Sarah and I are trying to downsize our personal belongings. I have amassed a ton of random movies and television shows thanks to my time at Borders, and Sarah has a bunch that have accumulated over time. However, we both realized last weekend that we haven’t touched our DVD player in months, we have no [...]
Sonos Adds Support for Amazon Cloud Player and… It is a Big Deal
Amazon is making some big moves with its Cloud Player music service. They recently improved the way the system works and now lets you scan your music in much the same way iTunes Music Match does. Now word comes that Sonos has added support for Amazon Cloud Player. As they explain, YOUR MUSIC. EVERYWHERE. FROM [...]
Amazon Instant Video Comes to the iPad!
Yesterday when we talked about Hulu coming to Apple TV, my comment was that if Amazon Instant Video was also available, I would no longer have a need for the Roku. Guess what? Amazon Instant Video is now available! Here is the description: Watch thousands of titles available from Prime Instant Video at no additional [...]
Amazon Launches ‘iTunes Match’ Like Update to Cloud Player!
Today on Twitter Amazon announced a significant update to its Cloud Player system, stating: We made some improvements to Amazon Cloud Player today. Have questions? Get them answered here: http://amzn.to/P53LPf Well … since it is Twitter there is little info provided. Here are the basics: Amazon Cloud Player is a service that enables customers to [...]
How to get Amazon Prime Streaming Media and Flash Content to Play on your Nexus 7
Amazon Prime Streaming “Ronin” on Nexus 7 Flash is dead…or is it? Although Adobe Flash is no longer support on the latest version of Android 4.1 (Jellybean), that does not mean you can’t enjoy the benefits of Flash content and movies. The move from flash-based content to HTML5 has been long underway but the [...]
5 Reasons Why the $199 Google Tablet is a Terrible Idea … But I’m Getting One, Anyway
OK, so this was a post I started writing three months ago – when we first started hearing about a $199 Google Nexus Tablet. At the time I thought it was a bad idea – and we didn’t even know who was making it or what the specs might be like at the time! Now [...]
Amazon to Offer the Entire Harry Potter Series through PRIME Lending
Harry Potter arrived in ebook form earlier this year, which was exciting all by itself. At the same time, if you already purchased the HP series in book form, it can be hard to pony up again for the ebooks. Amazon has come up with a solution, by offering the entire series through their Kindle [...]
Department of Justice Sues Apple and Several Publishers Over eBook Prices
(image courtesy mass effect wiki) (See end for updates) Huge ebook news this morning! The US Department of Justice has officially filed anti-trust lawsuits against Apple and Hachette Books, as well as some sort of legal action against MacMillan, Harper Collins, and Penguin. All of these charges are related to the Agency Model, where prices [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 Has Botched Retail Launch, Yet Still Hits #1 on Amazon!
This past Sunday, my brother was visiting; he and my wife and I went for a long bike ride, taking a path around the local mall along the way … and noting that everything was closed. Because it was Easter. It just also happened to be the launch day of the Nokia Lumia 900, the [...]
Amazon Instant Video Lands on the Playstation 3!
One of the best things about the Kindle Fire and Roku for me is the Amazon Instant Video service tied in with my Amazon Prime membership. I love all of the available movies and shows, and made frequent use of them. Now Amazon is extending the reach of the service – to the Playstation 3! [...]
FREE Readability Android App Launches on Amazon AppStore
Readability was a small app that hoped to make browsing the web better by making it a more simple and streamlined reading experience, but ended up gaining notoriety for publicly taking Apple to task for the in-app purchase revenue sharing system. Now the app has finally arrived on Android, and is launching exclusively on the [...]
Pre-Order this Amazing Harry Potter Complete DVD Collection at Amazon.com!
The books are done, the movies are done, and now even all of the Harry Potter DVD releases are done. So what to do? Well, last fall Warner Brothers announced they were ‘doing a Disney’ and pulling all of the movies ‘back into the vault’: Warners said it will stop shipping all titles, including box [...]
The Southern Foodie is a Must-Read Kindle Book
My parents were born and raised in New York. I was born in Summit, New Jersey. I grew up in a little place called Berkeley Heights, NJ. In other words, I am a North Easterner through and through. (Some would use the word “Yankee” to describe me.) Yes, I’m a northerner through and through and [...]
I Prefer Amazon’s AppStore to the Android Market and Apparently I’m Not Alone
Do you want to know my #1 pet peeve with the Android Market? How unnecessarily difficult they make switching devices. I upgraded to a new Droid 4 last week and I STILL don’t have all of my apps set up yet. Contrast this with Amazon, where all of my apps were all ready to reinstall [...]























