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Amazon Fire HD 7 Review

Back in February 2014, I reviewed the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and I was impressed with Amazon's top-of-the range tablet. Amazon has continued to push their Fire tablet range and the fourth generation of the Fire tablets came out in September 2014. Not only did Amazon bump the spec with the refresh, they bumped the Kindle moniker too, reserving that

Pocket-Sized Big Screen TV

Pocket-Wouldn’t it be cool if you could carry around a big screen smart TV in your pocket? Actually, that is now possible. I recently purchased a Lumex Picomax Smartpod pocket pico projector via Amazon.Com. A pico projector is a miniature pocket-sized projector that typically has a built-in battery that can also be operated off of AC household current. Pico projectors

Amazon Fire TV Review

Amazon has been building the Fire brand over the past few years, starting with tablets, moving to media players and streaming sticks, before most recently producing a smartphone. The Fire TV media player has been on-sale in the US for some time, but only came to the UK back in October. I've been playing with Fire.....TV for the past couple of

iSadde ELM 327 Bluetooth OBD2 Module

Being a geek can sometimes become pretty expensive. Different devices offer differing amounts of geek fun for the buck. Every car and pickup manufactured from 1996 forward has what is known as an OBD2 port. OBD is short for on board diagnostics. The OBD2 port was originally mandated as part of emission control efforts. There are plenty of consumer-oriented OBD2

Amazon Prime Videos Come To Android Phones

Finally, Amazon has made available an Amazon Prime Instant Video Player for Android phones. However, there is a bit of a catch. Rather than making the Amazon Prime Instant Video Player available in the Google Play Store, it is available only via Amazon Android Apps, which are now part of the regular Amazon Store app that you probably already have

Amazon Return Policy Incredible

My family buys a lot of stuff from Amazon. We definitely get our value out of prime many times over. Recently though we had three items we had to return. In all honesty I think it was the first time we have ever had to return something to Amazon which is incredible in it's own right. My wife had two

Read An eBook Day

Just in case you were going to miss it, Thursday is "Read an a eBook Day", a celebration of modern storytelling. Surprisingly, it's not sponsored by Amazon on behalf of the Kindle but rather OverDrive whose apps let you borrow library books for free. Yes, for free. It's probably one of the best keep secrets in the whole tablet and ereader