Are you a big user of the iOS Kindle app? If you intend on updating to iOS 7 first thing when it drops next week, you might want to update your Kindle app sooner rather than later. A new critical update has been released that Amazon says will prevent iOS 7 from messing your Kindle library up.
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Attention All Kindle Users, You Should Update Before iOS 7 Hits 1
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Staycation, all the apps I ever wanted 0
August 31st at 5:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsLabor Day is the greatest weekend of the year—the entire point of the holiday is to have an extra day to take it easy. And while the airports and highways will be jammed with people trying to squeeze in one last trip of the summer, to truly take it easy you don’t have to go far from home. It’s time for a good old-fashioned staycation. These apps can make sure you have a great one without sweating too much over the planning....
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Madden 25 lands on iOS, Marvel Unlimited gets more comic storage 0
August 28th at 12:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsGamers and comic-loving iPad owners may want to head to the App Store today, as Madden 25 is now available from EA, and Marvel's Marvel Unlimited app saw an update that allows users to store twice as many titles as before.
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What Would Jesus Text? Smartphones Are Changing How We Worship 0
August 20th at 8:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThey say God is everywhere -- even in your smartphone. We asked a few religious groups how they're integrating tech into worship.
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Google Play Books for iOS updated with textbook rental support 0
August 9th at 5:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsGoogle on Thursday updated its iBooks-like Google Play Books port, bringing in-app rentals, highlighting and note taking for scanned books, as well as other features to the iOS title.
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iPad Apps of the Week: Ikea, ACI Cockpit360, and More 1
August 3rd at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS Imgur: Imgur, everyone's favorite super simple image hosting site, has had an Android app out for about a month now. As of today, though, the app is also available for iOS users, and now nearly everyone can be just a little bit less productive, together. You can do virtually everything you'd be doing on the web: browse images, upload, and manage your account and albums. And of course, all the interactive features that make Imgur such a huge draw are in teh app in full force. You can comment and vote...
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iPhone Apps of the Week: Imgur, Commercial Break, and More 0
August 3rd at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS Imgur: Imgur, everyone's favorite super simple image hosting site, has had an Android app out for about a month now. As of today, though, the app is also available for iOS users, and now nearly everyone can be just a little bit less productive, together. You can do virtually everything you'd be doing on the web: browse images, upload, and manage your account and albums. And of course, all the interactive features that make Imgur such a huge draw are in teh app in full force. You can comment and vote...
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Amazon updates Kindle iOS app with book searches, slides by App Store purchasing rules 0
July 31st at 1:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsWith the latest Kindle for iOS app, Amazon is for the first time offering in-app book searches and previews, the latter including a clever mechanism for purchasing an e-book without having to pay out a percentage to Apple.
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Amazon's Updated Kindle App Is a Tiny F U to Apple's App Store 0
July 31st at 12:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsAmazon just released a new update to its Kindle app for iOS, and it basically just told Apple to go f*** itself in the process. The Apple App Store bible absolutely forbids in-app purchases unless the company is willing to give Apple a 30 percent cut, but Amazon has finally found a way around this little speed bump: likely-soon-to-be-banned free samples....
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Amazon skirts Apple restrictions with updated Kindle iOS app 0
July 30th at 11:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsEver since Apple required app developers to give the Cupertino-based company a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions and purchases, Amazon has looked for ways to get around the policy for its Kindle ebook app. Today the company updated the app with a fairly nifty workaround: it's introduced in-app search to let users find and download free samples of books. As with the prior version of the app, when you get to the end of a free sample, the app offers to email a link to the book on Amazon, where you...
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Amazon dances around Apple restrictions with ‘free sample’ search inside Kindle for iOS app 0
July 30th at 10:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAmazon has released an update to its Kindle for iOS app, and it features (for the first time ever) the ability to search its catalog of books online. This is a departure from the past versions of the app, which forced you to jump out to Amazon’s website to search for or buy books....
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Getting fit with iOS: How your iPad and iPhone can help you shed pounds 1
July 26th at 5:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsFifty pounds. Lose 50 pounds, the doctor told me, and then we can start to talk about taking the kinds of steps that’ll make you happy and healthy for the long term....
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Google Play Books hits nine new countries including Denmark, Greece, Sweden and the Netherlands 0
July 18th at 6:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGoogle Play Books is now available in nine new countries, giving more iOS and Android users access to the firm’s extensive ebook library — five million titles at last count — and digital reading service....
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Hullabalu, A Startup With A Different Take On Touchable Storybooks, Arrives On iPhone 0
July 18th at 6:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsHullabalu, the New York-based kids app maker backed by $1.8 million from SV Angel, Great Oaks, and others, is today bringing its iPad storybook app to the iPhone. Like the big-screen version, the new app also features the same cast of characters (a tribe of cute, and sometimes precocious bears), as well as the “touchable” story play.
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Me Books Brings Children’s Favorite Books To iPad, Lets You Be The Narrator 0
June 14th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMany of the children’s e-book applications for iPad today use a combination of animations, video or even games to make books more “interactive” for their young readers. Me Books, a London-based digital e-book app and retailer launching today in the U.S., has a slightly different take. Instead of animation, the app uses audio to add an additional element to stories. The e-books are narrated, and…
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Apple's iBooks grew 100% in 2012, maintaining 20% share of eBook market 1
June 13th at 6:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsThe ongoing antitrust trial by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging an effort by Apple to fix prices in the ebooks market has revealed that Apple's iBooks business grew by 100 percent last year, maintaining a 20 percent share of the overall market.
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To Spark Children’s Imaginations, Hullabalu Raises $1.8 Million From SV Angel, Great Oaks & Others For iPad Storytelling App 0
June 6th at 9:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsNew York-based Hullabalu is launching today with a new take on children’s storytelling – instead of digital books with interactive bits as is now common on iPad, this new tablet app itself is the story where the action progresses as children engage with the magical world Hullabalu introduces.
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Kindle For iOS Updated With Line-Spacing And Advanced Highlighting 2
June 5th at 9:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsAmazon’s Kindle app for iPhone and iPad got a great update today, which adds a couple of much needed features....
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Amazon's Kindle App for iOS Gets Line Spacing Options 0
June 5th at 8:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAmazon today released an update for its native Kindle app for iOS, adding new features such as line spacing options and multipage highlights. You can download the latest version now directly from Apple’s App Store....
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The 25 Best Free iPad Apps 5
May 22nd at 3:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThere are more than 300,000 iPad apps currently available in Apple's App Store -- with all those options, how do you find what you're looking for without wasting your hard-earned cash? SEE ALSO: The 15 Best Free iPad Games To help you out, we've compiled a list of the 25 best free iPad apps that you can download at no cost, right now.
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Google Play Books puts sideloaded ebooks in the cloud 1
May 16th at 7:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsIf you have your own collection of PDFs and ebooks, Google will now let you upload them to your Play Books library and sync them across the Web as well as Android and iOS devices....
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Google Play Books for iOS and Android redesigned, gets a Read Now section and lets you upload files 3
May 16th at 4:28am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsJust when you thought Google couldn’t possibly have any more news to announce after its I/O keynote, the company has yet another update to share: Google Play Books has received a redesign on both iOS and Android, and now allows you to upload your own PDF or EPUB files for reading....
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Google Play Books enables user ebook uploads, Google Drive support 0
May 15th at 9:02pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsGoogle has updated its Play Books e-reader apps for iOS and Android to include support for EPUB and PDF files from outside the Play Store. The new feature has been enabled as part of Google's strategy to unite its cloud services, allowing users to either upload their ebooks via its website, or import them from their Google Drive storage. Google says that users will be able to store up to 1,000 files for free, as long as they are under 50MB....
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Barnes & Noble Adds 8,000+ Graphic Novels To Its NOOK For iOS App 1
May 14th at 6:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBarnes & Noble has updated its NOOK for iOS app today with over 8,000 comics and graphic novels, available through the NOOK store, as well as a new ‘Zoom View’ feature to help readers hone in on specific the panels and follow creative page layouts....
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Kindle for iOS remains a compelling iBooks alternative 0
May 8th at 5:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsThe iPad is a great device for reading. And there are a variety of apps focused solely on reading ebooks with the device—almost all of which work on the iPhone, too. So how do you judge a reading app? What are the criteria?...