Archive for September, 2010

Your Kindle, PDFs, EPUBs, file and format conversion and you


2010
09.28

There are two irritations when it comes to the Kindle. First of those isĀ  your collection of PDFs you bought or own that you’d like to read as a ‘book’ on the Kindle (without going through the whole long USER@[free.]kindle.com) email and Whispernet delivery process. The other is the EPUB Sony Book reader format files that you have — but that the Kindle doesn’t interpret. Here’s how to get around this. (more…)

Firefox: Paste HTML code from one child frame to parent text-box – src stripped


2010
09.10

Here’s something fun: use Firefox 3.6.9 to have a set of Javascript code in a child frame append HTML code to a text box in the parent frame, and content of the string is modified:

what was

<img src="foo.jpg" alt="bar" width="1" height="1" />

becomes

<img alt="bar" width="1" height="1" />

which is pretty pointless… (more…)