Don't throw away your PlayStation Vita just yet. Your gaming device might still be gathering dust in a closet somewhere, given that Sony has long since stopped making games for the device (other ...

And older Zunes, too! But let’s talk about the HD: With the new OpenZDK toolkit, developers can make homebrew apps for the Zune HD, and by following a relatively simple set of instructions, you can ...

Thanks again to Sir Mycroft over at PalmCentral for the great tutorial on how to do this. I was skeptical since I have rooted devices in the past on whether this would fully work. I decided to help a ...

There are always folks who love to tinker with their gadgets, and many platforms have a homebrew community that supports that effort. Developers release homebrew patches, apps and themes to make ...

There is a thriving homebrew scene for the Nintendo DS, but it can be hard to…well, to get to. How do you run your homebrew? Flashme, NoPass, PassMe, PassMe2, WifiMe? Some other way? Confused yet? I ...

Although there are a plethora of applications available through the Android market, you may wish to install apps on your Android device that have come from another source. A colloquial term for ...

About my experience trying to get some homebrew apps. As my fellow test-drive bloggers have noted, the "official" apps for the Pre are still a bit limited. I do love Pandora--that has distracted me ...

One of the firs things we did with the Samung Focus with "Mango" (see review) was to developer-unlock the device using our AppHub account--no problems there. We were also able to sideload official ...

Microsoft, it seems, just can't catch a break. Days after a major hack took its servers offline on Christmas and after being lambasted in multiple stories for shipping games like Halo: The Master ...

Installing the Pre’s earliest homebrew apps required you to “root” your device—easy enough, but not for the faint of heart. Now, there’s a new method, with ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. It’s a jailbreak that’s similar to a “tethered” iPhone jailbreak, meaning it needs ...