{"id":544,"date":"2012-01-06T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/feeling-hot-hot-hot\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T22:55:48","slug":"feeling-hot-hot-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/feeling-hot-hot-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-011OCuYUCAQ\/Twc4uDt90GI\/AAAAAAAAGCE\/AvevCHm1-1A\/P1030013%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"202\" height=\"268\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> Imagine my surprise when I opened Christmas presents and discovered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0051VVOB2\/ref=famstripe_kf\">Kindle Fire<\/a> among the bunch.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t asked for it, since I had just gotten a regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004HZYA6E\/ref=famstripe_kk3g\">Kindle<\/a> for Christmas the year before and it was working just fine for me.\u00a0 While I knew there were plenty new features with Kindle Fire, I was quite content with my plain-Jane Kindle.\u00a0 But I gotta say, I\u2019m very impressed with Kindle Fire.\u00a0 Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tablet-Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To me, the Kindle Fire is similar to a tablet-style laptop.\u00a0 You can do a ton of things on the Kindle Fire beyond reading books and documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen to music<\/li>\n<li>Watching videos<\/li>\n<li>Surf the net<\/li>\n<li>Play games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It even has word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation-making software.\u00a0 You also have the ability to download apps (see Applications below).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are several applications already available for Kindle Fire, and I\u2019m sure there are more to come.\u00a0 First, I must admit my guilty pleasure of playing the game Words With Friends, so of course I have that app (it\u2019s much more user-friendly than the Facebook version).<\/p>\n<p>Although Legacy\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/TelGen-Limited-Families\/dp\/B006GYOX5W\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=mobile-apps&amp;qid=1325870194&amp;sr=1-3\">Families app<\/a> was not initially available for Kindle Fire, as I was preparing this post, I found that it now is and am having fun setting it up and working with it.\u00a0 Very cool!\u00a0 It syncs back and forth with Legacy (on my PC), so now I can have an updated family tree wherever I go!\u00a0 And is has virtually the same user interface as Legacy, which is wonderful (you can \u201ctest drive\u201d the app before you purchase it, and as you will see, it has the same look and feel as Legacy).<\/p>\n<p>When I first got the device, Families wasn\u2019t available so in the meantime, I downloaded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ancestry-com-Ancestry\/dp\/B006IXO1G2\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=mobile-apps&amp;qid=1325870194&amp;sr=1-4\">Ancestry.com app<\/a>, which allows access to my online family trees.\u00a0 When you access a tree, it downloads it to your device, making it available offline as well, which is nice.\u00a0 The only problem with this is that my online tree is out-of-date, so when I tried to use it while doing newspaper research at the library, the family I was working on wasn\u2019t up-to-date and the little bit of information I had was of little use to me.\u00a0 To \u201cfix\u201d this problem quickly, I created family groups sheets and saved them as PDFs and transferred them to my Kindle Fire.\u00a0 That helped tremendously.\u00a0 But now that Families is available, loaded on my Kindle Fire, and working, this will definitely become my new best friend for on-site research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Portable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since there are so many ways I can use the Kindle Fire, I think it will replace my laptop while conducting on-site genealogy research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The One Negative, Which Isn\u2019t That Bad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The battery life on the Kindle Fire is about eight hours, compared to my regular Kindle, which, with the wi-fi off can last over two months of consistent use.\u00a0 At first this worried me.\u00a0 But as I thought about it, the Kindle Fire battery lasts longer than my laptop right now (two issues, one being old batteries, the other being that since I upgraded to Win 7, it doesn\u2019t find the second battery bay).\u00a0 So it\u2019s really not that bad, when compared to my laptop, and of course the Kindle Fire is smaller, lighter, and easy to transport, while my laptop can be a pain in the a$$.<\/p>\n<p>All-in-all, a great device for the money.\u00a0 And I\u2019m still using my regular Kindle mainly for reading books.\u00a0 The nice thing is that the two devices will sync the books, so switching devices in the middle 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