If you saw the video I posted the other day showing the partial refresh trick on the Sony PRS-T1, you probably noticed the modified homescreen on my PRS-T1 that looks just like the regular homescreen but adds some nifty new features. The new homescreen has three pages instead of two. The third page is an […]
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Using Text to Speech on a Rooted Sony Reader PRS-T1
The Amazon Kindle is no longer the only major E Ink ereader to have text-to-speech. The Sony Reader PRS-T1 is now capable of offering TTS as well, but there are a couple of catches, 1) the PRS-T1 has to be rooted and 2) text-to-speech will only work with DRM-free ebooks. The minimal rooting package for […]
Pandigital SuperNova: How To Install Android Market and Google Apps (Video)
A reader sent in a tip about the Pandigital SuperNova and how easy it is to install the Android Market and Google apps, no rooting or hacking needed. The Pandigital SuperNova is an 8″ Android tablet much like the Pandigital Nova that I reviewed and rooted several months back. The SuperNova is the better unit […]
How to Enter Partial Refresh Mode on Sony PRS-T1 (Video)
Yesterday, thanks to a tip via MobileRead, I discovered a simple trick to get the Sony PRS-T1 to enter into a semi-permanent partial page refresh state. This is very handy for scrolling through lists like with the Dropbox app and root explorer, and makes some games and other Android apps work better too. This probably […]
How to Get Landscape Mode on Kindle Touch (Video)
There’s now a simple way to active landscape mode on the Kindle Touch. For some reason Amazon neglected to give the Kindle Touch landscape mode and they’ve yet to issue a firmware update to add it, but thanks to developers at MobileRead, activating landscape mode on the Kindle Touch is now as easy as playing […]
Seven Alternate Web Browsers for Kindle Fire; Amazon Silk Needs Work
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m really liking the Kindle Fire and I haven’t even rooted it or installed any ROMs yet. But one thing I don’t like is the web browser. The Kindle Fire comes with its own special web browser called Amazon Silk that was developed by Amazon’s engineers. It is […]
Kindle eReaders: How to Use Custom Fonts for All Kindle eBooks – No Hacks
There’s a simple trick to change the default font type to use custom fonts across all ebooks for Kindle devices (except the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire). You can customize line spacing, margins, and justification as well. And this includes both DRM protected ebooks and ebooks without DRM. The Kindle does not need to be […]
How to Add New Fonts on Sony Reader PRS-T1 (No Rooting)
The Sony PRS-T1 comes with seven font choices, but the selection doesn’t end there. Like the earlier Sony Readers, you can add OTF and TTF fonts of your choice to a font folder on the PRS-T1 and have your ebooks use those fonts instead of the default. The process of setting up and using custom […]