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Now what?
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Kindle Fire Tips & Tricks & How-To's
Folks - start posting your discoveries here so everyone will have a common place!
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My first tip:
When you receive your Fire perform the following steps first: 1. Connect to your WiFi. 2. Register your unit with Amazon if it is not already registered with them. 3. Charge your unit for four hours. 4. Check under settings if you have firmware version 6.0.0 or 6.1.0. If you have the former version, go here to update to the latter version: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200790620 5. Have fun ! |
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Removing Items from the Favorites shelf.
To remove an icon (including IMDb) from the Favorites shelf, press down and hold the icon. After a moment, a pop-up will appear with the option to 'Remove from Favorites'.
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Removing Bookmarks from the Silk browser.
To remove a bookmark from the Silk browser, press down and hold the bookmark. After a moment, a pop-up will appear with various options, the last being 'Delete'.
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To get sideloaded books to show up in the carousel you need to remove the pdoc tag from the mobi book.
You can do this in Calibre. From Calibre's Book Conversion window click on MOBI output Find the box that says Personal Doc Tag: [pdoc] Delete [pdoc] from the box and reconvert book. It should now show up with your other books on the Fire. You can set Calibre to permanently do this in Preferences/Output options/MOBI output. Find the box that says Personal Doc Tag: [pdoc] Delete [pdoc] from the box and click apply at the top. Note: If you don't care about the books showing up in the carousel then just email them to your Kindle. This will use the Personal Documents Cloud and you will be able synch those without modifying them in Calibre. Last edited by Blossom; 11-15-2011 at 09:11 PM. |
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Does anyone know how to add songs to a playlist in the Fire? I named the playlist but cannot figure out how to add my songs from the device (I had copied some from my PC)?
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Kindle Enthusiast
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The Fire comes with Quickoffice pre-installed and there doesn't appear to be any way to remove it even if you have Quickoffice Pro installed.
If you open the pre-installed version of Quickoffice there is an option to update. Pressing this button and clicking Buy Now will take you to the Amazon App Store. Since you've already purchased Quickoffice Pro it will have an option to Open. Doing this does nothing to "update" the pre-installed version and doesn't remove it. |
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Nameless Being
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How to Sideload Apps
How to Sideload Apps:
I recommend that you install the free ES File Explorer available through the Amazon App Store. You will need an app like it to install sideloaded *.apk files which are apps BTW.
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I manually loaded a Hi def File encoded for Appletv, an Episode of It's Sunny in Philadelphia, put it in the video folder and browsed to it with ES File Explorer, and played it with the ES Video player, it played Fantastic. And Looked Great the screen is nice on this player.
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Has anyone found a calendar that works well for scheduling several months in advance?
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Nameless Being
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Gmail and contacts
Easily Import Google Contacts during Gmail Setup:
If you have already set up a Google account with contacts, then you can easily import those contacts when setting up the Fire's email app for your Gmail account.
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