www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Kindle Fire HD Peter Meyers Beijing | Cambridge | Farnham | Köln | Sebastopol | Tokyo 2nd Edition The book that should have been in the box ® www.it-ebooks.info Kindle Fire HD: The Missing Manual, Second Edition By Peter Meyers Copyright © 2013 Peter Meyers, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in Canada. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (safari.oreilly.com). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800.998.9938 or corporate@oreilly.com. Editor: Nan Barber Production Editor: Holly Bauer Proofreader: Carla Spoon Illustrations: Rebecca Demarest Indexer: Ron Strauss Cover Designers: Randy Comer, Karen Montgomery, and Suzy Wiviott Interior Designer: Monica Kamsvaag, Ron Bilodeau, & J.D. Biersdorfer February 2012: First Edition. 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ISBN: 978-1-449-35729-0 [TI] www.it-ebooks.info Contents The Missing Credits vii Introduction 1 PART I Getting Started and Reading CHAPTER 1 Out of the Box: Setting Up, Taking a Tour 13 Parts and Ports 14 Turning the Fire On, Making It Yours 16 Rotation and Orientation 20 Turning the Fire O 21 The Home Screen 23 Prying Eyes and Controlling Kids 28 Tapping, Touching, Typing 31 Installing Apps 34 Cloud vs. Device 37 CHAPTER 2 Reading (and Listening to) Books 41 Grab a Book 42 Page Turning and Navigation 42 Search…and Research 48 Playing Page Designer 52 Notes and Highlighting 54 Bookmarks 56 Reading on Multiple Devices 58 Audiobooks 62 Browsing and Buying 67 Borrowing and Lending 72 www.it-ebooks.info IV CONTENTS CHAPTER 3 The Newsstand 77 Apps vs. Kindle Editions 78 Reading and Navigation 80 Browsing and Buying 84 CHAPTER 4 Documents and Spreadsheets 89 The Built-in Docs Library 90 Third-Party Apps 95 PART II Watching and Listening CHAPTER 5 Watching TV and Movies 103 Browsing and Downloading 105 App Spotlight: Netflix and Hulu 113 Syncing and Sharing 119 CHAPTER 6 Photos and Home Videos 123 Getting Pictures and Videos onto the Fire 124 Browsing Photos 134 CHAPTER 7 Listening to Music 137 Getting Music onto the Fire 138 Browsing and Searching 143 Listening 145 Playlists: Be Your Own DJ 149 Browsing the Store and Buying 152 PART III Communications and Browsing CHAPTER 8 Email, Contacts, and Calendar 163 Email and Address Book Setup 164 Checking and Reading Email 171 Composing a Message 177 The Contacts App 179 Keeping Your Calendar 181 www.it-ebooks.info V413HAV CONTENTS V CHAPTER 9 Browsing the Web 187 Visiting a Website 188 Navigation and Viewing Basics 191 Favorites and Recently Visited Sites 195 Searching 197 Copying Text and Images 198 Sharing and Saving Web Pages 199 Security and Other Advanced Settings 201 PART IV Kindle in Appland CHAPTER 10 Playing Games 209 Making Shapes 210 Finding Paths 212 Falling Objects 216 Quizzes and Brain Teasers 218 Word Puzzlers and Number Boards 219 Driving and Flying 222 CHAPTER 11 Creative Corner 225 Painting and Drawing 225 Photos 229 Music 231 Cooking and the Kitchen 232 CHAPTER 12 Managing Time, Tasks, and Travel 237 Clocks 238 To-Do Lists and Notes 240 Dining Out 243 Travel 244 Bills and Banking 247 www.it-ebooks.info VI CONTENTS PART V Appendixes APPENDIX A Settings 255 Help and Feedback 255 My Account 256 Applications 256 Parental Controls 257 Sounds & Display 257 Wireless 258 Device 258 Location-based Services 259 Language & Keyboard 259 Security 260 Legal & Compliance 260 APPENDIX B Troubleshooting and Maintenance 263 WiFi Not Working 264 Unresponsive App 265 App Installation Problems 265 Out-of-Date Apps 265 System Software Updates 265 Battery Draining Too Quickly 266 Sharing or Selling Your Fire 266 Where to Head for Help 267 APPENDIX C 8.9-inch Model Special Features 269 Activating 4G/LTE Service 269 Keyboard Extras 271 Accessibility 273 Index 275 www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Peter Meyers designs, speaks, and writes about digital books. Currently he’s vice president of editorial and content innovation at Citia (http://citia.com), an incredibly cool publishing startup. For more than two decades, he’s worked at the intersection of writing and technology. He cofounded Digital Learning Interactive, a pioneering multimedia textbook publisher (sold in 2004 to Thomson Learning). Peter has written for many publications, including the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Wired , Salon , and the Village Voice . During a five-year tour of duty at O’Reilly Media, he worked in the Missing Manual group, serving as managing editor and associ- ate publisher. He’s also the author of Best iPad Apps and Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience . Peter’s undergraduate degree is from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature, and he has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives with his wife and two daughters in “upstate Manhattan” (aka Washington Heights). Online, you can find his blog at http://newkindofbook.com and his tweets at http://twitter.com/ petermeyers. About the Creative Team Nan Barber (editor) has been working with the Missing Manual series since its inception. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, a variety of electronic gadgets, and a stack of dictionaries. Email: nanbarber@oreilly.com. The Missing Credits www.it-ebooks.info VIII THE MISSING CREDITS Holly Bauer (production editor) resides in Ye Olde Cambridge, Mass. She’s a production editor by day and an avid home cook, prolific DIYer, and mid-century modern furniture enthusiast by night/weekend. Email: holly@oreilly.com. Carla Spoon (proofreader) is a freelance writer and copyeditor. An avid run- ner, she works and feeds her tech gadget addiction from her home office in the shadow of Mount Rainier. Email: carla_spoon@comcast.net. Ron Strauss (indexer) specializes in the indexing of information technology publications of all kinds. He is also an accomplished classical violist and lives in northern California with his wife and fellow indexer, Annie, and his miniature pinscher, Kanga. Email: rstrauss@mchsi.com. Yvonne Mills (technical reviewer) is a writer, blogger, and gadget addicted she- geek. She is equally comfortable in the corporate world as she is blogging from within a fort made out of her extensive tablet collection. Follow her musings at www .acerbicblonde.com. Acknowledgments The Missing Manual series doesn’t accept ads, but I can’t resist kicking these thanks off with an uncompensated word of gratitude to the makers of Cafe du Monde. Friends, this is some writing-friendly coffee! For a book that was largely written in the wee hours of the day, this caffeinated support was crucial. In the department of humans that helped, Brian Sawyer gave me the green light on the initial version of this project, and to him I remain thankful. At Amazon, Leslie Letts and Amir Pellig were patient, valuable guides to the Fire. They answered many questions that I would have had to spend hours hunting down on my own. On a related note, technical reviewer Yvonne Mills did a thorough job of spotting missing or confusing explanations; she also added a number of great suggestions. Indexer Ron Strauss put together the subject finder at the back of this book; as a huge fan of that overlooked art, I wanted to say thanks for doing such a great job on that front. What this book contains, of course, is more than just words, and for the finely polished images and labels I wanted to tip my hat to Rebecca Demarest. Equally important is Holly Bauer’s work; each page layout is a beautifully crafted combo of words and pictures thanks to her fine interior design skills. Speaking of prose: My editor Nan Barber has demonstrated why she belongs in the Missing Manual Hall of Fame; thanks to her, with ample help from proofreader Carla Spoon, lots o’ flab and fuzzy verbiage got trimmed and clarified. On the home front, this writing project couldn’t have happened—and wouldn’t be worth doing—without the help of my three favorite touchscreen fanatics. Willa, I hereby award you the Ms. Junior Cryptographer Award, for youngest-ever www.it-ebooks.info [...]... 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald Access 2013: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover Buying a Home: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, Third Edition, by Matthew MacDonald CSS3: The Missing Manual, Third Edition, by David Sawyer McFarland David Pogue’s Digital Photography: The Missing Manual. .. 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