The details: It requires the same unofficial hack used to install screensavers and fonts. It’s still under development so it may be buggy. As with all Kindle hacks, use at your own risk. Download it at Andrew de Quincey’s livejournal page Anyone who thinks text based adventures games are a retired genre, as I did [...]
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Halloween screensavers for your Kindle
Raargh! Blaaarrrh! Slurp! And then whatever sound a pumpkin monster makes–something squishy, I imagine. Here are several spoooky screensaver images for your enjoyment. In general, I tried to use darker shades to better suit the theme, but that means they may lack detail on older screens. They look pretty great on the Kindle 3 “Pearl” [...]
Fairy tale screens: “Hansel & Gretel” and “Rapunzel”
Here are a couple of Kindle screens I made using Wordle’s free word cloud web-app. To be honest, I’m still undecided about whether the cartoons add too much clutter, but I thought these two were fun regardless considering the subject matter. You can make your own text-based screensavers at Wordle.net. Update:These screensaver images and others [...]
Create custom word cloud screensavers with Wordle
A helpful reader sent in this tip, and after I checked out the site I knew I had to post it for others to discover. He writes: There is a very neat website that allows you to create a “word cloud’ from pasted text passages. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more [...]