Z Tips Box: Jednoduchá aplikácia na konverziu na Android, prispôsobenie služby YouTube a sledovanie používania batérie

I saw your post a few months ago regarding how you can turn a Nook Color into a true Android tablet. While I didn’t mind messing around with the guide and eventually creating my own bootable microSD card I figured some readers might be interested to hear about Nook2Android. It’s a website that sells microSD cards already set up. All you have to do it buy it, pop it in your Nook, and boom, you’ve got an Android tablet. They cost $35 which is like a 60% markup over a blank 8GB microSD card but if you don’t want to much around making your own and you do want to play with your Nook like it’s a full on tablet, it’s worth it.

I love watching stuff on YouTube but increasingly the interface has gotten uglier and more cluttered… and don’t even get me started on all the ads everywhere. I started using YouTube Options for Chrome… it lets me hide ads, annoying annotations, disable auto-play (I don’t like being surprised when I click on a video), and make all sorts of layout tweaks (like hiding comments… because most YouTube comments are as dumb as you’d expect).

Ever since I started keeping an eye on my Android battery life after reading your Android battery guide I’ve also been keeping tabs on my laptop. I use a program called BatteryInfoView. Some people might think it’s information overload but I really like using it to gather data about battery life. It tells you just about everything: the power state, the capacity, the rate of discharge, etc. You can really see how different activities and applications impact your battery life!