Yesterday Amazon issued a firmware update for their Kindle for Android app that adds some nifty new features. The Kindle for Android app now supports Amazon’s Kindle Format 8, which adds a bunch of content in the form of comic books and graphic novels—like Superman and Batman—as well as illustrated children’s books, such as Curious […]
Daily Deals: $99 Kindle 3G, $39 Color eReader, $449 iPad 32GB
This week is turning out to be a great week to purchase a new (or refurbished) ereader or tablet for cheap. Some of the deals posted on Tuesday are still ongoing and there a bunch new deals for today, some really good ones too. Most of these are daily deals so they aren’t likely to […]
How to Root the Pandigital Planet and Install Google Apps
The one question that I’ve been getting asked more than anything else here lately is how to root the Pandigital Planet and install Google apps to get access to Google’s Android appstore. The Pandigital Planet is an inexpensive Android tablet that runs Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread (at least it is supposed to; mine is stuck on […]
Tetris Ported to the Kobo Touch (Video)
It turns out the Nook Touch and Sony PRS-T1 aren’t the only E Ink ereaders to get hacked to run video games, among other things. Now someone has managed to port Tetris to the Kobo Touch, and it looks like the old school Pong game works as well. Doing so requires rooting the Kobo Touch […]
Daily Deals: $10 Amazon Gift Card for $5, Nook Touch for $69, $129 Tablets
Today is a good day to save some money, and even get some money for free (how often does that happen?). Today only there is an ongoing deal via Amazon Locals to get a $10 gift card for Amazon.com for $5. They’ve already sold over half a million so it might not last the entire […]
Review: Apple iPad 3
I’ve pretty much had eyes glued to the new iPad since it arrived last week. I haven’t even taken time to write any blog posts for three days so I guess it’s time to put the iPad down and get back to work :). I managed to put together the first page of the iPad […]
Watching Videos on a Nook Simple Touch – Seriously
I just stumbled across something so odd that I couldn’t help but share it with you. For a long time I’ve been saying how cool a rooted Nook Touch is, and today the folks at XDA took it to a new level. In the past I’ve shown the Nook Touch running live wallpapers and even […]
New iPad First Impressions: Screen is Great, but Back Gets Hot
I decided to order one of the new iPads to review because I wanted to see the new high resolution retina display and how it adds to the ereading aspect of the iPad. I’ve always been critical of the iPad 1 and 2 as ereaders because I never liked how pixelated the text appears, and […]