But here’s something you might not know: You can also add your favorite Android apps to your Home screen, very easily!

Using Android Apps

Kinoma Play’s Android Apps app is a quick, convenient way to jump to any of your non-Kinoma apps.

Can it be even quicker? Yes.

The secret

If you switch to the list view by touching the icon in the upper-right, you’ll find an extra, very useful feature.

See the column of icons on the right? Touch them to add those apps to your Kinoma Play Home screen. (To remove them, just touch again.)

Once you’re done, arrange them as desired. Below you can see that I’ve added four of my favorite Android apps to the bottom of my Home screen.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

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

Nice, right? But if you have a few seconds, you can customize the Theme and Wallpaper to make it look much different. Here’s how my Kinoma Play looks:

Change your Theme

To change your Theme, go to Settings > Theme.

As I write this, there are two: The default Fog (which will look familiar to long-time Kinoma fans), and a Snow theme that’s new to Kinoma Play for Android.

Change your Wallpaper

To change the wallpaper that Kinoma Play uses on your Home screens, go to Settings > Wallpaper.

• Use Standard to choose from the built-in wallpapers
• Use My Photos to choose any photo to use as your wallpaper

Here’s the beautiful selection of standard wallpapers:

If you choose one of your own photos, Kinoma Play lets you scale and position the image to get it just right before you touch Capture:

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

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

Sadly, all great things come to an end. Today we’re announcing the end of support for Kinoma Play for Windows Mobile and Kinoma Play for Symbian, in order to better focus on Android and other modern phone and tablet OSs.

You may have already noticed that we ended sales of Kinoma Play on the day that we released the new Kinoma Play for Android. Effective immediately, Kinoma will no longer offer updates for the Windows Mobile and Symbian editions of Kinoma Play. Community-based support is still available via our forum at forum.kinoma.com.

Thank you to our customers who supported these products, and we hope Kinoma Play will be one of the first additions to your new Android phone.

Whether you got here from Facebook, Twitter, or the “What’s New” notes of the Google Play store, we’re glad you’re here. Please follow us to get the latest on Kinoma Play and other Kinoma products.

Today we’re happy to announce that the first update to the Kinoma Play for Android preview is available right now.

This update is all about tightening up the preview and making it even more enjoyable to use, based in large part on your helpful feedback. And for that, we thank you!

More efficient

• Now 20% smaller, with NO loss of features
• Secure (SSL) network connections use less memory
• Home screen improvements for better performance and higher visual quality
• Sips even less of your precious battery when idle, or in the background

Dashboards

• Load and update faster
• Places Dashboard now supports location by City and Street (not just City)
• Media Connect combines display of servers and renderers (simpler, uses less space) on Play Dashboard
• Voice Notes now allows quick access to on-the-go recording and playback on Play Dashboard

Apps

• YouTube — Uses higher quality video (AVC) when available, and includes fixes for Subscriptions and Playlists
• Flickr — Now uses OAuth for more secure login, plus other small fixes
• Voice Notes — New! Background recording
• Media Connect — New! Now supports streaming FLAC (lossless audio) to DLNA-compatible devices

Device compatibility

• Fixes to run on low-res Android devices
• Improved reliability when rotating screen
• Rendering fixes for Marvell-powered devices (WMMX)

And those are just the highlights! There’s literally hundreds of other tiny fixes and tweaks in this release to make Kinoma Play run better, faster and more reliably on Android devices.

How to update Kinoma Play

To update immediately, go to Play Store (older versions are called Market) and choose Menu > My apps, then select Kinoma Play (Preview) and touch the Update button.

Tip: Turn on “Allow automatic updating” to make this process automatic in the future.

After you update, go to Apps, touch the Settings icon, and select Refresh to see and install Kinoma app updates.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

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

I’m elated to be able to announce that the preview release of Kinoma Play for Android is now available in Android Market.

We’ve reduced the price a bit, from $29.95 to — wait for it! — FREE. And yes, the final release will also be free.

Get Kinoma Play for Android here: kinoma.com/p

Marvell Launches Preview of Kinoma Play for Android

Kinoma dashboards automatically organize your media, news, and information

SXSW 2012 – Austin, TX. – March 12, 2012 – Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), today announced the immediate availability of Kinoma® Play for Android-powered phones. The preview release of Kinoma Play includes a suite of 50 apps enabling digital media, social networking, location, and search. Anyone with an Android phone is invited to experience Kinoma Play as a free download from Android Market.

“Marvell is investing in our Kinoma software platform because we understand the importance of great software to the success of our customers. Our vision of the Connected Lifestyle guides our product development. Kinoma Play truly shows the power of that Connected Lifestyle,” said Weili Dai, Co– Founder of Marvell. “I believe our customers can now build on Kinoma to bring increased value to their own products. Android is just the first stop. We’re working to bring Kinoma to additional Marvell– powered devices.”

Kinoma Dashboards

What makes Kinoma Play special is how it combines information and features from across Kinoma apps into dashboards to simplify and speed everyday tasks. Kinoma Play includes five dashboards:

• Play shows up-to-the-minute information from every Kinoma app with news – social networks, recent photos, stocks, weather, the song you’re listening to, upcoming calendar events, and even Kinoma app updates.
• Search uncovers surprising information by quickly collecting results from across every Kinoma app that supports search.
• Places is an in-depth guide to what’s nearby, combining information from foursquare, Yelp, YouTube, Wikipedia, and HearPlanet, the world’s largest audio guide.
• Music is a music lover’s dream, delivering photos, biographies, and videos of the artist you’re listening to now.
• Send is the hub for sharing and organizing media: show videos on a television, tweet about a song, upload a picture to Flickr, download a podcast, or add to a playlist.

Media Connect

Kinoma Play’s Media Connect app shares media with other devices on the same network, even other phones. It supports the popular Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard built into many televisions, computers, and game consoles including Xbox 360 and PS3. Media Connect allows you to easily:

• Show pictures, music, and video from your phone on DLNA compatible televisions
• Play content from media servers on your phone
• Share content with neighboring devices by turning your phone into a media server

Kinoma Create

Further setting it apart from other mobile apps, Kinoma Play is an open environment: developers are invited to bring their ideas into Kinoma Play, from simply plugging into dashboards to creating full apps. Kinoma Create is the environment for Kinoma development on Mac and Windows. Built on the popular Eclipse IDE, developers can easily edit, debug, and profile their apps in Kinoma Create’s unified environment, and test on both the built-in Kinoma Simulator and Android phones over Wi-Fi.

Kinoma apps are written in Kinoma Play Script (KPS) which uses the same JavaScript language as HTML5, providing a familiar starting point for developers. The optimized KPS runtime delivers high performance, media rich, portable, integrated experiences. The biggest innovation in KPS is how it inverts the traditional event driven programming model. KPS apps follow a content-driven model where the primary task is gathering information to display, not displaying information and responding to events. This approach better reflects the focus of today’s connected apps, simplifying development.

Coming soon

“Today’s preview of Kinoma Play and Kinoma Create is just the beginning,” said Peter Hoddie, vice president of the Kinoma Platform at Marvell. “We have big plans for the rest of the year. Our work on a fully hardware accelerated rendering pipeline using OpenGL is delivering beautiful results on tablets. We’re making great progress on Kinoma for iOS, which will allow us to deliver the same Kinoma apps on both Android and iOS. And we’ll share a significant portion of our app suite under an open source license for developers to learn from and build on.”

Availability

Anyone with an Android phone running Android 2.1 or later (Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich) can experience Kinoma Play as a free download from Android Market.

Developers who want to discover how productive and fun it can be to build apps with Kinoma’s innovative content-driven programming model are invited to try Kinoma Create on their Mac or Windows-based computer. An Android phone is optional. Kinoma Create is available as a free download at developer.kinoma.com.

SxSW show attendees and media are invited to see Kinoma Play and Kinoma Create, along with a preview of our upcoming work, at the Austin Convention Center, Booth #135.

Join the conversation about Kinoma on Twitter with #Kinoma and follow @Kinoma for the latest news and tips about Kinoma Play and Kinoma Create.

About Marvell

Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell’s diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. As used in this release, the term “Marvell” refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.

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Can the Patriots win their fourth Super Bowl title? Or will the Giants overcome the slight favorites to win their second ring in five seasons?

And most importantly: What cool commercials are we going to see?

See into the future with Kinoma Play

Right now, you can watch, re-watch and share the commercials of Super Bowl XLVI on your phone with Kinoma Play!

Go to Kinoma Guide > Sports & Recreation > Super Bowl Commercials 2012 to enjoy these future classics:

• “The Bark Side” — In this Volkswagon teaser, a bunch of dogs bark a familiar theme.
• “The Dog Strikes Back” — This extended version of Volkswagon’s ad features man’s best friend getting into shape, with a surprise intergalactic coda.
• “Transactions” – Jerry Seinfeld wants the first 2012 Acura NSX very badly in this extended version of the Super Bowl commercial, but is ultimately foiled by his nemesis.
• “Catch” — The Coca-Cola polar bears desperately try to avoid fumbling a soda.
• “Teleflora” — Adriana Lima makes a compelling case for buying flowers for Valentine’s Day.
• “A Dream Car, For Real Life” — When a Sandman accidentally spills too much fairy dust on our protagonist, he has sweet, sweet man dreams (which, not surprisingly, start with Adriana Lima).
• “Chevy Happy Grad” — Zack Borst’s winning (and hilarious) entry to Chevrolet’s Route66 competition
• Trailers and teasers for a upcoming movies, including The Avengers, The Dictator, and GI Joe Retaliation
• And much more!

Be sure to click “More” to see all of them, or just start the first and let ‘em roll. We’ll update the list as more ads become available online.

Reports are that you’ve been very good, so for the rest of the year you can enjoy 23 stations of Christmas and Hanukkah music wherever you are with Kinoma Play.

So where do I find this jolly music?

It’s all available in Kinoma Guide in Music > Holiday Music. So install your favorite holiday wallpaper, tape red and green cellophane over the lights on your phone, attach antlers to your headphones and enjoy.

Happy holidays!

It’s our fondest hope that you and yours have a safe, peaceful, and joy-filled holiday season.

(If you have some other favorite holiday music streams we should inclulde, just let us know and we’ll be glad to add them.)

Today we’re happy to announce that we’ll be at our fourth (and last!) gdgt live show for 2011 — once again in San Francisco – on December 1.

When: Thursday, December 1st, 2011 from 7–10pm
Where: The Metreon City View (top floor), 101 Fourth Street, San Francisco
Who: Marvell’s Kinoma team + a bunch of the other hottest brands in tech
How: This event is free, all-ages, and open to the public

We’ll be demonstrating the next version of Kinoma Play on a giant touch-screen display, and talking with mobile app developers about the new Kinoma app platform.

Whether you’re a Kinoma Play fan, a developer interested in the new platform, or a mobile enthusiast who wants to learn more, we’d love to meet you there!

Register here, free!

• gdgt live returns to San Francisco on December 1st! [gdgt blog]

They’re often joined by someone more famous — recent guests include Bryan Cranston, Jeri Ryan, Simon Pegg, Neil Gaiman and Sir Patrick Stewart.

If you don’t know at least a couple of those names, that’s a reasonably good indicator that The Nerdist isn’t for you. But…

What’s new?

…over the last few months The Nerdist has been joined by other great shows, at least one of which is sure to tickle your fancy.

• The Indoor Kids — The Indoor Kids is all about the kind of lifestyle you have to lead in order to be a proper Gamer, capital G. Join your hosts as they take a journey from childhood Shinobi obsessions up through the best and worst video game adaptations of movies.
• Making It – Riki Lindhome talks with people in the entertainment industry about how they got their careers. There’s no road map for show business and everyone’s story is different, so Riki interviews people about how they started, how they’ve kept it going and what they’ve learned along the way.
• The Nerdist — Nerdy nerdness comedy podcast with Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray & Matt Mira.
• Nerdist Writers Panel — An informal chat with professional writers about the process and business of writing. Covering TV, film, comic books, music, novels, and any other kind of writing about which you’d care to hear.
• The Questionauts — Improvising over-confident (and under-accurate) answers to listener questions.
• Sex Nerd Sandra — Sex. We do it. It’s a thing. Now let’s talk about it! Sex educator and Nerdist blogger Sex Nerd Sandra delves deep into the endlessly fascinating world of human sexuality and pleasure.
• The Todd Glass Show — Comedian Todd Glass and friends talk about stuff.

Where do I find them?

You can find Nerdist Industries shows in Kinoma Guide at Entertainment & Comedy > Nerdist Industries. Or, just search the guide for the specific show you’re interested in.

Enjoy!

Have suggestions for other cool content? Please take a moment to let us know! Send links and short descriptions to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for everyone to enjoy.

So if your peers aren’t paragons of style, where do you go?

Thankfully, now there are shows like Put This On. It teaches guys “how to dress like a grownup” in the privacy of your own home — or when you watch with Kinoma Play, the privacy of your own phone!

Interesting, what will I learn?

Season 1 has included such practical information as:

• How to dress for your body type
• Dressing tips from menswear experts
• Tips on grooming, such as the proper way to do a classic wet shave
• How to buy and care for jeans from a denim expert
• How to care for and shine shoes
• How to dress for job interviews

And last but not least…

• Hear Lyndon Johnson order pants (an amazing recording from LBJ’s Presidency)

Where can I find it?

You can find Put This On in the Guide under Arts & Culture > Beauty & Style. Or just search for “Put This On”.

Enjoy!

Have suggestions for other cool content? Let us know! Send links and short descriptions to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for everyone to enjoy.