing.

Welcome to Sandra's Blog

Hi I'm Sandra, and I love to play soccer! I am a goalie and my soccer team is like my second family. However, my actual family is amazing, we've been told we are kind of outrageous. I have an older brother named Kevin who I can sometimes hate but in the end he loves me. I could not live without my family, I would die. Just like my friends, I know that they are always there for me and I'm there for them. Well anyways, have fun reading the rest of my posts.