The Kindle’s iOS & Android app now supports comics children’s books and graphic novels

June 14, 2012 by

The Kindle app for iOS and Android  and it’s Cloud Reader now supports comics, children’s books and graphic novels, before they were only available to Kindle fire owners. Amazon says that there are now over a 1000 of comic and children’s titles available to Amazon Kindle users. Amazon goes on to say that children’s titles will get an extra level of support by supporting  Kindle’s Text Pop-Up feature, which enables you to view images and text in a pop up windows style which seems to bring books to life and improve readability.  Comics will also get Kindle’s Panel View feature that lets you view everything in a frame by frame format.

The iOS and Android versions will also get different additional features added, for example, the iOS version will get an option to do a title and author search within the library and when your using this app on the iPad you will get an option to view a page with smaller margins. If your using this App on an Android tablet or via the Kindle Cloud Reader,(that enables you to view digital books via a web browser), then there will be an option available to be  able to view a digital book within a two page format.

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Scalado Photo beamer brings easy photo sharing to IOS

May 29, 2012 by

 

A new app has just been launched for IOS its called PhotoBeamer and its made by Scalado. It brings easy photo sharing to the platform with zero configuration. It enables you to share photos from the camera roll with any device and any type of connection.  All you need to do is just  point your browser to the Photobeamers homepage, where you will find a QR code, which provides your device with a camera with all the clever linkage you will ever need for transferring your photos.  It works as well as Apple’s own iCloud’s Photo Stream software, which allows simplistic photo sharing between Apple devices.  For more information about this app visit the Photobeamers website. 

Scalado the makers of the app have announced that they plan provide regular updates and enhancements and they also plan to further enhance the app in the future based on customer demands. This app  is available for $0.99 cents from the US app store and 0.69p from the UK store .

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Sony’s Music Unlimited service is now available for iOS

May 23, 2012 by

The cloud based Music Unlimited service from Sony is now available for ios devices in the USA. It has came to ios in order to try and capture some of Spotify’s share of the market. This service was previously available on only specific devices such as the Sony Ericsson Xperia range of smartphones,PlayStation 3 console,  Bravia televisions, Sony’s Tablet S and Tablet P Android slates.

 The app will be free to download but it will require a monthly subscription which will be priced around $3.99 (£2.50) a month. Its premium service will cost $10 (£6.30) per month, which will allow users to gain access to offline playback and a few other extras.

According to Mcvuk this service is being relased on May 25 in the UK.

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A Monty Python app for Apple’s ios gets released May 6

May 7, 2012 by

A new Monty Python app made by Heuristic called  Python Bytes is to be released on May 6 for the iPad,iphone and ipod touch. This app is a must have for any Monty Python fan, because this app has exclusively-recorded back stories of the Monty Pythons sketches from John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.You can also enjoy all the 22 classic sketches from the first season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. This app will also give you the ability to move on to the next sketch by simply shaking your device. 

This app will be launched by Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam at Apple’s London Regent street store at 6.30pm. The price will be $2.99 or £1.99 at the app store.

 

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Encyclopaedia Britannica is coming to ios

April 19, 2012 by

The Encyclopaedia Britanica is to launch a subscription service on ios according to digitalspy. The app will cost around £1.99 or around 2.50 dollars per month.

If subscribers do not pay for the app, there is a free one available, but this free app will only offer a limited amount of data. 

There is no doubt it will probably be ported to Android within a few months after it gets released on ios, because Android has a large user base. 

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