The folks behind CyanogenMod have been building custom firmware for Android phone and tablets for about as long as anyone, and the team has earned a reputation for offering stable software that looks ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

In order to fully appreciate what the CyanogenMod team has accomplished with their new installer, here’s a rough overview of what installing an Android ROM has typically been like in the past. It’s ...

The Amazon Kindle Fire is is a 7 inch tablet designed to access Amazon’s digital book, music, movie, and app stores. But we’ve already seen that you can root the device, install the Android Market, ...

Generally speaking, flashing a custom ROM onto your phone is a fairly simple, straight-forward process — once it's rooted and a custom recovery image installed. With CyanogenMod 7 (CM7) there's a ...