Amazon's Fire Tablets ship with a modified version of Android called Fire OS. That means that while the underlying operating system is based on Android, they have a custom user interface, app store, and other features that are tightly tied to Amazon's apps and services. Folks have been hacking Amazon Fire tablets for years by doing things like installing the Google Play Store, disabling lock screen ads, and installing custom home screen launcher apps. But since Amazon usually locks things down pretty tightly, it's been a while since I've seen any methods for…

Amazon's next Prime Big Deals Day event doesn't begin until October 7th, but the company is already offering deep discounts on a bunch of products, including Fire tablets, Kindle eReaders, and Fire TV media streamers. Meanwhile, as is often the case, other retailers are trying to get in on the action by running some of their own sales.

After decades of working with computers, I started to develop some wrist and arm pain a few year ago. So I switched from using whatever random mouse I could find for under $20 to using input devices meant to alleviate wrist pain. And for the past few years I've been happily switching back and forth between a Logitech MX Vertical…

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