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Kindle For PC Beta Brings E-Books To Bigger Screens
12:05AM Kevin Purdy | Windows: Amazon has released a Windows application, Kindle for PC, that pretty much tells you everything in its name. It syncs with other Kindle devices, offers colour pictures, font size control and other controls for reading on your computer. More »
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3:05AM Kevin Purdy | iTunes has become the de facto standard for desktop music organisers, leaving those with non-Apple devices in the cold. doubleTwist syncs, shares and converts your media quite handily, and as of today, has a built-in Amazon MP3 store. More »
Is doubleTwist A Real iTunes Alternative?
3:05AM Kevin Purdy | iTunes has become the de facto standard for desktop music organisers, leaving those with non-Apple devices in the cold. doubleTwist syncs, shares and converts your media quite handily, and as of today, has a built-in Amazon MP3 store. More »
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DoubleTwist Integrates With Amazon MP3, Competing With iTunes
4:30AM Adam Pash | Remember doubleTwist, the very cool iTunes alternative that aims to easily sync any content to any device? Well now the ambitious tool is taking one more step to make iTunes obsolete, incorporating an Amazon MP3-powered music store. More »
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AtTheBigRiver.com Quickly Short-Links Amazon Products
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Want to turn your friend onto the unappreciated genius of Big Star? Send them to big-star.atthebigriver.com and they’ll land on Amazon’s search page, no gigantic URL or searching on your part required. AtTheBigRiver.com aims to make Amazon linking easy. More »
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Amazon Brings Photo Product Identifications Powers To Android
11:10PM Kevin Purdy | Android: Amazon brings the cyborg-like product look-up powers its iPhone application wields to Android handsets, allowing for one-click purchases and “remembering” products through snapshots—but adds in barcodes, too. Your wallet is right to feel endangered. More »
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Amazanian Provides Richer Amazon Search Results
1:30AM Adam Pash | Web site Amazanian taps into Amazon’s API to display rich Amazon search results with all the information you need on one page, complete with inline reviews and cart management for quicker Amazon searching and purchasing. The idea is pretty simple. Amazanian makes it dead simple to browse and compare search results directly from the search page. You can read customer reviews, editorial reviews, and browse similar products for any item in the search results, all from the same page. Find something you like? Add it to your cart in one quick click and keep browsing. Apart from that, the service serves basically the same purpose as Amazon, and as soon as you’re ready to check out, you’ll be directed back to your actual Amazon account. It’s always an uphill battle when a site tries to change the way you interact with another site you’re very used to, but Amazanian does make you wish that Amazon took some cues from it—so it’s off to a good start. Amazanian [via MakeUseOf] More »
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Amazon Mobile Looks Up Any Product You Snap A Picture Of
6:00AM Adam Pash | iPhone/iPod touch only: Amazon released a new mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch today, ensuring that you can now get your online shopping fix no matter where you are. Not only does the Amazon app provide an excellent interface to search, buy, or add items to your wishlists, but if you’re an iPhone user, the application’s Amazon Remembers feature identifies any product you take a picture of—sort of like previously mentioned SnapTell. When you snap a pic, the app uploads the picture to Amazon, which looks for a match among its products. If it finds one (it can take anywhere between a couple minutes and 24 hours), it’ll send you an email and update the Amazon Remembers tab. So far it’s worked like a charm with all of the products I tested. I expected that my iPhone book might throw it for a loop, considering it has a picture of an iPhone on it, but even it was correctly identified within a few minutes. More »
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Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging Storefront Sells Stuff That’s Easy To Open
6:00AM Adam Pash | We’ve never been fans of the impossible-to-open packaging holding us twenty tedious steps away from satisfying our gadget lust (surprised?), but apparently neither is Amazon. To address the issue, Amazon has launched a Frustration-Free Packaging storefront: More »
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Amazon Windowshop Helps You Discover New Media
2:39AM Adam Pash | The new Amazon Windowshop multimedia marketplace does fancy 3D browsing of the popular online commerce site. Aside from the eye candy, features also include multimedia previews of any item, like movie trailers, song clips, and audiobook previews. It’s not much for searching, but if you’ve got a hankering for some window shopping, it’s surprisingly fun. More »
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