To submit your script, head to Studios.Amazon.com. Studios, launched in 2010, has received 7,000 scripts so far, and has 15 movie projects under development. The TV venture is new.

If your TV script is chosen for development, you’ll get $10,000. If it gets distributed on Amazon Instant Video, you get $55,000 plus five percent of royalties on toy and T-shirt sales. They also offer $33,000 for various writing assignments, and contests with prizes of $12,000.

That struck us as pretty odd because of the way Apple closely controls it’s pricing, But a deal’s a deal, and we’re not going to knock it. Next question: Should you wait for a later version or go for it now? DealNews.org helps you decide. Click on “When to Buy a Mac” to get the results of three years worth of price research. (They also sell refurbished MacBooks.)

DealNews found that MacBook Pros experienced a substantial drop in price, as did other Apple products, not long after their introduction. The latest MacBook Pro came out in October and saw discounts of up to $300 three months later. Prices went frrom $1799 to $1499.

Here’s their general Apple buying advice; with prices depending on memory sizes:

• The MacBook Air:  Wait a couple days when a new one comes out and save $49; wait three months and save $299.
• IPad, wait two months, save $49. Wait 12 months, save $139.
• IPhone: Wait 11 days, save $39.

UserTesting.com is a useful site for programmers who want to find out if their apps are user-friendly. Screen capture software creates a video of the user experience, showing where the users tapped and where they got bogged down. Prices start at $39 for one user test or $87 for a panel of three testers.

Google Drive (Drive.Google.com) gives you five gigabytes free, and unlike other storage sites, lets you edit the documents you store. That’s because it connects seamlessly to Google Docs, which has it’s own word processor. And — as they might say on late night TV — any documents you create with the Google Docs word processor don’t count toward using up the five gigabytes of storage. If you need 25 gigabytes, it costs $2.49 a month.

The built-in search function in Google Drive makes it easy to find saved documents and photos in any of 30 file types. It’s supposed to be able to identify a person in a photo, such as Steve Jobs, without any caption. Well, that’s the theory. In our tests, it could only find Steve Jobs’ photo if it was already labeled “SteveJobs.”

To get it, start by downloading a small program to your PC or Mac. You don’t have to install it, but having the drive on your desktop makes it easier to organize stuff into folders. Once you do that, your files and folders will be available on any computer you use, as soon as you sign in to your Google account. This is totally significant, because you might be out there in the cosmic ether with just a smartphone or one of the new tablets. An Android app for Google Drive is also available, and an iPhone app is coming soon. CNETtv.com has a good video called “Get Started With Google Drive”

For example, go to Pixlr.com and click the “Express” link to get some amazing photo effects without having to download anything to your computer. It all happens in your browser window. We clicked on “Webcam” to let the website use our computer’s built-in camera to snap a picture. Then we added a frame and improved the color. Amazingly, we looked younger and better, which is just the way we see ourselves. We also tried uploading a photo stored on our machine. After that, we added text and clicked “autofix” to improve brightness and color automatically. Other tools include “airbrush,” “rotate,” “red eye,” “liquify” and dozens of others.

This was so much fun we wondered why Facebook paid $1 billion recently for “Instagram.” (Oh well, easy come, easy go.) Instagram applies some interesting color filters to your smartphone photos and makes it easy to either monitor the photo albums of others or gain followers for your own photo albums. But Instagram has a lot of competitors, such as Pixlr.com/o-matic, PicYou.com and PicPlz.com, and they don’t require an iPhone or Android phone.

Photoshop.com is another free photo editor. It’s from Adobe and has all the basic fixes, such as red-eye and brightness control, and adds special effects like “pop color,” which turns your photo to black and white except for one color, say the color of your nephew’s shirt, to make it really stand out. Another tool we liked was “sketch,” which makes the photo look like a drawing.

WordPerfect Office, like Microsoft Office, comes with a slew of programs, including word processing, a spreadsheet and presentation software. Unlike Microsoft Office, however, WordPerfect Office also includes programs to publish e-books, organize PDFs, create zip files, edit videos and a tool to automate the legal citation process.

The new version, X6, allows automatic “Bates numbering.” We mentioned that to a lawyer friend and he said “What’s Bates numbering?” (Bates numbering is a system for indexing and time stamping sections of a brief for the court.) We guess he’s not a trial lawyer.

WordPerfect Office X6 also shows you how your document or show-and-tell presentation will look on an iPhone or Android Phone. It also adds a routine for easy publishing to a Kindle. Long overdue is support for multiple monitors. Using two displays is handy for those who like to put a document on one screen and a spreadsheet or some other file on another. You can also do this with a split screen option found in Windows and Macs, but you then lose a lot of screen real estate, as they call it. 

WordPerfect has a tiny market share compared to Microsoft Word but we always liked the easy way it lets you arrange pictures or move blocks of text in your document: You move pictures and other marked blocks just by highlighting them with your mouse and dragging them wherever you want on the page. WordPerfect still has “reveal codes.” (This goes way back to the early days, when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.) They reveal the formatting codes for a document, which lets you see and easily correct problems in the layout or fonts.

There’s a “home and student” version of WordPerfect Office for $99 and a free trial at Corel.com.