Disclaimer: this is old and doesn’t work anymore, but I’m going to leave it up here for posterity. I can’t say I’m amused by the changing from .sx to .ac and then to .pe. It’s annoying. Open up Terminal, type sudo nano /etc/hosts, add a new line with the following: 194.71.107.80 thepirate.bay Now you can browse to http://thepirate.bay/ instead of having to remember which domain name extension they’ve moved to.

Last night I made a blog post on how to screen record. This morning, I decided to make toggles with Tasker so that I could do it all from my phone easily, without a computer. Install Tasker. Install BusyBox. Copy this file to /sdcard/ with ADB; ./adb push screen.sh /sdcard/screen.sh Next you can use ./adb shell to get into your phone’s terminal. Type su, a super user prompt should appear on your phone, grant permissions.

I’ve just tried it out and it is absolutely awesome! Before I start, I’d like to thank Android Police for the initial information on how to do it, in this article. There are two ways to go about this, the first is to use a terminal emulator (you’ll need root) on your phone to execute the commands and the second is to download ADB and execute the commands through your terminal.