I was going to pick up my son from his after-school program today and I was listening to NPR on my radio. I heard a story about the Bear County, Texas, library system. They were implementing e-readers in a big way, and the brief story was about this transition. I can’t link the story until … Read more
I don’t know, I used to love comics when I was younger and there’s just something about a physical comic book that doesn’t compare to a digital one. Sure it’s more convenient and you can carry more with you in digital form, but I think I still like the physical copies. Now it would be … Read more
Huh.. I never knew Amazon had their own game studio?! Learn something new everyday I guess, but then again I can’t pay attention to everything that goes on, even though I do try! The game is called Air Patriots and it’s free, and it’s a tower defense style game that I’m going to go grab … Read more
With all the excitement going on around here these past few weeks, its been fairly easy to forget about Amazon and their little “almost” android tablet that could. Determined to make sure you don’t, Amazon returns with a new flavor of the Kindle Fire dubbed the “HD” and a smaller sibling to match. The Fire … Read more
Today’s news out of Amazon: Harry Potter is coming to the Kindle Learning Library on June 19! Of course, you can only borrow one book at a time. Lame. I hope all the Potterheads don’t end up DDOSing Amazon… Yeah, I’ll be one of them. Source: Amazon.com
Samsung has been taking some nice swings at Apple and most recently during the Super Bowl. There is no love loss there and even though Apple uses components from Samsung, it didn’t stop them from declaring war on the Galaxy Tab. Now we have a new comer to the Apple Donnybrook, enter Amazon with their … Read more
So if you’re got a Kindle Fire, right now you can go and get the official SlingPlayer app and sling some media to it. Price is $29.99 which personally I think is a bit high considering you’ll have to buy a Slingbox if you don’t own one. if you already own one I still think … Read more
Speck makes some great cases and now you can get those quality products for your Kindle Fire to fully protect it. The new cases are the FitFolio and the WanderFolio. You can get the FitFolio in different colors to match your preferences like Peacock or black, among others. Speck Products, designer of form-fitting and delightfully … Read more
A dock for an eReader? Interesting, but but then again the Kindle is much more than an eBook reader. The new Kindle Fire is doing well and iLuv thinks you need an audio dock to go with it, and they might be right. Personally I’m not one for audio docks, just give me a decent … Read more
The Kindle Fire seems to be the tablet to get, I may have to look more into it. If you’ve got the Kindle Fire then you can now get Splashtop on it so you can access your computer, PC or Mac, while you’re away. Price is $2.99 from the Amazon Appstore for the main app, then you’ll need to … Read more