.... the jackal rides and run....

Ok by no means I did this at all, I'm just putting this line by line instructions for the benefit of thos e interested in hacking their Nooks and there are many of such ones available online. This is a tabulation of what worked for me (after 2 Nooks). I think its quite intimidating in the beginning (prospect of 'bricking' the nook!) but I thinks is 95% safe! good enough for me! So Kudos and Many many thanks to those people who did those links I'm about to list below in my brief steps. You guys are android gods as far as I'm concerned. START Ok, the NC is basically an E-Reader...but its built on top of Android 2.1 (that is until 2.2 version comes out) which is probably good enough for a lot of things but does support a lot of the new stuff available to newer versions Android such as faster speeds and flash support. Before we can do anything with the NC, we need to ROOT it. Meaning get to its roots and gain control of the device...that's right get below the B&...

Yes its official and addictive. Over the past month I've been toying around with Barnes & Noble's Nook Color E-reader....it really a tablet running android OS! There's so much info one can get on the net on how to hack this baby and load it up with Froyo, Gingerbread and even HoneyComb versions of Android. What more...it can be overclocked! Open source is amazing.....bye Apple! This is an amazing device....and I got it for about SGD350 shipped from the US B&N website to my VPOST acct. Granted it does not have camera or GPS but hey who needs em when you have a screen that is higher resolution than the Ipad?? for like half the price? and after hacking you can have all the goodies like Flash support on browsers...tons of free stuff available from the android market as well. Getting into the hacking community for Android is also pretty addictive....I bought another Nook for my Sis as a present for her birthday and have just hacked it with Phiremod 5.3 (based on Cyanogen...