https://tinyjo.dreamwidth.org/ All these things that I have done - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:25:52 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios tinyjo personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/14194/35685 https://tinyjo.dreamwidth.org/ 95 100 https://tinyjo.dreamwidth.org/591816.html Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:25:52 GMT https://tinyjo.dreamwidth.org/591816.html Well, I feel that I have finally triumphed over the idiocy of Amazon over the last couple of days, which is nice. I am hesitant to post this here because of the ridiculous behaviour of Amazon in trying to push Kindle Fire/Fire TV, but I can't really see how they can stop this, so I'm going to post it anyway.<br /><br /><b>How to watch Amazon Instant Video/Amazon Prime Video on your tablet.</b><br />Install Flashfox. I used the Pro version because I was so pleased this worked but you don't need to, the free one works fine. Tick the "request desktop site" box then visit the Amazon website and browse to your videos - voila, you can play your videos on your tablet.<br /><br /><b>How to watch Amazon Instant Video/Amazon Prime Video on your Chromecast from your phone or tablet.</b><br />Somewhat to my surprise, there is a very simple way to do this - I've been googling it frequently but somehow this has never come up so I figure I'll put it out there. If you go in to the Chromecast app on your device, there is an option to cast screen. On my phone it warns you it's not designed for this screensize but just ignore this. On my phone I can then watch via the Instant Video app or Flashfox and the picture and sound are chromecast to my TV with very good quality. I noticed a couple of stutters which I think was from the Amazon app rather than the chromecasting.<br /><br />So, having finally managed to get to watch my programmes the way I want again, the next season of Lewis is apparently not available on Prime or elsewhere. I don't really want to buy the DVDs so I guess I'll just bittorrent it and wait for an electronic version to become available. Sigh. It really shouldn't be this hard to pay for what I want to watch. Still, definite progress<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=tinyjo&ditemid=591816" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://tinyjo.dreamwidth.org/591816.html geek android technology public 1 https://tinyjo.dreamwidth.org/588976.html Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:34:41 GMT https://tinyjo.dreamwidth.org/588976.html Was unreasonably pleased with myself last night for finally forcing Google to let me pay them for something I was going to download anyway - turns out that if I VPN and then use an incognito window, I can get to the US Google Play store and then if I pretend my card is registered in the US, I can buy my shows at their US release time and watch them on my chromecast. I really wish that they would get their acts together and sort out all this regioning bs for TV and film. Film is actually a lot better than it used to be, but TV is still a total pain. I suppose if they make this stuff available to me on the Play store, then the theory is that they'll be able to sell it for less to whichever UK channel they sell it to but in practice, I'm not watching on UK time - it's that or download it for free and at the moment, downloading it for free is a whole lot easier, which seems perverse.<br /><br />Have been having a relatively nice time doing a little bit of shopping for some books for our Golden Age of Islam topic next year - it should be a pretty interesting one, especially as I haven't taught it before so I'll be getting to do a lot of learning as part of it!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=tinyjo&ditemid=588976" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://tinyjo.dreamwidth.org/588976.html technology public 1