Jasonisms

So, I've been using my NookColor CM7 loaded tablet for a few days now. My thoughts on it are this: I think it's great as a simple cloud and information device. It allows me to easily check my social networks, look at GMaps, peruse my email and a few other things that I do a lot from my Android phone anyway. However, as a production device, it is seriously lacking. It has no microphone for voice commands or input and the screen is not as responsive as I would like. Not to mention typing on it, while easier than on my Android since the buttons are larger, is not easy and I find a lot words are being replaced because Android doesn't recognize them, a la  auto-correction on iOS. And I guess I'm just old school in that I prefer typing with both my hands on a keyboard than typing with my thumbs on a screen which may work well on a smartphone for shirt quick replies, longer replies or created content gets tedious. I don't ever foresee tablets replacing a computer, bu...

This seemed to work for me and I wanted to share some non-developer directions for rooting my Nook Color (v1.2) henceforth known as NC. For the most part I followed these directions: XDA-Developers  but there are some parts to the those instructions that I found were confusing or not non-developer friendly. You should have a PC available and a class 4 or higher microSD card. I used a class 10 8gig card. First I had to download the files for the root: ManualNooter (since my NC is running software version 1.2) Clockwork  (depending on your microSD card size, but at least 1gig) WindowsImageWriter  (to write the image file onto the microSD card) Step 1: Extract the WindowsIMageWriter using an extraction tool. I used 7-zip , a no-frills file extraction tool that works just fine with rar  files. It should create a new folder called "win32diskimager"-xxx with "xxx" being additional information. The point is, if it extracted the rar file then you're doing...