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 ...

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 ...

Many know that the process for getting homebrewed applications and games on their devices was not the easiest and consisted of either rooting your device (not beginner friendly)or by using the SDK ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homebrew is a package manager that many Mac users have come to rely on. Using the command-line brew program, you can install ...

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 ...

Want to build an Xbox One game without registering as a developer? You may soon be able to, thanks to a leak of the Xbox One developer SDK by a hacking group called H4LT. It cites noble reasons for ...