September 2010

Kindle 3: My developer kindlet is working!

Rather surprisingly, it just started working! All you need to have is a valid keystore at /var/local/java/keystore/developer.keystore with at least three keys in it. The aliases of the three keys must…

Kindle: progress

I've now created a valid java keystore in /var/local/java/developer.keystore. Clicking on my ktest app in the menu now says "The title is not signed by a registered developer". All righty, so getting…

Kindle 3 hacking

My latest gadget is a kindle 3, and of course I want to hack it. It has already been jailbroken using an exploit in busybox's tar command symlink handling. See here for details and updates. I installe…

Streetview

Hmm, not posted anything on here for ages! Anyway, to get going again, here is a tiny python library for interfacing to Google's Streetview. It can download the tiles, but can also decode the panorama…