| Welcome to another Good e-Reader Video Comparison! Today we take a look at two of the most popular tablets in the world, the Apple iPad Mini and Google Nexus 7. Currently, these two devices really shine with iOS and Android Jellybean, and you can think of them as the flagships of their respective brands. Over the course of this video tutorial we put a heavy emphasis on the e-reading experience. We look at magazines, comic books, and ebooks to give you a sense on how they perform against each other in real world circumstances. In many cases, you are buying a tablet to get games, apps, video, and music. We take a look at their respective ecosystems with Google Play and iTunes. If you are torn between buying either of these two devices as an e-reader, look no further! Apple iPad Mini vs. Google Nexus 7 is a post from: E-Reader News |
Friday, March 8, 2013
Apple iPad Mini vs. Google Nexus 7
Supercharge Your Gaming Experience This Weekend
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Fine-Tune Your Gaming Hardware
Repurpose an Old Console or Get the Most Out of a New One
Upgrade Your Mobile's Gaming Experience
Have a great weekend and enjoy your games!  |
With such versatile technology, your gaming systems can do more than play games and your other devices can double as fantastic gaming platforms. Take a few hours this weekend and supercharge your gaming experience. 
Your gaming rig may be relatively powerful, but that only goes so far if it isn't tuned for optimal performance. If you're new to tweaking your graphic settings, 
You can do a lot with old consoles, or even newer ones. Streaming media centers make for one of the most popular hacks, and 
While you've likely played a few games on your phone or tablet, it can do a lot more than you might find in the app store. For starters, Remains of the Day: CCleaner, Our Favorite Windows Maintenance Tool, Is Coming to Android
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Photo by photastic (Shutterstock), a2bb5s (Shutterstock), and Feng Yu (Shutterstock).  |
Turn a Cardboard Box into a Photo Light Box
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Craft blog Flax & Twine details the steps to make your own light box from these inexpensive materials. It's even easier to make than using 'K'nex sticks, a baby changing table, or other objects. A trip to the office supply or crafts store for a box, some tissue paper, and white poster board can set you up for making your own gorgeous, professional-quality photos of any object. DIY Photo Light Box - A Finish Fifty Project | Flax & Twine  |
Light boxes are the key to making magazine-like photos of objects. If you want to take beautiful photos that put your object front and center, all you need is a cardboard box and some craft supplies. Lost Photos Finds Old Pictures You've Misplaced, Is Free This Weekend
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We've talked about Lost Photos before, and it's a pretty handy little app. Lost Photos is always free on Windows, but Mac users usually have to pay $2.99. This weekend, it's on sale thanks to AppyFridays, so head over to the Mac App Store and check it out while you can. Lost Photos (Free) Lost Photos (Free) | Mac App Store via AppyFridays  |
Windows/Mac: You've probably received a ton of photos over email in the past few years, but never really added them to your photo library. Lost Photos is an app that scrubs your email for all those missing pictures, and it's free this weekend only. Judging eBooks By Their Covers
| We've all heard the adage "Don't judge a book by its cover." But when it comes to library eBooks, the visual appeal of cover images is more important than ever. OverDrive's Next Generation library websites prominently displays book jackets to provide users with a more visually engaging browsing experience. Eye-catching cover images can prompt users to sample and borrow titles that they would've otherwise missed.
Recently, a number of publications have compiled "Best-of" lists for book jackets. Do you agree with these picks?
The New York Times' "Favorite Book Cover Designs of 2012"
The Los Angeles Times' "18 Fantastic 2012 Book Covers"
The Atlantic Wire's "Most Wonderful Book Covers of the Year"
To order these and other eBooks and audiobooks with attention-grabbing covers, visit Content Reserve. (Title availability may vary by geographic region.)
Melissa Marin is a Marketing Specialist at OverDrive.
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March 8, 1918: Killer Influenza
| With World War I reaching its climax, the first case of Spanish influenza is reported. It quickly spreads, and the resulting worldwide epidemic — the worst in history — ends up killing more people than the war. |
B&N Now Giving Away Paid Nook Apps for Free Every Friday
Barnes and Noble is launching a new promotion to help reinvigorate the Nook brand by taking a page from Amazon’s book and giving away a paid Nook app for free every Friday. While B&N isn’t giving away a free app every day like Amazon, hopefully the quality of the apps will be better. They are [...] |
Hyundai T7 Budget Android ICS Tablet Launched
| There is a new tablet in town, and it's not every day that we get to see a top notch car maker launch a tablet. This that makes the Hyundai T7 special. The specs are impressive as well, with a quad core Samsung Exynos 4412 processor, Mali 400 graphics, 1 GB RAM, and 8 GB of internal storage. Upfront lies a 7 inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The tablet also boasts of a few other niceties, such as an HDMI out port, a micro USB port, and a microSD card slot. The tablet runs Android 4.0 ICS instead of the latest Jelly Bean, which could have added to its appeal even more. The T7 has also been endowed with a pair of cameras, front 0.3 and rear 2 megapixels, while Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth round off the connectivity options the tablet has to offer. However, while all the above makes the T7 pretty likeable on paper and the tablet impresses with its performance, the device lacks in quality. Also, as liliputing points out, there is still some work to be done with the tablet's software to ensure it provides a seamless working experience, something that the device seems to be lacking. While the T7 out performs the Nexus 7, as well as the recently launched Asus MeMo Pad ME301T (both of which feature a Tegra 3 quad core chip), the T7's rather disappointing experience on the software front as well as its build quality leave something to be desired. Hyundai has worked its way to the top in the world of automobiles and is already respected for its commitment towards quality and ease of use. That is, however, lacking with the T7. The only consolation is that the T7 is priced around $166, while some retailers are ready to shave off a bit more to entice buyers. It remains to be seen if this can win it some big time buyers.
Hyundai T7 Budget Android ICS Tablet Launched is a post from: E-Reader News |
