NOOK Tablet hackers have added a few new tools to their arsenal this weekend. Developer Cobroto has put together one of the first custom ROMs for the tablet, while developer AdamOutler has put together a rather impressive tool based on Ubuntu Linux which you can use to reformat the NOOK Tablet and roll back from OS 1.4.1 or later to…

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Barnes & Noble has been playing a bit of cat and mouse game with NOOK Tablet hackers. When the company released the 7 inch Android tablet in November, it didn’t take long for hackers to figure out how to sideload apps, root the tablet, and even install the Android Market. Then Barnes & Noble pushed out a software update which…

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Ever wish you could use a USB keyboard with your NOOK Simple Touch eBook reader? Yeah, I didn’t think so… but it’s still pretty cool that it’s possible. Hacker verygreen has figured out how to enable USB host support on Barnes & Noble’s eReader and he’s posted details on how to do it at the xda-developers forum. Since the NOOK…

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The Sony PRS-T1 is designed to be an eBook reader and little more, but it’s running Google Android under the hood. Late last year hackers figured out how to root the device and enable installation of third party Android apps. But for the most part those apps look awful on the PRS-T1, because the E Ink display has a slow…

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Now that hackers have bypassed the secure bootloader on the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, the real fun begins. NOOK Tablet hacking is still in the early phases, but developers have already figured out how to load a working ClockworkMod Recovery onto the tablet so that users can backup and restore software or flash custom software on the tablet. Developers…

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Now that developers have successfully managed to install CyanogenMod 7, early builds of Android 4.0, custom bootloaders and recovery utilities on the Amazon Kindle Fire, the sky seems to be the limit. Over the past few days several developers have released new software for Amazon’s $199 tablet. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the new tools available for those…

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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet is a $249 Android tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel IPS display, a 1 GHz TI OMAP4 dual core processor, 16GB of storage, and a microSD card slot. Until the Asus Eee Pad MeMo is released later this year, it’s probably the nicest Android tablet you can buy for the price….

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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet is a 7 inch tablet with a color display, a dual core processor, and a custom version of the Google Android operating system designed by Barnes & Noble. While the tablet can run hundreds of thousands of Android apps, out of the box it’s designed for reading eBooks from B&N, streaming videos from Netflix…

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Update: It’s also now possible to upgrade from OS 1.4.0 to B&N NOOK Tablet OS 1.4.1 while rooting the tablet.  The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet is designed to let you download and install third party apps from the B&N shop, but shortly after the tablet was released users noticed that they could also install apps from other sources and…

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When Amazon pushed out version 6.2.1 of the Kindle Fire software earlier this week the company improved performance and offered a few new features. But users who had rooted their tablets discovered that the update also removed root and replaced any bootloader or recovery options they had installed — and made it difficult to re-root the tablet. Now there are…

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The latest software update for the Amazon Kindle Fire is designed to improve performance and make the tablet easier to customize. For most users, it’s a big improvement over the software that originally came with the tablet. But if you’ve rooted your Kindle Fire running software version 6.2 or earlier, the last thing you want is to install the over-the-air…

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Software updates are usually good things since they kill security flaws, improve performance, and offer new features. But if you bought a Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet running software version 1.4, proceeded to root the tablet, install the Android Market, and make other changes you’ve probably been dreading the new B&N software 1.4.1 update. The company started to push out…

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