Amazon Kindle 3 and Kindle DX Review and News With Fire and Special Touch... » Kindle SDK http://blogkindle.com Daily News about Amazon's new e-book reader Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:52:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kindle Todo List App http://blogkindle.com/2011/09/kindle-todo-list-app/ http://blogkindle.com/2011/09/kindle-todo-list-app/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:30:39 +0000 Andrei Pushkin http://blogkindle.com/?p=7935 I’m happy to announce that our second Kindle application: Kindle Task List Professional is now live on Amazon marketplace!

You can use this app to keep track of long term tasks by assigning priorities and due dates. The app also dubs as a notepad. You can edit task descriptions and import/export them to and from your computer.

App FAQ is available here. You feedback is very much appreciated either here on via email.

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]]> http://blogkindle.com/2010/01/kindle-apps-blog/feed/ 0 Kindle SDK (KDK) to be available next month http://blogkindle.com/2010/01/kindle-sdk-kdk-to-be-available-next-month/ http://blogkindle.com/2010/01/kindle-sdk-kdk-to-be-available-next-month/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:46:33 +0000 Andrei Pushkin http://blogkindle.com/?p=2689 Well. Once more I have to eat my own words… Some time ago I wrote about why Kindle SDK wasn’t a likely thing and today Amazon announced it’s availability. Amazon must have been holding it up in it’s sleeve for quite some time. I believe that bringing all Kindle software to version 2.3 was made in preparation to the SDK announcement. With Amazon’s motto in everything being ease and simplicity I don’t think they would have expected software developers to support apps that should have ran on 3 different versions of the OS.

At the moment little is known about the SDK:

  • I believe that apps will be Java-based like the rest of the Kindle UI.
  • Apps are going to be either free, purchase once or monthly subscription based.
  • Data usage would be limited based on the purchase and subscription price.
  • Limited location services based on cell towers are likely to be available to KDK should user give their consent.

I hope to get on board the KDK during the Beta or shortly thereafter.

Personally I think that Kindle SDK is going to the a success. There is a definite demand for simple things like Folders, interactive Suduku, crossword puzzles, weather, location based search etc. While Kindle browser does work for a lot of websites, it’s slow and cumbersome. Small faster specialized Java app would be much better. But most importantly it looks like these apps will not take away from the reading experience which Kindle’s main selling point.

The rationale is that since people use Kindle for reading and are likely to carry it around anyway, why not use it for other tasks as well, without taking away from the main function? That’s why smartphones succeeded where PDAs failed.

What Kindle apps would you like to see?

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