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Kindle gets a calculator app
Easy Calculator – 99¢ Did you know the Kindle 3 and Kindle DX can both compute basic math problems? You type the numbers and symbols into the search field and hit enter, and after a few seconds you’ll get an … Continue reading
Figuring out sideloading on the updated Kindle for iOS app
Updated 12 Jan 2010 with corrections. It turns out that the best new feature of the updated Kindle app… After hearing back from others as well as from an Amazon developer, I re-tested all of my files on both an … Continue reading
Fan-made app lets you play Zork and other titles offline
The details: It requires the same unofficial hack used to install screensavers and fonts. It’s still under development so it may be buggy. As with all Kindle hacks, use at your own risk. Download it at Andrew de Quincey’s livejournal … Continue reading
Posted in active content, apps, DIY, free, games, Kindle, Kindle 2, Kindle 3, Kindle DX, online, software, text
Tagged active content, adventure games, apps, hacks, if, interactive fiction, kindle, text based games, z-machine, z5, zork
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My favorite childhood book of all time is now an iPad app
[And now a quick interruption from Kindle posts...] In my opinion, there is one book that surpasses all others in children’s literature, and it involves Grover insisting that you do not turn the page. In fact, that’s pretty much all … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple iOS, apps, childrens books, classics, ebooks, grover, ipad, kids, monster at the end, muppets, sesame street
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Amazon extends newspapers and magazines to Kindle for Android app, promises other apps will follow
Today Amazon announced that its Kindle for Android app has been updated to let readers access both single issues and subscriptions of some of the biggest selling newspapers and magazines. Update (or download) the app to your Android device today … Continue reading
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Tagged android, apps, features, kindle, kindle for android, magazines, newspapers, subscriptions, updates
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"Dusk World" brings interactive comics to the Kindle
I’ve commented in a few recent posts that so far, the only “active content” titles we’ve seen on the Kindle Store have been games. I like games, but I’ve been wondering why no developer has tried anything more ambitious. Then … Continue reading
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Tagged active content, adventures, Amazon, apps, choose your own, comics, detectives, games, graphic novels, interactive, kindle, superheroes
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Give Project a break, it's no worse than any iPad magazine
Oh my dear goat lord, WHAT IS WRONG with people? This week the fairy of stupidity came down and sprayed IdiotGlitter all over a bunch of people who tried out Virgin’s new magazine app, Project. They all hate it. They … Continue reading →