KF on KND Mailbag: Fire Tablet Won’t Connect Via USB

More than a few Fire tablet owners have reported problems connecting their Fire tablets to their computers via USB. Amazon offers a help topic on connecting via USB for file transfers here, but it doesn’t really address troubleshooting when it seems like your computer doesn’t recognize you’ve connected your Fire at all.   Here’s What … Read more

After An App Update, Check The Default Settings

If You Changed A Default Setting, Better Check It Again After An Update App developers frequently include default app settings intended to accomplish certain things for them, things the user might not want but won’t initially know about. For example, many users were shocked to learn that by default, the Facebook Messenger app records and … Read more

How-To: Copy Your Silk Bookmarks To A New Fire

This question came in to our Facebook Fan Page yesterday: “Just [got] a new Kindle HDX 7″. Anyone know how to transfer SILK bookmarks from old to new device?” After some research, here’s what we turned up: you can use Amazon’s Fire Tablet Backup & Restore Feature to backup your current tablet settings, which includes … Read more

Where Are The Amazon Instant Video Bonus Features?

The recently-released Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection included an entirely separate Instant Video program containing special features for each of the six films in the collection, but that’s not usually the case for bonus content that comes bundled with, or is offered alongside, certain Instant Video movies. There are three places to look for … Read more

All About Docs & Downloads On The Fire Tablet

It’s your friendly KF on KND Editor April L. Hamilton here, to answer some questions we’ve been getting about how downloads and documents are handled on the Fire tablet. Note that the information shared in this post is accurate as of today, 3/27/15, but subject to change with future Fire tablet or software releases.   … Read more

How To Set Amazon Instant Video Parental Controls ONLY On Individual Devices

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

Bookmark These Hard-To-Find, Crucial Amazon Links

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