Ten Ways to Pimp Your Android Device
With Android phones being perhaps the most customizable smartphones around in all their open-source loveliness, we’ve come up with a selection of ways to personalize your Android phone, inside and out. So, let’s get creative and pimp those phones.
Slap on a new wallpaper
There’s a great selection of apps on the Android Market that offer tailored wallpapers for your Android phone, but it’s also pretty easy to make your own. For best results, make sure your image is as tall as the screen of your phone, pixel-wise. So, that’s 480 pixels for the old guard of Android, or 800 pixels for newbies like the Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid. Read more…
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Categories: How To Tags: Android, Android Market, Motorola Droid, Nexus One, Open Home, Slidescreen, Sweeter Home
Review: Slidescreen for Android
Slidescreen is a home-screen replacement application for Android that brings just about all your daily communication streams to a single home-screen of nine panels.
Separating the top 4 panels from the bottom 3 panels you’ll find one large sliding panel dedicated to date, time, weather, battery, signal and WiFi inidcators. This is the applications namesake a slider that can be moved up and down to reveal and highlight each of the other panels. In the top 4 you’ll find call history, SMS/MMS, G-mail, and calendar. The bottom 3 panels contain Google Reader, Google Finance, and Twitter. Each of these information streams is given a color-coded section and shows new information as it comes in.
Slidescreen was designed to free you from the standard home-screen. SlideScreen gives you access to the information within the apps that you want. Tapping on any individual update, like a tweet or an email, takes you into the corresponding app (in this case, it might be Seesmic and Gmail), or you can just look at the homescreen and get the gist of what’s happening around you. Read more…
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Categories: Android Applications, Review Tags: Android Applications, Slidescreen
