Month: September 2012

One Tablet to Rule Them All!!

Paul

Tablets Now a Days!

I’ve recently talked about the Kind Fire HD and how I pre-ordered it.  I’ve been really having second thoughts about this because of some of the comments I’ve read on the internet about the original Kindle Fire.  You can bet that you’ve probably heard the stories of how the last Kindle Fire went.  I’m one of those who questions this stuff about some fo the newest reviews on Amazon [Affiliate Link]. I just don’t have a good feeling about buying the Kindle Fire HD.   Some of the things that may be a game changer for me are:

  • No Charger!
  • 15$ dollar charge for no sponsor advertising(Called Special offers).
  • Amazon Market Place only, no Google Play ability.
  • No SD card expansion unlike the Nexus 7 [Affiliate Link].
  • Only 2 core unlike the Nexus 7 [Affiliate Link] with quad core!

Nothing is too compelling after all this to want to buy the Kindle Fire HD.   I just have to say that I am more than likely going to cancel my pre-order of the Kindle in lieu of buying the Google Nexus 7 which I can do more of.  The Only thing that I was truly going want from Amazon was the Amazon Video on Demand and streaming and storing of my videos for offline storage of my shows.  You see I like to be able to have videos to watch offline while doing other such stuff!

In the Coming Weeks!

I will be buying the Google Nexus 7 and since I’ve already have a 8 Gb Micro SD card, I will just use that to expand it to 24 Gb of storage and probably later on probably buy a 32gb micro SD card [Affiliate Link]!  In other words I’d make it almost like 50 gb of storage for offline viewing of my media files.  I basically just want to watch my video offline, I did however find out some interesting stuff about Google Play.   You can download up to 5 devices of videos and thus I thought I could only do it with Amazon Video on Demand.   I just hope Google gets more publishers to come to them and lets me watch my shows offline that I so love.   I will do a full review of the Google Nexus 7 [Affiliate Link]in the coming weeks once I buy it and play around with it.   I am sure I will find this tablet a very useful in the coming months and I see they have some great reviews of it all around.

Paul Sylvester

 

The New Firefox Updates for Desktop and Android

Fahad Majidi

Mozilla has released updates for Android and Desktop which helps augment the browser experience. The new updates is based on Android and desktop user interface and to make it worthwhile you also browser based games along the updates. There are couple of things that new updates will offer, firstly it will help reduce the memory usage for browser with the addition of add-ons. There is also a lovely new feature called JavaScript Debugger. As for the Android version, many things has been tweaked for the fans. Some of the updates for Android version include Flash capability for Honeycomb, now you can also personalize your start up page and last but not the least support for tablet sized devices.

This new Firefox update is now available on Google’s apps store Google Play and it is compatible with all the Android devices. You get to have the “Awesome Screen” update with which you can get access to browsing history, bookmarks, passwords and all the information you need. And finally with introduction of Firefox Sync you can now import personalized stuff from other Android devices, pretty decent.

With the new Firefox update Mozilla has just gotten better than ever. You can synchronize your desktop searches with your Android Mozilla, just click on the “request Desktop Site” and there you go, whatever you were doing on your Android is now on your Desktop.  Apart from that there are lots of other tweaks and stability augmentations which make Mozilla smoother and better. And yeah, one of the most obvious feature, you will be having a much faster browsing experience. And with the inclusion of HTML 5 developers can now enjoy thing such as CSS, JavaScript and open Web standards.

And perhaps the most amazing thing about this new Firefox update is introduction of an awesome game called BrowserQuest. BrowserQuest is massive multiplayer adventure game and it can be played on both your desktop and Android device. To being your quest you need to make your own character, Firefox Mozilla wanted to show the world how web can be a fantastic way to play games and it has proven it with BrowserQuest.

And lastly we have JavaScript Debugger for Firefox Desktop which is primarily for all the developers out there. It allows developers to get hang of whatever the type of Web application code they want and they will also be able to debug all sorts of Android applications on either Firefox for Android or local network. It also offers the compressed texture which is primarily used for web games. Along with this JavaScript Debugger is also  loaded with several other features that might come in handy for gaming developers.

Kindle Fire 32 Gb Pre-Ordered!

Paul

Amazon Kindle Fire 32 GB!

I Pre-Ordered the Kindle Fire HD 7″, Dolby Audio, Dual-Band Wi-Fi, 32 GB [Affiliate Link] which isn’t going to be until October 25, 2012, 249$. It looks promising and I really can’t wait to test it out. It does Cost about the same as the Nexus 7 16 GB [Affiliate Link] version but you get way more room with this Kindle.  They really packed this Kindle full of great stuff.   Some of the things I am really interested in are:

  • Whispersync [Affiliate Link]
  • X-Ray Movies Database (IMDB)
  • Front Facing Camera (Wonder if I can use UStream TV With this?)
  • Kindle Free Time (I know my Kids will like to play games and this is one way they can and I can control it!) 
  • Portability — I hate caring my Laptop everywhere, this will decrease the need for that.  Unless I buy the Bluetooth wireless keyboard, I will still my laptop for some stuff!

Although they have the Kindle Fire HD 8.9″, Dolby Audio, Dual-Band Wi-Fi [Affiliate Link], It does cost 299$ and that seems kind of out of my price range.   I can’t wait to explore my Kindle Fire HD Fire when it comes out. I won’t know more about it until I get it but when I do, I will definately talk about it some more.  I might even use Youtube ore Some other service if I can to see how well the picture for the front facing camera.   I can see that they are trying to get ahead of Google when it comes to portability.  .

Paul Sylvester

My Amazon Affiliate Link