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Amazon Kindle How-To Series: Five Cool Things You Can Do With Your Kindle 2
Amazon Kindle How-To Series: Five Cool Things You Can Do With Your Kindle 2
You spend a relaxing afternoon reading a new e-book on your Kindle 2 e-book reader and the thought hits – “I need to check my e-mail to see if I heard back from my daughter!” Now, usually this means that we need to stop reading, put your Kindle, and check your e-mail account on your computer. But if you have a Gmail account, you can read and reply to e-mail directly to your Kindle!
First, go to your Kindle’s basic web browser built into (Home> Menu> Experimental> Web base). Next, make sure that JavaScript for your browser Kindle is activated (Browser> Menu> Settings> Enable Javascript). Finally, go to a Gmail address to the Internet (Browser> Menu> Add URL> www.gmail.com), enter your Username and Password.
IMPORTANT – use the standard Gmail URL and not the URL of Google provided the default folder of the Kindle bookmark. If you try to access Gmail from the URL mentioned in your Kindle, you will be prompted to upload an application for Google Gmail. Applications can not be loaded on Kindle, so this will fail – you must use the URL above, provided that they are able to use your Gmail account.
Are you a Twitter? If you want to send a “tweet” to your friends and followers for the great new book on Kindle your reading you can do it directly from your Kindle. This popular microblogging service offers a mobile version that works great on the Kindle.
Go to your Kindle‘s built-in web browser based (Home> Menu> Experimental> Web base). Next, make sure that JavaScript for your browser Kindle is activated (Browser> Menu> Settings> Enable Javascript). Finally, go to Twitter Mobile URL (Browser> Menu> Add URL> www.m.twitter.com), enter your Username and Password.
IMPORTANT – The provision Twitter URL is too complex for your Kindle to display properly. Use the URL above to get the best results on the Kindle. Have you ever wanted to “save” a page you are reading to share with a friend? The Kindle has two ways to do this. The first way is to take a screenshot
the page you want to share. To take a screenshot hold down the keys and then press the “G” key. You will notice that the Kindle screen will “flash” which shows that the Kindle has created the screen.
The screens are stored on the Kindle “documents” folder as an image file with a. Gif. You can get them to connect your Kindle to your computer using the USB cable you got with the Kindle. Open “My Computer” and check the disk icon Kindle. Double-click the icon to open your Kindle, and then double-click the document “folder. Look for files ending with. Gif and you will find screens that you just did.
To share with your friends, you can save the files on your computer and then attach to an e-mail. You can also print the opening screen in a graphics program like Windows Paint or Windows Internet Explorer. The quality is not great – but it is certainly acceptable for the sharing of different pages.
There is another way to capture and passages Parts Kindle e-books. When you highlight passages of Kindle e-book and take notes your Kindle saves them in a file in Documents “folder called” My Clippings.txt. You can open this file with a program like Windows Notepad and copy the highlights of saving in another program or parties.
To do this, go to step you want to share. Move the cursor Kindle beginning of the song you want to save and click the navigation button. Now move the cursor to the end of the song you want to save and press the joystick again throughout the text is highlighted. This will save the highlighted text to “My Clippings.txt” file.
Attach the Kindle to your computer and then look for the icon Kindle in “My Computer”. Double-click the icon for the Kindle and then double-click the document “folder. Locate the “My Clippings.txt file and double-click it to open it in Windows Notepad. Find the text you have highlighted on the Kindle. Should be the basis of the file. You can copy the text and paste it into a program like Microsoft Word to save it. Or you can copy and paste the text into an e-mail message.
So far we have talked about the text – now we talk about graphics. If you have not noticed, the Kindle 2 offers the ability to enlarge graphics so you can actually see them! To do this simply move the cursor on the chart and turns into a magnifying glass. Press the button on the browser and the Kindle will zoom-in on the image to fill the screen of the Kindle. This is very useful when you are reading books on techniques, graphics or screenshots. 2 screen Kindle is just a better quality that these images are worth examining how you read your books. To return to the original page, press the button or button.
Congratulations! Now you can use the Kindle 2 to check your Gmail, Twitter, take screen shots to save or share, store or passages Parts Kindle e-books, and make charts in your e-book more appropriate to use the Kindle’s “Zoom “feature.
From:Michael Piston