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Hacked NOOK Touch can display video (in black and white)

Brad Linder — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:05:52 +0000

The Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch is an eBook reader with a 6 inch E Ink display and a touchscreen. Like most devices with a black and white E Ink display, the NOOK Touch is designed for reading and not much else. While the display can handle text and images, the slow screen refresh rates limits the types of...

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You can share a Kindle 3G connection with your PC… but you probably shouldn’t

Brad Linder — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:30:11 +0000

Good news everyone! It's now possible to hook up a Kindle 3 with free global 3G wireless to a PC and use the internet connection on your computer. The bad news? This is probably a really bad idea. Here's the deal. If you bought a 3rd generation Kindle device with the global 3G option, Amazon lets you use that internet...

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Now you can boot an 8GB NOOK Tablet from an SD card

Brad Linder — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:15:39 +0000

A week after Barnes & Noble released a new version of the NOOK Tablet, hackers have figured out how to get it to boot from a microSD card. This allows you to circumvent the locked bootloader and load custom firmware on the tablet including ClockworkMod Recovery or custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod 7. The new $199 NOOK Tablet features a...

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NOOK Touch hack speeds up E Ink, shows why it’s not ready for tablets

Brad Linder — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:13:20 +0000

E Ink is a pretty fascinating display technology. Designed for eBook readers, E Ink screens look a lot like ink on paper. But there's a down side - most eReaders have slow screen refresh rates which means you can't use them for video or even smooth scrolling in web browser or other applications. That's not usually a problem, because most...

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NOOK Tablet hacks: Flash a custom ROM or boot Ubuntu to restore OS 1.4.0

Brad Linder — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:59:17 +0000

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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Root a NOOK Tablet with just an SD card

Brad Linder — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:10:53 +0000

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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NOOK Touch hack adds USB host support (plug in a keyboard)

Brad Linder — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:15:20 +0000

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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Hacked Sony Reader shows just how fast E Ink displays can be

Brad Linder — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:16:19 +0000

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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NOOK Tablet can now run CWM recovery, boot from SD cards

Brad Linder — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:00:18 +0000

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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Kindle Fire development hits high gear (new custom ROMs, Tune Packs, more)

Brad Linder — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:00:57 +0000

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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NOOK Tablet bootloader security bypassed, custom code coming soon

Brad Linder — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:32:46 +0000

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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Snowball-mod (almost) turns the NOOK Tablet into a full Android tablet

Brad Linder — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:35:42 +0000

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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Sideload apps on a NOOK Tablet with OS 1.4.1 (no root required)

Brad Linder — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:13:14 +0000

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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How to root a Kindle Fire running OS 6.2.1 or earlier

Brad Linder — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:01:38 +0000

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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Kindle Fire: How to keep root, block OTA updates, or root Kindle Fire OS 6.2.1

Brad Linder — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:19:18 +0000

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, the last thing you want is to install the over-the-air updates. That's because they breaks root,...

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