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You are not last in the queue? Three reasons why it is not too late to start an online business

If, like me, you have been starting an online business during 2010 then sometimes it would have felt like you were arriving a little late at the party. There are so many successful people out there, so many smart ideas out there, so many niches uncovered and exploited. Surely it’s too late for any of the rest of us to get a bit of the action….isn’t it?

Having done a little thinking about this, I think there are 3 good reasons why it definitely is not too late.

Reason 1 – Consumers are getting so much more comfortable buying online good online.

Just a few years ago I would still feel a little uneasy about entering my credit card details on line. Now, with numerous successful online purchases behind me, I rarely give it a second thought.

Reason 2 – We are getting the gadgets we need to consume eBooks and information products.

The new Kindle and I pad are both gorgeous gadgets and a delight to own. It is no surprise therefore that Amazon reported this summer that the sale of eBooks outstripped hardback sales for the first time.  Indeed earlier this month the Association of American Publishers reported that US eBook sales rose by 193% between Jan and Aug this year. That’s 193% in less than a year….Wow!

Reason 3 – The internet is simply more convenient for most purchases.

Now I know I won’t convince the devoted shopaholic on this point. However I would argue that if you have a busy life the internet wins hands down over the shopping mall. You can compare prices and get the best deal in minutes. You can complete your purchase at midnight dressed in your pyjamas. You can download that vital information product and be reading it within five minutes of turning on your computer.

In conclusion I think that saying, in 2010, that it’s too late to start an online business is like saying in 1966 that there was no point getting into popular music.

Sure we had already seen Elvis, the Beach Boys and the Beatles by then. But music grew and evolved and continues to do so. So will the internet marketplace.

So come on let’s get strumming…I will be John you can be Ringo!

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It’s in magazines and newspapers. It’s on television and radio. It’s on buses and billboards and pretty much everywhere you look (except for Apple stores, where it’s likely still sold out). It’s the iPad! Selling three million units in the first 80 days, this hot new touchscreen tablet from Apple is a runaway hit.

Every iPhone and iPod Touch app developer looking to take the next step is moving into the iPad arena. Right now there are more than 200,000 apps in the App Store. With the iPad’s ability to run most of these existing apps without any modifications, iPad users have immediate access to a vast catalog of apps.

Although an existing iPhone app may run fine on the iPad, these unmodified apps provide an inferior user experience. iPhone apps pale in comparison to the sheer beauty and flexibility of native iPad apps. At the end of the day, iPhone and iPad are inherently different beasts, with different form factors and capabilities that encourage different usage patterns.

iPhone apps were designed for the iPhone, while the iPad should be treated as an entirely new platform with its own set of design requirements. Dave Wooldridge author of Apress’s latest book “Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK” provides three useful tips for all iPhone developers who want to leverage their skills to master the iPad-exclusive frameworks and features to create professional apps for the iPad:

1) Design app interfaces optimized for the iPad by taking advantage of the new UIKit features:

Popovers

Split View Controllers

Modal Views

2) Build powerful productivity solutions that utilize:

New graphics functionality

Core Text

Document Sharing

Advanced input methods

3) Take advantage of the iPad’s superior media capabilities with its new video and display options

About “Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK”

Best-selling authors Jack Nutting, Dave Wooldridge, and Dave Mark show iPhone developers how to master all of the iPad-exclusive frameworks and features in their latest book “Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK.”

“Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers” is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow programming guide. It has all the answers for iPhone and iPod Touch app developers looking to move into iPad app development. The book covers everything an aspiring iPad developer needs to know to create great apps. Since many of the new features in iOS 3.2 are also present in iOS 4, this is one of the first books available that extensively covers several of the new APIs that iPhone developers are also eager to learn for creating iOS 4-optimized apps.

Table of Contents for “Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers”

1.    Welcome to the Paradigm Shift

2.    Getting Started with iPad Development

3.    Exploring the iPhone SDK’s New iPad Features

4.    New Graphics Functionality

5.    Using Core Text

6.    Popovers

7.    Video and Display

8.    Split Views and Modal Modes

9.    New Input Methods

10.    Working with Documents

11.    From iPhone to iPad

12.    Additional Resources for iPad Development

“Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK”

By Dave Wooldridge, Jack Nutting, David Mark

ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3021-2 / ISBN10: 1-4302-3021-5

272 pages

Published Jul 31, 2010

Print Book Price: $ 39.99 / eBook Price: $ 27.99

About the Authors

As the founder of Electric Butterfly, Dave Wooldridge has been developing award-winning websites and software for 15 years. When he’s not creating Mac and iPhone apps, he can be found writing. Dave is the author of “The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed” and has written numerous articles for leading tech publications, including a monthly software marketing column for “MacTech Magazine.”

Jack Nutting has been using Cocoa since the olden days, long before it was even called Cocoa. He’s used Cocoa and its predecessors to develop software for a wide range of industries and applications including gaming, graphic design, online digital distribution, telecommunications, finance, publishing, and travel. When he’s not working on Mac or iPhone projects, he’s developing web applications with Ruby on Rails. Jack is a passionate proponent of Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks; he will speak at length on the virtues of dynamic dispatch and runtime class manipulations to anyone who’ll listen (and even to some who won’t).

Dave Mark is a long-time Mac developer and author and has written a number of books on Macintosh development, including “Learn C on the Macintosh,” “The Macintosh Programming Primer” series, and “Ultimate Mac Programming.”

About Apress

Apress, Inc., part of Springer Science+Business Media, is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 1,000 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress offers a complete package of books on developing for the iPhone and Mac OS X. For developers who want to code games, create compelling user interfaces, or better get a handle on just what makes an app cool, Apress has all the books to suit. For more information about Apress, visit www.apress.com.

To obtain more information, request press copies, or arrange an interview with Apress authors, please contact Lisa Lau at 212-460-0209.

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How to read news papers on the ipad- Three simple steps

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Do you want to read newspapers on your iPad? And do you know how to read newspapers on your iPad? If you don’t know how to read newspapers on your ipad, the how- to below will show you.

Apple’s ipad is well built for the purpose of reading newspapers and magazine. The book-like user interface, navigation aids, graphics and vivid color display makes reading newspapers and magazines on the ipad particularly more enjoyable than on the kindle.

I have tried reading papers on the Kindle, and I didn’t find the experience to be interesting. I missed the graphics and navigation aids I expected with the physical papers. But on the iPad, the applications look a lot better, and in general, reading the papers that way has been a great experience.

On the ipad you can read ebooks and newspapers in flip book style reading. You can also read the best newspapers from top publishers on the iPad in a few simple clicks. Newspaper reading is especially customized for comfortable big screen viewing.

Downloading newspapers to read on your ipad is very simple and can be summarized in three simple steps:

First Step:

Buy an ipad. Head over to apple.com, amazon or your trusted local retailer and purchase one. Its going to cost you between 9-9 for an ipad of your model of choice at apple.com.

Second step:

Tap on the apps icon on iPad home screen to check the apps that are installed on your iPad. You can go to an App store and add applications for top newspapers like New York Times. Purchase the iBooks app if you intend to read e-books also. Apple will charge .99 for iBooks, which is compatible with their Mac versions. Appsare also available to access news content from BBC News, USA today, Wall Street Journal, Financial times among others (most newspapers charge a subscription fee). you can search the apps store for desired news apps.

Third step:

Once your newspaper app is loaded on iPad, Adjust the screen and light to how you want to read. Select the number of columns and fonts you would like to read with. The New York Times app for instance has a drop-down contextual menus and support for multi-touch functionality. Relax and enjoy reading

Get more information about how to read newspapers on your ipad without paying weekly subscriptions fees at http://www.i-pad-books.com

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