By Davion Wong
iPhone owners are getting excited about loading their new gizmos with iPhone music downloads. After all, the phone-cum-digital portable media player can store up to 100 songs easily and allow a playtime of up to 24 hours of audio. This article will show you 7 hot tips to find the top service befitting of your new toy when it comes to iPhone music downloads.
1. Free or Paid
Freebie seekers probably would argue with me on this. There is nothing wrong with wanting free iPhone music downloads. Who doesn't anyway? But the trouble is that free websites that give you music for free are often associated with exposure to viruses, spyware and adware when downloading media files there. Our phones are too new and precious and to risk exposing them to these harmful elements is a No No.
How about downloading each iPhone song for $0.99 or more at online music services like HMV, iTunes and so on? People wouldn't mind if it is only one or two song. But if we are going to load up at least a 100 songs or soundtracks, this is going to be expensive.
There are now services that offer a lifetime membership for a flat fee of lower than $49.95 to access unlimited iPhone music downloads. These are the real gems!
2. Variety & Size of iPhone Music Library
Music lovers probably have their preferred music. You may not like pop but to another, pop may really sound heavenly. If you love all kinds of music, go with the services that offer multiple genres from Rock, Hip Hop, R&B, Classical to many unheard music genre. Several top sites now offer over 100 million media files including music videos, TV shows and even movies and games.
3. Download Interface
This is a key feature that must not be overlooked. For easy navigation, the interface must be simple to use and does not take long to search and find your music files. One way to get a rough idea is to see how professionally done the site is and to read comments of existing users.
4. Software Applications for Download and Conversion
Several of the more established services are providing free software applications required to download iPhone music as well as movie and video files. They also provide the conversion software needed to convert movies and music file formats into iPhone-compatible formats. The top services also offer you a free DVD conversion software that transfer movies from DVDs to your iPhone.
5. Fast Downloading Speeds
Make sure that the download speeds are fast. Music file sizes are about 3-4 MB per song. Assuming you are downloading 20 songs at a go, the service must not limit your bandwidth usage by slowing down the speed. This is what some poorly run B-grade services do.
6. Safe Download Environment
Some services do not provide good secured environment with a high level of security and safety when you download iPhone music downloads. The last thing you want to worry about is adware, spyware and viruses that could make their way to your computer because the music store refuses to buck up on its system architecture.
7. After-sales Customer Care and Support
Many services just want to make more money. While they promise a 24/7 technical support to entice you to join them, they are hardly around when you need them to help troubleshoot when you face difficulties. Thankfully, there are a few reputable ones who can deliver an excellent level of after-sales service.
Look around and use these tips to find a good service for your iPhone music downloads. Want to know which services score well in every aspect mentioned? Read up my iPhone blog.
Davion is an ardent lover of techno gizmos. He runs a hugely popular iPhone review blog where he reveals where you can find unlimited iPhone downloads for pennies.
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3/14/2008
Read a Good Book Lately on Your Road to Success?
By Leanne Hoagland-Smith
To be the best for me means to acquire as much knowledge so that I infuse that knowledge into working with my clients as they work toward their goals of improved results. Sometimes, this means for me to find a new book on my own such as Mobilizing Minds or to listen to one of my mentors, coaches, colleagues or friends. This past weekend I learned about another good book - Leadership and Self Deception.
In this book, the author uses a parable, a story to describe Self Deception and how it affects personal leadership and therefore organizational leadership. A visual is also constructed, that being a box. Are you in the box or outside of the box? The visual is used to help the reader self assess his or her own behaviors associated with being in the box (self-absorbed) or out of the box (focused on others). In another medium, one of the Star Wars movies, this overview was simply stated as Your focus creates your reality.
As we travel the road to success, we have incredible opportunities to read many good books and not so good books. Even if we are pressed for time, we can subscribe to services that provide four to 10 page executive summaries about recently released books.
Possibly, if we are fans of the Internet, we can bookmark a favorite site that provides excellent and detailed book reviews as well. From this resource, we can determine if we want to invest our resources of time, energy and money to read this book in hardcover or paperback.
For those of us who wish a respite from the busy world, we can hunker down at our favorite library or bookstore and read a good book. And if we truly do not have time to read a book because of pressing work to family schedules, books on tape or audio CDs provide a solution to this obstacle.
To be the best that I can be demands that I become a self directed learner where I am continually exposing myself to new ideas that will help me master success. With information doubling every year, even reading one book a week is not enough.
So what is your good book of late?
Are you growing forward? The M.A.P. for Success, a free email course may help you begin to chart a forward course for business, professional or personal success. Visit http://www.processspecialist.com/action-plan.htm.
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To be the best for me means to acquire as much knowledge so that I infuse that knowledge into working with my clients as they work toward their goals of improved results. Sometimes, this means for me to find a new book on my own such as Mobilizing Minds or to listen to one of my mentors, coaches, colleagues or friends. This past weekend I learned about another good book - Leadership and Self Deception.
In this book, the author uses a parable, a story to describe Self Deception and how it affects personal leadership and therefore organizational leadership. A visual is also constructed, that being a box. Are you in the box or outside of the box? The visual is used to help the reader self assess his or her own behaviors associated with being in the box (self-absorbed) or out of the box (focused on others). In another medium, one of the Star Wars movies, this overview was simply stated as Your focus creates your reality.
As we travel the road to success, we have incredible opportunities to read many good books and not so good books. Even if we are pressed for time, we can subscribe to services that provide four to 10 page executive summaries about recently released books.
Possibly, if we are fans of the Internet, we can bookmark a favorite site that provides excellent and detailed book reviews as well. From this resource, we can determine if we want to invest our resources of time, energy and money to read this book in hardcover or paperback.
For those of us who wish a respite from the busy world, we can hunker down at our favorite library or bookstore and read a good book. And if we truly do not have time to read a book because of pressing work to family schedules, books on tape or audio CDs provide a solution to this obstacle.
To be the best that I can be demands that I become a self directed learner where I am continually exposing myself to new ideas that will help me master success. With information doubling every year, even reading one book a week is not enough.
So what is your good book of late?
Are you growing forward? The M.A.P. for Success, a free email course may help you begin to chart a forward course for business, professional or personal success. Visit http://www.processspecialist.com/action-plan.htm.
Did you like this article? Then join the other subscribers who receive Power Choices each month. Register at http://www.processspecialist.com/power-choices.htm.
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3/10/2008
How to Write a Book Review
By Dries Cronje
One of my favorite pastimes is reading. I literally devour books, up to 6 per month. As I am reading, I often realize that what the author is sharing is a profound truth that needs to be realized, and implemented, by more people in our world.
I do not have enough reading friends (to tell about the book) to feel satisfied that I played my part in spreading this truth. The solution? I write reviews online.
When you write a book review online, you are spreading the news about it. You are creating awareness, and promoting the book. As people see and read your review, they will most probably be enticed to read the book (if it's a good review) and the message of the book is spread further and wider.
The only question that remains is "How do I write a successful, high-quality book review?" I hope to answer that in the rest of this article.
Firstly, a set recipe for creating a book review is not necessarily a good idea. Organic is the new way. People like to read something from the heart, something natural and authentic. Something organic. Therefore, let your emotions and your heart be your guide.
Write about books that you feel passionate about (why in the world create a buzz about something you dislike?), but also write the review in a way that communicates your strongest emotions on the subject matter.
Secondly, use short, sharp sentences and paragraphs of four or fewer sentences. Reading an online review is something that you are supposed to enjoy. Fancy, difficult-to-grasp words, complicated sentences or paragraphs that look like pages hardly ever contribute to my enjoyment of reading anything online.
I prefer lots of white space, and writing that communicates FAST.
As a third point, I will consider adding a section on how the book read. You will agree with me that some books read easier than others.
Is this book long?
Did you need to fetch the dictionary once or twice?
How long are the pages?
What is the font size used?
How many footnotes were used? Did that distract you? All these things are factors contributing to the reading experience. And where better to talk about a reading experience than in a book review?
Fourthly, I would consider making the main aim of my review to share the main message of the book. What sells a book is its message, or topic. Share with you readers what this is, in your opinion, and share with them why you are excited about this message.
I prefer never to write about books that I am not excited about, or that I would like to criticize. I am not a criticizer... I just want to promote quality, useful books. Books that will make a difference in other people's lives.
Finally, add some structure to your review
. Share your main thoughts in the first few paragraphs, while making sure you introduce the book thoroughly. End the review with a Conclusion, maybe right after telling readers what the book meant to you personally.
What better proof is there of the fact that a book is life changing than the testimony of someone who read it? Go on, share your story. Tell those readers how and why this book made a positive impact on your life.
Good reviews conform to certain accepted length guidelines. I would call a 300 word review short, an 800 word review solid, and a 1,300 word review long.
So, there you have it. My advice for writing an online book review. What do you do once you have completed it? Good question. You can post it on your own blog, or website.
If you are going to publish reviews on your own site or blog, consider rating the reviews. Five stars to a good review and four stars to a fair review. If a book deserves less stars than that, I will not write about it.
You can also post reviews on the Amazon website.
Or, you can post it at one of the numerous free article directories. Here you are sure to get the word out, as webmasters and newsletter authors will pick up your review publish it.
Have fun reading! And then next time you discover one of those real life-changing books, why don't you take a bit of time to do a review on it? It might just be a blessing to someone who really needs it.
Dries Cronje is the Founder and Webmaster of http://www.BookDisciple.com He reviews and recommends quality Christian books and other media. To read some of his reviews, visit http://www.bookdisciple.com/christian-book-reviews.html
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How To Choose A Book To Read
By Scott Hughes
Scott HughesLevel: PlatinumScott Hughes is a webmaster, writer, and activist. He owns and operates many websites, blogs, and online discussion forums. ...
Whether you read often or only occasionally, when you go to read a book you first have the problem of choosing a book to read. Even the most avid reader could only read a tiny fraction of all the books that come out. At any given time, a book store probably contains many more books then you could read in your entire lifetime. How do you choose which books to read? Let me suggest a few ways to select a book.
Ask Friends - Ask friends, family members, and other people you know for recommendations. Friends work especially well for getting book recommendations, because they usually share the same interests as you. Also, friends know your personality well, so they can better guess what books you personally would like. Asking your friends for book recommendations will probably help your friendship also, because your friends will feel complimented that you want their opinion.
Authors You Like - Out of the books you have already read, try to think of your favorites. You can look at other books by the authors of your favorite books.
Bestseller List - Many newspapers publish lists of the currently best-selling books. If your newspaper does not have a bestseller list, you can also find bestseller lists on the internet or you can ask a book store clerk to see best-selling books.
Join A Book Club - Book clubs usually simply consist of a group of people who get together to choose a new book to read and discuss the book they previously chose to read. Most commonly, book clubs read one book per month. They usually do not cost anything, but the members may all put in some money for food and refreshments. Usually, the members of the book club take turns hosting. You can probably find a local book club by going on craigslist. Also, many public libraries have public book clubs.
Amazon - Amazon usually has ratings for books based on users who rate the book. It also has customer reviews of many books. When you view a book, it will show other books that you may like if you liked that book. That means you can get recommendations on Amazon by first finding some of your personal favorite books.
You can probably find other ways to help you select a book to read. If you want to try a certain book, you can avoiding losing money by simply borrowing the book from a library. If you do not like the book, you can stop reading it and return it.
Whatever you do, good luck and have fun!
Scott Hughes owns and and manages Online Book Club at OnlineBookClub.org and the Book and Reading Forums. You can use the forums to get book recommendations, and just to talk about books and reading. It's completely free to join and participate.
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Scott HughesLevel: PlatinumScott Hughes is a webmaster, writer, and activist. He owns and operates many websites, blogs, and online discussion forums. ...
Whether you read often or only occasionally, when you go to read a book you first have the problem of choosing a book to read. Even the most avid reader could only read a tiny fraction of all the books that come out. At any given time, a book store probably contains many more books then you could read in your entire lifetime. How do you choose which books to read? Let me suggest a few ways to select a book.
Ask Friends - Ask friends, family members, and other people you know for recommendations. Friends work especially well for getting book recommendations, because they usually share the same interests as you. Also, friends know your personality well, so they can better guess what books you personally would like. Asking your friends for book recommendations will probably help your friendship also, because your friends will feel complimented that you want their opinion.
Authors You Like - Out of the books you have already read, try to think of your favorites. You can look at other books by the authors of your favorite books.
Bestseller List - Many newspapers publish lists of the currently best-selling books. If your newspaper does not have a bestseller list, you can also find bestseller lists on the internet or you can ask a book store clerk to see best-selling books.
Join A Book Club - Book clubs usually simply consist of a group of people who get together to choose a new book to read and discuss the book they previously chose to read. Most commonly, book clubs read one book per month. They usually do not cost anything, but the members may all put in some money for food and refreshments. Usually, the members of the book club take turns hosting. You can probably find a local book club by going on craigslist. Also, many public libraries have public book clubs.
Amazon - Amazon usually has ratings for books based on users who rate the book. It also has customer reviews of many books. When you view a book, it will show other books that you may like if you liked that book. That means you can get recommendations on Amazon by first finding some of your personal favorite books.
You can probably find other ways to help you select a book to read. If you want to try a certain book, you can avoiding losing money by simply borrowing the book from a library. If you do not like the book, you can stop reading it and return it.
Whatever you do, good luck and have fun!
Scott Hughes owns and and manages Online Book Club at OnlineBookClub.org and the Book and Reading Forums. You can use the forums to get book recommendations, and just to talk about books and reading. It's completely free to join and participate.
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