Kindle undocumented features

Igor Skochinsky has found plenty of interesting undocumented features of Amazon Kindle. Here are some of them:

Global keyboard shortcuts

• Alt-Shift-R reboot Kindle
• Alt-Shift-. restart GUI
• Alt-Shift-G make screenshot due to an implementation bug, screenshots can only be stored on SD card, not the main storage. A gif file is saved in the card root.

Home

• Alt-Shift-M Minesweeper
• Alt-Z rescan picture directories
• Alt-T show time

Reader

• Alt-B toggle bookmark
• Alt-T spell out time
• Alt-0 enable/disable slideshow
• Alt-1 start slideshow (if enabled)
• Alt-2 stop slidehow
• Alt-PageForward/PageBackward go to next/prev annotation or one "chunk" (1/20th of a book) forward or backward

Browser

It seems there is a location capability in the CDMA module.

• Alt-1 show current location in google maps
• Alt-2 find gas station nearby
• Alt-3 find restaurants nearby
• Alt-5 find custom keyword nearby
• Alt-D dump debug info to the log and toggle highlight default item
• Alt-Z toggle zone drawing and show log

Check out this post for more.