Saturday, 25 June 2011

Dropbox, more cross appliance goodness

Another short but sweet, after my last post about the Kindle I reaslized I had forgot to mention dropbox. Definitely worthy of a mention in the same thought as again I have had a wonderful experience from the service. Not only does drop box keep files synced and available for me across a number of devices it also provides extra functionality on my Ipod Touch, I can choose to save files there of various different types, actually open them etc. etc.

Now I am starting to sound like an advert for Kindle and Dropbox, have to think of something a bit gloomier and more negative for my next post.

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Whispersync and Kindle

Short but but sweet post this one, a while ago I bought a Kindle for my wife, she loves reading and loves books and always said she wasn't interested in Ebook readers. Well she grudgingly decided to try her new present and now a few months later there is no going back. The Kindle2 was a big big hit.

I don't have a Kindle of my own but have played with one a bit (when I am allowed ;)) and it is an excellent device in my opinion. Something else has impressed me even more though and that is the Whispersync technology. Our Kindle is attached to our Amazon account and I bought a few books for myself and installed the kindle application on my Ipod touch and Android Phone.
I haven't worked out exactly what the syncing does, I don't need to it just works. Very occasionally I pop-up just confirms that I want to jump to the last place I was in a book on another device but that is usually reference books where I am jumping around a lot. Basically it just works, nice one Amazon.

I am not suggesting that reading a book on a phone or Ipod is as good as reading it on the Kindle but it is very nice to be able to pick up reading where you left off if you miss or bus or for some other reason you suddenly have some unexpected free time on your hands and not many options.

Be interesting to see whether Apples new cloud thing works as smoothly, even if it does though Amazon where there first in my humble opinion.