Over the weekend, the hacker geniuses at iFixit tore down the iPad 2 and revealed its glory. Do you see the little strip of circuit board next to the silver back panel? That’s the motherboard that has the best graphics on any consumer tablet. Damn. via iFixit
Entries from March 14th, 2011
iPad 2 Jailbroken
March 13th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
That was quick. Only a couple days after the iPad2 started shipping and it has been jailbroken. The image at right shows an iPad2 accessing Cydia, the 3rd party iOS App Store. There’s no word yet on when the hack will be released, but I can bet that Apple are already working on unJailbraking the [...]
Tags:2·ipad·jailbroken
Mirkwood might be the next novel ripped from your Kindle
March 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments · opinion
You should go buy it now and get in on the fun. I don’t normally promote books on this blog, but the legal fight over this one caught my eye. Mirkwood: A Novel About JRR Tolkien is a work of fiction, and it’s it’s getting a lot of attention right now it has JRR Tolkien [...]
A Modern Take on Roald Dahl’s Matilda
March 13th, 2011 · No Comments · humor
Cartoonist Aaron Renier created a wonderful homage to Roald Dahl’s Matilda for the web comic Unshelved. Matilda’s evil, plaid suit sporting father gives the literature-loving Matilda an “iSwindle” and chastises her for wanting to use anything as low-tech as her imagination. In this cartoon he cleverly skewers the idea of most of the enhanced ebook [...]
Wifi-only Motorola Xoom coming 27 March – $599
March 13th, 2011 · 12 Comments · hardware news
Motorola’s newest 10″ tablet has just shown up in the weekly circular for Staples. It’s listed for $599, which is about 200 bucks less than the 3G model. Engadget mostly liked this tablet when they reviewed it a few weeks ago, and even though it starts at about $100 more than the iPad2, the extra [...]
Taoyuan International Airport now has a digital library
March 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news, opinion
But you can’t check out ebooks, dammit. Taiwan’s main airport has just launched a reading lounge. These lounges are stocked with around 2k paper books and about 30 gadgets you can read on, a mix of iPads and dedicated e-readers.In terms of formats, they had the good sense to limit themselves to only Epub and [...]
Amazon cut ties with Ill. affiliates
March 12th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Amazon, ebookstore news
Amazon ended partnerships with all Illinois affiliates this past week due to a new tax law.The Illinois state legislature, seeing the large sums their own residents aren’t paying in sales tax, wrote a new law targeting online retailers, and in particular any with an affiliate (or some other type of agent) inside the state. So [...]
Tags:affiliates·Amazon·cut·ties
NEWSTOEBOOK – a new way to get your RSS feeds
March 12th, 2011 · 4 Comments · ebook tools
I’ve just come across a new website that will turn RSS feeds into an ebook. It’s called, appropriately enough, NEWSTOEBOOK. You can use it to make Epub or Mobi ebooks from almost any RSS feed, and soon you’ll be able to gather tweets, too. BTW, Feedbooks used to provide a similar ability, but they stopped [...]
Tags:feeds·newstoebook·rss
Borders to close 75 more stores next week
March 11th, 2011 · 5 Comments · borders
And the downward slide continues… There was a conference call this afternoon that was led by Borders Group President Mike Edwards. One of the details he mentioned was that up to 75 more stores are on the chopping block next week. The additional closures come from a group of 140 stores that “have been identified [...]
Why an ebook piracy awareness drive is a waste of time and money
March 11th, 2011 · 5 Comments · opinion
The UK’s Guardian site is running a story with the title “Authors demand drive to raise readers’ awareness of book piracy’s cost“. It’s basically a lot of authors and publishers whining about ebook piracy. They are demanding “someone” do “something” about it and let readers know that it’s bad – maybe via a publicity drive. From [...]
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