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Since the latest 1.41 update from December, rooting the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet has gotten a lot harder – you had to block the update or, if you had already applied it, restore to the previous 1.40 version before it was possible to gain root access. However, some people have been working on directly rooting the 1.41 version, and even come up with a method to root the Nook Tablet by booting from the SD card.
Being a tablet, it makes a lot more sense to run Ubuntu on the ASUS Tranformer Prime than on a smartphone. Of course, that hasn't stopped people from porting the popular Linux distro to the HTC Desire, for example, and for the old Windows Mobile devices, getting Ubuntu to work was a stepping stone for Android ports – a process probably best illustrated with the HTC HD2.
There you have it, in the title. Google engineer Dianne Hackborn, who has previously explained Android's hardware acceleration, took to Google+ again to clarify some myths about the Android operating system. This time, it's a point of common advice that you'll see in virtually every FAQ thread about custom ROMs and flashing: wiping battery stats in order to improve battery life.
We've previously covered some mods for GTA III, but they required you to tinker around and replace files manually. Thankfully, forum member hacksteak25 developed a little application that allows you to easily change some of those settings, for example by making the resolution lower to make the game run smoother, and even automatically backs up the standard settings file so you can recover should GTA fail to start.
If you've ever played games on a PC, you've probably heard of the massive Grand Theft Auto open-world games. GTA III, released ten years ago, was the first in the series to feature 3D graphics, and was recently released for both Android and iOS. Since it's not rewritten from the ground up for mobile devices, but rather just a straight port of the PC version, many of the mods, which can change the appearance of the game's objects such as cars (seen on the picture) and buildings, still work.
A few days ago, we reported how an OTA update for Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet fixed a hole that allowed you to sideload apps. It worked like this:
GetJar, an independent application store for Android, is offering 100 paid apps for free.