August 11th, 2008
One of the coolest things about Kinoma software is its strong support for standards. Kinoma has always blazed the trail in supporting web and media standards on mobile.
The benefit of using standards is that Kinoma software works with hundreds of other standards-based products and web services. One great web services you can use with Kinoma Player is Yahoo! Pipes.
For example, let’s say you find a really interesting podcast feed that mixes blog entries and podcasts in the same feed. That’s generally considered a no-no, and it’s a problem since Kinoma Player 4 EX is a media player and so doesn’t support text.
The solution? Use Yahoo! Pipes or similar “feed remix” tools to create a feed that just contains stuff that Kinoma Player 4 EX can play. Here’s how:
- Go to pipes.yahoo.com and create a pipe
- Add a Sources > Fetch Feed module, and enter the URL to the source feed
- Add an Operators > Filter module, and “permit” the format extensions you want
- Add an Operators > Sort module and sort descending by date
- Connect everything up as shown below
Neat, huh? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — what can you do with Yahoo! Pipes and Kinoma Player?
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March 21st, 2008
The battery that comes with the Centro is pretty good, especially if you use your Centro mainly as a phone. The amount of charge that a battery can hold is measured in “mAh” (“milliampere-hours”), and the stock battery offers 1150mAh.
If you use Kinoma Player on your Centro as your main media player, you’ll be happy to know that Palm just introduced an extended battery for the Centro. This new battery offers 1850mAh — a 60% improvement!
Since the new battery extends a few millimeters beyond the back of your Centro, it comes with a new battery door that keeps your Centro looking sleek (if a little pregnant). A Treonaut reviewer found that his Centro with the new door was still “well designed” and “very comfortable”.
The Palm Centro Extended Battery is available with a white battery door now, with other Centro colors following shortly.
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February 12th, 2008
Kinoma is now on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Kinoma.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a free “micro-blogging” service. It allows you to receive “tweets” — short status updates — from friends and companies that you choose to follow.
You can receive tweets on your phone (as text messages), via instant messenging, or via dedicated Twitter clients like Twhirl.
How will Kinoma use Twitter?
Kinoma will send a few tweets every week, usually to announce new blog posts and software updates.
How do I follow Kinoma?
You can start following Kinoma on Twitter in about 3 minutes, or less if you’re already on Twitter.
If you’ve never used Twitter before, go to https://twitter.com/signup to sign up.
Then, go to http://twitter.com/Kinoma and click Follow.
To get be able to get tweets on your phone, click Home and then click add device.
To get Kinoma tweets on your phone go http://twitter.com/Kinoma, click the “Following” box to see more options, and turn on Notifications.
That’s all there it to it! Now you’ll be among the first to be notified of new blog posts and Kinoma software updates.
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February 8th, 2008
XML is a core standard used all over the internet, and in Kinoma Player too. On 2/10/2008, XML celebrates it’s 10th birthday!
This post is a little geeky, but I promise to keep it in English. And if you’re not a geek, right now you may be wondering…
What is XML?
XML is sort of like HTML. But HTML is used to markup web pages for humans, while XML is used to markup data for computers.
In short, XML is used when computers want to talk to each other.
As you’ve probably guessed just by looking at it, that’s a one-question quiz represented in XML.
What is XML used for?
XML is used for several things in Kinoma Player.
- Windows Media playlist/metadata files (.asx files) are XML
- RSS feeds, used to publish podcasts, are XML
- OPML feeds, used to publish collections of podcasts, are XML
- And last-but-not-least, the entire Kinoma Media Guide is XML!
If you’re interested in some of the human stories behind XML, my InternetFriend™ Tim Bray recently wrote an interesting post about the people who helped create it.
To everyone who helped create XML, thank you…and happy birthday!
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January 21st, 2008
Although Microsoft Vista hasn’t been the slam-dunk upgrade it was hyped to be, more and more Kinoma customers have been using it since Microsoft released it in late 2006.
Happily, one of the last applications to be updated for Vista has finally been released — a Vista-compatible version of Palm Desktop is now available.
If you’re using a 32-bit version of Vista, the new Palm Desktop (version 6.2.2) once again lets you install Kinoma Player and other Palm OS software using the Palm Install Tool.
If you’re using a 64-bit version of Vista, this version of Palm Desktop is still incompatible with your OS. In that case, you can continue to install Kinoma Player without Palm Desktop by (1) putting the installer on your SD card and launching it from there, or by (2) doing an OTA (over-the-air) install by opening a URL to the installer in Web (Blazer).
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