The Kindle is almost one, but Amazon just announced they are releasing Version Two on February 24th.
If you bought a Kindle 1, Amazon is putting you first in line for Kindle 2, but it doesn’t look like you will be getting  a discount. But that is the price of progress!
The main improvements seem to be:

Longer [...]

I use Vonage for the store toll free number.  Last week I started having Vonage forward calls to my cell phone.  One small problem: I hang up on every customer.
The most annoying thing is when a call comes from someone not in my contact list the button to the left is ‘hang up’ and the [...]

I received an email from someone asking how to add furigana (small hiragana) over Japanese text on her computer.  I mentioned I do it with Word using the Phonetic Guide.  She only had Works and Works doesn’t appear to have the Phonetic Guide.
For those who do not want to spend a few hundred dollars to [...]

From time to time we get really nice emails from customers. Here is one about our $5 instant downloads for Beginners:
Thanks Clay and Yumi. These $5 downloads are by far, the best help a beginner can get! And for the price I got way more than expected. This is something I was looking for [...]

注文の多い料理店
Chuumon no Ooi Ryouriten
The Restaurant with Many Orders
by Miyazawa Kenji

We’ve been working feverishly to get this e-book reader done before Yumi enters the hospital (tomorrow!). It took longer than I anticipated (Can you say ぎりぎり?), but it is done–and I think (read: hope) done well.
You can get a preview of the MP3 and learn [...]

In less than 30 minutes the new iPhone 3G will begin selling in Japan. According to the news just now, Japan will be the first country to be able to grab the new iPhone today. I’m sure this is due to time differences.
Today’s post is brought to you buy the word:
新発売
shin hatsu bai
New [...]

I just got an email from a group in England with an interesting marketing idea.  Well, I guess it builds on the One Million Dollar website idea of a few years ago, but essentially, you ‘buy’ a word, any word, and receive a link to your website.  Once you buy it, it is yours for [...]

When my sister got her iPhone almost a year ago, her parents-in-law (with mere mortal cell phones) used to joke, “Can your iPhone get us a drink?” or “Make your iPhone change the channel.” or “Let’s see if your iPhone can swim.” Of course “iPhone” was said with a little sarcastic drawl.
Well, it probably [...]

No doubt the recent price drop move by Apple encouraged Amazon to lower their Kindle price, but unfortunately they didn’t lower it much.
Apple $400 -> $200 ($200 lower!)
Amazon $400 -> $359 (not as much lower!)

I am still infatuated with the idea behind Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, but I’m not convinced dropping $40 will make people [...]

We are working hard on the second (and final) part of our JLPT vocabulary 4 kyuu $5 download. It *should* be ready by Monday. This has been the most ambitious of our $5 downloads, but I hope one of the more useful too. We had to split the vocabulary packs into two downloads [...]

 

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