Showing posts with label E-book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E-book. Show all posts

12 December, 2013

Removing iTunes and other software components

Image representing Apple as depicted in CrunchBase
Image via CrunchBase
10-Dec-13

After installing Visual Studio 2013, I thought I wouldn’t need to install Visual Studio 2012 anymore. Hey, I have the higher version already, and in all aspects, that should be a ‘better’ software package. Unfortunately, when working on CSS styles, there is some mouse right-click context menu that isn’t there. I thought it really wasn’t there, but it is very clear in the eBook I am going through, Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB, at the point of doing styling and executing right-click and something-something should show, and it didn’t, I was wondering. You see, the eBook is designed for VS2012, but having VS2013, I used that instead.

Some of my PCs I still have VS2012, so I tried that right-click trick, and voila! There it is.

Build Style. Within the curly braces of a rule. Have in VS2012. Don’t have in VS2013.

When I searched the web on this issue, there it was, as clear as crystal, it is a bug in VS2013, and while it was already reported, and probably some fixes were done and released, probably… the bug remains.

So I had to install VS2012. And this is when my HDD space would be consumed. I run out of space.

And hunting for some software pieces that I think I can let go, I saw the Apple suite. Nothing against Apple products, but I don’t use them in this particular laptop, so I decided they will go, and of course, with many others.

As before, it is almost always a wild good chase, this removal or uninstallation of Apple products from PC. There are about 6 products to be removed, and searching for one does not turn up the others. I would remember seeing one article before that shows how to uninstall all 6, in sequence, and that I can’t find easily nowadays.

Also, some would talk about just uninstalling everything without any particular order, and say that a lot of things will still be left behind after the uninstallation is completed, and to say that to really clean-up any leftovers, use Revo Uninstaller. I have tried Revo Uninstaller before, and I would still use it given the chance, and finding the need for it. But I think that to do just the Apple suite of products, that is too much. Revo Uninstaller is one heavyweight software, and if you go beyond what you know, things will simply get screwed up.

What’s the option?

I would suggest to simply use CCleaner after doing standard (or normal) removal/uninstallation.

Anyway, here is the list, in order, of uninstalling Apple software products, from you PC.

After removal, restart, then run CCleaner. But do make sure you review the checkboxes first and uncheck anything that you don’t want cleaned up, as CCleaner sweeps and cleans, and deletes permanently.

1.    iTunes
2.    Apple Software Update
3.    Apple Mobile Device Support
4.    Bonjour
5.    Apple Application Support (iTunes 9 or later)

Reference:
Removing and reinstalling iTunes and other software components for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8

Till then!
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17 January, 2013

eBooks

Third generation Amazon Kindle, showing text f...
Third generation Amazon Kindle, showing text from the novel Moby-Dick. Esperanto: Amazon Kindle de la tria generacio, montranta originan tekston el la romano Moby-Dick. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
17-Jan-2013

For sometime now, I have been downloading e-books from one site that has continued to supply the materials on a regular basis. So if you are hunting for an e-book source, here it is:

Wow!eBook

I am just sharing the link, and I leave you to check and verify its legitimacy.

Till then!
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02 June, 2009

Google to sell new e-books online

With too many competitors following on with what brings in the green buck, is Google now adopting a different business approach: diversification?

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Posted: 02 June 2009 0714 hrs

WASHINGTON - Google plans to begin selling electronic versions of new books online this year, posing a potential challenge to market leader Amazon.

"We've consistently maintained that we're committed to helping our partners find more ways to make their books accessible and available for purchase," a Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said in a statement on Monday.

"By end of this year, we hope to give publisher partners an additional way to sell their books by allowing users to purchase access to Partner Program books online," Stricker said.

"We want to build and support a digital book ecosystem to allow our partner publishers to make their books available for purchase from any Web-enabled device," he added.

Stricker did not provide any further details about the commercial book project, but The New York Times said the programme is separate from Google's controversial book-scanning programme.

Google reached a settlement in October with authors and publishers who had filed a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement over the Internet search and advertising giant's scanning of millions of books through its Google Book Search service.
Under the settlement, Google agreed to establish an independent "Book Rights Registry," which will provide revenue from sales and advertising to authors and publishers who agree to digitize their books.

The settlement mostly involves out-of-copyright and out-of-print books, however. It still needs the green light from a US district court judge and must also pass muster with the US Justice Department.

The Times said the latest Google project would allow publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google.

This would place Google in direct competition with Amazon.com, which sells e-books online for its Kindle electronic reader, the newspaper said, adding that the move was "likely to be welcomed by publishers."

The Times quoted Tom Turvey, director of strategic partnerships at Google, as saying Google's programme would allow consumers to read books on any device with Internet access, including mobile phones, rather than being limited to dedicated reading devices like the Amazon Kindle.

Turvey also said Google would allow publishers to set retail prices, unlike Amazon, which lets publishers set wholesale prices and then sets its own prices for consumers. - AFP/ir

From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.


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