Best Kindle Fire Apps
Hulu has been trying its best to mimic the Netflix model and have its app everywhere, but it hasn’t kept up well, which is why we were pleasantly surprised to see it appear on not only the Nook Tablet, but now the Kindle Fire as well. If you have a Hulu Plus subscription, you can watch all of your TV shows and movies on your Fire wherever you have a Wi-Fi connection. Fans will be happy to know that a few new shows, like Community, are now available on TVs and portable devices now too, so you may not get that annoying message saying that your Hulu Plus subscription isn’t so Plus after all.
Where’s My Water?
One of the strong points of Amazon’s Appstore is that it has attracted some great games. Disney’s Where’s My Water is a physics-based puzzler where you have to dig a path for water so that it will run into a drain and give Swampy the Alligator a bath. It sounds silly, but it can be pretty damn hard, especially if you want to collect the three rubber duckies along the way and avoid the purple acid. This game follows in the flight path of Angry Birds with unlimited retries and no time limits. We love it. If you want Angry Birds, it is, of course, also available.
Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner
The Dinner Spinner is like Urbanspoon for eating in. Using a slot machine-like selector, it lets you choose what type of meal you want to eat (salad, drink, dessert, soup, etc.), how long you have to make it (20 minutes, over an hour, etc.), and what the central ingredient should be (lamb, pasta, fruit, etc). Enter that and it will parse its 40,000+ recipe database and suggest a whole bunch of recipes, ranked by popularity and relevance. Pick a recipe and you can read reviews of it and check out nutrition facts. It’s one of the best cooking apps we’ve
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Comics by ComiXology
If you have a Kindle Fire, there’s a chance that you might be interested in reading, and if you like reading, why not check out some comics? They have pictures too, and some are quite good. Comics by ComiXology is the best comics app we’ve yet seen for the Kindle Fire. You do have to register for a free account, but there are a number of free comics like the first issue of The Walking Dead and others. The Kindle Fire is just large enough to display comic pages in a readable way. We’ve only done limited testing, but every issue we’ve looked at has come out very crisp so far.
More on the way
We’ll be sure to update this list as the Amazon Appstore quickly fills up. Currently, the store is a bit bare since the Kindle Fire only just launched, but we expect its popularity will jump start a big wave of app submissions from Android app makers and others. If you have an app suggestion, let us know in the comments below.
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