There have been some new developments.
TouchNooter has been updated: [N2E][1.1] TouchNooter 1.11.20
And there is a fork of it, that loads different apps during the process: [N2E][1.1] SalsichaNooter 0.4 18/11 – With Market, Gapps, Themed ADW, NookTouchTools
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