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Old 01-06-2011, 04:08 PM   #16
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what is jailbreaking?
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Old 01-06-2011, 04:34 PM   #17
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It refers to the practice of gaining access to the Kindle's operating system to permit you to do things to the device that the standard user interface does not permit.
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Old 01-06-2011, 05:10 PM   #18
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Thanks for that!....can't see the connection between 'jailbreaking' and modifying a device....in 'days of old' it would probably have been called tweaking
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Thanks for that!....can't see the connection between 'jailbreaking' and modifying a device....in 'days of old' it would probably have been called tweaking
I think it was an original name of a certain hacking software. Since then it took a more general meaning.
Like all vacuum cleaners became Hoovers.
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