Kinoma Notes

David Gray‘s published his review of Kinoma Play on Just Another Mobile Monday this weekend. We couldn’t have asked for a nicer Easter present!

Here’s how it starts:

I confess. No doubt about it. I am an application junkie. I love finding useful programs that make my PC more powerful and my phone more functional. I always seem to max out my phone’s memory because of my habit. That began to turn around the day I discovered a free application called Kinoma [FreePlay].

I tried it, was so impressed by it’s graphics, intuitive ease of use, and its inclusion under-one-roof of some functions I already had individual apps for, I immediately bought the pay-version, called Kinoma Play, and haven’t looked back. I was also able to un-install a bunch of those now unnecessary space/memory wasters.

Awesome!

We created Kinoma Play to make phones better, so we’re always thrilled to hear about customers’ Kinoma Play stories. If you have one, we’d be honored if you could send it to content@kinoma.com so we can share it here.

(Have a Windows Mobile or Symbian/S60 phone? Don’t own Kinoma Play yet? What are you waiting for? We’re so sure you’ll love it that we offer a risk-free, 30-day money back guarantee.)

• Review: Kinoma Free/Kinoma Play for Windows Mobile [JAMM]

YouTube recently made some unannounced changes that broke YouTube support in some of our products.

Happily, updates for the affected products are available right now! They’re so easy to get that you’ll be YouTubing again in minutes. Here’s how…

How to update Kinoma FreePlay

To update immediately, go to Kinoma FreePlay’s main screen, show the menu pod and select Player > Check for Updates. Otherwise, you’ll be notified about the update automatically.

How to update Kinoma Player 4 EX and Kinoma Player 4

If your Palm smartphone or handheld has an internet connection, just choose Check for updates from the Media menu. Otherwise, you can update from your PC.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

We’d love to hear them. Come talk to us in our community forum.

“It’s time to play the music / It’s time to light the lights / It’s time to meet The Muppets on Kinoma Play today!”

Hey! The Muppets now have their very own channel on Kinoma Play.

Enjoy new Muppet classic short videos, including…

• The Queen classic Bohemian Rhapsody as you’ve never seen or heard it before
• The Blue Danube Waltz, as conducted by The Great Gonzo and featuring the lovely Camilla (the chicken, of course)
• A bunch of Beakers meep meep meep-ing Ode To Joy
• The Swedish Chef ver stürdøøn måk ün fer der jåk-ø-löötürn

Enjoy!

You can find The Muppets in Kinoma Guide > Kids & Family. Just look for Kermit’s face!

If you have favorite podcasts, radio stations, video streams or other media, send a URL and short description to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for everyone to discover and enjoy.

The game may be over – congrats, Saints! – but today you can re-watch, share and enjoy the great* commercials of Super Bowl XLIV on your phone with Kinoma Play. (*Okay, some are greater than others.)

Go to Kinoma Guide > Featured > Super Bowl Commercials 2010 to enjoy these:

• The Snickers ad with Betty White and the surprise “he’s still alive?” cameo
• Dorito’s viewer-made ads, including the funny “shock collar” ad that won $600,000
• The romantic all-text Google ad
• VW’s “punch dub” ad
• The Audi “green police” ad
• The Bud Light “house of cans” ad

…and lots more! Be sure to click “More” to see all of them, or just start the first and let ‘em roll.

If you hang around technical people, you’ve probably seen those computer books with the funny-looking animals on front.

They’re from O’Reilly Media, best known for great books on everything from super-technical topics like programming, to their “Missing Manual” series for the rest of us.

What you might not know is that O’Reilly creates lots of really interesting video content as well. Today, you can watch hundreds of O’Reilly videos on your phone with Kinoma Play!

Here are the new categories now available in Kinoma Guide > Providers > O’Reilly TV:

• Gov 2.0 Summit 2009 and Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase 2009 — Want to see what happens when you bring together government and technology thought leaders to reshape government for the better? Here are 84 videos from O’Reilly’s 2009 Gov 2.0 conference.
• O’Reilly Conferences — 200 “best of” videos from various O’Reilly conferences and events, including ETech, OSCON, RailsConf, Foo Camp, Sci Foo, Ignite, Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit, MySQL Conference & Expo and Expo Where 2.0.
• O’Reilly Interviews — 50+ interviews with notable authors, editors, and innovators, including Tim O’Reilly, Sarah Millstein, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Larry Wall, Pia Waugh, Nat Torkington, and more.
• O’Reilly Webcasts — 140+ webcasts that put you in touch with experts from every area of technology: programmers, web designers, digital photographers, social media gurus, iPhone hackers, open source mavensand more. Each webcast is a recording of a live, online event including Q&As from the audience.
• Tim O’Reilly — 34 talks and interviews with the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, who “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain.
• Web 2.0 Summit 2009 — 40+ videos featuring the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry, gathered together in one place at one time. Watch incisive plenary sessions, frank onstage conversations, rapid-fire “high order bits”, and Launch Pad, where visionaries and executives from Internet businesses present their unique perspective on the Web’s future-in-flux.
• All O’Reilly TV Videos — Browse through all O’Reilly Media videos, including those that don’t fall into one of the above categories.

Enjoy!

As usual this new Kinoma Guide content is free for all Kinoma Play customers. It’s available right now at Kinoma Guide > Providers > O’Reilly TV.

If you have favorite podcasts, radio stations, video streams or other media, send a URL and short description to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for everyone to discover and enjoy.