Posts

Showing posts from March, 2012

Kindle Fire Gets Updated

Image
A minor update to the Kindle Fire , Amazon's color touch-screen multimedia tablet, began rolling out to users today. Version 6.3 adds a few minor features, including a new toolbar for sharing notes and passages from inside a book. Another, more major feature, is called " Book Extras ". Book Extras brings extra written content into the book you are currently reading, including glossaries or biographies. Another new feature extends the rental period for movies. The rental period now starts from when you start playing the movie, as opposed to from when it's downloaded. Textbooks will now retain formatting and page numbers, to make it easy for a Kindle-using student to keep up with the class in regard to textbook page numbers. Personal documents added  to the device will now be synced with Amazon Cloud. Rooters, do not fear. Although the update will revert the rooting process taken, the  xda-developer forums already have rooting instructions for the latest upd

New iPad available in Stores

Image
The new, third- generation iPad , over-viewed in this Gadgetator article, will hit store shelves tomorrow, March 16th. If you need to have your hands on 1 as early as possible, waiting in line at an Apple store, as Mashable says, may perhaps not be the most choice. Apple stores will begin selling the new device at 8:00 AM, local time, though 24-hour Walmarts will start to hand out the device at 12:01 AM. Probably the most Buy at Union Square in New York City will also have the iPad at midnight. It looks exciting that Apple would permit retailers to begin to market the iPad prior to they themselves do, but it may perhaps just be one more noticeable difference in Apple during the write-up Steve Work era. Will you be waiting at a Walmart or Best Purchase at midnight for your latest iPad? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Instagram coming to Android

Image
Instagram is a popular iOS app that allows you to share photos with friends and followers, as well as add cool retro-looking filters to the photos you share. Click this link  to read more about Instagram.  Android users have never been able to use Instagram, as it is an iOS exclusive. Well, was an iOS exclusive.  At South by Southwest, a geek conference in Austin, Texas, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom announced that Instagram would be coming to Android pretty soon. He says that currently, the Android Version is in a private beta testing stage, and will be "coming soon". "In some ways, it's better than our iOS app. It's crazy", said Systrom. In addition, he announced that the iOS version of the app, which was featured as Apple's iPhone App of the Year in 2011, had reached over 27 million downloads. Although we still don't know exactly when Android users will gain access to this great service, as Instagram co-founder says, it's coming soon. So

The New iPad

Image
We've all been waiting for the next generation iPad. Rumors about it have been floating around basically since the launch of the iPad 2 , and now those rumors are all either confirmed or denied. Mostly confirmed. With the new iPad , Apple is really focusing on graphics and images. The new iPad sports a Retina display, Apple's proprietary term for a display that, when viewed at a normal distance, the pixels are not discernible. The Retina display is also found in the iPhone 4 and 4S, as well as the iPod touch 4th generation. Although the iPad has less pixels per inch (PPI) than the iPhone and iPod touch, it has a 2048x1536 resolution, making it a higher resolution than even an HDTV. The A5X Chip The graphics are also greatly improved, as the new iPad boasts the Apple A5X chip, a dual-core system-on-a-chip with quad-core graphics. This makes high-quality games look much better, and really works well with the new Retina display. The third feature focusing on imag