3 Cool Reading Apps for Android

Not everyone is a book lover, no matter how many times they give it a shot. Let's face it, reading just isn't for everyone. While I am an avid reader, I have many friends who haven't picked up a book since high school and just have no interest in doing so. Their hobbies reside elsewhere.

But not all reading apps are book centric. There are some that cover other literary areas, such as magazines, newspapers and even comic books.

Previously published reviews for book lovers:

• Goodreads Video Review: Free Online App for Book Lovers!
• How to: Self-Publish a Book!

For those of you out there that have an Android tablet or phone and are more interested in other formats outside of books, here are three really cool apps you need to check out.

1. Komik

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Self Publish A Book

I get asked the question a lot, "How do you self publish, and is self publishing a hard thing to do?" It's actually quite simple once you begin the process. I also get asked if you make a lot of money from books when you self publish. To answer that, I haven't personally, but it depends upon how you market your book. It all depends upon the effrot you are willing to put into getting the word about your book out there.

Find Vulnerabilities on Facebook and Get Paid

Similar to Mozilla, Facebook is now paying over $500 to anyone who finds vulnerabilities which may compromise personal user data on their website. In order to get paid, you must be the first one to send it, and you need to give time to the Facebook team to fix the problem.

If you want to know more about this, go to this link.

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7-Hour MacBook Pro Battery Experiment

So you bought your new MacBook and you’re not only excited about the stunning design or the revolutionary OS, the supposed 7-hour battery really makes you giddy. Well my refurbished 13” MacBook Pro is advertised with a 7 hour battery, so I thought I’d really put it to the test. Before I jump into my experiment, let me give you some back history on my MacBook Pro. 

As I said, my MacBook Pro is refurbished. I received on September 9th 2009, so 9/9/09. It has a hard drive of 160GB, 2GB of ram with a 2.26GHz processor. Since it is refurbished, that may have some effect on battery life, but I can’t say for certain.

So let’s begin with the actual experiment. In order to give my battery the full advantage, I used these controls: I made sure the battery started out with 100%. I also turned the brightness of the screen down from 2-5 clicks, I know that seems very low, but again, I wanted to give the battery every opportunity to succeed. These are some of the things I did while testing my battery life: I did simple browsing in Firefox, had Tweetie opened the whole time and regularly tweeted, and wrote notes in TextEdit. I had keyboard brightness turned up all the way and Bluetooth turned off. 

I started at 4:00pm. Here are some random time intervals at which I took down the battery percentage.

• 4:02-99%
• 4:08-98%
• 4:35-90%
• 4:45-88%
• 4:54-84%

• 5:00-83%
• 5:26-74%
• 5:37-71%
• 5:45-69%
• 5:52-67%

• 6:00-65%
• 6:23-60%
• 6:36-56%
• 6:52-51%

• 7:00-50%
• 7:11-47%
• 7:17-45%
• 7:25-42%
• 7:34-40%
• *Started watching a video online at 40%
• 7:44-36%
• 7:53-32%

• 8:10-30%
• 35 minutes of inactivity
• 8:45-23%
• 8:52-21%
• 9:00-20%

Those are the results for my 7-hour battery experiment. So in conclusion, with the brightness turned down most of the way and doing simple processes, I was able to get about 5 hours. It isn’t a 7 hour battery, but it’s pretty darn close. I hope you find my extra time and extreme geekiness interesting.

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Kindle 2

With 3G connectivity and access to over 240,000 books, blogs and newspapers, the avid reader can't pass this up. The New Kindle 2 was launched yesterdy by Amazon, it sports a very thin and light design and is faster then the previous model. It also has a built in speaker with Text to Speech so it can read just about anything for you. The 3G connection which is free for life with the purchase is fast delivering you a whole book in under 60 seconds. Coming in at $359 it is a little on the pricey side but if you are an avid reader then you will definitely love this product.

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