A Sad Move Amazon…Very Sad

by Eric Price on May 15, 2012

We have tablets. We have e-books. We enjoy reading them on tablets. Comic books? Even better! Especially with our fancy color screens. So, what better than a comic book about Steve Jobs and Zen? Am I right or am I right?

I went to send the sample to my Kindle app on my iPad. Below is what I discovered. I can’t! It’s only available for use on Kindle for Android and Kindle Fire. Seriously? This is the problem with Amazon selling books and selling readers. Ironically, it’s not even available on a traditional Kindle (these lack color screens and may be the reason for this). I’m not amused, Amazon.

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Have you seen this in the grocery store?

by Eric Price on May 15, 2012

Ok. It’s not tech. There’s not even an app for it. I checked. But for someone that spends no time in the kitchen but still eats food and would like to serve it once in a while – this is really cool!

I walked by this dozens of times. Finally, I took notice. Publix has organized a meal (including dessert) and printed it on a card you can wipe off (good for messy me!). But much more than that – they’ve already gathered all the ingredients in one place. No hunting around the grocery store.

There’s something wrong when you spend more time finding the ingredients in the store than it takes to cook the meal. This solves that for people like us!

And for those incessant organizers – you can collect all the recipe cards and put them in a custom binder ($4.99). The recipe cards are free. Still, an app would be nice…

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Ice Cream Sandwich coming to Acer Tablet

April 15, 2012

“Ice Cream Sandwich” is Google’s code name for the new Android 4.0 – which is designed for tablets. This is an upgrade to the earlier (current) “Honeycomb” 3.x version we’re using now. Acer finally announced support for this and will begin offering it in an operating system update in April. Well, it’s April 15th and [...]

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Mowing on Battery

April 12, 2012

Well we did it. We bought a new lawn mower and weed wacker. Doesn’t sound techy eh? Well how about if I told you they both run off battery? Yep. Full electric. Both of them. The mower was purchased from Home Depot. Same for the trimmer. The former can bag, mulch or fling the grass. [...]

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Farscape at 65Mph

March 8, 2012

Ok, this is bad. But it’s so cool! I was driving back from Okeechobee tonight and was in need of destressing. That means an episode of Farscape. It’s a retired scifi series. I’m on episode 21 of 88. It’s on Netflix. Ok. You’ve got the idea now! So I used my Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth hands [...]

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New iPad announced and ordered!

March 8, 2012

Yes, it’s finally announced! I’m embarrassed to say how many iPads I own – first and second generation. I know it inspires “the look” from my wife. However, I’ve already ordered four new third generation iPads for myself and staff. Why? Because the new retina display alone is worth it – I look at an [...]

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Where to buy HDMI cables

March 5, 2012

I was just asked today where to get an HDMI cable. My recently purchased Roku didn’t come with one. So, it’s a good question. The answer is, do you want to pay $40 or $10? Best Buy, Staples, etc make a lot of their profit from selling accessories like cables. Don’t get your HDMI cable [...]

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Hard Drive Shortage Persists

February 2, 2012

I still see it when placing orders. We usually only sell the faster, high-reliability drives. Tried the normal ones recently because they were available, but got complaints they were noisy. So just this week I found some, but only in packs of 20. Its worth it. For more info: http://www.crn.com/news/storage/232600019/hard-drive-shortage-hits-enterprise-drive-shipments-hard.htm

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Microsoft Word, Excel & Powerpoint for the iPad

January 16, 2012

Nope. It’s not from Microsoft. The apps are true Microsoft, but the method is Onlive Desktop. You can sign up for a free 2Gb account at http://onlive.com/desktop This gives you a virtual Windows 7 Desktop with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Powerpoint. You can use their website to upload any of these documents to [...]

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Truly Multimedia Movies

January 2, 2012

By using Netflix and Hulu for the past 8 months, I’ve been passing the DVD movie section in the stores without even a glance. But, what do my wandering eyes find when I have to kill time while the rest of the family is shopping? A bluray movie on sale. Well I never bought a [...]

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