As much as I’d love to be able to buy and use Amazon’s Kindle in Bermuda, maybe I won’t have to, thanks to Shortcovers, a new service launched today by Canadian book store Indigo. Download a free app from the site and you can turn your iPhone, Blackberry or Android smartphone into an e-reader. What makes Shortcovers interesting is that you can try or buy chapters of books for free or as little as 99c – great if you just want that one section from a travel guide, for example – as well as samle or buy full books, blogs and other articles. Bookmark pages to your library and it’s available wherever you have an internet connection. I’ve just started playing with it today so I have barely scratched the surface but it’s an intruiging idea – and ideal for short-term reading while in a queue or waiting for the bus/train/ferry.
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Microsoft is planning to take (another) leaf out of Apple’s book by opening its own retail stores. PC World’s Brendon Slattery was quick off the mark with a list of 10 reasons why a Microsoft store will be different from an Apple store.
Bermuda’s marine life gets a whole new world of exposure in the new beta version of Google Earth 5. Zoom into Bermuda and you’ll discover a wealth of new photos, information and video on Bermuda’s marine life, shipwrecks, William Beebe’s famous bathysphere dive, and more, like this cute video of a seahorse by Choy Aming.
Bermuda is one of 11 geographical locations highlighted in Google Earth’s new Ocean feature along with the Hawaiian Islands, the Great Barrier Reef, the Antarctic, the Arctic, the Patagonian Shelf, Monterey Bay, the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and global oceans. Google has teamed up with National Geographic, BBC Earth, Coustaeu Open World and others to provide some amazing tools like 3D maps of the ocean floor, animal tracking and where to find top surfing, kite surfing and dive spots.
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