“I need one of these!” I told my wife. “No you, don’t” was her response. That conversation took place two years ago after I had a chance to try out the original Kindle e-reader from Amazon.com. Some things have changed since then, some have not. What’s the same: I still don’t own a Kindle or [...]
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Tuesday I flew home from the Hawaiian island of Maui where the speed bumps I’m used to bouncing over in California have been turned into wider “speed tables” so you’ll heed the advice Hawaiians give Mainlanders: “Slow down, you’re on Maui now.” The next day, Barnes & Noble sent me an e-mail telling that I’m [...]
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One Size Fits All In part one (August 27, 2010) of my three-part story “The Guidebook In Your iPhone” I discussed the purchase of Kindle e-books which can be read on Macs, PCs, iPhones, iPad, and iPod Touch devices: Just buy one copy, marked it up, highlight passages, close it on one device, re-open the [...]
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On Monday, December 6, 2010, Google “opened” its eBookstore offering over 3 million books in electronic versions that can be read on Android and iPhone smartphones, the iPad and iPod Touch, e-readers from Barnes & Noble and Sony, any other device that supports Adobe’s e-book platform, or by using a Web browser that is Javascript [...]
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Here are this week’s travel and travel technology stories on the Web: Sharing iPhone Photos On-Line (The New York Times) Voice Calls Using Gmail (The Slatest.com) Calling China Using Gmail (Matadorgoods.com) Frugality Is The New Vacation (The New York Times) GMail Calls From A Plane (Gadling.com) More About Gmail Voice Calling The New York Times) [...]
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You thought your iPhone was primarily a telephone. Wrong. Then you decided it actually was mostly a computer. Right. Finally, you discovered it was not just a telephone and a computer, but also a travel guidebook, too. Right again — almost; it’s actually a guidebook library. Here are two popular places to buy electronic books [...]
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Here are this week’s travel and travel technology stories on the Web: Telephoning Aboard (The New York Times) Airline Ticket Tax Refunds (Elliott.org) Seeing The World Through Your Phone (The New York Times) Lonely Planet iPad E-Guidebooks Released (The Huffington Post) Kindle vs. iPad (Gigacom via The New York Times) Tech Travel Tips (PCWorld.com) Pet [...]
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“Here, take my Kindle Reader outside and try it in the bright sunlight” said The Nice Lady in the doctor’s waiting room. So I did. And it was cool. With this gadget I could sit on the beach and read my favorite books — all 1,295,041 of them. “I need this” I told my wife. [...]
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