A glorious rant from one of the keystone authors of my first couple of decades on this spinning rock, Harlan Ellison. This is a clip from the documentary Dreams with Sharp Teeth, which is itself quite good. (I’d forgotten that I’d linked to this clip before. Forgive me!) I was pleasantly surprised to see that …
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52 Killer Tricks for Your Kindle
Of the 52 Killer Tricks for Your Kindle, some are useful only for the first 3 series (#’s 2, 3, 5, 6), others for Fire only (#8), others are so arcane and specialized as to be almost nonsensical (#’s 9, 15), some are DIY and may require more nerve than even I have (#’s 1, 14, …
Jailbreaking my Kindle Touch
To get screensaver images of my choice onto the Kindle Touch (the one without the special offers) required several steps: Jailbreaking the Kindle Touch Installing the screensavers hack Gathering the images Formatting the images Grouping and renaming the images Transferring the renamed images to the Kindle Touch I won’t go into exorbitant detail on how …
Kindle Touch screensavers
The Kindle Touch (non-ad supported) comes with 20 attractive gray-scale screensaver/wallpaper images. They’re fine, but after a while, I wanted to see some different images. One of the reasons I got the ad-free Touch was so that I wouldn’t be assaulted with an ad every time I picked up my Kindle to read something. I returned …
Kindle for Mac
In late August, I had bought Timothy Pychyl’s e-book The Procrastinator’s Digest via Xlibris for use with Adobe Digital Editions. (I subscribe to Pychyl’s iProcrastinate podcast.) However, trying to get Adobe Digital Editions set up and registered on my MacBook was a pain, and then my credit card number was stolen suspiciously close to the …
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