KINDLE 3 EASTER EGGS

Eliot Hartley has done some digging into the Kindle 3, the latest e-reader from Amazon and has found some interesting easter eggs (hidden functionality).  There are 2 games, Minesweeper and GoMoku, an image viewer and some hotkeys.

To access the games click SHIFT + ALT +M.  This will bring up Minesweeper.  Clicking the G key will start the GoMoku, a strategy game also called 5 in a Row.  The image viewer has a few more steps, but is relatively easy.

1. Plug your Kindle 3 into the computer with the USB.
2. Open the Kindle drive that is now in your displayed with your removable drives, in the root (i.e. not in another folder) create a folder called “pictures” within that folder you can create a number of other folders (think of them as collections), then add your images/pictures to this (or these) folders. I’ve only tried Jpegs and they work fine.
3. Once finished safely unplug the Kindle and then press “alt” and “z” on the homescreen, this will refresh the screen and add your new folders.
4. Click on the folder/collection and Image Viewer should launch.
5. Once in the viewer the following control options are available:
f = full-screen
q = zoom in
w= zoom out
e = reset zoom
c = actual size
r = rotate
nav controller = pan

The hotkeys, helpful in quick navigation are:

• alt + shift + G = screenshot
• alt + G = screen refresh
• alt + home = Kindle Store
• alt + top row of letters on keyboard = numbers 1-9

And while reading a book:

• alt + B = add and remove bookmarks
• shift + Sym = Turn text to speech on and off
• set cursor down the page to start text to speech from there
• right arrow on nav controller = skip to next chapter
• left arrow on nav controller = skip to previous chapter

[Geek]