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Hand Made Kindle Case Mod Made to Look Like a Book
Believe it or not the above picture is not that of a fine old book, but rather a modified case cover for the Kindle! This beautiful piece was made by a user on the mobileread Kindle forum, it features...
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Eat Your Kindle
As it turns out, not only can you read books on your Kindle, you can now eat it! LilPeaPod from Team Sugar spent her Sunday afternoon cooking up this geeky cake delight and what a result. At first...
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Kindle Photo of the Day #20: Frank’s Kindle
Frank sent me an email about his experiences with the Kindle and how had modified it to create a better reading experience. Here is what Frank thinks about his Kindle: The Kindle met 95% of my...
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Touch screen Kindle could be on its way
Have you ever wished that you could use a stylus to write notes on a page or use your fingers to turn the virtual page on your Kindle? well your wish might be about to come true, the company which...
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SDK, does the Kindle need one?
These days if company’s want a device to be a success it has to support as many different standards as possible, be as useful to the user as possible, be as cheap as possible and be as open as...
View ArticleHacking the kindle.
Recently I stumbled upon a blog which describes how to hack Kindle in great details. Even though I’m not a big hacker myself it is quite interesting to see what is going on in my Kindle internals and...
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Kindle 2 Easter Eggs
I can’t believe that I never did a post about Kindle easter eggs. Here is the most complete one. I’ve checked them all one by one and here are the ones that still work in Kindle 2: Minesweeper can be...
View ArticleGmail on Kindle
It is perfectly possible to access your Gmail account using Amazon Kindle browser. All you need to do is visit the mobile version at http://m.gmail.com rather than full version. Loading full version...
View ArticleKindle 2 Disassembled
Folks from iFixIt.com have disassembled Kindle 2 and here is brief scoop of what they’ve found: Battery used is 3.7V 1530mAh Li-Pol battery model number S11S01A. It weights 1.1 oz which is 10% of total...
View ArticleReflashing Kindle 2 with custom firmware may soon be a reality.
It looks like Jesse Vincent has found a way to re-flash Kindle 2 with custom hand-made firmwares. At the moment he’s not uncovering any details of the process. Hopefully, he or somebody else would soon...
View ArticleDIY Kindle 1 USB Charger
While researching Kindle USB chargers I found these instructions by Alan from SnarkyBytes.com on building your own USB charger cable for Kindle 1. To make one yourself you’ll need: Some basic tools and...
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Kindle 2 Screensaver Hack
For people who wanted to replace author pictures in Kindle 2 Screensaver with any pictures of their own there is now a solution. clarknova from MobileRead Forums created a custom update that allows you...
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Unicode Fonts for Kindle 2 v0.1
Patches were tested by several volunteers and all results were positive. The patch works and doesn’t cause any problems. You can now read books on your Amazon Kindle 2 in Russian, Chinese, Japanese and...
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Modding the Kindle For European Wireless
from iKindle3GS.EU iReaderReview reports interesting piece of news. Someone has started a project to hack the Kindle for use with European wireless networks. It looks like they’ve already managed to...
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Hacking the International Kindle – First Attempt
RS-232 to TTL converter for Kindle If you were wondering why there were no posts lately – I’ve been busy trying to come up with a way to install Unicode Font Hack on Kindle 2 International. Rather than...
View ArticleJailbreaking the International Kindle
I was quite close to publishing similar findings myself but Jean-Yves Avenard beat me to it. It is now possible to create custom updates for International Kindle that runs firmware 2.2.* Fortunately...
View ArticleKindle Fire Already Being Successfully Hacked To Use Android 4.0.1: Ice Cream...
As has been noted a few times in the past, Amazon didn’t really put any effort into securing their tablet against modification. The Kindle Fire was bound to be rooted and they knew that would be the...
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How I Dropped the Kindle Fire Launcher Without Rooting and Why I Went Back
The Kindle Fire is a powerful device for the price and as a result many people are eager to get the greatest possible return on their investment. It can definitely do more than what the default UI...
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