What Does This Have To Do With Kindle Fire? If you own a Kindle Fire and have been buying music for it from Amazon, you’re already using Amazon’s Cloud Player app on your Fire. This post is about playing that same music through speakers in your home—specifically, your TV speakers. Made The Switch From Apple; … Read more
If you use the free Instapaper service, you really need to get the Instapaper app. First, for those who aren’t using it, check out this KF on KND article about Instapaper: a fantastic, free service that allows you to send articles to your Kindle/Kindle Fire or other devices so you can read them later, offline. I … Read more
This is a cross-post from KF on KND Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton’s new site, The Digital Media Mom, and it is reprinted here in its entirety with her permission. Digital Video: It’s The Last Video Format You’ll Ever Buy As a matter of fact, it’s the only video format you’ve been buying since … Read more
If your kids have a Nintendo Wii video game console, you’ve got a way to watch Amazon Instant Videos not only on your Kindle Fire, but on your TV, too! From Amazon: Amazon Instant Video is now playing on your Nintendo Wii. Start watching over 140,000 movies and TV episodes today. Prime members can also watch … Read more
Digital music lovers, rejoice! Amazon has added its Cloud Player as a FREE channel for Roku streaming devices! This means that if you have a Roku streaming box, you can now stream your digital audio Cloud Library direct to your television set through your Roku. Now your television set can double as a digital music player, … Read more
Great news for those of you who are making the transition from CDs to digital music, or those who use both formats: Amazon has announced its new Auto-rip service for CDs. From Amazon’s press release: ———————————— SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 10, 2013– (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon AutoRip, a new service that gives customers … Read more
This story’s flying a bit under the radar, as Amazon hasn’t even made an official announcement, but they’ve released an Instant Video Finder tool in beta. You may be wondering what’s so great (or even necessary) about this, since you can already browse by category in the Instant Video store or use the categorized, sortable … Read more
The comment thread on Amazon’s page dedicated to yesterday’s $5 Instant Video sale Gold Box deal was very lively, and filled with many myths and signs of confusion. An earlier KF on KND post on Managing Your Instant Video Library addressed a lot of the confusion surrounding Instant Video licensing and usage, but it seems … Read more