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Nexus One Gets Rooted!

4 January 2010

I think we all expected the Nexus One to be rooted sooner or later but maybe not before it has even been officially announced!

Thanks to MoDaCo’s founder Paul O’Brien yesterday he announced “Superboot” via a thread on his site.

Superboot is a boot.img that when flashed, will

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Unreal Engine 3 To Android Next?

29 December 2009

Usually when we hear about Android Market and the iPhone App Store we hear about comparisons in terms of # of applications. But what about games? Surely games fit under the app umbrella to which they refer, but it’s also clear that games have a HUGE and…

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Hey Developers: New Resources and Sample Code Now Available

18 December 2009

It’s always great to see Google staying on top of the developer relationship side of the Android equation and today the company announced a few new things that should make devs happy. First of all, they’ve created a new “Resources” tab that should better help organize the…

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Google Nav Returns To Europe and Beyond!

14 December 2009

Remember how Google blocked Navigation on phones in Europe and pretty much everywhere else besides the United States? We wondered how long it would take for service to be restored thanks to a clever developer who hacked through a solution. Guess what? It’s heeeeeeeere!

Brut.all from XDA-Devs…

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What the Game Industry Could Learn from the Film Industry

12 December 2009

I’ve got the Monsters, Inc. Blu-ray in my hand. But it’s more than just a Blu-ray. It’s a BD for my PS3, a DVD for my bedroom and a digital copy for my laptop.

Disney, who is probably the most IP-protective company in the entertainment industry, realizes that I’m a lot more likely to…

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Most Popular Top 10s of 2009

11 December 2009

Every weekend, we comb our memories and archives to compile 10 useful items addressing a specific topic you may have forgotten about, or just happen to be excellent. Here are the 20 list(icle) posts that proved the most popular in 2009.

1. Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities

The best boxing doesn’t always…

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Android Developers – Optimize Your Layouts

11 December 2009

“Writing user interface layouts for Android applications is easy, but it can sometimes be difficult to optimize them. Most often, heavy modifications made to existing XML layouts, like shuffling views around or changing the type of a container, lead to inefficiencies that go unnoticed.

Starting with the…

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