Up until now, Apple’s iPad has undoubtedly dominated the market when it comes to tablet devices. However, with Amazon recently unveiling their Kindle Fire device, could this all be about to change?
One of the main attractions of the Kindle Fire for consumers is likely to be the price, as it will reportedly retail for less than half of what it currently costs to purchase an iPad. The design of the Kindle Fire is based on that of the already popular Kindle e-book reader. However, this tablet computer version also incorporates f Google’s Android operating system, offering a multitude of additional features.
The 7 inch touch sensitive colour screen is specifically designed to stream movies and TV shows, as well as offer the standard access to Kindle’s range of e-books. However, unlike some of it’s tablet competitors, the Kindle Fire will not offer mobile internet access. Those who which to connect to the internet to play online games, such as Partypoker, or to send email, will need to do so via a WiFi connection, or a USB 2.0 (micro-B connector). There will also be the option for free storage of the user’s Amazon digital content in the Amazon EC2 cloud.
Each Kindle Fire device will also come with a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime, which offers unlimited, instant streaming of over 10,000 movies and TV shows, as well as free shipping on many of the items available for purchase at Amazon.com. With 8GB of internal storage included, it is thought that the Kindle Fire is also able to support approximately 80 apps, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books. Although it remains to be seen whether or not this tablet can overtake the iPad in terms of sales and popularity, it certainly looks like it has the potential to offer some serious competition.
Steam a great program for PC gamers. Now all the Macintosh users can join the Steam Community! Steam for Mac has been released last May 12th, the same day Steam showed the free Portal game. They had planned to release both in the same day to promote of course Steam for Mac and the upcoming sequel to Portal, Portal 2.
You may be wondering “What is Steam?”. My answer: “Well, little noob, Steam is a program that let’s you connect with your friends while you game. You can also buy full games on the Steam Store or you can just download demos.” So there you go a short description for Steam.
With Steam for Mac is here now for the other news. Portal is now free on Steam! And it’s not only for Mac users but for those PC gamers too! This trailer uploaded by Machinima is the Steam Portal is Free trailer:
VPfactory is a site that allows you to make custom video players to embed and host on your website and or blog. This website gives you the ability to take videos from your local computer or sites like youtube, metacafe, etc and put them into your custom players that can be watermarked, customized colors and buttons etc.
http://vpfactory.com/
They promise Easy & Affordable video solution ,
” Publish your video content on multiple websites, blogs or social networks and manage it from one place. No downloads. Fast integration. Intuitive UI.”
App Review of Appigo’s To Do application for managing a great to do list and functioning as a great productivity tool.
PRICE: 10$
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch , iPad
To Do is a great application for you productivity users out there who really want a GTD (Getting Things Done ) type system integrated into a To Do App. Appigos really made one of the best apps in the market for making a simple to-do list while having a whole set of extras and additional features to make it worth the 10$. Making projects, check lists , normal to do’s are all available in the app while maintaining a great simple to use touch-interface . You can quick to-do’s or more featured packed ones with options like due dates , repeated tasks (monthly bills etc) and many other options like call a contact , email a contact , or visit a website. The application also has the ability to sync with other services like remember the milk and sync across other multiple applications it also has the option to send alerts not only to the phone when something is due but also send emails to an account to warn you of a due or overdue item. To really organize your life and common tasks with the iPhone appigo’s to do app , it really provides you with the tools to do it .
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