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Posted on December 7th, 2011 by Nathan
Aldiko is one of the best ebook reading apps for Android and it just got better.
Aldiko just issued an update that officially adds support for tablets, adding a new user interface and some new features. They made some changes to the phone version as well, with some visual improvements and new navigation icons, app icon, and shelf view.
Filed under: Android, Tablets | Tags: aldiko, apps | 5 Comments »
Posted on November 29th, 2011 by Nathan
Amazon doesn’t want you to know this, but the Kindle Fire supports ePub ebooks just as well as it supports Amazon’s Kindle ebooks. You can load a number of different Android apps that support ePub onto the Kindle Fire, and even download ePub ebooks with the web browser and from the apps directly.
Amazon offers a number of ePub ereading apps from their own Android Appstore, in fact. But unfortunately Amazon is petty and made it so none of the ePub apps show up on the Kindle Fire, claiming they are incompatible when they clearly are not.
Filed under: Amazon Kindle, How To | Tags: apps, epub, kindle fire | 3 Comments »
Posted on November 21st, 2011 by Nathan
If you missed out on the previous two office application giveaways, Amazon is offering another office app for free today, this time it is Dataviz’s Documents To Go, which normally costs $14.99.
With Documents To Go you can view, edit, and create native Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on your Android tablet or phone, as well as view PDF files.
Filed under: Android | Tags: apps | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 16th, 2011 by Nathan
The title says it all. It turns out there is a really simple way to install third-party apps on the NOOK Tablet
without a hack, including the Amazon appstore.
As you can see from the picture above, I’ve got Launcher Pro installed on my Nook Tablet, along with the Kindle and Kobo ereading apps, ezPDF, Opera Mobile, and some games and other apps too. Plus the Nook Tablet and all its features still works like normal. I can’t believe it!
Filed under: How To, Nook | Tags: apps, nook tablet | 130 Comments »
Posted on November 15th, 2011 by Nathan
Here’s a list of ten must-have apps for the Kindle Fire that aren’t available in the Amazon Appstore. The Kindle Fire allows for installing apps from sources other than Amazon, luckily, but it can be hard to know where to get them. That’s where this post comes in.
First, before you can install apps from third-party sources, you have to tap settings on the Kindle Fire, then more, then Device to select the option to install apps from unknown sources.
Filed under: Amazon Kindle, Android, How To | Tags: apps, kindle fire | 15 Comments »
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Nathan
If you missed out on OfficeSuite Pro 5 back in October when it was Amazon’s free app of the day, today you can make up for it by getting Quickoffice Pro from Amazon for free.
There are two versions. The regular version, Quickoffice Pro, works with Android devices running Android 2.0 and up. It normally costs $15 so getting it for free is a nice bonus. And if you have a Honeycomb tablet, there’s Quickoffice Pro HD, which normally sells for $20.
Filed under: Android, Sales and Discounts | Tags: apps | 5 Comments »
Posted on November 1st, 2011 by Nathan
Hacking the Sony PRS-T1 and experimenting with installing various Android apps has gotten me curious about trying different things on the Nook Touch all over again since it works a lot better rooted than the Sony does at this point.
A lot of it has to do with the way each device refreshes. The Sony is made to refresh every single page, where the Nook has the partial page refresh ability built-in, which makes a big difference when trying to run Android apps it turns out.
Filed under: Android, Nook | Tags: apps, nook touch | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 26th, 2011 by Nathan
Want to write ebooks on your Android phone or tablet? How about editing Excel and PowerPoint files. With OfficeSuite Pro 5 you can do just that and more, and today it is Amazon’s free paid app of the day.
OfficeSuite Pro 5 normally costs $14.99, so this a free app that you definitely want to get, even if you don’t have an Android tablet or phone just yet.
Filed under: Android | Tags: apps | 11 Comments »
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Nathan
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months you might not know that Amazon gives away a free paid Android app everyday.
Today Amazon’s free app is Read It Later Pro, an app that allows you to save web pages to read later on various devices, “a DVR of the web” as they describe it.
Filed under: Android, Sales and Discounts | Tags: apps | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 14th, 2011 by Nathan
I just received an email from Kindle Support regarding the new firmware update for the Kindle Keyboard and the new archiving and syncing of personal documents feature that Amazon recently implemented.
There was some question as to whether or not the Kindle apps would be gettting archiving and syncing of personal documents and non-Kindle ebooks too, since that feature currently applies to the Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, and Kindle Keyboard only. Amazon confirmed in the email that the Kindle apps will indeed be getting these features too, along with the Kindle Fire.
Filed under: Amazon Kindle | Tags: apps, kindle fire | No Comments »
