Monthly Archives: September 2010

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 start with "dk", "di", and "dn" followed by some other string to distinguish one set of keys from another. You can have multiple setsContinue reading “Kindle 3: My developer kindlet is working!”

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 closer! I’ve not bothered to sign my ktest jar at all yet. Looking at the build.xml here, it looks like that author isContinue reading “Kindle: progress”

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 installed the kindle-jailbreak-0.3.N.zip and kindle-usbnetwork-0.20.N.zip updates to let me ssh in.  To enable usbnetwork, go to the "Search" screen andContinue reading “Kindle 3 hacking”

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 and depth map information. The depth map is used to do the cursor which snaps to the surrounding buildins etc.Continue reading “Streetview”