My Amazon Fire Phone is a comprehensive one-stop guide to the all-new Fire phone, the integrated ecosystem between tablet and phone. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Amazon Fire Phone working just the way you want. Learn how to • Navigate your Fire phone’s hardware and interface • Configure the phone application • Use text and multimedia messaging • Set up the Email application • Stay connected by managing contacts • Simplify your life using the Time, Weather, and Calendar apps • Get the most from the Prime Music and Instant Video apps • Manage music and videos, and sync media with your computer • Read, listen, and mange books • Connect to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Networks • Optimize your web browsing experience with the Silk Browser • Capture, store, view, and share photos • Navigate using Maps • Enhance your Fire phone with apps • Customize your Fire phone • Properly maintain and troubleshoot your Fire phone

"The Amazon Fire Phone is here, and the first smartphone designed by Amazon does not disappoint. Loaded with innovative features like Dynamic Perspective, Firefly, and Mayday, your Amazon Fire Phone is a truly unique offering in the Android market, and veteran For Dummies author Dan Gookin is here to offer his truly unique advice on how to blaze through your Fire Phone like a pro. You'll tackle the smartphone basics like making calls, texting, e-mailing, browsing the Internet, and shooting photos and video before taking on more advanced features like maps and navigation, built-in and add-on apps, movies, music, e-books, and syncing it all in the cloud"--

This affordable and engaging guide is packed with practical information to help you get the most from your new Amazon Fire smartphone. Amazon and device expert Scott McNulty offers plenty of tips and pointers for using Amazon's new smartphone, including how to capture and store photos, watch videos, listen to music, read books, and get the most from Amazon Prime. With this essential companion, you'll learn how to use your Fire phone to take full advantage of Amazon's rich ecosystem of songs, apps, games, movies, TV shows, books, and more. Scott shows you how to Set up and start using your Fire phone right away Use motions, tilts, and gestures to immersively navigate through websites and maps, play games, page through books, and more Employ Firefly to identify everyday objects around you—including books, paintings, songs, videos, QR codes, signs, and products Manage apps, both on your phone and in the cloud Take advantage of the wealth of Amazon Prime services, including streaming videos and music Store your books, movies, and more the Amazon Cloud Drive Call Mayday for live technical help Manage your calendar, send and receive email and messages, and or course make calls! Packed with full-color images and step-by-step instructions, this invaluable guide will quickly help you tap the power of your Fire phone!

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The perfect book to help anyone 50+ learn the Samsung Galaxy S6 — in full color! My Samsung Galaxy S6 for Seniors helps you quickly and easily get started with the new smartphone and use its features to look up information and perform day-to-day activities from anywhere, any time. Veteran author Michael Miller has written more than 100 nonfiction books and is known for his ability to explain complex topics to everyday readers. Michael wrote this book from the 50+ point of view, using relevant examples and covering all the most popular tasks. • Set up contacts, accounts, and voicemail • Make and receive voice and video calls • Turn your phone into an alarm clock • Explore the Web with Google Chrome • Connect with family and friends on Facebook, Pinterest, and other social networks • Customize your phone’s settings • Master the arts of texting and emailing • Take and share great photos and videos • Get driving directions • Watch TV and movies in the palm of your hand • Use your phone to monitor your health • Learn all the exclusive features of the Galaxy S6 Edge • Keep your phone safe and secure Register your book to download more than a dozen bonus tasks and a Glossary.

You've just purchased a Kindle Fire. How do you set it up? How do you secure it? What can you do with it? In Taking Your Kindle Fire to the Max, you'll learn how to set up email, social networking, videos, music, eBooks, contacts, calendar, and navigation. Once you've discovered how to set up your accounts, check your email, and connect to the internet, you learn advanced moves that will make your Kindle Fire use similar to your laptop or desktop computing, granting you an unlimited mobile life.

My Kindle Fire HD Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Amazon Kindle Fire HD photos that show you exactly what to do Help when you run in to Amazon Kindle Fire problems or limitations Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Amazon Kindle Fire Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping Your Amazon Kindle Fire working just the way you want. Learn how to • Quickly master all the basics: reading, playing, watching, browsing, and more • Read an eBook and listen to the audiobook at the same time • Read periodicals in full color and zoom in on articles • Discover Calibre, a powerful eBook management tool • Control even the largest music libraries • Stream the latest movies, and even watch them on your TV • Instantly find out the name of a familiar actor in a movie • Use your Kindle Fire as a digital photo frame • Set up a safe and fun Kindle Fire environment for your kids • Set up your email account to work on your Kindle Fire • Talk to friends and family over Skype • Post to Twitter and Facebook • Surf the Web with Amazon’s innovative Silk browser • Use Amazon Cloud to get your stuff anywhere—even if you left your Kindle at home CATEGORY: Consumer Electronics COVERS: Amazon Kindle Fire HD USER LEVEL: Beginning—Intermediate

Entrepreneurship is not just about building businesses: it encompasses a set of skills, competencies and linked behaviours to support the creation of new ideas to create value. Entrepreneurial thinking is relevant across all aspects of life, personal and professional, and closely linked to both employability and life skills. This new textbook, via an array of pedagogical features, quizzes and worksheets, guides you in developing your own entrepreneurial thinking skills to support the development of ideas to tackle problems and challenges for yourself, for organisations and for society generally. It will challenge you to look beyond standard narratives of ‘heroic’ entrepreneurial individuals to identify how you yourself can become a creator of value in our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. Suzanne Mawson is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde Business School. Lucrezia Casulli is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde Business School.

The Innovative Leader cracks the code to how industry leaders get ahead of the curve. How do leaders such as Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Panera's Ron Shaich, and Levi's Chip Bergh make themselves and their organizations innovative, year after year? Authors Wunker, Law, and Nair, celebrated experts in innovation themselves, unveil the secrets that make these industry giants the world-class trailblazers that they are. The Innovative Leader offers anyone tasked with innovation – from budding entrepreneurs to high-level executives, in the business sector, government, or nonprofits – a unique blend of expert insights and concrete examples. Grounded in interviews with 50 esteemed innovators and informed by the authors' own deep experiences, this book lays out detailed, actionable steps to make yourself and your organization into innovative powerhouses. The unique blend of expert insights, real-world examples, and a step-by-step approach combine to make The Innovative Leader an indispensable guide for a wide audience. The Innovative Leader is an engaging treasure trove of practical wisdom and invaluable lessons.

Unique and clever ideas are important when building a hot-selling Android app, but the real drivers for success are speed, efficiency, and power management. With this practical guide, you’ll learn the major performance issues confronting Android app developers, and the tools you need to diagnose problems early. Customers are finally realizing that apps have a major role in the performance of their Android devices. Author Doug Sillars not only shows you how to use Android-specific testing tools from companies including Google, Qualcomm, and AT&T, but also helps you explore potential remedies. You’ll discover ways to build apps that run well on all 19,000 Android device types in use. Understand how performance issues affect app sales and retention Build an Android device lab to maximize UI, functional, and performance testing Improve the way your app interacts with device hardware Optimize your UI for fast rendering, scrolling, and animations Track down memory leaks and CPU issues that affect performance Upgrade communications with the server, and learn how your app performs on slower networks Apply Real User Monitoring (RUM) to ensure that every device is delivering the optimal user experience