Kinoma Notes

As you know, we keep adding great new features and apps. One of my current faves is Box.net, which you can use for what we call “cloud media playback and sharing”.

It’s like having a magic Storage Card that lives in the web, and is also accessible from your PC. And since this is Kinoma Play, it’s easy, convenient, and “just works” like you’d expect.

Also, just by signing up in Kinoma Play you get a gigabyte of cloud media storage — free! — to use however you like, with Kinoma Play, your PCs, or both. That’s enough space for over 250 songs, or over 3,000 2MP photos!

With the Box.net app you can do things like:

• Upload your favorite songs for anytime, anywhere streaming
• Create photo albums in the cloud — it’s your own personal Flickr!
• Play podcasts and videos without using valuable space on your phone
• Easily move media between your phone and PC
• Share files and folder with friends

Sign up and claim your free gigabyte of cloud storage!

It’s super-easy, and takes just seconds:

• Go to Apps > Box.net

• Click Sign Up to enter your email address and choose a Box.net password

That’s all there is to it! You’ll receive a confirmation email from Box.net with more info about the service.

Upload media from your phone

Uploading music, podcasts, video and photos from your phone to Box.net is a breeze — just choose Media > Send > Box.net.

Uploading other kinds of media works exactly the same, and (as you can see) is just as easy:

You can upload media to Box.net as a convenient way to transfer it to your PC, make a backup of irreplaceable photos (even if there’s no PC in sight!), and share with friends and family.

Download media to your phone

Downloading is just as simple — play anything from your Box.net account, and choose Media > Download.

Kinoma Play will let you choose whether to store it on the phone itself or your Storage Card.

You can download media from Box.net as a convenient way to transfer it from your PC, get a local copy of your media for flights and other situations where you won’t have network access, and to get files dropped by friends and family into one of your Box.net shared folders.

Create, Delete, Share and Unshare folders

A great feature of the Box.net app is that you can do most folder management tasks right from your phone! For example, here’s the default set of folders you get when you sign up:

To create a new folder, open the menu pod to show the Box.net application menu…

…choose New Folder, give it a name and let Box.net know if it should be public.

From the screenshot you can see that mine is private, but after you create a folder you can always privately share it with friends and family.

Enjoy!

Box.net comes installed, so you can find it in Apps and as a standalone icon on a Home screen.

Try it out, and we think you’ll agree that Kinoma Play is the best way to Box on mobile.

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