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Hands on with Apollo, CyanogenMod’s new stock music player
Ever since it was released, I have been trying to use Google Music to synchronize and manage my music collection, in addition to the third party DoubleTwist player for local music. However, the setup...
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CM9 Release Candidate 1 released today
As promised last week, CyanogenMod 9 Release Candidate 1 was released for download today. CyanogenMod’s blog states that they have been working on CM9 for 225 days since the code was released, so some...
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Android Jelly Bean developer preview OTA image has already leaked
Yesterday at Google I/O when Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, they also handed out Galaxy Nexus handsets to all developers in attendance. These handsets were special developer editions, and...
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CyanogenMod reveals Jelly Bean and CM 10 plans
In the Android customization and hacking community, CyanogenMod is one of the biggest names in custom ROMs for devices. We’ve covered them quite a bit here before, as the ROM is available for a large...
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PARANOIDANDROID making its way to more devices
It’s been a few months since the PARANOIDANDROID ROM came out on the Galaxy Nexus, and it’s really starting to pick up speed. To recap, the special thing about PARANOIDANDROID is that it’s a hybrid...
View ArticleFirst CyanogenMod 10 demo and Galaxy Nexus maguro build are already up
Everyone knows that independent developers work fast, but sometimes it is surprising just how quickly they can get things done. The Android 4.1 Jelly Bean source code was released only four days ago,...
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Root and non-root ways of disabling a stock voice assistant
My Galaxy S II came with a voice assistant mapped to double clicking the home button. It isn’t exactly the most powerful thing out there, and pales in comparison to that of the S III, or my own DIY...
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Get Google Now with voice recognition for any Ice Cream Sandwich device
One of the cooler features in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is Google’s new search interface, Siri competitor, and product all its own, Google Now. This new interface for Google combines all the information...
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Legacy Play Store revives purchased app list
In the past, I’ve complained a bit about how Google handles the “My apps” section of Google Play. I requested that Google add filters to make it easier to find past apps, but also touched on the fact...
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CyanogenMod 10 preview build now available for the Nexus 7
I’ve been using the Google/ASUS Nexus 7 for a little over a week now, and while the stock Jelly Bean build has actually worked very well (despite being the phone version), it was starting to feel like...
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NFC Android hack is real, but you probably won’t get a virus “beamed” to your...
Earlier this week, there was quite a bit of news going around about a big NFC hack on Android and Nokia smartphones that would supposedly allow any hacker to “beam” malicious code or malware onto your...
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CyanogenMod will not be supporting CM9 and CM10 on older Snapdragon devices...
Earlier this year, the CyanogenMod team discussed the future of the open source ROM project now that Jelly Bean has gone open source. At the time, they hinted that they might have to drop support for...
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Android 4.1 includes hidden code for multiple user profiles, rooted users can...
Although I don’t personally use them, HTC Sense and CyanogenMod have included different homescreen profiles for quite a while. But more recently, some developers noticed that the Android 4.1 source...
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CyanogenMod 9.0.0 stable release is out, focus now is on Jelly Bean
As can be expected, most of the news about CyanogenMod lately has concerned CyanogenMod 10, the build based on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. However, the makers of the custom ROM have actually been working...
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CyanogenMod 10 nightlies now out for popular devices including Galaxy Nexus,...
Once again, we’re back with the almomst regularly scheduled report on custom ROMs and the state of the CyanogenMod project, this time with more news about CyanogenMod 10. CanogenMod 10 has been in...
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Amazon Kindle, not safe for schools?
As most of you probably know, I work IT part time at a school. It’s been a lot of fun for me to see some of the larger scale uses of technology. Until I started there, the most computers I had to...
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CyanogenMod adds new semi-stable CM10 M-Series builds for top devices
Usually, CyanogenMod releases only three kinds of builds. There are the nightlies, released – you guessed it – nightly, and which contain bleeding edge enhancements; there are the RC or release...
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus gets Mozilla Boot to Gecko builds
I’ve talked a bit about Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko OS in the past, from Mozilla’s unveiling to an announcement of hardware partners. The Firefox/Linux based mobile OS project hasn’t really taken off...
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CyanogenMod will add more powerful graphing calculator to future builds
Traditionally, the motto of the CyanogenMod team was to keep things simple. They wanted to build a better stock version of Android, which remained true to the Android Open Source Project but added...
View ArticleOpen webOS found booting on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, ASUS Eee Pad...
When HP made webOS open source a short while ago, it wasn’t expected that much would come of it. After all, there aren’t many people that are still fans of Palm and webOS, and the only reason people...
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