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Q. I know I have to pay extra, but how do I turn off the commercials on my Kindle Fire screen?
A. Amazon refers to certain Fire tablet and e-readers as "Kindle With Special Offers." These "special offers" — or as many people call them, advertisements — appear as screen savers, on the lock screen or at the bottom of the home screen. Amazon also has "limited time special offers" on newer Kindle Fire models to provide discounts on selected items, as explained at amazon.com/exclusivefireoffers.
While the ads do not appear on the pages of books you buy for the Kindle, they do subsidize the overall cost of the hardware. To pay for ad removal, log into your Amazon account at amazon.com/manageyourkindle or go to the Your Account page and in the Digital Content area, click on "Manage Your Content and Devices." Next, click on "Manage Your Devices" and select your Kindle to display its details. Next to "Special Offers," click Edit and follow along.
Depending on the type of Kindle, it typically costs $ 15 or $ 20 to unsubscribe from the special offers — which is around the price difference with the Kindle models that come ad-free out of the box. Once you unsubscribe, your Amazon account is billed accordingly.
Using an iPad as the Hot Spot
Q. If my home broadband connection goes out, how hard is it to turn my new 4G iPad into a mobile hot spot so I can get my laptop online?
A. Sharing the iPad's cellular-data connection — and its monthly allowance — with your laptop through the Personal Hotspot feature in iOS 7 is not difficult, although you should contact your wireless carrier to see if any additional fees or particular data plans are required. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon all offer cellular iPads now and also have information about using the personal hot spot, also known as "tethering," on their websites. Some prepaid data plans, like those from Verizon, include mobile hot spot use.
You may also get a link to contact your carrier the first time you set up the Personal Hotspot feature. On the iPad's home screen, open the Settings icon and select Cellular Data. Tap the "Personal Hotspot" option and follow the instructions on screen.
Apple has detailed setup steps at support.apple.com/kb/HT4517. Once you activate the iPad's hot spot feature, your laptop can connect to the iPad over Wi-Fi, a Bluetooth connection or by USB cable — and use the tablet's Internet connection to go online.
TIP OF THE WEEK Unless you have one of those cherished unlimited data plans for your smartphone or tablet, you may find yourself running out of megabytes before the end of your billing period. Plenty of third-party apps for monitoring data use exist, but you may also be able to use free tools built into your device's operating system to see how much of your monthly allowance you have burned through at any given time.
In recent versions of Android, open the Settings icon from the All Apps screen and in the Wireless & Networks area, tap Here, you can see how much data each app has used, set restrictions, set an overall limit and have Android display a warning when you get too close to it.
In recent versions of the Windows Phone system, the Data Sense app in the App List can be used to monitor data use and set limits. In Apple devices running iOS 7, open the Settings icon on the Home screen and tap Cellular (or Cellular Data on an iPad) to see your current use amounts and choose which apps can, and cannot, use your cellular connection for downloading data.
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