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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