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Saturday, December 29, 2007

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Amazon Kindle Sports GPS and More

- Rob Bushway

Kindle GPSAs soon as Sierra returns MY Kindle to ME, I’m going give these newly uncovered Easter Eggs a try. You are returning it, aren’t you, Sierra? Sierra?

Check this out courtesy of Interface.Puhala.com and Igor Skochinsky:

- Google Maps, show current location (Alt-1 while in the browser)
- Play Minesweeper (Alt-M)
- Make a screenshot (Alt-Shift-G)
- show time from the home screen (Alt-T)

Alt-2 find gas station nearby
Alt-3 find restaurants nearby
Alt-5 find custom keyword nearby
Alt-D dump debug info to the log and toggle highlight default item
Alt-Z toggle zone drawing and show log

 

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12/29/2007 12:04 AM MST  

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Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:06:15 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
GPS? or is just the Show my Location feature of the mobile version of Google Maps.
i.e. the location feature works off the cell site information of your mobile phone, in this case the EVDO connection of the Kindle?
Toby Brown
Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:23:53 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
the gps is cellular triangulation
Rob
Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:04:50 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Hmm.. someone say my name? I don't have a Kindle. I have no idea what Rob is talking about. :-)

Oh wait - THAT Kindle... You may get to see it in Vega, but give it back?!?! But I'm not done with my books yet... :-)
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