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Someone just left a comment on my article saying that Amazon has now blocked "the navigation tools at the bottom of the page" for as long as you are using Launcher Hijack. I assume they mean the buttons at the bottom of the home screen, but mine are still there. (But then again, it took several...

Thanks for the link. But as I also point out in the article, this could very well be an issue Amazon cares enough about to make an exception. The whole reason Amazon makes its tablets so cheap is that they're assumed to be subsidized by the media content Amazon can sell to you through them. And...

The problem only hit me day before yesterday, but when I googled the matter I discovered some people had it happen 2 or 3 days before. At a guess, the blacklist may have staggered updates, only rolling out to a fraction of Fire users every day, to avoid clobbering Amazon's servers by rolling out...

Apparently this program called AppCloner automates the process of creating a renamed version of an existing app--at least according to a thread in the LauncherHijack issue-reporting forum. Haven't tried it out myself; standard warnings against installing unfamiliar software apply. I don't...

I've got an X89 Kindow with Android 4.4 on it, and I was wondering if there was any way to bump it up to something more recent. I thought I'd found an updater, but it turned out to be nothing but an ad-spam app that only seemed to exist to show me advertisements. Any advice?

Which doesn't help a lot if your Nook HD breaks in such a way that you can't restore the original ROM.

Of course, if you get one with a one-year warranty on it, you're effectively tossing that warranty out by putting Kit Kat on it. :)

It's perfectly responsive, bearing in mind that it's dual core, not quad core. Occasionally you run into a split second or so of lag when launching a program, but I've never noticed any input lag from moment to moment. (Unlike with my old Zeepad, where half the time it froze up when you were...

I went ahead and took a crack at banging out a user-friendly guide to installing Kit Kat on the Nook HD. If you're looking for a guide, check it out. Hopefully I didn't make any show-stopper mistakes. (If I did, let me know and I'll fix them.)

So, now we're seeing the first CM 11 development for the Nook HD. Where's the 10.2 final?

So anyway, it's been weeks and still only the nightlies are to be found in the Hummingbird download section. What's the deal? Why would there even still be continual nightlies if development on this branch is over? And why is there no final?

I was wondering if there was any chance that Google's "Auto Awesome" movie editor could come to the version of Android 4.3 used in CM 10.2? Apparently it's just rolled out on "select" 4.3 and up devices.

Two of the better ones are Aldiko and Moon+. Both have free and premium versions. Note that if you're using Calibre to strip the DRM, you could just as easily convert them into mobi format while you're at it and read them with the Kindle reader, too.

Running the stock Android version of the Nook Reader might not be an issue anyway; apparently you can't even get it to run without sideloading it. Of course, since I cracked all my Nook books so I could read them in a generic reader app, it's not really much of an issue for me. ;)

So I'm told that I can probably get by with just installing the latest nightly and the trimfix kernel from nook (dot) rootshell (dot) ru/hd/ Basically I would flash it from cwm after flashing the nightly, and be sure not to allow the CM nightly to update automatically or the default kernel...

Nice to know, but if I was going to go to that much trouble I'd just enable stock Android anyway. After having used Android a while already, the Nook launcher drove me nuts. :)

What got me to flip to CyanogenMod was that there's no way to tell stock Nook OS to permit the installation of 3rd-party apps the way there is in vanilla Android—and I had bought a lot of games through the Humble Indie Bundle. So I installed CyanogenMod 10.1 and never looked back. Haven't...

I'm looking in download (dot) cyanogenmod (dot) com/?device=hummingbird – the link from the guide in this directory. It shows the RC and Stable builds for 10.1, but just a snapshot and nightlies for 10.2.

CyanogenMod posts that it's just released its stable version 10.2, with Android 4.3 Jellybean. But when I go to the Hummingbird download page for it, I don't see either the stable or the RC1, just the nightly builds. It's puzzling—if they weren't developing for Hummingbird anymore, why would...