Amazon’s Kindle relies on using the SYM button to input punctuation marks and special symbols. Unfortunately, this can make for slow typing when it comes to the usage of normal punctuation. By using these keyboard shortcuts, you can save a great deal of time when you need to use commas, apostrophes, colons, double quotes, and/or question marks.
By using drag and drop, you can easily create new tasks, appointments and contacts from the emails in your Inbox. This can be a huge time saver and a very simple method for organizing the various to-do’s in your emails.
It’s easy to get books, pictures, music files and other items on your Kindle. At some point, you are going to need to remove some of this to make room for more stuff. Here’s how to delete the files off of your Kindle 2.
It’s bound to happen, you are reading an ebook and come across something that you would like to find some more information on. By using your Kindle’s search line and selecting the appropriate option, you can search your items, the Kindle Store, Google, Wikipedia, the Dictionary as well as any notes you have attached to the ebook.
While reading a book on your Kindle, you come across an image that you’d like to take a closer look at. You can magnify the image by following this tech-recipe.
If you don’t like keeping the Recycle Bin on your desktop, but you still want to have easy access to your deleted files, you can add the Recycle Bin to your Start Menu. It’s there when you need it without having to have the trash can icon taking up space on your eye catching wallpaper.
While the Kindle is an excellent reading device, let’s face it, sometimes you just want to do something mindless for a spell. You can play Minesweeper on your Kindle, but everyone else will think you’re being productive.
The Kindle 2’s 6″ high-resolution screen with 16 shades of gray makes it a decent and convenient way to view your favorite photos while you are on the go. By creating different directories for each subject type (such as family, friends, etc.), you can have your own photo albums for easily viewing the desired photos.
Safari 4 has incorporated CoverFlow into the Bookmarks view. If you find that this is a bit much for you, you can remove CoverFlow so that your bookmarks are simply listed like they used to be.
If you don’t like that Safari 4 has the tabs located at the very top of the browser window, you can move them back to the Tab Bar like they were in Safari 3.
If you enjoy listening to music while you read, then you’re in luck. By loading some of your favorite MP3’s onto your Kindle, you’ll be able to listen to your favorite songs as you read your ebook goodness.
