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

Tech Tip: Don’t Forget To Deregister Old Devices

If you’ve been an owner of Amazon devices going all the way back to the original, monochrome, “keyboard” Kindle, then it’s possible that in the years since then you’ve bought and registered all kinds of devices to work with your Kindle, Instant Video, Amazon App Store and Amazon Digital Music content. It’s also possible that … 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

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