Adobe Flash on Nook

Last night, I tried to install Adobe Flash on my CM7 Nook but when I selected it in the Android Marketplace, there was no option to download. After some searching, I found that it might have something to do with the screen density settings. For some historical reasons that aren't clear to me, the screen density on CM7 for the Nook is set to 161.

Following this thread, I downloaded the LCD Density app and set it to 160 and hit restart all. When everything restarted, I cleared the application data for Android Market and I was able to download and install Flash 10.3. It seems to work fine on the sites that I tested. Neato.

Installing CM7 on SD Card

Although I had rooted my Nook Color a long time ago, I wanted to try something different so I installed CM7 on an SD card and loaded it into my Nook yesterday. Long story short: it works. I haven't had much of a chance to do much with it, but I was pretty impressed in the hour or two I did play with it last night. I did have a chance to install the Nook app and it does work quite well.

I followed the well written instructions by Ana Mardoll for the most part except since I already rooted it, I wanted to revert back to the stock firmware before doing anything else. To do that, I followed the well written instructions at The Unlockr. 

Although the instructions were well written, it did take a few tries to get everything to come together. My SanDisk 16 GB Class 2 microSDHC card was disliked by the process. People recommend class 4 cards for the Nook and I now understand why.

Test Drive

The Amazon Appstore has a cool feature called Test Drive that I just noticed. This allows you to preview the app you are interested in in your browser. Very useful when trying to get a feel for a new app.