[TechRepublic] How to hack $250 BN Nook Color into a full Android tablet

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Editor's note: For some weekend hacking fun, take a look at my article on how to hack Barnes & Noble's color e-reader into a nice little Android tablet. Also, see our list of 56 geek movies coming out in 2011 and Ed Bott's tips on speeding up Windows 7 with SSDs. -Jason Hiner How to hack the $250 Nook Color into a full Android tablet The Nook Color is a $250 e-reader powered by Android. Learn how to hack it into a powerful and fully functional Android tablet. Read more Photos: Hack the Nook Color into a full Android tablet Resource of the day Improve productivity through real-time collaboration and communication Think increasing productivity is difficult? Join this live webcast as we review how one company's migration to Google Apps was successful for employees and profitable to the organization. More from TechRepublic   Mark your calendar for these geeky dates There are more notable geek dates to celebrate than Hallmark holidays to cringe over (read: Valentine's Day). Here are some geeky dates that you might want to put on your calendar.January2. Father of science fiction Isaac Asimov's birthday. (Related Geekend post: Geek Trivia: To write a wrong.)3. It seems notable that J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday is the day after Asimov's. (Related Geekend... Read more Five tips for standing up against your boss If you need to confront your boss over work issues, wait until you're calm, be prepared, and have a couple of rhetorical tricks up your sleeve. Read more Web design basics: Adding button elements to a wireframe This tutorial shows you how to create and add button elements to your wireframe design. Read more 56 geek movies of 2011 Green Lantern, X-Men: First Class, Cowboys & Aliens, Captain America: The First Avenger, and the alien buddy picture Paul are just five of the more than 50 geeky films coming out this year. Find out which movies this Geekend contributor plans to see opening night. Read more TR Community scoreboard for Feb. 4, 2011 - Member feedback In this weekly recap, you'll get a quick look at the top discussions and members on the TechRepublic forums. Read more News from ZDNet   Spotted: Motorola Xoom, HTC Thunderbolt release dates at Best Buy The Facebook page for the Best Buy in Grand Rapids South has sprung a leak: release dates for the HTC Thunderbolt smartphone and Motorola Xoom tablet.Naturally, there's been much speculation as... Read more Windows 7 and SSDs: Cutting your system drive down to size Solid-state drives are wicked fast. Theyââ¬â¢re also expensive. So how do you get the performance benefits of an SSD upgrade without breaking the bank? Use a fast SSD as a Windows 7 system drive and... Read more AT&T offering 4GB tethering, Mobile Hotspot Feb. 13 AT&T has promised to double its tethering cap from 2 to 4GB but the clincher is that it will release a mobile hotspot app just like Verizon's -- but only for Android. For now anyway. Read more Interesting Apple patent on pen input The current generation of iOS devices are all about finger input. However, a recently-awarded patent shows that Cupertino is seriously exploring pen input. Read more Verizon halts iPhone 4 pre-orders after most successful sales day in history We all knew the iPhone was going to be popular on Verizon and as is typical for the iPhone sales numbers rocked yesterday. Verizon stopped taking pre-orders from existing customers late last night. Read more TweetDeck launches Deck.ly: Are real conversations on Twitter too challenging? TweetDeck recently launched Deck.ly, their answer to tweeting beyond 140 characters. Read more Adobe to ship critical PDF Reader X patches Adobe will join Microsoft on the security patch treadmill next Tuesday (February 8, 2011) with "critical" updates for code execution holes in its flagship Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat products. Read more Featured multimedia   The tech behind the Super Bowl's stadium (photos) Just about everything that takes place on Sunday at Cowboys Stadium will be impacted in some way by technology. View on site Rounding up our favorite 14-inch laptops (photos) If you're set on a midsize laptop, one piece of advice we've offered for the past couple of years is to consider a 14-inch system, rather than a more common 15-inch one. View on site Google's Honeycomb buzzes in for a landing (screenshots) Google offered an in-depth look at Honeycomb, also known as Android 3.0. 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[TechRepublic] 2011 geek movies, NASA photos of Earth, Nook Color hack

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56 geek movies of 2011 Green Lantern, X-Men: First Class, Cowboys & Aliens, Captain America: The First Avenger, and the alien buddy picture Paul are just five of the more than 50 geeky films coming out this year. Find... Read more Desktop Wallpaper: The Blue Marble known as Earth Resource of the day The Advantages of Intelligent Point-of-Sale Automation Learn how Snap-On Credit deployed Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions and integrated it with its point-of-sale system and electronic signature capability. Tune in to this webcast to learn more about intelligent, automated forms workflow. Mark your calendar for these geeky dates There are more notable geek dates to celebrate than Hallmark holidays to cringe over (read: Valentine's Day). Here are some geeky dates that you might want to put on your calendar.January2. Father... Read more Geek Gifts 2011: Perplexus Original 3-D puzzle toy Based on a 30-year-old design by 3-D art teacher Michael McGinnis, the Perplexus Original toy is challenging for children and adults. Our Geekend reviewer only cites one issue with the 3-D maze toy. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Lessons from Egypt: Kill the kill switch and decentralize the Internet The five-day Internet outage in Egypt has two big takeaways. It's time to shoot down the Internet "kill switch" and we need a new way to decentralize the Internet. Read more Pop Quiz: Computer Ports and Connectors Do you know the difference between the shape of an Ethernet, eSATA, and USB port? Take this short quiz and test your knowledge of external computer ports. Read more The 10 hottest tablets worth waiting for in 2011 There are an obscene number of new tablets coming to market in 2011. Plenty of them are safe to ignore. Here are 10 that are worth anticipating. Read more How I obtained a Coby (low-end) tablet TR member dcolbert was sure surprised when he received a Coby Kyros MID7015 Android tablet for Christmas. Find out his opinion of this niche of low-end tablets. Read more Camera phone challenge: Guilty pleasures You have from now until Friday, February 11, 2011 at 5:00 PM EST to submit camera phone photos of your guilty pleasures. We will send the participants of our three favorite submissions some free swag! Read more Featured multimedia   Photos: Hack the Nook Color into a full Android tablet The Barnes & Noble Nook Color is a $250 e-reader powered by Android. Here's what this sharp device looks like when you hack it into a powerful and fully functional Android tablet. View on site The tech behind the Super Bowl's stadium (photos) Just about everything that takes place on Sunday at Cowboys Stadium will be impacted in some way by technology. View on site Rounding up our favorite 14-inch laptops (photos) If you're set on a midsize laptop, one piece of advice we've offered for the past couple of years is to consider a 14-inch system, rather than a more common 15-inch one. View on site News Corp's 'The Daily' for iPad - will people buy it? (screenshots) News Corp.'s daily newspaper-like publication for the iPad will be a test case to see how many people will buy online content. View on site Photos: Two great MacBook Air competitors for Windows users The 11-inch MacBook Air has set a new standard for netbooks and mini laptops, but not everyone wants a Mac. See how the Sony Vaio X1 and the Acer Timeline X can dispel MacBook Air envy for Windows users. View on site Today's recommended downloads Businesses Thrive with Google Apps (Google) End-to-end Business Visibility with On-demand ERP (TechRepublic) Get Your Sales Team On Board with CRM (Oracle) Enable a Converged Network for UC and IP Telephony (Alcatel-Lucent) Get the Network Performance You Need, Lose the Complexity (Alcatel-Lucent) Gallery perennial favorites   Nikola Tesla's patents for aircraft, ships, railways, autos, and more USS Hornet displays military, space program contributions 10 geeky conspiracy theories Geekiest Doodles from Google The everyday life of two Stormtroopers in love Screenshots: Top 10 sites banned at work Here are the 10 sites that are named by OpenDNS to be the biggest problems for businesses in 2010 - mostly for cutting back on worker productivity. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business Product Spotlight Dinosaur Sightings on TechRepublic Computers from the 1970s Computers from 1980-1983 IBM 5251, 4000 Series VAX, Timex Sinclair and more Atari ST

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[TechRepublic] Get an all-in-one tool for PC maintenance and privacy

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Registry Clean Easy 2.2.3.6 (Windows) Registry Clean Easy is a reliable registry cleaning tool that provides an all-in-one and convenient approach for PC maintenance and privacy. With the tool, you can safely scan, clean, repair, and optimize your system with several mouse clicks. Read more Resource of the day Get the Network Performance You Need, Lose the Complexity Discover how an Alcatel-Lucent Application Fluent Network can help you build a high-performing, low-complexity converged network. Network demands are growing fast. Get the performance you need to keep up. This video shows you how. New software downloads   G Data TotalSecurity 2011 (Windows) Alongside improved award-winning virus protection and optimization of the intuitive user interface, G Data TotalSecurity includes a "silent" firewall. This operates invisibly without user-intervention or any loss of computing power. It blocks hackers, viruses, and spam. Read more AdRem MyNet Toolset 1.0 (Windows) Free MyNet Toolset from AdRem Software scans the local network and automatically creates graphical network map of the discovered devices, including their IP address, MAC address, DNS Name, Location, Node Name or Type, as well as Operation System and Network Services running on the node. Read more Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery 1.1 (Windows) Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery Software is designed to retrieve lost or forgotten password for PST (Personal Storage Table) files. Read more SiteMonitor Enterprise 2.12 (Windows) SiteMonitor Enterprise is a tool to monitor all your websites/hosts at regular intervals. It notifies you when they are down. Read more CopySafe PDF Converter 2.1.5 (Windows) CopySafe PDF is the most secure solution for distributing copy protected PDF files, and the only solution that can protect PDFs from all avenues of copy including Printscreen and screen capture. Read more DevManView 1.20 (Windows) DevManView is an alternative to the standard Device Manager of Windows, which displays all devices and their properties in flat table, instead of tree viewer. In addition to displaying the devices of your local computer, DevManView also allows you to view the devices list of another computer on your network, as long as you have administrator access rights to this computer. Read more QImport 6.0.0 (Windows) Most often the only way to import data into your QuickBooks company file is via IIF. The IIF format is somehow limited and seems to be outdated sooner or later. addQin - Import seamless integrates with QuickBooks. It is able to import any data allowed by QuickBooks. Read more LMaxi Control PC 1.2 (Mobile) Browse your PC files using Explorer Mode. Control Media Application and System PC function using Media and System Mode. Read more Yummy FTP 1.8.3 (Mac) Yummy FTP is a FTP/SFTP client with auto-reconnect & resume, sync, scheduling, remote editing. Coupled with an intelligent recovery system, it automatically handles most file transfer issues - so you don't have to. Read more NetMap 1.5.5 (Mac) NetMap is an asset management tool for network admins. It can be used to manage user requests for repairs or upgrades through a built-in messaging system. Read more SOHO Organizer 9.0 (Mac) SOHO Organizer is the official successor to Personal Organizer and Group Organizer and represents a 100% Cocoa rewrite of the former products. This means SOHO Organizer presents a first-class Mac OS X experience complete with all the features Mac OS X users expect: Aqua interface, Unicode compliance, built-in spell checking, Service support, etc. Read more Disclaimer: CBS Interactive Inc. is not responsible for the content of the publisher's descriptions or user reviews on this site. We encourage you to determine whether this product or your intended use is legal. We do not encourage or condone the use of any software in violation of applicable laws. CBS Interactive Inc. does not sell, resell, or license any of the products listed on the site. We cannot be held liable for issues that arise from the download or use of these products. Incorrectly editing the Windows Registry can cause serious problems requiring the reinstallation of your operating system and may lead to the loss of data. TechRepublic does not and will not support problems that arise from editing your registry. Additional TechRepublic resources   Review: WinDirStat disk usage cleanup tool WinDirStat reads the entire directory tree of your Windows machine and reports back exactly what it is that is taking up that space on your drive. Read more Review: Linksys E2100L SOHO WiFi router The Linksys E2100L router presents itself as a step up from baseline WiFi routers for home and small businesses that need additional configurability options. 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