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How-to Geek guide said:If youre less than delighted with the default screensaver pack on the Kindle relief is just a simple hack and a reboot away. Read on to learn how to apply a painless jailbreak to your Kindle and create custom screensavers.
Note: We originally published this article last year, but weve updated it to work with the latest version of Kindle, so were republishing for everybody.
Unlike jailbreaking other devices like the iPad and Android deviceswhich usually includes deep mucking about in the guts of your devices and the potential, however remote, for catastrophic brickingjailbreaking the Kindle is not only extremely safe but Amazon, by releasing the Kindle sourcecode, has practically approved the process with a wink and a nod.
Installing the jailbreak and the screensaver hack to replace the default screensavers is so simple we promise youll spend 1000% more time messing around making fun screensaver images than you will actually installing the hack.
- For anyone wanting to make their own awkward author screensavers - I've uploaded the Kindle font.
It is Caecilia LT Std - 55 Roman - 48pt (and if you are using Photoshop - use the "Smooth" option)
I checked Google and Wikipedia, and apparently typefaces/fonts are not copyrightable in the US. I did a design patent search and nothing came up, but if it's an issue I can delete it.
- A Photoshop color table for the kindle (both pc and Mac)
To use it go: image> mode> indexed color>(flatten image -yes)> palette: custom> load: kindle3colours.act
There are further directions @ Fireye's link : How to create Kindle optimized screensavers
- Found this on mobileread forums:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108068
poster from mobileread said:Hi Guys!
I've been lurking around here using the hacks, so I decided I should try and contribute something, even if it is small. Basically, I have a bunch of Kindle formatted screensavers that I downloaded from the internet, but I wanted to make them look more authentic, so I decided to stamp each one with a "Slide and release the power switch to wake" message to each one.
However, doing this manually would be a tedious task, so I created an action in Photoshop to do so. To start, download the Kindle Stamp.zip file in the attachments section of this post. Once you extract it, you will find two files: stamp.png (self-explanatory file name) and Kindle Stamp.atn (A Photoshop Action File). Open Photoshop and open the Actions window if it is not already open (Window -> Actions). Then, in the top right corner of the Actions Window, click the menu icon to open a menu. Click the Load Actions option and navigate to the Kindle Stamp.atn file that you extracted.
Now that you've loaded the actions file, you need to load the stamp. First, open the stamp.png file in Photoshop. Then, select all (Ctrl+A) and copy it (Ctrl+C). Once you do that, you are ready to batch stamp your screensavers.
I'm using Photoshop CS5, so it might be different on your computer, but when you open the Batch Processor (File -> Automate -> Batch), select the action you should have just imported and the folder containing all of the screensavers. Then, choose a folder where you want to save the stamped screensavers, and if all goes well, you should have a nice set of authentic looking images.
Zip contains Photoshop action file, and the "Slide and release the power switch to wake" .png
http://upload.willhost.it/1/250rs.zip
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