Apple Launched iBooks 2 to Enter the Field of Digital Textbooks

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Apple launched a new service digital textbooks -- iBooks 2 on Thursday, formally entering the field of digital textbooks.

Apple chief marketing officer Phil Schiller said, it is the time to complete transformation of textbooks, and added, there are currently 1.5 million iPad devices are used in educational institutions.

He said:" it is not difficult to see, the textbook is not always the ideal tool for learning," the traditional textbook slightly cumbersome, from Apple's point of view, iPad is the best choice, reusable, portable, interactive, searchable, and even support rich media.

Schiller said:" through the iBooks, children will love learning."

Starting from Thursday, iBooks 2 will be available as a free application on the iPad.

During an event in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Schiller said, teachers need help, and Apple is trying to explore a way to make its own contribution.

He said:" overall, the transaction is still in the dark ages," and, education is facing great challenge.

According to the biography of Jobs author Walter Isaacson's statement, Jobs last year met with News Corp ( NWS ) chairman Murdoch. The two people discussed the possibility of apple entering into the textbook market, Jobs estimated that the annual production value is about 8 billion dollars market.

Microsoft Win8 Tablet Hardware Difference: Has 5 Physical Buttons

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Microsoft released Windows 8 computer hardware requirements, setting Windows 8 tablet computers must have a 5 physical buttons, and support for NFC ( near field communication technology ).

The following is normative abstract:

Physical keys: must have 5 physical buttons, the power button, the screen rotation lock key, Windows key, increase the volume keys and the volume down key, respectively.

Broadband: built-in broadband.

Display: resolution of at least 1366x768.

NFC ( near field communication ): support NFC technology.

Ctrl+Alt+Del surrogate key: if the tablet is not available for Ctrl+Alt+Del, Windows + power key to replace.

Storage: at least 10GB free space

Graphics: Direct3D 10 device w / WDDM 1.2 driver

Camera: 720p high-definition camera

USB: USB 2

Networking: wireless local area network ( WLAN ), Bluetooth 4 ( low power )

The system firmware: UEFI ( Unified extensible firmware interface )

Others: accelerometer, gyro and magnetic meter

Can Samsung Be the Next Apple?

Apple is the number one in the electronic devices field with no doubt. However, Samsung, in the past few years, achieved really great performance. Can Samsung become the next Apple? And Why Samsung will be the next Apple? Please read this article.

For almost ten years, I go to CES every year. Every booth and all the things that producers do in CES have one goal: help company to build a system that attract customer from their deep heart. To achieve this every company try their best every year and the result always let them down.

While, Samsung is exception. As we all know that, in the past few years, Apple build their own ecosystem, including iPod, iTunes, iPad and Mac. However, Samsung is different from it. Samsung is much more richer than Apple. It is all-clusive. Let me show you some number of Samsung.

Samsung have been the leader of TV for 6 years and in Nov. 2011, Samsung sell 2 Tvs in one second, but only a small part of the TV sold are smart TV. Till 2012, all the new smart TV of Samsung will achieve interactive without set-top boxes. This not only means that Google and Apple will have new competition in smart TV, it's very difficult to sell 2 Tvs in one second for both Google and Apple, but also Apple's smart TV project will meet very strong challenge from Samsung.

In the aspect of smart phone, Samsung sell 60 million smart phones in 2011. It's not surprise me, because Samsung is good at use their own operation system to sell smart phone. Till now, Samsung has already been the number one smart phone and TV producer. In addition, Samsung also produces Tablet PC, washing machine and software and so on. So Samsung has built their own ecosystem that full of energy.

Before the release of iPod, in the market of MP3 player, there are some producers, but none of them has a nice performance. As a result of that, people think that this market does not have much potential. Now there is a market of smart TV, many people know Samsung smart TV first in the last quarter of 2011. In the beginning of smart TV's development, many producers' sale performance can not be accepted. As a daily electronic equipment, consumers seldom change their TV. Because they will out of date, if you do not use the latest one. So many family will not change their TV until their TV broken. This is one of the reason why Apple does not release their smart TV. They know that consumer will not change their TV every year.

It's not sure that if Samsung will be success in smart TV. In the trend of innovation that lead by Apple, many traditional producers can not follow the step of innovation. If Apple release the smart TV soon, it is possible that Samsung will be forgotten by consumer. The some thing happened before many times. While, if Samsung mobile phone, Tablet PC and Samsung smart TV can interactive without any obstruction, I think many family will choose Samsung as their smart TV, if they have one of the above device from Samsung.

Apple will work hard to achieve this, but there will be many difficulties. Samsung produces many other things, such as display, printed circuit board, set-top boxes and so on. While Apple need to outsource many parts of their products. Under this condition, the price of Apple's smart TV will much higher than Samsung's, especially when Apple need to buy parts from Samsung.

Pele Gao is the author of this article and he is really interested in Video Converter for Mac and DVD Ripper for Mac.

Best Way to Share Your iPod/iPhone Files

iPod/iPhone have become an irreplaceable assistant of our daily life. While I have to say, compared to other portable device, iPod/iPhone also have some inconvenience, such as
Can't directly backup your video/ audio files to computer to avoid your files lost;
Can't share music and videos with your friends and family at will;
Have to use iTunes to add music and videos into your iPod/iPhone. Etc
So, here I will share some several useful tools to solve all your problems in this article.

Part one: solve the three problems with one tool-- Aiseesoft iPod Transfer
This Powerful iPod transfer can help you to backup files from iPod to PC , transfer files from one iPod to another one directly, and import video, audio files or folders from PC to iPod without iTunes,. And it supports all model of iPod and provides lifetime upgrade for free.
Free download it and have a try, it is totally clean- no adware/spyware/virus.

First usage: Import video and audio files or folders from Computer to iPod without iTunes
Step 1: Run the software, and connect your iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Click "Button 1" to seek the files or folders that you want to import to iPod and click OK.The process of importing will be finished instantly.

Second usage: Backup your iPod/iPhone files to your computer.
Step 1: Run the software, and connect your iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Open the library/playlist that you want to export files, and then check the file(s) you want to export in the file list.
Step 3: Click "Button 2" to select the destination of the exporting files and start exporting files.

Third usage: Transfer files from one iPod to another iPod
Step 1: Run the software, and connect two iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Open the library/playlist that you want to export files. Pick the files that you need to transfer.
Step 3: Click "Button 3", it will show you the folder of another iPod that you want to transfer to. Click OK. The transfer can be finished automatically.
If you are mac user, you can visit Aiseesoft iPod Manager for Mac

Part Two: Just need backup video/ audio files to computer to avoid your files lost
You can have a look Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer.

It can backup iPod video/audio files to computer, you don’t need to worry about losing
anything.
Step 1: Connect your iPod to your computer
Step 2: Choose files
Choose the songs, videos and other things that you want to backup at the top of the window
Step 3: Start to transfer
The most important and the last thing you need to do are to click the “export to pc” button .After
you click “export to pc” button a pop-up window will appear and with it you can choose where
you place your iPod songs and videos. Few seconds later you will have your iPod songs, videos
and other things on your computer.
If you are mac user, you can visit Aiseesoft iPod to Mac Transfer

Part Three: If you are iPhone user, share two similar tools for you: Aiseesoft iPhone Transfer, which can import video and audio files on PC to iPhone directly without iTunes. Backup files from iPhone to local disk without loss. Transfer files between two different iPhone.
and Aiseesoft iPhone to Computer Transfer.

Aiseesoft Updates Mac iPad Manager Platinum to Fully Support iOS 5

To help users have a better experience on iPads running the new iOS 5, Aiseesoft has updated the iPad Manager for MacPlatinum. This iPad transferring software is specially designed for Mac users to export iPad files to Macs, iTunes and other Apple devices, import local files to an iPad, convert DVD/video to iPad video, and so on.

Aiseesoft's charming Mac iPad Transfer can help users export all iPad files (movie, music, picture, TV show, podcast, iTunes U, eBook, camera roll, voice memos, camera shot, etc.) to a Mac for backup. It also supports copying all these files to iTunes on a Mac. Moreover, this transferring software enables users to transfer iPad files to other Apple devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod) with simple operations.

In addition, Aiseesoft's Mac iPad Transfer Platinum can import local music, video, ePub, PDF, image and ringtone files to an iPad or a Mac. Then users can conveniently enjoy these files on their iPad anywhere and anytime. To help users enjoy DVDs or any video file on an iPad, this software offers users a professional solution to convert popular DVDs and video files to iPad-compatible video formats with super high converting speed.

Furthermore, this amazing software can assist users to make iPhone ringtones with any popular source DVD/video/audio file. And it can backup iPhone SMS (MMS) and Contacts onto a Mac.

Now this Mac iPad transfer software is perfectly compatible with the new iOS 5, and it supports all Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod devices, including the latest iPhone 4S and iPad 2. It is definitely one of the best assistant tools for any iOS device.

Moreover, there is also a specialized Mac iPhone Transfer Platinum for iPhone users. It can provide iPhone users with high-quality services converting DVD/video to iPhone and transferring iPhone files.

System Requirements for Mac Version

OS Supported:

Mac OS X v10.4 – v10.7

Hardware Requirements:

512MB RAM, Super VGA (800×600) resolution, 16-bit graphics card or higher

About Aiseesoft Studio

As a professional multimedia software provider, Aiseesoft Studio is dedicated to developing the best multimedia desktop applications to help the Windows and Mac users smoothly convert, edit and transfer various video/audio files. In order to meet users' various requirements, Aiseesoft Studio constantly brings in new ideas, technologies, etc.

How to convert DVD to iPod/iPhone/Sansa/PSP/Zune/iRiver/Google Phone/Cell Phone, etc. on Mac

Many people like enjoy movies at home and they have piles of DVDs. So do I. I like watch lastest movie on my new Mac and it is wonderful. However, I always break and lose my DVDs and I was really sad because they cost most of my money. Luckily, I find a way to store my DVD movies on my new Mac computer and evern put it on my iPod because I use a DVD Ripper for Mac and it can rip DVDs to so many video formats, such as AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB and so on.

To do this you must have a nice dvd ripper for Mac. So I find Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac

OK, let’s do it.
Step 1. Download and install Aisesoft DVD Ripper for Mac.

For Intel

For Power PC

Step 2. Load you DVD.
Click the “Load DVD” button(a), find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your DVD-ROM, and Click “Open”.

Tick the check boxes(b) before the titles and chapters that you want to rip.

Step 3. Chose output profile and settings.
Selecting output format is really easy, you can chose your output format according to your devices players and the default setting works great.

For a veteran of digital player, you could customize your own settings by clicking “Settings” button to chose your own video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.

Tips: Sample rate (Hz) = any value up to 48000 (higher value = better sound quality = bigger file)
Bitrate (kbps) = any value up to 160 (higher value = better sound quality = bigger file)

After setting your own output and settings you can click “Start” button to start your conversion. (The time of the conversion depends on your DVD and the settings you chose.)

Do a few more clicks to make your movie more enjoyable.
1. Trim

If you want to rip only a part of the DVD movie, please click “Trim” button and drag the “Start trim slider” to set the start time and “End trim slider” to set the end time.(a). You can also do that by clicking the “Start trim button” and “End trim button”(b). The third way you do that is set the exact Start/End time at the right of the pop-up window and click “OK”.

2. Crop
If you want to remove the black edges or you want to rip a certain area of your video, please click the “Crop” button. You can do this either by drag the frame around the movie (a) or set the crop value: “Top, Left, Bottom, Right”.(b). Another way to do that is choose mode from “Crop Mode”(c).
Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac also allows you to choose the output aspect ratio above the crop pane, “Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3” are available.

3. Effect
If you want to adjust the effect of your movie, please click the “Effect” button and a pop-up effect window will appear. It allows you to edit your movie’s effect including “Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation and Volume”.

4. Merge into one file/audio track/subtitles
If you would like to put several titles and chapters into one output file, please tick the check box of the “Merge into one file”.
You can choose audio track and subtitles you like according to what you prefer and the DVD supports.

Follow what I said above I hope you could enjoy your DVD movies on your Mac and also on your iPod and other portable players

Google search integrates with Google + to suppress Facebook

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When Google announced Tuesday he would hold in the search results integrated Google + contents, the network world fell into an uproar. The industry accused it taking the opportunity to suppress Twitter and Facebook competitors.

According to the report, Google will add a " Search Plus Your World " function, in the search results displaying Google + information from the friends. These Google + information would definitely get higher rankings result than other social networking website information . For example, when searching someone's name, the Google + page link is placed in the top search results.

Specializes in Internet law New York law school professor James grimmel Mann in Twitter said: "today is a good day to abandon the Google + and delete the Google Profile. I just did this."

"I don't like it, i don't like this impact to the competition, also i don't like the impact to people's privacy. This obviously oversteped the privacy and public information distinct boundaries." Grimmel Mann said in an interview. He added, a lot of Google users will be integrated such distress, which will make them feel" invasion of privacy".

Google argued that, Facebook does not public information to search engines, so Google can't display the company's content in search results. But the Twitter is not, all of the Twitter information is public, and can be indexed by any search engine, unless the user specifically set it as their privacy.

Facebook and Google don't make any comment. Twitter says in statement, the move has bad impact to Internet users and other stakeholders:" over the years, people have been dependent on Google search to obtain the important content anytime they want on the Internet. People often want to know more world events and breaking news, Twitter has become the important source of this information in real time, every day more than 100 million users around almost every topic sending 250 million messages. After it has been repeatedly demonstrated, breaking news is firstly released in Twitter, it also makes Twitter account and the micro-blog become one of the most important search results. We adjust the search results on Google expressed concern, this will increase substantially all people get real-time information of Twitter difficulty, the mass, publishers, news agencies and Twitter users are negative."

Standford law professor Mark Remley said:" in many areas Google preferred his own service in the search results, I think it will further exacerbate concerns." Remley had previously with Google on other legal issues had cooperation.

With all the enterprises in the process of overall expansion of business, consumers seem to feel the internet isolated risk. Grimmel Mann said:" according to Google 's own benefit, they should continue to concentrate on developing excellent search platform, rather than through search engines and integration to create a good social network."