Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Just load up the Kindle app on your smartphone or tablet and the entire Amazon eBook marketplace is available. Find out the details here. Kindle on your tablet, phone or computer
Getting a new Kindle or e-reader as a gift is thrilling, especially if you're a book lover who's constantly looking for some of the best books of the year to round out their reading list. But with ...
Amazon released the Kindle for PC application in late 2009, available for Microsoft Windows systems. [54] This application allows ebooks from Amazon's store or personal ebooks to be read on a personal computer, with no Kindle device required. [55] Amazon released a Kindle for Mac app for Apple Macintosh & OS X systems in early 2010. [56]
USB On-The-Go (USB OTG or just OTG) is a specification first used in late 2001 that allows USB devices, such as tablets or smartphones, to also act as a host, allowing other USB devices, such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, mouse or keyboards, to be attached to them. Use of USB OTG allows devices to switch back and forth between the roles ...
Two small slots in the left edge are used to clip into the official case. The Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard) included power pass through via the cover clips, to power a pull-out light. [109] The Kindle 4/5/Touch cover design is form-fit to the Kindle and power for the flip-up light is passed through pogo pins at the bottom of the rear chassis. [110]
Some software developers use traditional USB flash drives as software license dongles that contain hardware serial numbers in conjunction with the stored device ID strings, which are generally not easily changed by an end-user. A developer can also use the dongle to store user settings or even a complete "portable" version of the application.
Transfer speeds are technically determined by the slowest of three factors: the USB version used, the speed in which the USB controller device can read and write data onto the flash memory, and the speed of the hardware bus, especially in the case of add-on USB ports. USB flash drives usually specify their read and write speeds in megabytes per ...
Sneakernet, also called sneaker net, is an informal term for the transfer of electronic information by physically moving media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical discs, USB flash drives or external hard drives between computers, rather than transmitting it over a computer network.