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Emulator for Amazon Kindle

My app would work very nicely on the new Amazon Kindle Fire, but it would be nice to test it and remove any kinks before they flood onto the market! Is there an emulator of the kindle fire available

Posting Data to Amazon using curl

when we enter a keyword (search term) in amazon kindle book store, search brings a list of books back. I am trying to scrap the above said amazon kindle book search, i have some basic/usage idea of CURL in php, but i have never posted variables using curl. I tried at my level. but havent succeeded yet. the only thing i know is i should post "key-word" variable to amazon and should grab the result. The problem with this step is that the key-word is submited to the form and only a part of the page is refreshed everytime key-word is entered. can somebody help me telling the step required? which data i will need to post icluding key-word? how can i know about the header /user agent required for this? what information will be required for this process? which elements will be posted ? I have tried using fiddler but as i am new to it, i am not getting the concepts. The link i want to parse is amazon.com Guideline please, if i get the what need

Amazon EC2 Linux RH cannt connect from php script to RDS MYSQL

I have an amazon EC2 instance (redhat linux ) and a RDS (mysql 5.5 ). After stop /start EC2 instance. EC2's ip was changed and cannt connect RDS anymore. I can successfully connect RDS instance from command line. However, it is unable to connect from php script and give me this warning. PHP Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2003): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'applicantdb.xr3x2xcale.eu-west-1.rds' (13) It is working fine from my localhost and I can connect to localhost. It is really annoying and if somebody knows the solution. Please help me and I do really appreciate it.