kindle fire – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:53:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg kindle fire – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 On the seventeeth day of advent: first thoughts of the Kindle Fire https://shepline.com/2012/12/17/on-the-seventeeth-day-of-advent-first-thoughts-of-the-kindle-fire/ https://shepline.com/2012/12/17/on-the-seventeeth-day-of-advent-first-thoughts-of-the-kindle-fire/#respond Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:07:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=2359 So, in the last week I have entered the world of the tablet computers with the reasonably priced Kindle Fire HD.

Basically I love it. I do have two slight gripes with it. One, the battery life. It’s advertised as 10 hours but I’ve needed to give it a charge once every day. Two, its very much a web-enabled device and works brilliantly as such but needs to be tweeked and fiddled with to make it useful as a standalone. It’s also not currently possible to connect a camera or external memory card to the device (although I’m sure this will become possible in time).

From first connection it is very easy to setup, and the screen is brilliantly clear. It’s also based on the android operating system so most android apps work with it, and of course it syncs brilliantly with my ‘proper’ kindle.

With the addition the a stylus pen and the full Word-like app I am able to load my novels onto it and edit them complete with track changes which is going to be a bonus. You can even install Flash Player and a neat browser called Dolphin in order to access more Flash rich web content.

So far, I’m impressed. Very impressed. Oh, and I might have become just a little bit obsessed with Angry Birds…

]]> https://shepline.com/2012/12/17/on-the-seventeeth-day-of-advent-first-thoughts-of-the-kindle-fire/feed/ 0 On the sixteenth day of advent: exploring the world of the Kindle Fire https://shepline.com/2012/12/16/on-the-sixteenth-day-of-advent-exploring-the-world-of-the-kindle-fire/ https://shepline.com/2012/12/16/on-the-sixteenth-day-of-advent-exploring-the-world-of-the-kindle-fire/#respond Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:49:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=2354 There are a few things that you will want to to do with your Kindle Fire once you’ve got it out the box.

The first is nicely summed up in this helpful article:

1. 8 Things to do once you get your Kindle Fire

2. Download and install the file manager app AndroXplorer

3. Download the Dolphin web browser

4. Download the FlashPlayer

By default your Kindle Fire won’t want to install these last two .apk files, but so long as you have already allowed access to installing more apps as described in point 8 of step one here you can do that from finding them in AndroXplorer.

\\sd-card\Download\

Then install the two .apk files you have downloaded

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