Digital Media Mom

I’ve posted about the whole Cloud Library vs. Device Library concept before, but since I keep seeing confusion about it in various discussion groups and in questions from readers, and a bunch of people are sure to get new Fire tablets and Kindle ereaders as holiday gifts, I figured it’s a good time to cover […]

Last week Amazon started rolling out the new Fire OS 4.5.5 operating system update to compatible Fire tablets, and this has got a lot of Fire device owners wondering first, how to tell if their Amazon device is running the most recent software and second, if not, how to get updates. Amazon’s Fire & Kindle […]

A recent software update has brought full-color Emoji icons to the Fire tablet and Fire phone keyboards! Note that I haven’t tested this feature on all Fire tablets, so it may not be supported in first- and second-generation models. I’ll let the pictures tell the story (tap or click on images to view an enlarged […]

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