Longtime Scilands buddy, Hackshaven Harford, Twittered this week about a new app he’d found called Sparkle IM from Genkii. Sparkle is a virtual worlds (VW) client for the iPhone that allows the user to login and communicate via instant messages with friends, and via proximity chat with avatars that are in the same location. Sorry, [...]

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Today I spoke with Clark Sneed, the national sales manager from Dirxion, LLC, a major eBook publisher. I’d contacted them after receiving a link to an online tourism guide they publish, the 2009 Virginia Guide and being very impressed with its quality and beauty. This example really shows some of the multimedia possibilities of eBooks. [...]

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My friend, Chris Andrews, publisher of a new website called Gutenberg.com, has predicted that 2009 will be, finally, the Year of the eBook. Of course, people have been saying that for years, but maybe this year it’s actually going to come around. Back in 2002 I worked on an outline for what I thought of [...]

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By now you’ve probably heard about Amazon’s new Kindle for iPhone app. Yes, of course I downloaded it last night, almost as soon as it was released, but I haven’t bought any ebooks for it yet. I still haven’t read the ebooks I bought last week using a different app, so it may be awhile [...]

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We have moved to a different RV park, which has a different WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider), one that offers unlimited bandwidth. That’s the way life ought to be! But there’s a catch. One of the things that frustrated me most about the 360MB/48 hours limitations imposed by NomadISP at Beaudry RV was that I [...]

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