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Antec PowerUp 6000 offers iPad-capable portable power

by Erica Sadun (Jun 19th, 2013)

Mid-June is an odd time of year. Apple's hardware refresh cycle isn't really due until October -- likely six full months away -- so you might consider picking up an external battery pack to use with your current iOS device to tide you over until then. Internal batteries drop in efficiency as ...

Kindle iOS app adds new features for visually impaired

by Steven Sande (May 1st, 2013)

The Kindle iOS app (free) was updated to version 3.7 today, bringing with it a handful of new features to make life easier for blind and visually impaired customers and to anyone who wants to review a book or read recommendations for similar books. To help the visually impaired navigate their ...

Rumor: Amazon's Goodreads purchase cancelled a possible Apple partnership

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2013)

The Wall Street Journal says that before Amazon's purchase of the Goodreads service earlier this year, Apple was planning to possibly integrate the social reading-recommendation service into its own iBookstore. Apple and Goodreads, says the WSJ, had been talking for a year or more about ...

iBook Lessons: Why the Kindle App is still the best reader on iOS

by Erica Sadun (Apr 3rd, 2013)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about e-book writing and publishing. The important thing about e-books is this: the reader matters a lot less than the content. Over time, I've found myself using iBooks less and less and less, as I now turn almost exclusively to Kindle for my iPad ...

DevJuice: Beginning Objective-C

by Erica Sadun (Mar 18th, 2013)

Jim Dovey and Ash Furrow just released Beginning Objective-C. It is subtitled "Get started with programming the fast-growing language." It is not, however, really aimed at new programmers. Unlike Aaron Hillegass's superb Objective C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, the book expects a ...

Amazon warns iOS users to not install the latest Kindle app update (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 27th, 2013)

Amazon issued an update to its popular Kindle iOS app and users are crying foul over the update. Apparently, a glitch in the update is erasing the user's entire book library from their iOS device. Amazon has confirmed there is a problem and is warning iOS owners not to update to the latest ...

iPad, iPad mini win battery life shootout among tablets

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 5th, 2012)

UK consumer watchdog site Which? has tested the world's leading tablets to see how their battery life compares and both the iPad with Retina display and the iPad mini came out on top by a large margin. To be fair to all tablets, Which? took into account the screen size and brightness of each ...

E Ink feeling the pinch from more capable tablets

by Mike Wehner (Oct 29th, 2012)

In late 2007 when Amazon's very first Kindle hit the market, it was the beginning of big things for Taiwan's E Ink Holdings Inc. The company is the one behind the black-and-white display found in Amazon's e-reader and many like it. At the time, the iPad was still over two years from being ...

Amazon compares Kindle Fire HD to iPad mini, forgets some key specs

by Chris Rawson (Oct 29th, 2012)

Amazon has a rather cheeky ad on its homepage right now comparing its Kindle Fire HD to the newly unveiled iPad mini. The ad opens with, of all things, a Gizmodo quote. "...your [Apple's] 7.9-inch tablet has far fewer pixels than the competing 7-inch tablets! You're cramming a worse screen in ...

Amazon launches survey of would-be tablet buyers

by Mike Wehner (Oct 24th, 2012)

Just a day after Apple unveiled a pair of new iPads, Amazon customers might find an interesting email waiting in their inboxes, asking them to weigh in on the current state of the tablet market. The survey questions each participant on how they feel about various tablet features, and focuses on ...

iBook lessons: Mac clients and built-in updates

by Erica Sadun (Oct 24th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about e-book writing and publishing. Since yesterday's announcement, I've been having a series of conversations -- in email, on the phone, on Twitter -- regarding iBooks, the iBookstore, and why iBooks for Mac remains missing in action. Many in the book ...

Paid iBookstore content now live in New Zealand, 17 other countries

by Mike Wehner (Oct 22nd, 2012)

It looks like e-book lovers around the world can definitely look forward to tomorrow's expected iPad mini reveal, as paid iBookstore content has just gone live in 17 new countries. If a smaller iPad is indeed in the cards -- and we're pretty sure it is -- it will compete directly with Amazon's ...

Kindle 8 for Mac adds gesture support

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 10th, 2012)

Amazon has released an update to its Kindle app for the Mac that includes support for gestures like panning and swiping on Macs that are running Lion or greater. Kindle users now also have the ability to view the richer formatting available in Kindle Format 8 books. Other changes include ...

Apples and Orange: the Kindle Fire HD

by Erica Sadun (Sep 10th, 2012)

A year ago, I compared the new Kindle Fire with the Apple iPad. Fast-forward to last week, when Amazon introduced its new, larger HD model. With low-cost, built-in LTE, and a $50/year data plan that gives users 250 MB of data per month, it provides a budget alternative to the iPad. I've used ...

Kindle for iOS update adds adjustable margins, more

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 30th, 2012)

Amazon pushed an update to its Kindle app that'll make it even easier for you to read your Kindle books on your iPad or iPhone, according to a report in The Next Web. The latest update brings rapid highlighting to all devices and adjustable margins to the iPad. The latter feature offers three ...