Kindle for iPhone International version and how WhisperSync works

December 15, 2009 Book

Amazon released the Kindle for iPhone application now to more than 60 countries. In other words, you can now download it to your iPhone even though you don’t have an iTunes US account. In addition, you can now synchronize your reading between the Kindle 2 International and your iPhone (with Kindle for iPhone International application [...]

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Game Changer – E-P1

November 30, 2009 Photography

In the last few decades we have seen many ground breaking new products that were really “game changers”. That is, they changed the way we do and accomplish something; they changed our habits and many times the design of all the similar products after that game changer. Indeed, they were probably not the best products [...]

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Kindle 2 firmware update to read PDF files

November 25, 2009 Book

Amazon released the latest firmware update (version 2.3) for Kindle yesterday (2009-November-24), and couple of new features are extremely important and exciting for Kindle 2 users. Here are the details as well as the steps, findings.
New firmware features for Kindle 2

Longer battery life for Kindle (International version): You can now read for up to 1 [...]

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Kindle for PC

November 12, 2009 Services & Products

Amazon just added one more member to its Kindle family today – the Kindle for PC beta version. This application lets you read your eBooks purchased from your Amazon account in your PC (Mac version is coming soon) and it is available for download now. The application executable file is about 5.3 Mbyte big and [...]

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Olympus Colors – E-P1 or E-1 ?

November 6, 2009 Photography

As a owner of the legendary Olympus E-1 for almost 6 years now, I am still keeping this camera for many reasons. The rock solid body, the excellent handling, and of course, the signature Olympus color. Even I also have the E-300 and E-510, I still think in most of the times this “old” E-1 [...]

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Buying US Kindle books, without hiding IP address

November 1, 2009 Book

Just couple of weeks ago, Kindle users outside US like us found that we could not buy books for our Kindle 2 anymore. Even though we found that the solution is to hide your IP address when surfing Amazon web site, it is still very troublesome. Then in mid October, Amazon released the Kindle 2 [...]

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US books for Kindle 2 international version

October 26, 2009 Book

I bought the new Kindle 2 international version to replace my broken Kindle 2 US version. However, there are two issues :

Not all books that you can buy for your Kindle 2 US version are available for international version.
Many books are more expensive even they are available for the Kindle international version

For example, the book [...]

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Kindle 2 US vs. Kindle 2 International version

October 24, 2009 Book

I bought my Kindle 2 (now the US version) last March, with a dozen of Kindle books afterward (see update 5 of how to purchase Kindle US books from outside US). Unfortunately, I broke the screen exactly six months later and therefore I decided to buy the Kindle International version to replace the broken one.
The [...]

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Kindle accessories

October 24, 2009 Book

Other than the Kindle reader itself, you may think all you need is the leather cover from Amazon:

Leather cover for Kindle 2 (US or International version)
Leather cover for Kindle DX

But sometimes, you need better protection than the standard cover (I broke the screen of my first Kindle because the Amazon cover is not that tough [...]

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What is Google Wave ?

October 17, 2009 Services & Products

Yes, I got the Google Wave account (Thank you … you know who you are). The “wave” concept is not difficult to understand and the application is not hard to use, but the big question is what can I do with it ?
Here are two videos about Google Wave and also one great example of [...]

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