Start/stop capture, writes to the sdcard by default:

View packet dump stream:

View contents of an individual packet:

There’s plenty of info out there about replacing the boot logo and what the files do. Here’s how to get it up and running through:

1. Download the pirate boot animation zip file to your system
2. Remount the system partition read-write: adb shell mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
3. Push the file across to your device: adb push pirate_bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip

That’s it, reboot and enjoy! If you want to poke around and change it, it should be pretty easy. There’s a writeup of what the contents of the bootanimation.zip are, which is very useful. Supposedly, also, the zip needs to be uncompressed to work. But that just means setting compression level to 0 when you run zip. This is the command I use on my OS X machine: zip -0 pirate_bootanimation.zip desc.txt part0/boot_00003.png”. That should make it easy to swap in any other picture to customize.

So I downloaded a version of VICE for my desktop system. That has a much richer set of controls, one of which is creating and attaching a fresh image (it’s a ‘file’ menu item). I figured if I was lucky the image created with VICE would work to at least get me started on Frodo on my device. And lucky me, yes it does! Actually, now I can push the d64 images back and forth, use the emulator on my desktop to do a little poking around and push the file over to my device to take with me. Very nice! Just remember, save with replace is ‘SAVE “@0:FILENAME”,8′. Otherwise an attempt to overwrite a file will just silently fail. Ahhh, nostalgic.

If you’re on your Android device right now you can hop to Nook in the Market directly, or just search for “Nook” in the Marketplace app. Compared to the other readers I’ve seen, the Nook feels a bit amateur. The reading experience itself is the real laggard here. I’m hoping they can polish this thing up in future revisions. A few screenshots to show you what I mean.

This is the main library interface:

I downloaded a free book. One of the Google Books scans, which is nice. Like the other platforms they’re tying into the free content at Google to provide a ton of free scans of classic and public domain works. Kudos on that. Some of the Google Books efforts include direct scans of pages instead of the text. Here’s what a scan page looks like:

And a page of text:

That lack of margin on the reading screen is really killing me, and I don’t see a way to adjust it. I also like to read with full justification, which doesn’t appear to be an option either.

Here’s a shot of the ebook store, just for the sake of completeness:

The storefront is pretty decent, about on par with the others.

Overall though the interface is still a bit clumsy, the reading experience itself needs some work, and the app itself is buggy (I’ve had it crash twice in the short time I used it). I’m very happy to see an additional ebook reader out, but this one needs some more work before it’s ready for prime time.

The application interface itself is pretty simple. When it first loads up you won’t have any interpreters besides shell. If you go into the View menu, select interpreters, and then select Add from the menu under there you can add other interpreters. The interpreters generally come with example scripts, which will show up in the main list view once they’re loaded:

There’s a preferences screen, which covers mostly visual options:

If you long press on a script you have an option to edit it:

The editor that comes up is just a simple but effective textbox, so at least you can edit scripts in place on the device:

And then you can run a script, in this place displaying a toast message over the keyboard when I run the hello world program:

In the menu area there’s even an option to export the set of data to CSV so you can suck it into a spreadsheet or use it to drive some of your own tools. Would be great actually if there was an option to record a list of running processes along with the battery status info, so that it could attempt to spot which processes are sucking up the most resource.

From what I can tell, the stats feature might only work with WordPress.com accounts (or maybe I need a plugin I don’t currently have installed to get it working). But everything else I’ve tried so far is working great. The previous release added video upload and geotagged posts. Quite a list of features and capabilities there.

If you’re on your device you can pop it up in the Marketplace using this link.

• Turn on and off airline mode
• Turn on and off autosync
• Turn on and off bluetooth
• Turn on and off GPS
• Turn on and off Wifi, and show what network you’re connected to if you are connected
• Control the brightness level and screen timeout, or disable screen timeout completely
• Turn on and off silent mode
• Control the volume