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June 2, 2013

Voice Dream–My Impressions After Listening for a few Hours

Now that I’ve spent some time with Voice Dream the Text to Speech Reader I wanted to share a few thoughts. First of all, for those that don’t know, Voice Dream is a text to speech reader that takes whatever text you feed it and reads it back to you while a highlighter moves across the text so you can follow along. It’s a very good idea that lets you listen to text on the go so you can keep reading your books, Word documents or web pages while you do other tasks. Voice Dream supports opening files from Dropbox, Bookshare, Pocket, Instapaper, and Gutenberg as well as the clipboard or entering text into an editor. Voice Dream can read PDF, Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Apple Pages, RTF and HTML files, so right off the bat you have a pretty big pool of resources to pull from. Really the only omission is the Kindle Mobi format, but those […]

April 4, 2012

The Kindle Fire, long use review

With the iPad 3 (that’s what I’m calling it) out about town and other tablets hitting the streets, I’ve been asked quite a few times what I think of my Kindle Fire and am I still happy with the original iPad. As far as the iPad goes, I’ve never had a complaint. The software selection is amazing, the prices are usually very good (if not, wait for a sale and ask yourself if that app isn’t really worth the price of a Starbuck’s coffe), the crashes have been extremely rare, the updates haven’t caused me any problems and I’ve never regretted having one. I think the iPad is a fantastic accessory and jumping to the iPad 3 would be wonderful, but I simply can’t justify the price. I don’t feel the original is slow, I’m very happy with the graphics and reading capabilities and keep it with me all the time. Do I think the iPad 3 is worth it? […]

March 10, 2012

When it comes to installing apps, the Kindle Fire sucks!

It’s pretty damn obvious there are more apps NOT in the Amazon store than available for purchase. Google’s Android Market has plenty more to offer, not to mention sales, but good luck getting in on that action. Even though it’s Android based, Amazon has gone out of their way to prevent us from shopping anywhere else. Games like Cut the Rope and Flick Quarterback are on sale for $0.49 over at Google, but the damn Kindle can’t hook in. After spending hours searching for workarounds, gimmicks, quick fixes, hacks and backdoors, I’ve walked away realizing the only thing you can do is root the device and install a bunch of hacks, of which nobody seems to agree on the method and success isn’t guaranteed. What a load of crap! I complained before that the Amazon Marketplace is woefully inadequate when it comes to apps and games for the Kindle and this just seals the deal. If Amazon doesn’t have it, […]

Voice Dream–My Impressions After Listening for a few Hours

The Kindle Fire, long use review

When it comes to installing apps, the Kindle Fire sucks!

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