Today Barnes and Noble announced that DC comics and graphic novels are now available in the Nook Comics Store for the Nook Tablet and Nook Color. The 100+ DC Comics are also available on any Android tablet with the Nook for Android app installed. I guess this means the spat between Barnes and Noble and […]
Watching Cartoons on a Kindle Touch and Nook Touch (Videos)
In the past I’ve posted about how hackers have figured out how to play videos on a Nook Touch and Kindle Touch, so this isn’t anything new exactly, but I’ve recently come across a couple of new videos and they are too strange to pass up. This time around we’ve got a couple of cartoons […]
Who Will be the Next to Release a Lighted eBook Reader?
Now that Barnes and Noble has released the Nook Touch with GlowLight, which appears to be relatively successful given the fact B&N couldn’t keep them in stock for the first several weeks, the big question is who will be the next to release a similar E Ink ebook reader with a built-in front light? Amazon […]
Dropbox Suspends My Public Links for Generating Excessive Traffic
Well, it looks like I won’t be recommending Dropbox on this website anymore, at least not for public file sharing. Less than 2 full days after starting to use Public Links for two measly files, Dropbox has temporarily suspended my use of public links for three days for “generating excessive traffic”. For those of you […]
Review: Idolian TouchTab 10 with Android 4.0
Last month I posted about two of the least expensive 10-inch Android 4.0 tablets on the market, the Idolian TouchTab 10 and Zenithink C91 (they are the same unit). The folks at Idolian were nice enough to lend me a TouchTab 10 with Android 4.0 to review. I’ve been testing it out for a couple […]
Turn a Nook Touch into a Classic Macintosh with Mini vMac for Android (Video)
The Nook Touch can do a lot of strange unexpected things with various hacks and mods, like playing videos, but this one takes the cake. Just when you think you’ve seen everything, it turns out the Nook Touch can be turned into a Classic Macintosh. Yep. Flying toasters and all. This was achieved by installing […]
Updates for Kindle Android and iPad Apps Bring Much-Needed New Features
Amazon issued some updates for their reading apps this past week. They added some much-needed new features to the Kindle for Android app, and they also updated the Kindle for iPad app as well as the Kindle Cloud Reader, their web browser based app.
A Brief Review of the Ematic eGlide Pro II (Video)
A few weeks ago I decided to buy the Ematic eGlide Prima that I posted about back in May. I decided to review it because it’s a cheap tablet for $99 that runs Android 4.0 and is the only sub-$100 tablet I’ve seen with official support for Google apps, or so the listing at Amazon […]