Kinoma Notes

Just a cou­ple weeks after we gave you the biggest Kinoma Play release since we intro­duced it, we all chipped in and got you a great lit­tle update!

Twit­ter

Kinoma Play’s new Twit­ter app is a big hit with cus­tomers, and this update makes it even faster and more reliable.

Not only did we fix an issue where it could seem “hangy” (sorry to get all tech­ni­cal!) on slower con­nec­tions, but it’s now faster thanks to more effi­cient “con­ver­sa­tions” with Twitter.

Finally, this update makes it a snap to retweet (RT) your favorite tweets.

Advanced Set­tings

Intro­duced in the last release, the new Advanced Set­tings app gives power-users a way to con­trol some deeper set­tings, like which fold­ers and which kinds of files Kinoma Play should manage.

For phones with an HTC G-Sensor, this updates includes a new Ori­en­ta­tion set­ting that let you dynam­i­cally enable/disable G-Sensor sup­port. (This option only appears if your phone has a G-Sensor, natch.)

Improved ori­en­ta­tion detection

Not all G-Sensors are tuned alike, and we’ve found that some of the phones out there are a leee­tle too sensitive.

With this update, Kinoma Play per­forms some advanced sig­nal pro­cess­ing* on the G-Sensor input to reduce false pos­i­tives for ori­en­ta­tion changes, which will make ori­en­ta­tion changes seem less “twitchy” on those phones.

(*Yes, it kind of is rocket sci­ence. You’re welcome!)

But wait, there’s more!

• More Home short­cuts — The last release intro­duced a super-convenient short­cut that lets you go Home just by hold­ing the Cen­ter key on your 5-way. Now, you can press-and-hold the Back but­ton as well.
• Live365 — The “More” now works cor­rectly for sta­tions list­ings and pre­sets, and we fixed an issue where audio scrob­bling didn’t work for everyone.
• Face­book Media — We updated the ter­mi­nol­ogy to match the cur­rent Face­book style (i.e. “What are you thinking?”).
• Get Apps — We improved the way screen shots appear on screen to make your eyes happier.
• Improved press-and-hold feed­back — Now when you press-and-hold on lists and grids to bring up the menu pod, a nifty icon appears to show when you’ve pressed long enough. Didn’t mean to do that? Just drag the screen to con­tinue doing what you were doing.

If you hang out with us on our forum, you’ll see that most of these improve­ments are direct responses to cus­tomer feed­back and fea­ture requests. So thank you, and enjoy!

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