Rooted Nooks Get New Launcher

Posted on 15 February 2010 by


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Did you root your nook? Be honest, it’s ok if you did. In fact, nookdevs is rewarding you with a shiny new launcher! The nook has had so much development from the rooting community that it is astounding, and adds a great deal of potential value if you don’t mind some tinkering.

From their website:

NookLauncher is a simple program that works to allow users to run non-stock programs on the nook without having to get into any sort of complicated command line or VNC. It looks and feels a lot like the launcher from 1.1.1, which was full square icons. The stock 1.2 launcher has rounded icons and a shiny look to it.

When NookLauncher is first run, you will notice you can not only tap on icons to select them, but also scroll side to side to show more icons in the list. Icons can be added using the Launcher Settings app.

Check out the video above, and if you’ve tried this on your nook, please share your experiences!

Via Nate’s ebook news

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