In a word, at this point in time, assuming you haven’t hacked your Fire and don’t “sideload” apps to it, no. Not really. While it’s true that the Kindle Fire runs on the Android platform, and there have been numerous reports of hackers targeting phones that run on the Android platform, that doesn’t mean they’re … Read more
Today’s installment is part 5 in my Escape From iTunes series. In the first post I explained why making the switch from iTunes to Amazon’s MP3 Cloud Player is an especially good move for Kindle Fire owners, since it will free them to get full use of their digital music libraries across all their devices, including … Read more
Today’s installment is part 4 in my Escape From iTunes series. In the first post I explained why making the switch from iTunes to Amazon’s MP3 Cloud Player is an especially good move for Kindle Fire owners, since it will free them to get full use of their digital music libraries across all their devices, … Read more
This is part 3 in what I’m calling my Escape From iTunes series. In the first post, iTunes 11: You Don’t Have To Take It Anymore!, I discussed the reasons why it might be advantageous for Fire owners in particular to free themselves from iTunes, the better to get full use of the music functionality on … Read more
Today I continue my series detailing how I freed myself from Apple and iTunes by taking a closer look at the device I chose to replace my iPod, and comparing it directly to the closest iPod competitor. As a reminder, allow me to repeat this from the first post in this series: Why am I … Read more
First things first: why am I talking about iTunes and Apple devices on a site dedicated to Amazon’s Kindle Fire? It’s because many—maybe even most—Kindle Fire owners aren’t taking advantage of all the Fire’s music features because they’re already chained to iTunes and Apple devices for digital music purchases, downloads and management. Nobody wants the … Read more
Did you know that Amazon has begun bundling some of its Instant Video digital copies of movies with Blu-ray and DVD purchases? This hasn’t been widely publicized, nor even publicized at all so far as we can tell. It’s another one of those things we’ve kind of stumbled upon and think our readers would like … Read more
Is Your New PC Having Problems With iTunes Download Helper? I recently got a new computer, and I found after I’d gotten it all set up and re-installed all my software, I could no longer download from Audible. My old computer and the new one were both the same brand, and both running Windows 7. Yet for … Read more