While seated and surfing the web on my desktop PC, I had discovered a video that I wanted to view on my tablet while relaxing in my easy chair, the armchair universe.
Since the link was available via my desktop PC browser, I wondered how I would get that URL to my mobile device.
The Microsoft Surface was still on charge, and the Kindle Fire HD7 was already powered on. I could send via the 'Share Page' option on the Kindle Silk browser instance, but that requires yet another Kindle to perform that transfer, and makes the assumption I had located the link on the Kindle to start with. But, . . . I had the reverse to deal with.
Transcribing and re-typing was an option, but I never can get the upper and lower case characters of a tube video correct on the first pass, nor do I relish typing those rather long URL query strings either.
Could send by eMail but that requires a login and send-recv along with attempting to perform that task on a smaller screen without a mouse.
Viola! This is how the LinkSync pass through mechanism was created. As the Kindle allows the saving of an application instance as a launch icon in the favorites and home carousel, it is now simply a select of the favorites icon and a tap on the LinkSync application icon and there is the hyperlink to launch in a new browser tab.
A simple and near elegant solution to send a URL from one PC to a mobile device with a minimal amount of gestures and taps. Nice. Demo available in the Amazon Kindle App Store.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
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