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Monday, April 12, 2010

e-book's


e-book or a digital book is a electronic book which can be read on a iLiad, iPad, kindle etc. Among the earliest general e-books were those in the Gutenberg Project, started by Michael S. Hart in 1971. Early e-books were generally written for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted interest groups.

Many software companies have started making their own e-books or an e-book from a small level author. On the other hand some companies are making devices to read e-books such as iPad and iLiad. On the first day of launch of iPad more than 1000 e-books were added to the iLibrary.


As of 2009, new marketing models for e-books were being developed and dedicated reading hardware was produced. E-books have yet to achieve global distribution. e-book is going to be the future for education. May be, by 2020 most of the students in developed countries will be having one of the gadgets used to read e-books.

Apple for their iPad and amazon for their kindle will be having a tough competition in the future for the sales of their gadgets for e-books.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

iPad - A revolutionary gadget


The iPad is a tablet computer developed by Apple Inc, Announced on January 27, 2010, it is part of a category between a smartphone and a laptop computer. iPad was launched on April 3rd all over the world. It is a revolutionary gadget because of the following reasons- it is multitouch, size is as big as the keyboard of a laptop, you can read ebook in iPad and it is very cheap.

iPad was made by Apple mostly to enhance reading skills and gaming world. The new software added in iPad is the iLibrary. iLibrary is just a collection of ebooks which are added with voice and mini dictionary. I think Apple launched iPad just to give a base for iLibrary.

iPad is adored with digital compass, liquid crystal display, rotation of any angle, Wi-Fi network trilateration to locate itself in Google Maps and A-Gps. iPad is very light weight which makes it easy to carry. Its body is very slim and the screen is perfect for an ebook.


Yair Reiner said the iPad will compete against e-book devices such as the Barnes and Noble nook and the Amazon Kindle while offering 70% of revenue to publishers, the same arrangement afforded developers on the Apple App Store. Apple claims that iPad is capable of providing video for 10 hours and audio for 140 hours and so more....

Friday, April 2, 2010

Right To Education

Very recently Indian government had passed the Education Bill. It will determine that each and every kid of age between 4-16 should get guaranteed education. Kapil Sibal got the idea of this Bill and finally got it approved by the members of Parliament. In a country like India where the population is more than a billion, the ratio of literacy to illiteracy is 3:7. The country is one of the developing and populated countries.

Illiterate kids in India of age varying from 10-14 find their works as labors and thieves. In last 5 years government had tried many ways to decease the number of illiterate people in India. Some of them had worked also example - government schools which provide free food and education to the students and vidhya organization.

Education bill is a revolutionary bill because in a country like India where the number of illiterate kids is more than 20 million and making a promise to the public that each and every kid in India will get education is a really big deal.
So help the government to help the kids of India.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Book Review - Crocodile Tears

The book "Crocodile Tears" is the 8th book of Alex Rider Series by the famous British author for teenagers Anthony Horowitz. Anthony is world's best author for teenage books. His famous books like Alex Rider Series and The Power Of Five are one of the best books in the world. He lives in Manchester , U.K.

Alex Rider Series is about a 14 year old kid named Alex Rider who is drawn from his school by a special agency of U.K named MI6. His parents were killed in one accident when he was only 2 years old. He was taken care by his uncle. When his uncle died in some accident, he was taken care by a 16 year old American girl named Jack Starbright. His father and his uncle both used to work for the same agency. MI6 took away Alex from his school and gave a fake medical report about him getting measles. MI6 never gave any salary or something to Alex for saving the world.

In the first mission he had to stop stormbreakers from coming into the market which were computers containing viruses, in the second mission he had to save teens belonging to the rich families from a evil school point blanc, in the third mission he had to save the entire Russia from nuclear explosion, in the fourth mission he had to stop killing of 1/10 of the world's populations just to stop production of drugs in the world, in the fifth mission he had to fight against Scorpia a corruption agency, in the sixth mission he had to stop some people from destroying the space odyssey, in the seventh mission he was sent to Thailand to stop some robbers from looting the countries and finally in the eighth mission he had to save the world from GM's technology which can increase the poison of any thing.

Anthony Horowitz is damn clever. In his book "Crocodile Tears" he tried to add some more suspense by adding a journalist who will blackmail Alex to give his information about all the superhero stuff. But afterwards when he goes to MI6 for help, they give him one more work to finish and Alex makes a deal with them that if he finishes the task they will take care of the journalist.

The thing which I like in books of Anthony Horowitz is that - every page is full of suspense and all the characters are small James bond. He is the one who can make a kid get the habit of reading books.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Advantages And Disadvantages of Homeschooling.

Nowadays parents are choosing different ways of teaching. Among them homeschooling is on top.
What is Homeschooling?. Homeschooling is a kind of studies which takes place inside a house through projects and extra-curricular activities.

People don't like sending their kids to schools as their kids complain about their teacher being harsh to them. Teachers lose their temper and hit children but now hitting kids is banned. Teachers are fired from their posts just because they hit some kids. Parents are depending upon homeschooling , so that they can get to know about the kid's doubt and problems . Thing is that parents can spend more time with their kids also. One more advantage of homeschooling is that the parents can concentrate on one or two children whereas in a class a teacher is taking care of all children. Parents are also enthusiastic in helping their kids in their doubts. One more thing I like about homeschooling is that the studies are done through projects and practicals.

As you know every good thing has a disadvantage so as this.

As you know that in a class there are at least 10-20 kids. Some or all of them are friends with each other . But in homeschooling there in no one to talk or no one new. The kid does not make any new friend and that means his or her communicating skills wont improve. One more disadvantage of homeschooling is that - it is done for classes of L-kg ,U-kg ,1 ,2 and 3. After this the kid has to join school for further more studies and will have problems in communicating and to follow the pattern of studies.

So I think that homeschooling is only good for smaller classes like L-KG and U-KG only. After that you have to put your kid into a school to develop complicated and new things.