I got an email from Kindle Weather Station this morning, a new service in beta that offers a full screen weather report (via the experimental browser) for your neighborhood. The good news is the weather is presented in a huge, easy-to-read layout that I find quite useful. The other news—maybe not “bad” but not necessarily [...]
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Stanza updated! Now works on iOS 5
Clearly I was too pessimistic last week when I wrote about the death of Stanza, the ebook reader app that stopped working on Apple devices with the release of iOS 5. Earlier today an updated version of Stanza was released, and the app now works again. I take back what I wrote in that earlier [...]
Alternatives to Stanza on iOS
Update: Forget all of this! Stanza delivered a surprise update to the Apple app store on November 10th, 2011, that restored functionality on iOS 5. But only update if you need to: this latest version breaks the app if you’re running an older iOS like 4.3 (thanks to Paula for pointing that out in the [...]
Amazon Silk, or Amazon Browses the Web So You Don’t Have To
The Kindle Fire doesn’t come with a normal web browser, but with something Amazon is calling Amazon Silk, which is Amazon’s attempt at improving page rendering speed, browser responsiveness, and hardware limitations. Amazon has launched a blog about Amazon Silk, but so far the blog just displays a PR-written post and a Googlefied “here’s how [...]
Turn your Kindle into a universal translator with Kindlefish
Visiting another country anytime soon? Bring your Kindle — a new website lets you use the Kindle’s free 3G connection to quickly translate phrases into over 50 different languages.
An overview of Kindle Twitter solutions from The Digital Reader
The Digital Reader has put together a short list of Twitter clients that play well with the Kindle. If you’re a Kindle owner and a tweet-addicted Twitterer, you might find them helpful. “Kindle Twitter client round up” [The Digital Reader] (Photo: nada abdalla)
Amazon and Barnes & Noble push apps to more device platforms
Both companies have been rolling out or announcing new versions of their reading apps over the past several days. First, Amazon promised that it plans to release Kindle apps for future Android and Windows tablets that come to market (this week is the annual Consumer Electronics Show, where such devices usually first appear). Then it [...]
Use free Bluefire app to read library ebooks on your iPad or iPhone
If you own an Apple device and want to access library ebooks on it, try the free Bluefire app now available on the App Store. It has the ability to authorize and open OverDrive files, so you can read your library books on your iPhone or iPad. The original instructions at mobiputing.com explain the app [...]
Next up for Kindle: Android devices
So far we’ve got access to the Amazon Kindle ecosystem on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Windows PCs, Blackberry devices, and naturally Kindles. Next up appears to be devices running Android, the operating system Google developed mainly for smartphones, although other types of gadgets are starting to make use of it too. The biggest impact [...]
Amazon releases BlackBerry app
If you’ve got a BlackBerry and you don’t mind reading on it, welcome to the Amazon Kindle family. Today Amazon released their free mobile app for Blackberry devices. The app works for the following BlackBerry phones: Bold 9000 Bold 9700 Curve 8520 Curve 8900 Storm 9530 Storm 9550 Tour 9630 The best thing about mobile [...]
iPhone Kindle app updated, slightly better than before
Amazon has updated the Kindle iPhone app to add landscape view and color settings.