Lightspeed Illuminati

I love ereaders. And I hate them. I awoke this morning at around 2am, with thoughts about current projects swirling around in my brain, and, unable to get back to sleep, picked up my Nook Color from the nightstand. For about 10 minutes, with the backlit screen almost at its lowest setting, I followed the [...]

Cloud computing has captured the imaginations of computer users with a simple proposition: all of your stuff will always available in the cloud. Independent software vendors have been rolling out solution after solution to take advantage of this twist that adds a new wrinkle to the concept of digital content ownership. Photographs, music, email, banking [...]

Jason Perlow’s Tech Broiler blog offers a nice rundown on the reader apps available on Apple’s iPad, including the strengths and weaknesses of each. Besides the native iBooks reading application (which runs on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch), other major players with apps targeting the tablet include: Kindle for iPad, Barnes & Nobel eReader, Kobo [...]