Kindle How-To Series – Loading and Viewing Pictures on Your Kindle E-Book Reader
Michael Piston asked:
Your new Kindle wireless reading device is great for holding e-books and audio books but did you also know you can display your pictures on your Kindle? Keep in mind that the Kindle has a gray scale display, not color, so the quality of your pictures won’t be great. But, despite that it might be nice to have a few of your favorite pictures for quick viewing on your Kindle.
The process for loading and viewing pictures on your Kindle is not entirely intuitive, but it’s not difficult for you to master. Follow the steps below and you’ll have more than just books on your Kindle.
1. Get a collection of pictures you want to load on your Kindle. These can be color images but remember that your Kindle will display them as gray scale images.
2. Use a photo editing program to reduce the size of your images before loading them into your Kindle. The Kindle screen can display a picture at a maximum size of 550 pixels high x 450 pixels wide. There is no sense loading large images – which will take-up a large amount of your Kindle’s memory – if the image size is limited.
3. Attach the Kindle’s USB cable to both your Kindle and your computer.
4. Once the screen letting you know your Kindle is attached to your computer via USB appears you can double-click on your computer’s “My Computer” icon.
5. Your Kindle should appear as one of the disk drives attached to your computer.
6. Double-click on your Kindle drive. You will see several folders. One for Audible books, one for documents, and one for music.
7. Add a new folder to your Kindle called “pictures”.
8. Open the new “pictures” folder and create one sub-folder for each of the groups of pictures you wish to load onto your Kindle. For example “Moms Birthday” might be one folder and “Summer Vacation 2009″ might be another. These folder names will appear on your Kindle’s Home Screen so make them descriptive.
9. Open each new sub-folder then copy the pictures you’ve collected into their appropriate folder.
10. When you are done take a look at your Kindle’s screen. If the USB activity indicator at the bottom right side of the screen is not showing any activity you can remove the USB cable from your Kindle.
11. Go to the Home Screen of your Kindle. Press the “ALT” key and the “Z” key at the same time to refresh your Kindle’s list of e-books. The screen will blink a few time – when it stops use your “Next Page”, “Prev Page” buttons to locate the new picture folders you created in Step 8.
12. Scroll to the picture folder you want to open then press the scroll wheel to select it. The folder will open and in a moment or two your first picture will appear. You can move through your pictures by pressing the “Next” or “Prev” page buttons.
Congratulations! You now know how to make using your Kindle even more enjoyable by being able to carry special pictures with you in your Kindle wireless reading device.
For more complete How-To information, including screen shots of the process described above visit the web address in the resource box below.
Happy reading!
Your new Kindle wireless reading device is great for holding e-books and audio books but did you also know you can display your pictures on your Kindle? Keep in mind that the Kindle has a gray scale display, not color, so the quality of your pictures won’t be great. But, despite that it might be nice to have a few of your favorite pictures for quick viewing on your Kindle.
The process for loading and viewing pictures on your Kindle is not entirely intuitive, but it’s not difficult for you to master. Follow the steps below and you’ll have more than just books on your Kindle.
1. Get a collection of pictures you want to load on your Kindle. These can be color images but remember that your Kindle will display them as gray scale images.
2. Use a photo editing program to reduce the size of your images before loading them into your Kindle. The Kindle screen can display a picture at a maximum size of 550 pixels high x 450 pixels wide. There is no sense loading large images – which will take-up a large amount of your Kindle’s memory – if the image size is limited.
3. Attach the Kindle’s USB cable to both your Kindle and your computer.
4. Once the screen letting you know your Kindle is attached to your computer via USB appears you can double-click on your computer’s “My Computer” icon.
5. Your Kindle should appear as one of the disk drives attached to your computer.
6. Double-click on your Kindle drive. You will see several folders. One for Audible books, one for documents, and one for music.
7. Add a new folder to your Kindle called “pictures”.
8. Open the new “pictures” folder and create one sub-folder for each of the groups of pictures you wish to load onto your Kindle. For example “Moms Birthday” might be one folder and “Summer Vacation 2009″ might be another. These folder names will appear on your Kindle’s Home Screen so make them descriptive.
9. Open each new sub-folder then copy the pictures you’ve collected into their appropriate folder.
10. When you are done take a look at your Kindle’s screen. If the USB activity indicator at the bottom right side of the screen is not showing any activity you can remove the USB cable from your Kindle.
11. Go to the Home Screen of your Kindle. Press the “ALT” key and the “Z” key at the same time to refresh your Kindle’s list of e-books. The screen will blink a few time – when it stops use your “Next Page”, “Prev Page” buttons to locate the new picture folders you created in Step 8.
12. Scroll to the picture folder you want to open then press the scroll wheel to select it. The folder will open and in a moment or two your first picture will appear. You can move through your pictures by pressing the “Next” or “Prev” page buttons.
Congratulations! You now know how to make using your Kindle even more enjoyable by being able to carry special pictures with you in your Kindle wireless reading device.
For more complete How-To information, including screen shots of the process described above visit the web address in the resource box below.
Happy reading!
E Reader Review Terms
Kindle – The Best Electronic Reader?
Tim Pecunia asked:
When one mentions electronic book readers, Amazon Kindle immediately comes to mind. It is by far the best selling e-book reader, what few know is that there are many great alternatives to the Amazon Kindle. In this article, we will review the Sony Prs-505 and Irex Iliad, which are the greatest competitors for Amazon’s e-book reader.
Price – Among these three e-book readers, The Sony e-book reader, Prs-505 is has the cheapest price tag at close to $300 while the Irex Iliad is the most expensive at close to $700. The Amazon Kindle is priced at close to $400.
Screen Size – Although the sizes of these three e-book readers are about the same, the screen size are noticeably different. The Irex Iliad has the biggest screen size at 8.5″ whilst the Sony Prs-505′s is the smallest at just 6.9 inches. The Amazon Kindle has a screen size of 7.5 inches. I personally love a big screen and for all those who feel the same, the Irex Iliad is the way to go
Weight – The heaviest of all three e-book readers is the Irex Iliad, weight at 13.7 ounces. The Sony Prs-505 is the lightest at just 8.8 ounces.
Battery Life – When it comes to battery life, the Irex Iliad fared the worst with just 15 hours of continuous reading. The Sony e-book reader arguably has the longest battery life, where it can last up to 7500 page turns.
Design – I personally like the Sony Prs-505 e-book’s design the best. It has a sleek metallic casing that gives it a sleek and professional look. The Sony model comes in both black and silver. Both Amazon and Irex Iliad models have some plastic or synthetic rubber feel to it, which, in my opinion, makes them look like toys.
All in all for the average casual user, Sony Prs-505′s competitive pricing, sleek looks and portability, makes it the best pick among e-book readers. Amazon Kindle has a great selling point to as it is the only model among the three that has a free access to the Amazon.com bookstore. The Irex Iliad is the best pick for those who intend to get an e-book reader for professional use.
When one mentions electronic book readers, Amazon Kindle immediately comes to mind. It is by far the best selling e-book reader, what few know is that there are many great alternatives to the Amazon Kindle. In this article, we will review the Sony Prs-505 and Irex Iliad, which are the greatest competitors for Amazon’s e-book reader.
Price – Among these three e-book readers, The Sony e-book reader, Prs-505 is has the cheapest price tag at close to $300 while the Irex Iliad is the most expensive at close to $700. The Amazon Kindle is priced at close to $400.
Screen Size – Although the sizes of these three e-book readers are about the same, the screen size are noticeably different. The Irex Iliad has the biggest screen size at 8.5″ whilst the Sony Prs-505′s is the smallest at just 6.9 inches. The Amazon Kindle has a screen size of 7.5 inches. I personally love a big screen and for all those who feel the same, the Irex Iliad is the way to go
Weight – The heaviest of all three e-book readers is the Irex Iliad, weight at 13.7 ounces. The Sony Prs-505 is the lightest at just 8.8 ounces.
Battery Life – When it comes to battery life, the Irex Iliad fared the worst with just 15 hours of continuous reading. The Sony e-book reader arguably has the longest battery life, where it can last up to 7500 page turns.
Design – I personally like the Sony Prs-505 e-book’s design the best. It has a sleek metallic casing that gives it a sleek and professional look. The Sony model comes in both black and silver. Both Amazon and Irex Iliad models have some plastic or synthetic rubber feel to it, which, in my opinion, makes them look like toys.
All in all for the average casual user, Sony Prs-505′s competitive pricing, sleek looks and portability, makes it the best pick among e-book readers. Amazon Kindle has a great selling point to as it is the only model among the three that has a free access to the Amazon.com bookstore. The Irex Iliad is the best pick for those who intend to get an e-book reader for professional use.
Touch Screen Software on the iPad
Leon Zavsek asked:
While most commentators view the iPad as an oversized iPhone, it’s really a question, whether people will accept it, as a suitable replacement for netbooks (“they’re just cheap laptops”, said Steve Jobs).
I think this is really a question of software. If you compare specifications of any iPod, with competitive mp3 players in the same price range, iPod loses in all respects. But once you hold the iPod in your hands and use it, you see why this is the best seller – it’s simple and intuitive software wins the users. And without good touch screen software, iPhone and iPod Touch would never made it this far.
As Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs stated, the iPad is intended as a device between the smartphone and the laptop. The iPad copies iPhone’s basic user interface and physical design, but there are significant differences, beyond the 9.7? screen and a fast Apple-designed processor. Applications on iPad, look a lot more like computer software. It’s photo application, for example, looks more like iPhoto on a Mac than the photo app on iPhone. Most of the core iPhone applications have been rewritten and it even runs all current 140,000 iPhone apps.
While we haven’t seen the promised music and video streaming services, Jobs showed off their e-book reader app with a built-in online book store.
Visually, it looks much better than Amazon’s Kindle, but still leaves plenty to desire for. New York Times representatives showed off their digital newspaper, that seemed a lot better than Kindle’s version. And iPad’s touch screen software, allows you to flip pages with a gesture.
Compared to Kindle it lacks in functionality and has much smaller catalog. In addition a back-lit LCD screen can be tiresome for the eyes, compared to Kindle’s ilk. This shouldn’t surprise us, since Jobs is quoted as saying “no one reads anymore”. A reflection of Apple’s concern for the readers?
On the positive side:
looks awesome feels comfortable and solid to hold has all that cool software built in amazingly low-priced (for an Apple product) 10 hours of battery life it will use iPhone OS
On the negative side:
no multitasking:
While we can expect some limitations here, it’s really all about the software.
The fast processor combined with flash storage, launches and shuts down any application in a moment. This reduces the need to run applications in the background. It does bring up some concerns. For example: Will we be able to chat over Skype while browsing? And will we be able to receive Skype calls on the same device? The iPhone certainly handles
no web cam
iPad SDK 3.2 documentation mentions a camera and there are rumors about iPod Touch getting the camera in June. It would seem, Apple is planning to hold off some of the key features, forcing the buyers to reach into their pockets again later.
no Flash support
Flash is going to find itself competing heavily with HTML 5 in time. Google’s TestTube and Chrome experiments are a proof of this. Anyone familiar with Flash, can tell you it’s a dog that has not kept up with modern computers.
On the other hand, we are not there yet and Flash today is just too popular, to be ignored like that. This will heavily cripple the browsing experience, not to mention all the cool Flash games, we’ll be missing.
no usb ports, no sd slot the carrier for the iPad’s 3G plan in the US is the heavily unpopular AT&T it will use iPhone OS
The iPad is quite more than just a big iPod Touch or iPhone, even though it looks like one. But the question remains, will that be enough to get the buyers to embrace it and make it part of their daily lives?
This device will find some niche uses. If you are looking for productivity, you better stick with your touch screen laptop. But if you are a casual user, looking for active or passive entertainment on the go, the iPad might be just for you. Surfing the web on the couch, watching videos on public transport and viewing e-recipes in the kitchen, are some of the uses that come to mind.
Like with any other Apple’s product, there will certainly be no shortage of people lining up to buy it.
While iPhone’s brought us revolutionary touch screen software, this gadget still needs something cooler than a nice cover, to justify calling it “magical” or “revolutionary”. But until I get our hands on one and see it in action, it’s too early to judge.
However, one thing we can all be certain of:
This will be the most awesome toilet web browsing gadget. Ever.
Create a video blog…instantly.
While most commentators view the iPad as an oversized iPhone, it’s really a question, whether people will accept it, as a suitable replacement for netbooks (“they’re just cheap laptops”, said Steve Jobs).
I think this is really a question of software. If you compare specifications of any iPod, with competitive mp3 players in the same price range, iPod loses in all respects. But once you hold the iPod in your hands and use it, you see why this is the best seller – it’s simple and intuitive software wins the users. And without good touch screen software, iPhone and iPod Touch would never made it this far.
As Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs stated, the iPad is intended as a device between the smartphone and the laptop. The iPad copies iPhone’s basic user interface and physical design, but there are significant differences, beyond the 9.7? screen and a fast Apple-designed processor. Applications on iPad, look a lot more like computer software. It’s photo application, for example, looks more like iPhoto on a Mac than the photo app on iPhone. Most of the core iPhone applications have been rewritten and it even runs all current 140,000 iPhone apps.
While we haven’t seen the promised music and video streaming services, Jobs showed off their e-book reader app with a built-in online book store.
Visually, it looks much better than Amazon’s Kindle, but still leaves plenty to desire for. New York Times representatives showed off their digital newspaper, that seemed a lot better than Kindle’s version. And iPad’s touch screen software, allows you to flip pages with a gesture.
Compared to Kindle it lacks in functionality and has much smaller catalog. In addition a back-lit LCD screen can be tiresome for the eyes, compared to Kindle’s ilk. This shouldn’t surprise us, since Jobs is quoted as saying “no one reads anymore”. A reflection of Apple’s concern for the readers?
On the positive side:
looks awesome feels comfortable and solid to hold has all that cool software built in amazingly low-priced (for an Apple product) 10 hours of battery life it will use iPhone OS
On the negative side:
no multitasking:
While we can expect some limitations here, it’s really all about the software.
The fast processor combined with flash storage, launches and shuts down any application in a moment. This reduces the need to run applications in the background. It does bring up some concerns. For example: Will we be able to chat over Skype while browsing? And will we be able to receive Skype calls on the same device? The iPhone certainly handles
no web cam
iPad SDK 3.2 documentation mentions a camera and there are rumors about iPod Touch getting the camera in June. It would seem, Apple is planning to hold off some of the key features, forcing the buyers to reach into their pockets again later.
no Flash support
Flash is going to find itself competing heavily with HTML 5 in time. Google’s TestTube and Chrome experiments are a proof of this. Anyone familiar with Flash, can tell you it’s a dog that has not kept up with modern computers.
On the other hand, we are not there yet and Flash today is just too popular, to be ignored like that. This will heavily cripple the browsing experience, not to mention all the cool Flash games, we’ll be missing.
no usb ports, no sd slot the carrier for the iPad’s 3G plan in the US is the heavily unpopular AT&T it will use iPhone OS
The iPad is quite more than just a big iPod Touch or iPhone, even though it looks like one. But the question remains, will that be enough to get the buyers to embrace it and make it part of their daily lives?
This device will find some niche uses. If you are looking for productivity, you better stick with your touch screen laptop. But if you are a casual user, looking for active or passive entertainment on the go, the iPad might be just for you. Surfing the web on the couch, watching videos on public transport and viewing e-recipes in the kitchen, are some of the uses that come to mind.
Like with any other Apple’s product, there will certainly be no shortage of people lining up to buy it.
While iPhone’s brought us revolutionary touch screen software, this gadget still needs something cooler than a nice cover, to justify calling it “magical” or “revolutionary”. But until I get our hands on one and see it in action, it’s too early to judge.
However, one thing we can all be certain of:
This will be the most awesome toilet web browsing gadget. Ever.
Create a video blog…instantly.
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