Kindle 3 Keyboard Shortcuts ver 1.12 [3]
Open the 'pictures' folder and, inside it, create a new folder with the name you want your album to have (eg 'Family') You can create multiple albums by creating multiple folders inside the 'pictures' folder
Copy your JPG, GIF and/or PNG pictures to the album folder
Method 2 v1.9Package your pictures into a zip file, naming the file with the name you want to give your album (eg 'Family.zip')
Copy the zip file into your Kindle's 'documents' directory
This method has the advantage that, when you use the Kindle to the delete the album, the zip file is actually deleted. If you use Method 1, deleting the album will not actually delete anything from the Kindle.
Safely eject the Kindle when the copying has finished
Go to the Kindle Home screen and press ALT+Z to refresh the listing
Your album will appear as a new 'book' which has one page for each picture
When in an album, the MENU and Aa buttons have picture-specific options v1.9If you are viewing pictures larger than the screen, the menu option to anchor at the Top Right is useful for manga, which usually follows the Japanese right-to-left convention
If you 'Enable Pan to Next Page', the 5-way up and down will also go to the next picture
The Kindle remembers you Menu options, but ignores them next time you open an album; you have to turn the option off and then on again for it to be active
I have found the following shortcuts tend to be rather intermittent. They may function better after a restart of the Kindle. I get the feeling that using ALT+Q to nudge disables using Q to zoom. v1.9q : zoom in
w : zoom out
e : reset zoom
r : rotate
f : toggle full screen mode
c : toggle Actual Size setting
Panning when the picture is larger than the screen: 5-way directional buttons
Numbers nudge right - the picture moves left (eg ALT+Q to nudge, ALT+W to nudge a little more)
When in full screen mode, you have to repeat the number (ALT+QQ), as the first press brings up a scale
Repeating numbers eventually takes you to the next picture
Web Browsing
If you know the address, you can get to a web page directly from the Home screen: v1.9Press HOME to make sure you are on the home screen
Type in the address - the search box will open when you start typing use Sym to select a "/" and numbers
there is no need to type 'http://' in front - eg just type bit.ly/k3shortcuts
Use the 5-way to move to the right until 'Go To' is highlighted
Press the 5-way; if wireless is not on, it will ask if you want to turn it on now
You can get to Google or Wikipedia from any search box by typing in your search term and then using the 5-way to move to the right until 'Google' or 'Wikipedia' is highlighted, and then pressing the 5-way.
I don't know of any shortcut for opening the web browser. One option is to create a 'book' which contains link(s) to one or more favourite sites. The book can then be opened and you can click on a link without having to go to the Experimental screen to open the browser: v1.10Create and save an html file containing link(s) to your favourite sites (Word can be used to save a file as html)
To make the html file readable on the Kindle you can do one of the following: Use Amazon's document conversion service: send an email to yourname@kindle.com or yourname@free.kindle.com with the html file as an attachment
Use a program such as calibre to convert the html file to mobi
Rename the file to have a .txt extension (eg rename Bookmarks.html to Bookmarks.txt), connect your Kindle to your computer via USB, and copy the .txt file to the Kindle's 'documents' directory
When in the web browser, MENU and Aa have browser-specific options. v1.9MENU->Article Mode is great for pages that have columns to the left and right, though it's not so great for home pages
MENU->Zoom In is also useful for improving readability; use the 5-way to pan
Readability can also be improved by using Aa to change to landscape mode
When you are zoomed in (the entire web page does not fit on the screen and there is a progress bar along the bottom) you can: Use