Access your music and movies anywhere on any device with Qvivo media player and organizer
In the future, your media library will reside in the cloud, and you will be able to access your videos and movies on your computer, on your smartphone or other device, anywhere you are. Qvivo is a software platform that aims to make that a reality right now, letting you upload any media file to [...]
More Than Just a Textbook eReader, Inkling is a Powerful iPad Study Tool with Some Serious Economic Advantages
One day, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will sit on their mommies’ and daddies’ knees and hear an almost unbelievable account of how people used to actually cut down trees to make paper. They will regard you and me with the same combination of sympathy and condescension that we have for outhouse owners, “Those poor, uneducated peasants.” [...]
Create audiobooks with chapter marks in M4B format with ‘Chapter and Verse’
Do you listen to audiobooks on iTunes, iPhone or iPad? If so, check to see whether your audiobooks are in m4b format, and whether each audiobook is contained within a single file or spanned across multiple audio files. The reason for this is that an audiobook in a single M4B file can provide you with [...]
Leave the X-Wing in the Garage. Use your iPad to Explore the Galaxy: Three Free Star Gazing Apps Reviewed
If you’re like me, a not too serious star gazer with an iPad, you may appreciate an app that helps you navigate the night sky. From the DOS days forward there have been many computer programs that show you the universe, or a specific chunk of it. But unless you want to hold up your [...]
iPhone backup switch: toggle iPhone backup off and on in iTunes
I love my iPhone, but when I sync it via iTunes I am annoyed by that software’s insistence on backing up my device every single time, a process that can take quite a long time. This is especially true when I simply want to sync an app or a podcast and quickly be on my [...]
Free eBook Readers – Read eBooks on your PC, Mac, Netbook, iPad, and More
On Monday the cost for Amazon’s Kindle dropped from $259 down to $189 and Barnes & Noble’s Nook dropped to $199 while they introduced a wi-fi only version for only $149. For a quick comparison of the three devices, you might find the B&N comparison chart interesting though it is a bit biased in their [...]
SYNCiTunes: instantly sync changes in your audio library with iTunes
If you use iTunes but prefer to manage your audio tags using another program, SYNCiTunes is a small, free app that can keep the iTunes library up to date and in-sync with all external changes. Some of the things SYNCiTunes does: add new tracks that exist in the sync folder to the iTunes library, update [...]
