Kindle Fire Geekery: 50 Insanely Cool Projects for Your Amazon Tablet

by Guy Hart-Davis

Overview

Take your Kindle Fire to its limits—and way beyond them

You already know how to download and read e-books on your Kindle Fire. Now, discover how to turn it into a personal music and video player, Web and e-mail device, Android-based app and gaming center, text messager, and remote work tool. Kindle Fire Geekery: 50 Insanely Cool Projects for Your Amazon Tablet teaches these power-user tricks and many more. You’ll see how to load non-Amazon media files, find free stuff, and stream your library from the cloud.

Get your geek on! Learn how to:

• Use your Kindle Fire as a portable music player
• Rip CDs and transfer audio from LP or cassette
• Watch movies and TV shows stored on your computer
• Stream your collection through Amazon’s Cloud Drive
• Load e-books from any format to your Kindle Fire
• Lock your Kindle Fire and tweak its operating system
• Install apps from sources other than Amazon’s Appstore
• Connect to WiFi networks, browse the Web, and use e-mail
• Keep your Kindle Fire and its Silk browser running smoothly
• Send text messages, share files, and edit Office documents

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071802741
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	08/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	22 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Guy Hart-Davis (Barnard Castle, UK) is the author of more than 60 computer books, including all editions of How to Do Everything: iPod, iPhone, & iTunes, iPad and iPhone Administrator’s Guide, Integrating Macs in Windows Networks, and Mac OS X System Administration.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Music Geekery
Chapter 2: Video Geekery
Chapter 3: Books Geekery
Chapter 4: System and Apps Geekery
Chapter 5: Kindle Fire at Work Geekery
Chapter 6: Rooting Geekry
Chapter 7: Hardware Geekry