MobyLives found this video from the NY Times. They called it the best argument for tablets as a textbook platform, but I’m not sure I agree. A lot of very expensive development time went into making the animation, and I’m not convinced it’s worth the expense to integrate it into a textbook.
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New video podcast on book apps (humor)
November 17th, 2010 · No Comments · humor
Ron Charles, the slightly nutty book critic with the Washington Post, has made another of his satirical video how great book apps are. This is the first of his videos I’ve seen, and he’s really funny. I’m not sure this is going to embed well, so you might want to go over to the WP [...]
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Blio to enter private beta test for accessibility features
October 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news
The Blio folks tweeted this message earlier today: Private Beta of accessible Blio to begin testing 11/15. If you would like the chance 2 participate in testing, DM us your info This is big news, of course, but it brought my attention to another issue. How accessible is Twitter (for the visually disabled)? P.S. If [...]
The E-Textbook Experiment Turns A Page (podcast)
September 19th, 2010 · No Comments · podcast
I found an interesting interview of the head of Inkling (they make a textbook app for the iPad). The game changer, according to Matt MacInnis, may be a little thing called the iPad. MacInnis is the founder and CEO of Inkling, a company that designs textbook software for the iPad. He says the iPad has [...]
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Kindle 3 wireless speed test – 3G vs WiFi
August 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews
Len Edgerly, host of the Kindle Chronicles podcast, compares the speed of 3G vs WiFi on a pair of Kindle 3s set up with identical configuration except for the wireless connection. Both are set to enable Java and Images, and cookies and history were cleared before the test. WiFi at the cottage in Ocean Park, [...]
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