Did you know that there’s a simple, easy way to establish Amazon Instant Video parental controls for specific devices you’ve registered to your Amazon account without having to set up parental controls overall on the individual devices? This is very helpful when you don’t want to enable and set up full parental controls on a … Read more
Every so often Amazon will roll out some great, convenient new feature on the site and they’ll promote the heck out of it for a week or so. Then, maybe a month or two later you find yourself thinking, “Hey, doesn’t Amazon have a thing for this?” So you go to the Amazon site and … Read more
It’s your friendly KF on KND Editor April L. Hamilton here, to solve a mystery I’ve seen crop up in Facebook page comments and among the Google searches that bring folks to this site. In a nutshell, some are asking: Why do Kindle books and apps I own, but haven’t downloaded, sometimes show up on … Read more
It’s your friendly KF on KND Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton here, to share a Fire tablet lifehack that just occurred to me recently. Gah! I Can’t See That Tiny Screen! I needed to take some pictures over the weekend, but as one who has “middle aged eyes” I found it very frustrating … Read more
Those who have 2013 (second generation) and/or 2014 Fire tablets in their collection of household electronics and intend for kids to use at least one of them will want to know how to set up FreeTime, Amazon’s unique, FREE parental controls suite that’s an available option on all 2014 Fires and 2013 Fires that have … Read more
It’s your friendly KF on KND Editor April L. Hamilton here. We here at KF on KND are still getting questions on a regular basis that make it clear to us many Fire owners don’t quite understand storage of their content in the Cloud vs. on their device. For example, a grandma recently wrote to … Read more
It’s your friendly Editor April here. I’ve got one of the new, 2014 Fire HD6 tablets and have had the opportunity to test and compare it to my second-generation Kindle Fire HDX, so now I’m ready to share. This will be a long and picture-filled post, but don’t be intimidated: the new Fire line has … Read more
It’s your friendly KF on KND Editor April Hamilton here, with a Whispersync For Voice tip. I absolutely LOVE Whispersync for Voice. I love being able to listen to the Audible audiobook edition of a given book while I’m driving, waiting to pick my kids up somewhere, or doing mindless household chores, and then switch … Read more