Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

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Those two PR links from the Apple website says it all.

I would like to thank Steve Jobs for all the work he has done. Tim Cook has huge shoes to fill. Jobs was named CEO of the decade in 2009 by Fortune.

My thoughts on Apple and the Kindle app

Numerous tech blogs have expressed their concerns that the removal of store link in Amazon's kindle app for the iPhone and iPad will make it harder to buy books. I don't agree, all the removal did was add an extra step. Manually launch Safari instead of have it launch for you. Every other step is exactly the same. Even when the store link was present, I still hated buying kindle books on my iPad because the interface was horrible. Luckily Amazon fixed the iPad-unfriendly UI with the creation of their Cloud Reader.

Amazon introduces the Kindle Cloud Reader

Amazon has launched a new cloud-based version of its Kindle app, called Kindle Cloud Reader accessible from read.amazon.com. The new Kindle Cloud Reader is compatible with the iPad (iOS4+), Chrome and Safari. Which means the web app can be run on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS.

Since Amazon had to remove the link to their store in the Kindle app for iOS due to Apple's policy change, this new web app seems like a step in the right direction for Amazon to take back some of the control Apple took away.

The web app mimics the look and feel of the native iOS app and even lets you read content offline. However the reading experience is lackluster. Advancing a page is boring, there is no page turning animation like there is in the iOS app. Although I found shopping for books to be much more enjoyable than it is on the main Amazon website. As a result, I tend to buy books via Kindle Cloud Reader, and read them via the Kindle iOS app. That way you get the best of both worlds.

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Kindle Cloud Reader
Kindle app

Nassau County Police, getting paid to do nothing?

It seems like a dream job, getting paid to do nothing. Well that's what the Nassau Country Police Department is. Recently a man in his mid-to-late 20's received a death threat while in Mineola, NY and contacted the police. The police refused to do anything, telling the man "if anyone wanted you dead, you'd be dead already" and didn't take the man seriously. I was in the area and overheard the conversation. I'm appalled by how the police reacted, and brushed off the complaint like it was nothing.

Is this the kind of attitude we are suppose to expect from the police? Aren't they suppose to protect people? It is our tax dollars that pay for the police, so they work for us. That is something the police seem to forget.