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.
If Safari has crashed on you, or you accidentally closed your browser, fear not. You can easily restore your previous browsing session, including all tabs that were open at the time.
Safari’s Top Sites keeps track of the sites that you visit the most and displays preview thumbnails for these sites. You can manually add and pin sites to Top Sites as well. This trick works only on Windows machines.
If your Kindle locks up or fails to respond, you can easily reset it by following this tech-recipe:
Sometimes it is inconvenient to be actually reading your ebook (when your driving is a good example!). Using Kindle’s Text-to-Speech functionality, you can listen to your ebook while you are busy doing something else, and then switch it off so you can continue reading from where it left off.
Using Top Sites, Safari 4 keeps track of the sites that you visit the most and displays preview thumbnails for these sites. By modifying the display to your liking, it can become a useful tool for quickly going to a site or seeing if these sites have new content since your last visit.
Xcode automatically inserts your company name in the copyright info in all new source code files. If you haven’t specified a company, all your code will have the copyright statement showing MyCompanyName. Here’s how to change the company name and get your code looking even more professional.
Youtube thought it would be just great to allow anybody and everybody to put comments within a video. Often it is just annoying. Here is how to disable these annotations or text comments within the youtube video.
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