Hacking
Jailbrake Your Kindle – Hack with Fonts, Screensavers, USB Network
Yes, it happened again. This time jail-braking works for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 3. Details have been posted on mobileread forum. In order to hack Kindle you’ve to jailbrake Kindle first. There are three hacks currently available:
- Fonts
- Screensavers
- USB network
For jailbraking, you have to careful finding out the appropriate file for your Kindle since the zip file contains installer files for Kindle 2 US-only, Kindle 2 global, kindle 3 3g+wifi US-only, Kindle 3 3g+wifi global, Kindle 3 wifi-only, and Kindle DX.
For font hack, go to this mobileread wiki. It shows step-by-step procedure with More >
Hacking The Pandigital Novel
The story of Pandigital Novel is now known to ereader enthusiasts. Kohls and JCPenny have started selling the android ereader device at $149; but in a few days it has been recalled from the market even though it has not been officially launched yet. After a recent firmwire update, pe0ple are still complaining the sluggish response of the reader. There are some reports that Kohls is selling the device in its brick-and-morter stores with recent updates. In the mean time, Nate The Great of The Digital Reader has recently successfully hacked the Novel to install new home screen so that new More >
Nook Got Twook – A Twitter Application
Twook is an application for posting and reading messages on Twitter. This was developed bu Nookdevs. According to Noodevs:
FunctionalityThe most recent version is 0.0.6. It has 4 custom search buttons, a button to display the favorite tweets for the authenticated user, and search users button. The tweet button is now large and on the left. It will display the user avatar when the user authenticates.
To bring up the keyboard for searches use a long press on the respective search buttons.
The button functionality is in this order from left to right:
The large button on the left displays More >
Nook Got Trook – A RSS Reader & FeedBook, Stanza eBook Downloader
Trook is an application for the Nook that can download books from Stanza catalogs or OPDS content or your Calibre content server. It can also read RSS or ATOM feeds, show associated web pages or download audio files from such feeds. Finally, it can also install more applications, if they are linked from a feed.
Nook Got Trook – A RSS Reader & FeedBook, Stanza eBook Downloader
Trook is an application for the Nook that can download books from Stanza catalogs or OPDS content or your Calibre content server. It can also read RSS or ATOM feeds, show associated web pages or download audio files from such feeds. Finally, it can also install more applications, if they are linked from a feed.
Hacking Kindle 2: Ubuntu Linux Running on Kindle 2
Jesse Vincent once surprised us with his software ‘savory’ to read PDFs on kindle 2. Recently he came up with a hacking to run Ubuntu on kindle 2. In Jesse words: “After that, I started to get curious about what else might be possible. It only took a few evenings to get a moderately usable Ubuntu environment running.Mostly, the kindle is a lovely little Linux box. Getting X working took a bit of hacking, but everything else “just works” with very little configuration.” Yes, kindle 2 is a “lovely little Linux box” indeed. About the picture you see is described by Jesse: “What you see there More >
Two recent kindle 2 hacks: Unicode fonts & Savory
On blogkindle, a recent post with download links shows how you can install non-English unicode fonts and read your content in your preferred language. According to the post, “hack comes in a form of manually installable patch and is fully reversible. Source code is included so you can customize the hack.”
On another front, Jesse Vincent has developed a patch for kindle 2 called ‘SAVORY‘ so that you can read PDF and EPUB e-books and documents converted natively on the kindle. In other words, after the installation of the hack you can just drop PDF or EPUB files in the ‘document’ folder on More >
Two recent kindle 2 hacks: Unicode fonts & Savory
On blogkindle, a recent post with download links shows how you can install non-English unicode fonts and read your content in your preferred language. According to the post, “hack comes in a form of manually installable patch and is fully reversible. Source code is included so you can customize the hack.”
On another front, Jesse Vincent has developed a patch for kindle 2 called ‘SAVORY‘ so that you can read PDF and EPUB e-books and documents converted natively on the kindle. In other words, after the installation of the hack you can just drop PDF or EPUB files in the ‘document’ folder on More >
Font mod tool for kindle 1
On the mobileread forum, lovebeta has just released a tool for kindle 1 (be careful, not for kindle 2) so that you modify the fonts that can render text in non-European languages. He uses “DroidSansFallback” font which “contains fairly complete unicode characters and is free”.
Accoring to him, “Due to the usage of symlink, you will loose the usb access to your kindle memory. You can however still access that space using kindle itself.” However, you can restore your kindle to factory setting if you don’t want to use this mod tool.
But he utters caution for kindle 2 owners not to use it on More >
