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Here’s some good news if you live in Canada and you’ve been waiting for Amazon to release their terrific Kindle e-book reader in a Canadian version: your wait is over. In addition to having full access to more than 300,000 titles in the Amazon store, Amazon announced that Canadian newspapers ...
Amazon’s Kindle is about to have serious competition, with the new Barnes and Noble Nook E-Book Reader. The Nook uses a similar E Ink display, but has some interesting improvements over the Kindle too, including the ability to connect to the Barnes and Noble store through Wi-Fi (in addition to ...
Amazon, Kindle, E-Reader, Books, Gadgets, Barnes and Noble, Nook
Amazon announced today that they’ve dropped the price on their terrific Kindle e-book reader by another $30, putting the new price at just $259. As I’ve written several times, this is one of my absolute favorite gadgets and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read. It’s like ...
An incredible new 12.1 megapixel digital camera from Nikon has an ultra-small built-in projector capable of beaming images from 5 to 40 inches in size, with a brightness rating of 10 lumens: Nikon Coolpix S1000pj 12.1MP Digital Camera with Built-in Projector and 5x Wide Angle Optical Vibration Reduction (VR) Zoom. ...
Little Green Footballs now has its very own, shiny new Amazon Associate Store, with a button at the top right of the page that takes you directly to the Shopping Zone. This is one of the tools Amazon makes available to members of their associates program; it creates a ...
Striking high resolution images from Iran, at Boston.com’s Big Picture: Iran’s Disputed Election.
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Election, rioting, Technology, Internet, Gadgets, Photography
The amazing thing about all the footage we’re seeing from Iran is that, in nearly every photo and every video clip, you can see people recording the scene with digital cameras and cell phones and camcorders. And then a lot of those people connect to the Internet and use web ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Election, rioting, Technology, Internet, Gadgets
OK, iPhone geeks — there’s a software update hot off the Apple presses that’s supposed to address some of the problems you’ve been complaining about: Apple - iPhone - Software Update. Better connectivity, fewer dropped calls, better battery life, faster backups and faster app installation are the claims. I haven’t ...
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
Last week we had a post about the problems some users are experiencing with their shiny iPhone 3Gs. Apple has released a software update, which I’m now installing. (Just sync up your iPhone with iTunes and choose “Check for updates.”) No details from Apple yet on what this is supposed ...
Trouble in Cupertino? What’s Wrong With the 3G in iPhone 3G? A gaggle of early adopters are having problems with the 3G part of their new iPhone 3Gs; dropped connections, reverting to the older (and much slower) EDGE network, and transfer speeds that don’t quite bear out the advertising boasts. ...
If you’re an iPhone geek, Little Green Footballs now has one of those shiny iPhone-specific application icons. To put the icon on your iPhone homepage, browse to LGF in Safari and hit the plus symbol at the bottom of the screen, then choose “Add to Home Screen.”
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
It took about three weeks for the initial crush to subside, but today I walked into an Apple store, waited about two minutes, then paid way too much for my very first cell phone. They finally evolved into something that made me want to own one.
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
TidBITS has an interesting review of the iPhone 3G: First Impressions of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0.
LGF, iPhone, Apple, Technology, Gadgets
Today’s launch of the iPhone 3G didn’t exactly go as planned; Apple’s iTunes servers apparently couldn’t handle the gigantic traffic surge and many customers left stores without being able to activate their new objects of technolust: iPhone glitches derail Apple’s launch event magic. Good thing I decided not to go ...
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
OK, so who’s planning to try to grab an iPhone 3G tomorrow? Apple - iPhone. (Besides me, that is.)
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
Looks like the long-awaited iPhone 3G is coming early next month: iPhone 2.0 Worldwide Launch on June 9th. When I say “long-awaited,” I’m speaking about myself. The only reason I haven’t already acquired one of these tin cans is because the current version doesn’t support the faster 3G network. ...
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
This is what the world needs to take that next big technological step: Text messages that stink.
LGF ain’t no danged gadget blog, but the new iPod Touch is one sweet little gadget. Click for the demo movie. Only drawback is that it uses a flash drive and it’s only 16GB. But syncing is really easy. In other interesting Apple news tonight, the price of the ...