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Entries Tagged ‘kindle hacks’

Changing the Margin Size on the Kindle

I’ve always thought that the Kindle has way too big of margins. 
So much of the screen seems wasted on huge margins.  Yeah, it produces a prettier pictures when photographing the Kindle, but if you prefer a little bit larger text size, these large margin cuts down on the number of words-per-page significantly.
I wanted those [...]

Viewing the Clock on the Kindle 2

The Kindle 1 has a couple of nice “clock hacks” that will show you the current time.
For instance, on the first generation Kindle, if you hit “Alt-T” on the main screen a clock will appear in the lower right hand corner.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work on the Kindle 2 – hitting “Alt-T” does nothing.
There is a [...]

Use Custom Background Images as Screen Savers on the Kindle

Kindlerama pointed me to an updated version of the old Kindle Screen Saver hack that lets you replace the boring stock screen saver images with images of your own.
Not that I object to the default Kindle screen savers – I rather like them, actually. But after staring at the same cycling images for over [...]

  

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