Amazon’s Fire HD 8 With Prime Reading Is the Perfect Entertainment Package
Amazon’s new Fire HD 8 tablet is the new darling of the Fire tablets, with more storage, better performance, and a price that leaves everything in the dust.
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Jewelry for Every Price Range or a Kindle for $40 – Get Ready for Valentine’s Day Deals
If you’re looking for something nice to get for that certain someone this weekend, Amazon is doing their best to take care of you today.
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Kindles for Kids Going Cheap for the Holidays
Amazon is making a really big push to get us hooked into their ecosystem this holiday season, and we are reaping the rewards.
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Get More From Your In-Game Purchases With Amazon Coins
If you’re giving Kindle or Android tablets this holiday season, you can make your in-game purchasing go farther with Amazon Coins.
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'Tales From Deep Space': A Clever Puzzle App
Amazon started building its own game studio last year. One of its first games is ‘Tales From Deep Space,’ a sci-fi puzzle game about mistaken identities and a big conspiracy.
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Practical Fun: Spelling Apps For New Spellers
Sophie’s 5-year-old son is starting to learn spelling at school. As a result, she has been on the lookout for anything that will help him.
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10 Things Parents Should Know About the Amazon Fire TV
Amazon has a lot going on of late. Just yesterday they rolled out the Prime Music service, yet another perk for Amazon Prime subscribers, and next week they are poised to unveil another new device – smart money seems to be on it being the long-rumored Amazon phone. Still, before we dive headlong into speculation, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on Amazon’s last big reveal, the Fire TV.
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Transport Tycoon Pulls Into Your Mobile Device
Transport Tycoon is a classic, originally released in 1994. The game allows players to build up a transport empire, beginning in the 1900s and progressing through time to the modern day.
Continue ReadingStylus Review Times 2: Adonit Jot Pro and Nomad Brush FLeX
Tired of smudging and prints all over the shiny glass of your tablet’s display? Looking for something a little more realistic than your finger for writing, drawing or painting? Here are two good stylus choices for your iPad or other …
Continue ReadingFreetime Saves Time When Managing Tablet Content for Kids
The addition of the Amazon app Freetime on all new Kindles along with the Freetime Unlimited subscription service could make the Kindle Fire the go to choice for parents of kids between the ages of 3 and 8. The app …
Continue ReadingRoadworthy: An iOS Accessory Round-Up
I’ve spent all summer telling myself that, as the season shifts, I’ll finally be able to spend a little less time in my car. Now, this was never anything more than wishful thinking on my part, but it’s the kind …
Continue ReadingFour Fun Math Apps
These games are so much fun my kids don’t even notice they’re strengthening their math skills.
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Mother’s Day for the Techie
As much as I love a nice necklace or a great looking outfit, those aren’t the things I usually wish for on Mother’s Day. As a lover of all things geeky and shiny, I would like to present the GeekMom Mother’s Day Gift Guide for the tech oriented mom.
Continue ReadingProtect Your Kindle Fire With the Speck FitFolio
I was an early adopter of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and, try as I might, I still don’t love the device. I mean, I like it. I like it a lot. I’m happy I bought it and it certainly lived up …
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Verso Offers The Coolest Cases Ever
When I pre-ordered my Kindle Fire, I also pre-ordered the Verso Prologue case cover pictured in the center of this photo. When it arrived, my husband immediately wanted a Kindle Fire, not because he was a huge Fire fan, but because the case was so cool. It instantly turns your Fire into a steampunk costume accessory. […]
Continue ReadingKindle Fire User Diary: First Impressions
The first time I played with an iPad, all I could think of was Neal Stephenson’s post-cyberpunk masterpiece, The Diamond Age. Subtitled “A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer,” the novel tells the story of a girl more or less raised by an intricately engineered interactive computer in the guise of a book. The Primer, a nanotech […]
Continue ReadingAmazon Unveils The Kindle Fire, Complete With Geek Content, And Three New Kindles
This morning Amazon officially announced its much-awaited Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire. The big news is that at $199, it’s half the price of the cheapest iPad and nearly as cheap as the $149 TouchPads that went flying off shelves when HP discontinued support last month. The Kindle Fire will have a 7″ display ready […]
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