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General Discussion / Digital Force - Sequel To Z4ck Released!

« on: June 01, 2006, 06:40:48 pm »

Kevin,
here's a quote from a customer's email i have to share with you:

What really made me go back on track and want to order the SL-C3200 was reading the e-book novel "Z4ck", written on a Zaurus and all about how the hero uses his beloved Zaurus all the time. Who can resist that? :-)

///TRIsoft

Marc Stephan
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Thats great!   I've had a few people say to me that they wanted a Zaurus because they read Z4CK.   Do you think Sharp will ever realise the books exist?   Still waiting for the paperba4ck to hit Amazon.com, which is a little frustrating, but I'll post something as soon as it does.    Thanks again.

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General Discussion / Digital Force - Sequel To Z4ck Released!

« on: May 25, 2006, 07:46:14 am »

The first batch of books have arrived today, so they willed packaged and sent out tomorrow morning.  Thanks to everyone for your support.

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General Discussion / Digital Force - Sequel To Z4ck Released!

« on: May 24, 2006, 10:04:06 am »

Thanks Mickey for adding it the story to openzaurus.org.  Openzaurus gets a few mentions in the book again, and Cresho glad you found them  Hope you enjoy.

Kev

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General Discussion / Digital Force - Sequel To Z4ck Released!

« on: May 23, 2006, 06:37:24 pm »

Zmig2, apologies if I didn't get back to you at some stage.   I got hit by a huge amount of spam a while back, and I may have accidentally deleted an email you sent.

For the dedication info send an email to kev at z4ck.org.   I promise to reply!!!

Ta again

Kev

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General Discussion / Digital Force - Sequel To Z4ck Released!

« on: May 23, 2006, 06:33:35 pm »

Just bought it right now!

I sent an email with comments on z4ck, but never got a response back, snif! Anyway, I'm really looking forward to receve my book, which I'll propably read in a night or two !

Congratulations.

BTW: for signing the book, how can I tell you the name of the person to dedicate the book to? with a PM?
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General Discussion / Digital Force - Sequel To Z4ck Released!

« on: May 23, 2006, 04:41:20 am »

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All,

Just thought I would mention that the sequel to Z4CK - Digital Force has now been released.    What is more, both the books are now being provided totally free in PDF format.  The paperback is also ready if anyone is interested in a copy.   The new book will be out soon on Amazon.com.

For more information on Digital Force and Z4CK, or to download the complete books in PDF surf along to www.z4ck.org

I'd really like to thank all you guys for your support with Z4CK, and especially offroadgeek who helped me proof Digital Force!

Cheers,

Kev

Z4CK and Digital Force - Zaurus-Centric Cyber Thrillers.

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General Discussion / Z4CK finally hits Amazon.com

« on: April 10, 2005, 11:38:21 am »

Hi,

Thanks for buying the book.  Yep, it's tough getting a publisher.  I think the statistic is one in every thousand books get published?   Something ridiculous anyway.  You may know that I'm starting a subsidised publishing company named at publish-it.org.    Most of the books we publish, such as Zaurus Hacks and Digital Force (Z4CK 2) which offroadgeek is providing feedback for (cheers!) will be published by ourselves.  Basically it will be an 'at cost' publishing service, but if people want to distiribute PDFs via their own site then that would be fine as we wouldn't own the copyright to individuals work.  We're starting to look at books we can publish so anyone out there with an idea give us a shout at kevin at z4ck.org (until publish-it.org) is ready.   As for the PDF sales, there is marginally more PDF sales, but this may be due to the fact that it interests technologists like us.

Cheers,

Kev

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General Discussion / Z4CK finally hits Amazon.com

« on: April 10, 2005, 11:29:26 am »

Hi, I read the first half and look forward to reading the whole book.
I'd like to know if you've had more PDF downloads or actual printed
purchases?  I have a friend that wants to publish some stuff, and has
had a hard time finding a publisher, so she wants to provide them as
PDFs for download.  Keep us posted on the next in the series...Thanks!

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General Discussion / Zaurus Hacks Book

« on: January 20, 2005, 04:50:20 pm »

Celtron/J40, glad you're enjoying the book.   I've just managed to get my hands on a Zaurus SL-5500 again, so I'm properly back in the swing of things.   I'm busy writing book 2, and I've decided on the title Digital Force.   I'm also collecting hacks for the Zaurus Hacks book.  All of the feedback has been good so far...thank good for the Zaurusergroup.

Cheers again.

Kev

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General Discussion / Zaurus Hacks Book

« on: January 06, 2005, 09:40:28 am »

Yep, good call Loji.  A comms section sounds good to me too.

So far we've got sections on

The different versions of Zaurus, and some stuff about open source.
Zaurus as a PDA, and PC replacement...perhaps mention wireless keyboard and rotation features.
Alternative ROM images - pdaXrom, OpenZaurus
Audio/Video - Things to view video, audio, streaming, Tivosync?, Speaker project
Comms - SMS, VOIP, Java Answering Machine
Zaurus as a hacking tool - Wardriving, installation of hack tools, + howto pen test

Scripting and compiling.

Harwdware Hacks - overclocking, keyboad recharging, speaker project in here?, mobile cradle, customising the Zaurus, home made battery pack.
Emulation - various emulators, remote control
Games?
Zaurus as a server and client - VNC, Apache, FTP, SSH,
MIscellaneous - Changing the custom boot screen, using the Zaurus as a language tool, special tricks,

As you can quite a few, and I'm continually amazed at the ingenuity of folks out there in tech land!

Any more suggestions, or differences of opinion on the sections included?

Cheers,

Kev

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General Discussion / Zaurus Hacks Book

« on: January 04, 2005, 08:03:36 am »

I'd like to show in the Zaurus Hacks book, that the Zaurus is much more than a PDA.  So I'd like to show the Zaurus being used as a server, camera, mobile phone.   I've also found some other great projects to use the Zaurus as a TivoSync, a remote control, as well as some hardware hacks that allow the Zaurus to be charged through the PC keyboard.  Perhaps the Zaurus as  a Honyepot?
   
Hacking with the Zaurus will only be a small, if important section.   Interesting uses for the Zaurus are what we're looking for.   Some of the sections I think will be.

The different Zaurus models
Openzaurus
pdaXrom
Zaurus as a server - different types
War Driving
Hacking with the Zaurus
Hardware Hacks - eg speaker project?
Music and Video streaming
Linking the Zaurus to other bits of hardware, or household kit!

Any other suggestions?

Thanks for the feedback so far, it's been good stuff.

Kev

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General Discussion / Zaurus Hacks Book

« on: January 03, 2005, 04:08:22 pm »

Thanks for the feedback, it's good stuff so far.   Some of the major things that will be added to the book is.  Installing OpenZaurus, and the pdaXrom.   As well as hacking with the Zaurus...as it is...as far as I'm concerned the ultimate mobile security tool.

Any other suggestions are welcome.  They can be fleshed out here, or they can be sent to hacks at z4ck.org.

Cheers all.

Kev

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General Discussion / Zaurus Hacks Book

« on: January 03, 2005, 12:23:55 pm »

All,

I've just stared my own publishing company, I'm writing the second in the Z4CK series and I have a few technical manuals in the pipeline.   One I would like to get together would be a Zaurus Hacks manual, in the same way O'Reilly do there Hacks series.   Would anyone be interested in providing info for this?   I would be trying to release this by June at the latest.

Top 100 hacks will get in.  Im already collating info now.  A mention in the final publication and PDF version of the final book to those contributing.   I'm also looking for people to volunteer to provide feedback.  Again, a mention and full paper copy for help with this task.

A %age of the profit will be shared via paypal with this forum, openzaurus group and PDAXrom dev group.

Any takers?

Cheers,

Kev

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General Discussion / Z4CK finally hits Amazon.com

« on: January 03, 2005, 12:14:53 pm »

Unfortunately we have no computers in Scotland.  I simply wrote this down on a piece of parchment, and took it to the towns computer scribe, who on his most up to date 80386 computer system, and new 14,400 us robotics modem  has entered this text into this user group forum.   We are Scotland, our technology rules...remember Logie Baird, Alexander Graham Bell...etc etc.

Cheers for the help.

Kev

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General Discussion / Z4CK finally hits Amazon.com

« on: December 10, 2004, 04:51:39 pm »

sigmaX,

You can purchase the book in PDF or Plucker version from http://www.z4ck.org, just go to the Buy Z4CK section and pay $3 through PayPal, then read it on your Zaurus!

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Kev