05-15-2009, 06:08 PM | #196 |
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I have a friend who had a Kindle 1 and he put pictures of his girl friend as screen savers. He bought a Kindle 2 a while back and now he is trying to convince his girl friend that he his not dating Emily Dickinson.
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05-18-2009, 10:28 PM | #197 |
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Many thanks for the authors of this hack. From day one I have HATED the pics that Amazon put on there. I also hated that I had to hold the button for 6 seconds just to get a bloody blank screen instead of an ugly picture :-)
I grabbed a bunch of cool book cover images from things I have read and installed the hack. Beautiful! A few weeks later, when I got tired of them I uninstalled the hack. Then I create an EMPTY screen_saver dir and reinstalled it. Now I get the INSTANT blank screen (just like on the Sony :-)) LOVE IT!!! Wouldn't it be cool if there was an option to use the cover image of the current book you have open when it goes to sleep though? Thanks again hackers! |
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05-22-2009, 07:05 PM | #198 |
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The one of the illuminated manuscript and the one of the two astronomers with the octant aren't bad; I kept those (at least until I find better examples of the same style to replace them). The others I junked.
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05-22-2009, 10:47 PM | #199 |
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Octant? Is that correct? I've been racking my brain, although not expending any physical effort, trying to identify that instrument. Thanks!!!
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05-23-2009, 12:09 AM | #200 |
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Sextant. It's actually a picture of 17th-century Polish astronomers Johannes and Elisabetha Hevelius.
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05-24-2009, 05:02 PM | #201 |
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05-29-2009, 07:54 PM | #202 |
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The numeric markings would indicate it's a sextant, but mapping it with rotation shows it to be short of 60° of arc, which was why I judged it to be an octant when eyeballing the angle. It is, however, wider than 45°; I suspect Amazon compressed the image some in width to get it to fit the 3x4 aspect ratio of the Kindle display.
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05-30-2009, 08:47 AM | #203 |
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Ahh, yeah, could be distorted. Here's the original pic on the Internet, though:
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06-09-2009, 07:35 PM | #204 |
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How soon can we get a patch for the DX?
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06-24-2009, 05:24 PM | #206 |
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07-01-2009, 09:48 PM | #207 |
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07-25-2009, 08:53 AM | #209 |
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how do you change directories to the system directory? I only see audible documents and music
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07-25-2009, 11:09 AM | #210 |
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The system directory is hidden. You have to change your file display properties so that it will show hidden and system folders. If you are using Windows you can click on start and help and then search for hidden folder
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