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Amazon Free App Notifier

Amazon’s AppStore offers a paid app for free every day. How many times did you forget to download the giveaway, because you were too busy or simply forgot? With the “Amazon Appstore Free App of the Day Notifier” App you will never again miss on a free app from the Amazon Appstore.

The features in a glance:

Set up a time of the day for the one time notifier to show up in your notification bar and the app will get it for you every day.

Once the notification shows you can just pull it down and click on it. You will be redirected to the Amazon Appstore App and the exact page with the free app. Simple!

Don’t have the Appstore installed? The notification will give you an option to open the Internet browser and you can download it from there.

You can also manually fetch the app of the day – for testing purposes or if you do not want to be bothered with a reminder every day.

The app requires a working internet connection. However, you can set up an interval and the app will periodically, based on the interval, check your connection. We have a limit of 5 retries for the app.

The fetch occurs instantly and only takes 1-2KB per request since we are processing everything on our servers. You get minimum data and instant delivery, guaranteed!

You can also set up a template for the App of the Day (Let’s say the word: “keyboard”) and we are going to notify you only if the app of the day contains the keyword keyboard.

You can also get notified via Email and/or SMS, or add a list of friends (comma separated) to be notified along with you.

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Amazon Kindle Tablet iPad Killer

Hours ago, and as we announced a few days ago AppleWeblog, Amazon has revamped its range of Kindle e-reader and the family has joined the Fire Kindle, for a tablet to take advantage of all services in the online sales giant. Undoubtedly, in mentioning the word “tablet” is inevitable talk about the iPad , the comparison is inevitable and think if this new release represents a threat or not the device to Apple who founded the Post-PC Era. In other words, is the new iPad tablet from Amazon a Killer? To answer this question I will focus on three axes.

Hardware

Our colleagues at Gizmodo have covered in detail the technical characteristics and performance of the new device from Amazon. Among the highlights, it should be noted that it has a multi-touch screen 7 inch (with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels at 169 dpi), a dual-core processor, possibly, of 800 Mhz., Storage capacity 8GB (expandable through an SD slot and the free space in a cloud), and WiFi connectivity.

So in this sense, Amazon looks promising: it has the backing of a large community of users and developers of Android, and offers a wide variety of content such as books, music, and movies with the seal of his company. In other words, to keep up the contents of Amazon, Apple next week to launch an attractive offer services related to your icloud, Match iTunes and the iTunes store.

That is, the new Android tablet with interesting features, but in this sense, I think we should give a bonus to Apple. Remember that the iPhone has a multi-touch screen of 9.7 inches (with a resolution of 1024×768 pixels at 132 dpi), with a dual core processor at 1GHz, 16GB storage, 32GB, or 64GB, and connectivity WiFi, 3G, and Bluetooth 2.1. In addition, the Apple tablet also features two cameras, a 0.7 megapixel rear and front 0.2 megapixels, and also features microphone and accelerometer. In other words, the Kindle Fire comes close to competing in this regard but it is noticeable that the iPhone is still more complete, offering more variety and more functionality at the hardware level.

Here, as noted in other blogs include the following: as demonstrated in the past with the Kindle, Amazon offers a limited but perfect device for the task he faces. That is, the Kindle Fire is intended as a tablet for specific tasks, to the consumption of books, magazines, movies, television, music and why not, applications and games are not very demanding. Its hardware and its performance is to respond to it, not the iPad , and in this sense is perfect.

Contents

Along with the price, I think this is one of the strengths of the new release of Amazon. As mentioned our fellow Alt1040 , the focus of Kindle Fire are their services, ie tablet Amazon is disclosed as a device that serves as a link to all services of the company of Jeff Bezos:

“Behind the tablet are the Amazon services with hundreds of electronic books, downloading music or watching movies and programs that were already in the online store both Kindle Cloud, like Prime.”

In addition, when using the Android operating system will automatically have access to a collection of interesting applications in the Android Market. According to many, this will not be as complete and dazzling but certainly is a great starting point.