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If you own a Google Nexus 7 and you’ve been looking for a custom ROM to replace stock Jelly Bean, you’re in luck. CyanogenMod 10 (arguably one of the best custom ROMs out there) is now available for the Android tablet. While it’s an unofficial build, you’ll get all the  bells and whistles found in CyanogenMod – customizable lockscreen, very customizable power widget, support for USB OTG, and more.

It’s still in its first release, and you can expect bugs or certain features to not work, but if you can’t hold out until CM10′s official release, you might want to give it a shot. Of course, make sure you know what you’re doing and backup your device just in case anything goes awry. Head over to XDA-Developers for the files and let us know what you think.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Commercial for Google’s Nexus 7 tablet revealed, Google’s 16GB Nexus 7 sold out after strong demand,

Happy Monday, everyone. Yeah, we all had to get back to that daily grind again this morning, but cheer up – we have some great tech news for you today. For starters – OS X Mountain Lion up-to-date application released, quickly disappears. Oh, and you have to love this one, whether or not you like the product involved – Googler proposes marriage with Nexus 7. And here’s something for the gamers out there – Diablo III exploit makes wizard characters invincible.

Featured: So in our category of featured articles today, we have some expert analysis and opinion about a couple of the new wave-making stories currently in the news cycle. We’ll start with this column – Relax, Apple’s new dock connector is a good thing. And moving on the opposite side of the software scale, we turn our attention to Apple in this next featured article – Is Microsoft’s Windows $0.99 app omission madness, money, or moral?

Nexus 7, iPhone 5, & Self-Cleaning Cars: And now as we wrap up the wrap-up, here are the rest of the big stories that went live on the site today. Another Nexus 7 story, not surprisingly – Nexus 7 gets smart covers for magnetic display sleep. And moving right along to the Nexus brand’s biggest threat, Apple – Next iPhone sees unprecedented demand in advance of reveal. And finally, let’s put the manufacturer back-and-forth to rest with this – New technology may make self-cleaning cars a reality.

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: July 23, 2012 is written by Mark Raby & originally posted on SlashGear.
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One of the least-known features of the Google Nexus 7 tablet is its ability to work with a magnetic cover that’ll shut its display off like a snap. This sort of feature exists in your laptop, you’ve got a similar situation in your iPad 2 and 3, and the technology has existed in many BlackBerry devices for some time now as well. Now the folks at MobileFun UK are showing off some brand new SD TabletWear cases with the Nexus 7 to show how you’ll be utilizing the feature here on Google’s first Nexus line tablet ever.

What you’ll see is a couple of different cases being shown off, one of them a “stand and type” case, the other just a SmartCase. Both are made of reinforced materials so you wont have to worry about dropping, smashing, or bashing your equipment, and both are also available for sale now from the MobileFun UK online shop. Have a peek at the simplicity right here:

These cases are not unlike what we’ve seen in the past for the iPad ever since the iPad 2 was revealed to have a magnetic responsive casing. This sort of functionality will likely become the norm for most high-end mobile devices in the near future – expect it! Meanwhile have a peek at the most recent wave of Nexus 7 news flashes to see how well this beast is doing in the wild!

Nexus 7 gets smart covers for magnetic display sleep is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google is doing very well with its new tablet called the Nexus 7. The tablet quickly became very difficult to find in retail locations and for a while only the 8 GB model was available at the Google Play store. The 16 GB version of the tablet has been completely sold out. The tablets were selling on eBay for over retail price.

Yesterday we mentioned that Google had stopped taking orders on the 16 GB Nexus 7 tablet due to overwhelming demand. The 8 GB version was still available as of yesterday. Despite overwhelming demand, Google has released its first Nexus 7 commercial. The ad is on YouTube and is called Nexus 7: Camping.

The ad shows a dad and his young son seemingly camping in the great outdoors. The campers are using the Nexus 7 tablet to identify a frog they capture, search for the location using Google Maps, to play games, and watch movies. At one point they even use the tablet has a flashlight, which I think we’ve all done with smartphones and tablets before.

[via TheNextWeb]

Google releases its first commercial for Nexus 7 tablet is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Are you still on the fence and are still thinking about whether you should buy Google’s Nexus 7 tablet? Assuming the hardware features and its affordable price point did not convince you fully, Google has launched a commercial for the Nexus 7, which might help you make a decision after watching it. It basically depicts a father and son on a hiking/camping trip, where the Nexus 7 is used in a variety of different ways – a torchlight to help illuminate their path, a compass, an entertainment device while it is raining and also as an e-reader where a story is read to the son before bed. Granted it might be a lot more entertaining if there was cellular data capabilities (we’re assuming the jungles do not provide WiFi access points), but we think Google did a good job at delivering their message, so be sure to check it out in the video above. If you’re still undecided after that, check out our comprehensive review here.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Google’s 16GB Nexus 7 sold out after strong demand, Google Nexus 7 tablets out of stock in the UK, replenishments nowhere in sight,